Sales Resistance

[timoro]

What was the story behind this? It looks like "Mickey Mouse" is written by someone other than Barks himself. I know that the original script isn't Barks' own. Barks said: "Script came from the office. I was paid $ 25 extra for 'revising' it." "I can't remember the origin of the 'Mickey's Social Security number' gag. It probably was in the script as it came from the office. I doubt that I would have felt it permissible to mention Mickey."





Timo

[Scrooge MacDuck]

That's very interesting trivia you've got here, Timoro. The interesting thing is, the way Mickey Mouse gets his name dropped in a radio quiz actually makes sense within Don Rosa's theory of Mickey being an in-universe celebrity who doesn't know Donald (as per "The Starstruck Duck").

[Ramapith]

Maybe so—but the handwriting still isn't Barks' own. Numerous 1948 and 1949 Barks stories, and other Western Publishing Disney stories, have minor instances of relettering in this hand—which I'm presuming was that of an editor, or reflected an editor's wishes.

Given the specific era in which Barks wrote "Sales Resistance"/"Vacation Time"/"Ring Wrongs" (...it's actually had all three titles at various times!), it doesn't seem surprising to me that he'd casually namedrop Mickey as an acquaintance of Donald, especially in a WDCS story. From 1943-1948, Mickey fairly often costarred with Donald on WDCS covers, so there were plenty of instances on that very book of the two appearing together.