Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures - Free Promotional Comic Book #[nn]
In "Maharajah Donald," Carl Barks delivers a classic adventure where Huey, Dewey, and Louie’s improbable journey from a pencil stub to a steamship ticket lands Donald Duck in a whirlwind of unintended consequences. When Donald commandeers the passage to India, his nephews stow away—only to find themselves entangled with a generous Maharajah who asks a simple favor: escorting a sacred elephant across a perilous river. With Barks’ signature charm and whimsy, this free 2006 Gemstone comic, illustrated and inked by the master himself, features a cover by Barks that captures the story’s playful spirit.
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Starting with a mere pencil stub, and through an unlikely series of events, Huey, Dewey, and Louie trade-up to a steamship ticket to India, which Donald gloms for himself forcing the boys to stow away on the very same ship. Aboard ship and facing consequences for unknowingly harboring his stowaway nephews, Donald meets the wealthy Maharajah of Hoopadoola, who offers to resolve the Ducks' matters with the steamship line for a favor in return. The favor? Riding an old, gentle, sacred elephant across a narrow river to a neighboring kingdom. What possible harm could there be in such a gesture?
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