Page 10, bottom half

Synopsis: Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews are off to find the legendary Trojan Horse from Greek mythology. But the Beagle Boys are lurking in the background...

Barks made these two sketches for the story*

COMMENTS:

The story was originally meant to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Barks' retirement. Barks was willing to participate primarily as a plotman, but, as it turned out, he became sort of an overseer of the whole project.

In an interview Barks commented: I chose Bill Van Horn who lives in Vancouver to do the artwork. His drawing style is very Disney like. It looked quite a bit like my own drawing and his way of staging things is close to mine. I just wrote out the script with a typewriter and had been trying to sketch it out, and he got the feeling of what I was thinking of. He would read that little blurb and come up with a sketch just like I thought it in my head.
I had very few things to correct. He and I went over his pencil drawings quite thoroughly. I went over the whole way though, once before I even got to thinking: 'Well I have got to correct some things'. So I went back and looked at two or three small situations that required a tiny bit of changing. It could have gone through and make a successful story without my correcting at all. He was that good at interpreting what I wanted.

* The leftmost sketch is a raw one hastily jotted down on the back of Barks' stationery (you can catch a glimpse of the letterhead to the left). Afterwards he produced a better sketch, which is shown to the right. Later on, Barks made a much more detailed sketch with background and fish added. It was probably intended as suggestion for a front cover, but it never came about.