Four Color #840

Donald Duck ducks under a photographer's drape cloth, squeeze bulb in hand, while Huey, Dewey, and Louie crowd curiously around the old-fashioned bellows camera in front of him — a perfectly chaotic family portrait waiting to happen. Tony Strobl's cover art captures the Duck family's gift for turning a simple snapshot into a full-scale production, setting a playful tone for this 1957 Dell one-shot. At just ten cents, Walt Disney's Duck Album offered a cheerful slice of Donald's world that holds up as a fond artifact of mid-century comics charm.