The Treasure of Yellow Beak

The Treasure of Yellow Beak (the direct English translation of the Portuguese title O Tesouro de Bico Amarelo) is a comic story drawn by Luis Destuet. It features Yellow Beak, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Peg-Leg Pete, the Beagle Boys, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, and, in their debuts, Pete's Pirate Parrot Partner, a Desert Island Dweller and a malicious Pet-Store Owner.
==Plot==
After rescuing him from a pet shop, Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck join up for Yellow Beak on a new expedition looking for a long-buried treasure on a desert island! Unfortunately, Peg-Leg Pete and a fellow with an uncanny resemblance to Yellow Beak both overheard the conversations, and soon, the Ducks set sail with half of the Calisotan underworld as their crew…
===References===
* Yellow Beak has been looking for the alleged “treasure” for ”years”.
* Yellow Beak, Donald Duck, the Beagle Boys and Peg-Leg Pete also know “the Queen Mary” as “the biggest ship in the world”.
===Continuity===
* The story presents itself as a sequel to Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold (1942) and arguably Donald Duck and the Pirates (1947) as well, with Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck being reunited with Yellow Beak, whom they readily recognize as an old friend.
* This sequel borrows the broad structure of the original Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold (1942), with Yellow Beak bringing the Ducks in as partners on a trip to a desert island only for the ship to be infiltrated by several disguised criminals — who, after their deception is exposed, successfully take control of the ship and set the heroes adrift, only for them to miraculously end up on the treasure island before the pirates.
* It was not the only Finds Pirate Gold sequel to feature Yellow Beak returning to the Ducks' house, as it was followed by Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold… Again! (1962), which also shared the gimmick of introducing the Beagle Boys and Scrooge McDuck to the formula. However, the two stories were ostensibly developed with no knowledge of one another, and do not share any intentional continuity details between them.
* Some setpieces and visual elements — such as Scrooge McDuck wearing a sea captain's cap, the Ducks being stranded on a raft with a villain, and a coveted pirate chest which actually contains food most people would consider foul — also seem inspired by Carl Barks's other great pirate yarn, The Horseradish Story (1953), which was the cover story of the Brazilian comic issue in which The Treasure of Yellow Beak was first published.
* The latter twist of the chest turning out to contain ancient food that the sailors at the time deemed valuable can also be compared to the twist at the end of Barks's Back to Long Ago! (1956), although direct influence is made somewhat unlikely by the fact that the 1956 had yet to be printed in Brazil when The Treasure of Yellow Beak was released.
==Behind the scenes==
The Treasure of Yellow Beak was only ever published in the Brazilian Mickey #55 in April of 1957. It has never been published in English officially, although a fanmade translation does exist, having been featured on September the 22nd, 2020 on Joe Torcivia's The Issue At Hand. For unknown reasons, the story is not indexed on INDUCKS on its own terms, being merely listed on the page for the issue.
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Category:Luis Destuet stories
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Category:Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck stories
Category:Pete's Pirate Parrot Partner stories
Category:Desert Island Dweller stories
Category:Pet-Store Owner stories