Newspaper stripYD 40-06-18

Opera d'arte?

DD buys fake Rembrandt

First published: 18 June 1940
Length: 1 page
Printed: 17 times, in 8 countries
Also coded: yd40-06-18

Credits

Plot: Bob Karp
Script: Bob Karp
Pencils: Al Taliaferro
Ink: Al Taliaferro

Characters

Donald Duck

In bold: the story's lead.

Notes

similar gags are YD 43-10-12, YD 44-10-18, YD 45-09-24, YD 46-07-27, YD 46-11-25, YD 47-09-09, YD 47-11-04, YD 48-09-07, YD 48-10-05, YD 49-03-02, YD 49-07-18, YD 49-12-13, YD 50-11-01, YD 53-04-27. In all of them DD meets a man in a street or alley offering a special bargain. And almost every strip in the final panel angry-looking DD is looking at the reader

Where it was printed

Date	Country	Issue	Title
24 September 1940	Sweden	Aftonbladet 19400924	untitled
1940	United States	Newspapers 1940	untitled
May 1942	United States	Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 20	untitled
1975	Italy	Nel regno di Topolino (apocrifo) 6	Paperino
May 1985	Italy	Dailies di Paperino collezione ANAF 5	untitled
1989	Netherlands	Donald Duck van dag tot dag 1940	untitled
1989	Norway	Donald Duck fra dag til dag 3	untitled
19 June 1990	Norway	Donald Duck & Co 1990-25	untitled
1990	Finland	Aku Ankka Päivästä päivään 1940	untitled
November 1992	Italy	Cartonatoni Disney 22	untitled
1992	Denmark	En daglig dosis 3	untitled
1992	Sweden	Dag för dag 1940	untitled
14 September 1997	Italy	Disney MEGAzine 30	Opera d'arte?
15 September 1998	United States	Uncle Scrooge 315	untitled
2 September 2015	United States	Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics 1	untitled
November 2019	Italy	Disney Classic 1	untitled
November 2022	Brazil	Pato Donald: As Tiras Diárias de Jornal Por Al Taliaferro 1	untitled

Other versions

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

br/PDTD 1p260b Story, ⅓ p., 3 tiers
dk/EDD 3gn Story, ½ p., 4 tiers
it/BIG 22bcm Story, ⅙ p., 6 tiers
it/DMR 30bk Story, -1 ⅓ p., 3 tiers
it/NRTA 6i Story, ⅓ p., 4 tiers
no/DD1990-25b Story, ¼ p., 4 tiers
se/AB 19400924a Story, 1/7 p., 7 tiers