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Yellow Beak was a pirate parrot with a peg-leg. He was dressed in a cloak, a pirate's hat, red vest and bandana. In an adventure with Donald Duck and the Nephews, while menaced by Bad Pete, they discover buried treasure. This tale was originally planned for a cartoon called "Morgan's Ghost" which was to feature Mickey Mouse, Donald, Goofy and Pete, but was never produced. It was finally presented by Carl Barks in it's familiar "duck form" in Dell's "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" (Aug. 1949). The same pirate tale with Yellow Beak, minus the Ducks, was recycled several times, as in "Four-Color" #227 (1949) in "The Seven Dwarfs" tale, again in "Walt Disney's Peter Pan Treasure Chest" #1 (Jan. 1953) in the tale called "Captian Hook and the Buried Treasure," and yet again in an unauthorized non-Disney "Woody Woodpecker" #76 (1963) comic, where Yellow Beak's appearance and name remained unchanged. The original version of the tale was recently reprinted in Gladstone's "Donald Duck" #250 (Feb. 1987). |
Yellow Beak 