Lucky Duck #7

When Lucky's terrible singing voice causes a commotion in quiet Yakville, he gets roped into a scheme to fake his way through an opera contest using records played backstage. But when the scheme falls apart on stage, a Hollywood producer hears those awful sounds and sees star potential—offering Lucky a lucrative job making horror movie effects.

Custer Crocodile thinks he's found the perfect buyer for his ramshackle house in Hubert Hippo—until he discovers the real reason his dim-witted neighbor was so eager to take it off his hands. Now Custer has to pull out all the stops, from haunting schemes to desperate bargaining, to reclaim the property before the railroad deal goes through. It's a fast-paced game of wits and comeuppance that proves sometimes the biggest con artist gets outsmarted by his own greed.

Wally Wolf's got a too-good-to-be-true fishing scheme up his sleeve: a magical whistle that supposedly calls fish right out of the water. When a gullible fisherman named Goofy takes the bait, Wally's clever con attracts a crowd of desperate buyers—but clever schemes have a way of unraveling, especially when the marks wise up to what's really going on.

Rocky's got his eyes on a thousand-fish prize from the Museum of Obsolete Art's sculpture contest, and he's confident his cement statue will take first place—until Lucky Duck's curiosity lands the whole messy project in jeopardy. When the dust settles, Rocky discovers that sometimes the most unexpected results are the ones that pay off.

Lucky Duck stumbles into a lumber camp after accidentally hitching a ride on a departing train, and his chaotic mishaps—from disastrous sawing to questionable cooking—somehow manage to solve the camp's biggest problems. This 1953 humor tale proves that sometimes the biggest accidents lead to the strangest solutions, whether anyone planned them or not.