“Lost in the Andes!”
Cover Price: $0.95
Bargain Price: $1.00
Cover Date: February 1988
As a recent convert to the brilliance of Disney’s duck comics, particularly those by Carl Barks and Don Rosa, I have been actively seeking out these Gemstone reprint books, only to find that they’re actually pretty scarce in the local quarter bins. This one, picked up at antique fair, reprints the classic “Lost in the Andes!” story by Carl Barks, originally presented in 1949’s Four Color Comics #223. This is, without any doubt, one of the classic duck comics, considered by Barks himself to be his best. It’s a supremely memorable story featuring Donald and his nephews (regrettably sans Uncle Scrooge) on a global hunt for some elusive square eggs and the birds that lay them. Donald and the boys eventually find the eggs in the lost city of Plain Awful, a square city with square building, square people, and, of course, square chickens. Barks adds a particularly delightful, almost Star Trekkian twist by having all of the residents speak in thick southern accents, having been visited by a Southern professor years before. As with all good duck comics, Barks’ story reads like something out of a pre-Crystal Skull Indiana Jones movie, complete with action, adventure, globe trotting, lost cities, strange civilizations, and, of course, more than its fair share of humor all invariably squeezed into a fantastic single issue.
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