Synopsis:
Magica finally succeeds in getting Scrooge's lucky dime and now she hurries home to melt it down into an amulet. But Scrooge is after her...

Comments:
As we all know from several stories Magica has an arsenal of different gadgets, some of which are effective paralyzing bombs. She uses them to stun her opponents rendering them unable to follow or harm her. One is used to momentarily blind her opponents (it goes Poof), and another one stuns the victims (it goes Foof).

Synopsis:
Donald is selling a new brand of flour. All he needs to do is demonstrate it to the neighbours. How hard can that be?

Comments:
Explosions can be both good and bad much depending on whether they are controlled or not. In this story Donald masters both variants due to his ignorance of the amount of flour he needs to use to demonstrate cake baking. First he wrecks a kitchen when the batch he is making goes Boom, and then he succeeds in turning a normal house into a nice gingerbread house, when his batch goes Bwom...

Synopsis:
Donald gets a job selling sweets at The Duckburg World's Fair. The manager thinks he is a genius...but for how long?

Comments:
After Donald 'succeeds' in blowing up a popcorn wagon, he moves on to an even more spectacular feat; he blows up a whole storeroom filled with explosives causing multiple rockets to stick to a revolving restaurant atop a space needle. A chain reaction starts and the restaurant guests are really in for a merry-go-round treat...

Synopsis:
Scrooge is looking for some land with an echo. Donald tries to sell him some - with the nephews secretly acting as echoes...

Comments:
Scrooge is mysteriously walking about setting off half buried firecrackers, which the nephews have grave difficulty duplicating (they inevitably produce their 'echoes' complete with both dust and smoke!). In the end it is disclosed that Scrooge's explosions reveal where a great oil pool lies hidden...

Synopsis:
Quite by coincidence Donald invents the powerful explosive Duckmite which also proves to be an excellent fuel!

Comments:
Normally, Barks would let his characters handle solid explosives such as dynamite, but in this story the explosive is in liquid form - and usable as a propellant! This was also the case in WDCS220 'The Powerful Explosive', in which just a tiny drop of Weemite - made by Donald from the nephews' chemistry sets - was sufficient to make a military rocket blast off...

Synopsis:
Scrooge travels with Donald and the nephews to a distant tropical island to fish for black pearls but the island is not about to give them up...

Comments:
Nothing manmade - with the possible exception of an atom bomb - can compare with Mother Nature's forces when they are unleashed. Barks made a few stories with exploding volcanoes as small parts of the plots, but in this one the volcano takes center stage, as its eruption is crucial to the ducks' escaping from the island where they are marooned; they cause the volcano to explode! So, you may say that the ducks command this particular force of nature...

Synopsis:
Donald invents a bomb that goes Fut instead of Boom. This is because it has a very special quality...

Comments:
Now, back to the atom bomb! Barks made this story in the heated days when scientists tried to create the ultimate weapon. But, of course, Barks would not dream of letting Donald construct a plausible, devastating bomb, so instead he went for a special one which emanated rays that 'just' made people lose their hair...

Synopsis:
Donald is a broom sweeper at Duckburg's missile base where a saboteur is blowing up the rockets as they lift off. Before he knows it, Donald is mixed up with the next attempt...

Comments:
The culprit, Professor Slyrat, has found an ingenious way of blowing up the rockets; he swabs two fruit flies with different harmless chemicals, but when they get in contact the chemicals develop a terribly explosion. Slyrat plants the flies inside the rockets immediately before launch causing them to explode in midair.

Synopsis:
Scrooge is at the harbour to collect a jade elephant from Unsteadystan but he only encounters a mysterious stowaway...

Comments:
Right from the moment the ducks set foot in Unsteadystan they are surrounded by numerous explosions of the worst kind - lethal ones. The country is at war and people are actually getting killed. At one point two soldiers from the oppressing side are blown up by a hand grenade!
Just as deadly was the navy's attack on the criminal's ship in the end scene of WDCS283 Cap'n Blight's Mystery Ship, where the ship was blown clear out of the water. Two of Barks' most violent - and atypical - stories in terms of brutal realism.

Synopsis:
He who wins the prestigious Great Crystal Orb Derby will rule Duckburg for the next year. Scrooge enters a very special horse!

Comments:
It always pays off to be careful when handling explosives, which the Beagle Boys learn the hard way! The normally bungling guys have invented an extremely potent - and unstable - explosive called Beaglemite, but it goes off when it is not supposed to. But, at least, they seem to have an unlimited supply of fresh uniforms and painkillers!!!