"Southern Hospitality"

As you know, the great majority of Barks' long-form Donald adventures were not printed in the regular, bimonthly Donald Duck book, which wasn't established until 1952, at which point he was too busy with Uncle Scrooge to contribute much; instead, they were printed as part of the Four Color Comics/One-Shots series, along with gallons of other Disney and non-Disney material.
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"Coffee, Louie or Me?"

Right, that's enough Scarpa for now.  Not that there aren't other stories worthy of note, but for now, there are other things I want to write about.

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"The Advertising Giant"

Oh man, people.  Now we come to this story--the one I really want to talk about.  This shit is fucking interesting.  I daresay it treads thematic territory that you won't see in any other Disney comic--or at least, none spring readily to my mind.  On the one hand, I hesitate to give Scarpa too much credit here, since I'm not wholly convinced that he was cognizant of the implications here...but, well, he did it.  That much is undeniable.

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"The Eternal Flame of Kalhoa"

The intro to this French edition tells us that in the thirties, Topolino ran non-Disney stories along with Mickey stuff; one of these was the adventure serial Tim Tyler's Luck.  The backstory here, we're told, is inspired by a story arc in that strip (which in turn comes, allegedly, from an H. Rider Haggard novel, though I'm not able to verify that this is a real thing.  Much later, there was an Umberto Eco novel taking the name, but that, of course, is something entirely different.

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