2 other Duckburg elections

Larry Giver lgiver at pacbell.net
Sun Sep 14 18:44:38 CEST 2003


   In "Smoke Writer in the Sky", C&S 194, Nov. 1956, Scrooge hires
Donald to advertise his candidacy for an unspecified office.  But
Scrooge gets bad publicity, and at the end of the story both Donald and
Scrooge leave the country.
    Donald and Gladstone competed for Grand Marshall of the Easter
Parade, probably Barks' best known Easter story.   The essentials of
the campaigns were to impress the potential "voters" (kids) by
passing out candy and Easter eggs, and trying to make the
opponent look bad, such as by damaging his candy and eggs.
HDL help Donald make Gladstone look bad to the kids by making
them think he has measles, so Gladstone is quaranteened and
Donald becomes Grand Marshall!  But Donald does not enjoy his
victory, as his Grand Marshall duty is to hop around in a bunny suit
passing out more eggs and candy to kids.



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