HIGHDUCKS

StoryKJD 005

A Tuft Luck Tale

Donald is feeling down due to always getting into misfortune and decides to buy a book titled "Staying out of trouble and loving it", in the book there is a document with a secret formula hidden, a formula that is sought after by two crooks which are determined to get hold of it. They chase DD down and get hold of half the document but DD and HDL manages to escape with a cargo ship to the island of Rapa Nui ( Easter Island ), but the crooks tracks them down.

First published
August 1991
Length
19 pages (3 tiers)
Printed
21 times, in 13 countries
Also coded
3-nt-159, kjd005, kjd005-1, kjd005-1

Credits

Plot
William Van Horn
Script
William Van Horn
Pencils
William Van Horn
Ink
William Van Horn

Characters

In bold: the story's lead.

Where it was printed

DateCountryIssueTitle
August 1991United StatesDonald Duck Adventures (Disney Comics) 15A Tuft Luck Tale
May 1992NetherlandsDonald Duck Extra 1992-05De geheime formule
29 October 1992Egyptميكي (Mickey - Dar Al-Hilal) 1645A Tuft Luck Tale
February 1993FrancePicsou Magazine 253L'étrange fomule
1 January 1994MalaysiaWalt Disney's Comics 58A Tuft Luck Tale
July 1994NetherlandsDonald Duck Extra Avonturenomnibus 14De geheime formule
11 August 1994ColombiaPato Donald Gigante 36Aventura en la Isla de Rapa-Nui
August 1995BrazilO Pato Donald (Abril) 2066Problema Cabeludo
13 August 1996NorwayDonald Duck & Co 1996B33En hårreisende historie
15 August 1996DenmarkAnders And & Co. 1996B33En hårrejsende historie
December 1996PortugalTio Patinhas 133Problema Cabeludo
September 1997GreeceΚόμιξ 111Πήγε για Μαλλί...
8 October 2002GermanyDie tollsten Geschichten von Donald Duck (Sonderheft) 185Eine haarige Geschichte
5 January 2005FrancePicsou Magazine 396Rasage à Rapa Nui
7 April 2006FrancePicsou Magazine (Albums) B 47Rasage à Rapa Nui
11 November 2014FinlandAku Ankka Jumbo 27Kovan onnen kaava
26 February 2015NetherlandsDe spannendste avonturen van Donald Duck 3De geheime formule
27 October 2016FinlandAku Ankka (digipalvelu) 2016-43Kovan onnen kaava
BrazilDisney Apresenta 3Problema Cabeludo
FrancePicsou Magazine (Albums) B 12L'étrange fomule
PortugalShow Disney 52Problema Cabeludo

Other versions

Redrawn, cut, recoloured or relettered for a later printing.

  • br/PD 2066f Story, 14 p., 4 tiers
  • fr/PM 396d Story, 19 p., 4 tiers

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