Four Color #159

In "Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto," Carl Barks crafts a thrilling adventure as the ducks navigate the West Indies on a kelp-gathering run, drawn into a centuries-old mystery surrounding an armored man who appears every half-century to steal a small boy. When Dewey is taken, Donald and his nephews must brave a coral reef grotto beneath a decaying galleon, guarded by a massive octopus, in a desperate bid to rescue him. The story, illustrated by Carl Barks with distinctive inks and colors from the Western Publishing Production Shop, features a cover by Carl Buettner that captures the eerie, tropical dread of the tale.