Synopsis:
Donald and Jones bury the hachet but it is, of course, just a matter of time before things are back to (ab)normal.
Comments:
This is the second of a series of stories in which Donald and Jones are battling it out (the others are WDCS034, 048, 063, 281, 289, and FineArt). In none of them we are actually told who is the instigator. Of course, Barks did so deliberately. It is not a question of sympathy or antipathy. The stories are just meant to be fun...

Synopsis:
Donald brags that he knows all the old snowball tricks so the nephews can't resist challenging him...
Comments:
Donald and the nephews were often fighting resulting in many farcical scenes in otherwise educational stories, but in this one Barks is only concentrating on compiling gag upon gag. The story is exceptional in the sense that it was the only slapstick story with the basic plot taken from an animated short, titled Donald's Snow Fight from 1942. However, Barks was not plagiarizing as such, because he was the Story Director for the cartoon at the time!

Synopsis:
Donald can earn a thousand dollars by photographing the elusive Iron-Billed Woodpecker. How hard can that be?
Comments:
This hilarious plot in which Donald makes endless attempts to accomplish the seemingly easy task of photographing a bird went on to the silver screen in 1947. Disney's released the animated short titled Clown of the Jungle in which Donald has tiffs with a troublesome Aracuan bird in the South American jungle. Most of the gags seem to have been copied from Barks' story.

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews are invited by Santa himself to come and test his toys. They are wasting no time...
Comments:
The plot could hardly be any simpler: How to demonstrate the use of different toys in funny ways. The slapstick situations occur, of course, from Donald who has grave difficulties 'taming' his toys...
Barks used a few Christmas stories in a farcical way. This was also the case with New Year's celebrations. WDCS173 is one example.

Synopsis:
Donald figures out that his nephews are responsible for the more than dubious echoes in Thrushwhistle Glen and he decides to put them to the test...
Comments:
A remarkable comic book story in the sense that it is all about sound! Barks manages to compile panel upon panel showing Donald and the nephews using all sorts of noisy instruments. Furthermore, he is filling the panels with sounds imitating words. It would seem that Barks did not exactly run out of ideas on sounds and words, because he later made a 'sequel' in WDCS215 (and partly in WDCS165)...

Synopsis:
What does it take to climb Old Demontooth? Donald's youthful vigour or Scrooge's overwhelming wealth?
Comments:
Barks must have had a heyday figuring out obstacles for Donald to overcome while climbing the mountain. Beside the normal difficulties one expects to encounter in such a situation, Barks adds a masterstroke by placing a multitude of Zoo animals on the rugged cliffs which gives him the opportunity of dreaming up hilarious situations. The animal moving story in WDCS222 continues this line of thinking.

Synopsis:
Donald undertakes to repair everything and anything in his fix-it shop but he is not very good in that line of business...
Comments:
Barks lets Donald try his hand in normal domestic repair tasks that most handymen would have little trouble fixing. But Donald is not a handyman and Barks piles up one catastrophe upon another. Any non-handyman will recognize the situations and sympathize with poor Donald...

Synopsis:
Donald moves to a quieter neighbourhood in order to get a good night's sleep. But it is not that simple with an alpenhorn blower in the house...
Comments:
It seems almost incomprehensible that Barks was able to write this story about noisy neighbours when you know of his state of mind in those days; he and his wife were living in an apartment next to inconsiderate neighbours who played loud music in the middle of the night. Maybe the actions taken in the story were some sort of wishful thinking on Barks' part...

Synopsis:
Donald is visiting Hondorica where he sees a beautiful señorita whom he tries to court. But her father doesn't approve...
Comments:
Although this story is set in a foreign country, it could easily have taken place in Donald's own garden with Jones as his agitated neighbour. The ingredients are the same - pure slapstick scenes - with the exception that in this story we know that Donald is the instigator.

Synopsis:
Donald is a very successful barber who can cope with any request. But how about a gorilla?
Comments:
This qualifies as a slapstick story but in quite a different way than usual. Donald is not fooling around as he does in the other slapstick stories (at least not in the beginning). On the contrary, he is a skilled barber but his solutions to the customers' problems and wishes are dealt with in an inventive and highly comical manner.