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* Humorous adventure stories, usually 24-32 pages in length.

In the 1940s these were one-shots in the Four Color series ( issued 4-6 times a year ) that starred Donald and his nephews.

Barks transitioned his skills as an animator artist and storyman into those of a comic artist and writer, notably in his longer adventure tales.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.