Synopsis:
The nephews want to skate but Donald makes them go down south with him. There they pull a trick on their uncle making him believe that he has been sleeping for twenty years!

Comments:
Donald has often - in his capacity of being a parental figure - forced the nephews to follow him on holiday trips that they did not want. Other examples are WDCS137 'The Songwriter', WDCS142 'Houseboat Vacation' and WDCS177 'The Diving Sphere'.

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews are presented with a ring which interests some shady characters. They travel to Egypt and find living mummies...

Comments:
The primary reason for the trip was that Huey mysteriously disappeared during a visit to Duckburg's museum, and Donald thinks that he has been kidnapped by Egyptians. As it turns out Huey coincidentally had fallen into a sarcophagus and he is soon released.
Similar, fairly innocent captivations happened to Donald in FC0159 Adventure Down Under in which he was adopted by a kangaroo as her baby, and in WDCS232 Under the Polar Ice in which he wound up being an involuntary stowaway in a submarine...

Synopsis:
Scrooge is having trouble with his bad memory but after a visit to the doctor he recalls a huge gold nugget he once left behind in Alaska.

Comments:
In this story Scrooge kidnaps Glittering Goldie and forces her to slave at his claim for a whole month. Barks received a lot of criticism for this action and he realized how questionable the sequence was: Scrooge picked her up and carried her out to his claim and made her go to work. It didn't look like kidnapping, yet it was. He was taking the law into his own hands and that is not lawful.
An even worse example of enslavement can be found in FC0159 Ghost of the Grotto in which we learn that during several centuries a string of small village boys were kidnapped for the purpose of posing as an Elizabethan ghost in order to guard a treasure. When you think about it, you will realize that the villagers must have regarded their boys as lost - presumably dead...

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews are shanghaied to serve as crew on a dubious ship.

Comments:
The term Shanghaiing most often refers to abductions at sea, and this story handles the story quite traditionally in that respect. The ducks are also treated inhumanely by having to eat sub-standard food, and Donald has to walk the plank!
In another story Scrooge mastered the shanghaiing; in WDCS172 'Christmas in the Deep' he forces Donald and the nephews on a trip in his submarine to find a sunken treasure.

Synopsis:
Donald becomes the owner of a houseboat and travels down the river with his nephews. But the river is haunted by a sea serpent.

Comments:
Donald is captured by an unscrupulous criminal who has no regard for other's lives.
Such serious disregard for other people was - surprisingly - also displayed in other Barks stories. Examples: In FC0275 Ancient Persia a mad scientist kidnapped the Duck family, forced them to go to Persia and prepared to use them in an experiment, and in WDCS244 Missile Fizzle in which yet another mad scientist subdued Donald by force and prepared to send him on a fatal voyage in a spaceship...

Synopsis:
Scrooge wants gold-wool to make a coat fit for a rich man. But he has to battle larkies and a dragon to get Jason's golden fleece...

Comments:
Barks made quite a number of stories in which he mixed his ducks with elements from mythology, legends, and fairy tales. In some of them the ducks was held against their will. In this story 4 larkies kidnap the ducks and force them back to their mythic homeland.
Other examples: In FC0203 The Golden Christmas Tree a fairy tale witch abducts the nephews, and in U$14 The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan the terrible snowman forcefully places the ducks under surveillance in his lair.

Synopsis:
Donald takes the nephews to the Grand Canyon to prove to them that cavemen no longer exist. He will soon be much wiser...

Comments:
Donald is promptly seized by the cavemen. The main plot is partly a remake of an earlier story in WDCS058 'Deep Down the Canyon' in which Donald was also seized by cavemen. Will he ever learn?
But abusive, ethnological encounters work both ways in Barks' stories: In FC0062 Mystery of the Swamp and in U$18 Land of the Pygmy Indians the ducks captured a Gnome and a Peeweegah.

Synopsis:
Scrooge wants a unicorn for his zoo so Donald and the nephews are sent to the Himalayas after the fabled animal which they know does not exist. Or does it?

Comments:
If a wild animal is removed from its natural habitats it constitutes a special form of abduction. In Barks' stories countless animals have been rounded up and caught for a multitude of reasons. Over time the ducks have (mis)used animals such as the use of many wild African animals for riding in U$61 So Far and No Safari, and a whale in WDCS193 'A Whale of a Whale' to bring in money. The strangest animal was the unicorn which was captured and forced to Scrooge's zoo in Duckburg.

Synopsis:
Using an atom subtracter that can shrink objects drastically, the Beagle Boys shrink the Money Bin. It becomes so small an ant carries it off...

Comments:
But the tables can be turned as well; in a number of stories several animals have rounded the ducks up, and in this one Scrooge and Donald are about to 'bestowed' with the great honour of being the main dish on the Queen ant's menu!
Additional examples: WDCS097 'Deep Sea Diving' in which Donald as a diver is caught by a giant oyster, WDCS141 'Thought Machines' in which a wolf catches Donald and prepares to roast him over a fire, and WDCS160 'The Christmas Camel' in which Donald is abducted by a very wilful camel...

Synopsis:
Scrooge exchanges his coins into bills as they do not take up as much space. Then they are placed in a Beagle Boys-proof water tank. But is the money safe?

Comments:
By far the most persevering abductors in Barks' stories are the Beagle Boys, who have kidnapped the ducks more times than can be counted!
This story represents the first time, and by today's standard the action should ensure them a prison sentence that would last for the remainder of their lives, but apparently the law is dramatically different in Duckburg! The bad boys seem to get off with a slap on their fingers ensuring that they are fully operational in the next story...