1972

 


HDL12 Hound of the Moaning Hills
13 pages - Inker: Kay Wright

People are fleeing from a giant, scary dog which runs loose in the forest. The JWs decide to investigate and they discover that the dog - and several other animals - are the result of a nutrition experiment established by Scrooge. Still, the laboratory's vicious guard dog was not supposed to roam around, so the JWs have to catch it.

 


HDL12 Storm Dancers
12 pages - Inker: Kay Wright

The JWs are depressed because school starts the next day, so they cannot be part of the movement full-time anymore. The nephews look through the Guide Book and find a rain dance that just might postpone the school start. But soon they are hurled through the air in a violent rainstorm that also destroys the schoolhouse. Things look pretty promising - maybe...

This is the only time in Barks' HDL stories where the Guide Book is mentioned.

 


HDL13 The Day the Mountain Shook
13 pages - Inker: Kay Wright

The JWs intend to climb Mount Greenglory but halfway up the mountain it suddenly starts to shake violently. The tremors derive from a grinder, a giant machine that Scrooge uses to dig big holes in search for coal. But the machine runs amuck and the JWs have to put a stop to the mayhem.

The panel comes from the remake (H92051) inked by Daan Jippes.

 


HDL13 Gold of the '49ers
12 pages - Inker: Kay Wright

The JWs need money for their activities. Huey, Dewey and Louie remember Grandma Duck once telling a tale of bricks of gold buried in the desert, and all the JWs start a search. At one point they encounter a gang of thugs who are rounding up wild mustangs to turn them into dog food. After the nephews have freed the horses they discover the legendary gold which the horses have scraped out of the desert sand.

The panel comes from the remake (H92107) inked by Daan Jippes.

 


HDL14 Duckmade Disaster
13 pages* - Inker: Kay Wright

Scrooge has built his new(!) Money Bin on a knoll in Duckburg, but the citizens protest because it is the very spot where Duckburg's founder, Cornelius Coot, supposedly had his first dwelling. Scrooge is forced to drive off with the Bin, but it falls into the river, damming it up. The rising water finally makes the Bin float back to its original location. Now the citizens are happy, because the flood also revealed the true site where Coot's cabin once stood.

* Barks' original script was for 12 pages but Western stretched a number of panels.
The panel comes from the remake (H92001) inked by Daan Jippes.
He also paid homage to Barks by drawing him throwing eggs in one panel.

 


HDL15 Wailing Whalers
18 pages - Inker: Kay Wright

The JWs are patrolling the ocean in order to protect the whales from becoming extinct due to whalers. As it turns out Scrooge is onboard a whale factory ship and he also has a submarine with equipment to track the whales. While the JWs and Scrooge are in the sub they are attacked by other whalers who manage to sink the sub with explosive harpoons. Barely alive the sub's crew - from a lifeboat - witness how Scrooge's ship rams the whalers' ship and forces them to surrender.

The panel comes from the remake (H98239) inked by Daan Jippes.
For a more detailed examination of the story go
HERE.

 


HDL16 Where There's Smoke
16 pages - Inker: Kay Wright

The JWs are on an assignment in the woods where the drought has made the trees dry as kindle. They are patrolling the area to discover fires, while Donald has a job to extinguish fires from an airplane. Several times the JWs happen to generate smoke which Donald in turn assumes is a beginning forest fire, so he repeatedly covers the area - and the JWs - in thick foam. In the end the JWs discover a powder house filled with explosives, but when it blows up the rain finally comes and saves the forest.

 


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HDL17 Be Leery of Lake Eerie
16 pages - Inker: Kay Wright

Lake Eerie is so polluted that only a few mutated fishes can survive. Furthermore, a giant dragon creature, spontaneously formed by chemical fusion, is swimming round eating garbage. It is to no avail to try and shoot the dragon because it just feeds on the bullets! In the end a heavy rainfall fills the lake with so much fresh water that the dragon slowly fades away.

Barks was forced to alter the ending of the story so that the lake ended up being a better place (panel 1).
In Barks' original sketch (remake in DD2202-023 by Daan Jippes) the lake was still severely polluted (panel 2).

 

       

 

 

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