The Complete Carl Barks #8

In "Paperino e gli orsi," Donald Duck arrives at Camp Waha-Go-Gaga to collect his nephews, only to find himself in a sticky situation when three bears with a taste for porridge mistake him for a snack. With Gladstone guarding the camp and chaos brewing, Donald must outwit the hungry bears before they turn his visit into a very unappetizing ordeal.

In "Paperino e la scavatrice," Donald Duck accidentally forgets to send the nephews’ Christmas letter to Santa Claus—only to discover on Christmas Eve that they’re asking for a steamshovel. Rushing to make up for it, he borrows money from Uncle Scrooge, who, furious at being upstaged, buys his own steamshovel to give the boys instead. What follows is a wild, shoveling showdown between the two, ending in wreckage—before Donald must disguise himself as Santa to deliver the news that there are no more steamshovels to be had.

In "Paperino e le lettere galanti," Daisy ends her relationship with Donald and returns a stack of passionate love letters, leaving Donald both stunned and embarrassed. The nephews, curious and mischievous, later take the letters to Gladstone's house, slipping them into a box of borrowed books—setting off a chain of awkward misunderstandings.

Donald Duck, fed up with Gladstone Gander’s endless luck, sends him on a reckless quest to Alaska to find a mythical uranium mine—only to regret his prank when he fears for Gladstone’s safety. With the nephews in tow, Donald tracks him to a remote iceberg that hides a long-lost Viking ship, its gilded hull glinting beneath the ice.

In "Paperino e l’isola misteriosa," Donald Duck and his luckier cousin Gladstone Gander each receive a sailing ship from Uncle Scrooge—only to learn moments later that Scrooge has vanished in a storm in the South Seas. With the map to his last known location in hand, the two cousins set out on a race across the open ocean, where Gladstone’s fortune seems to shine while Donald’s misfortunes pile up at every turn.

In "Paperino nel paese dei totem," Donald Duck lands a job as a salesman along the Kickmiquick River in Northwest Canada, only to discover he’s expected to sell steam calliopes—something he’s utterly unprepared for. Switching tactics, he tries peddling cosmetics, but his arrival stirs up unexpected chaos among a remote tribe of Indigenous people who’ve never seen a white man before.

In "Paperino e il sentiero dell’Unicorno," Donald and the nephews embark on a wild Himalayan quest to capture a unicorn for Uncle Scrooge’s private zoo, only to find their mission upended when Gladstone stows away on the plane—his luck turning the hunt into a surprise triumph, and the reward into a tale of unexpected fortune.

In "Paperino sciatore," Donald Duck finds himself in over his head when his boasts about his skiing prowess land him in a high-stakes race against time—chasing through a blizzard to deliver vital serum to a remote, snowbound village, all while being pursued by mysterious foreign spies.