"Donald in the Undersea Kingdom"

Okay, just one more Cimino story.  This is a 1972 thing that several people have commended to me, and…well, it's nothing if not unusual.  I enjoy it when I have the chance to read stories featuring weird, marginal recurring characters who have never appeared in English.  This is one such case.
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"Westward Whoa"

Okay, no need to spend too much time on this Paul Murry effort from 1953, as it's kind of a nothing story, but I did want to look at it briefly, because has a few moments of (entirely unintentional) hilarity, and because it really crystalizes just how entirely clueless many of Western's writers were about women.
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"The Path to Perfect Happiness"

(Hmm...we just passed the two-hundred-post mark a few posts back.  Let it be noted!)
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"The Easter Eggs-port"

Rodolfo Cimino, a prolific Italian Disney writer, passed away on March 31, at the age of eighty-four.  His last story that inducks lists came out just a few weeks before, so he was working right up to the end, which seems like a noble way to go--you don't want to be doing hard labor all your life, but for something not physically taxing like duck scripts, by all means--I'd go for that.  
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Disney Literature Classics sighted!

Just thought I should note that some person on ebay.co.uk is selling a bunch of these things individually.  He or she wants twenty-three pounds for each of them, plus shipping, which is plainly far too much, but it's an opportunity to own "That Missing Candelabra" and/or "Donald Duck on Treasure Island," which, especially the former, are not to be scoffed at.

"Guardians of the Lost Library"

Before anything else, I just want to make the following dumb book joke--as befits, I suppose, the story under consideration:
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Happy Blogthday to Me!

You like that?  "Blogthday?"  I thought of it all by myself!
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