Original Donald Duck Daily Comic Strip Art, Walt Disney Productions, 13 December 1972

An original four-panel daily comic strip featuring the character Donald Duck, dated 13 December 1972. The artwork is executed in hand-inked lines on paper, supplemented with mechanical dot shading known as Zip-a-Tone. The strip includes pasted-on production elements for the copyright and syndicate credits. The narrative sequence follows Donald Duck hitchhiking during a rainstorm, unknowingly boarding a vehicle belonging to the Trucking Co-op filled with live chickens, and concludes with a doctor diagnosing him with chicken pox. Visible markings on the front include Copyright 1972 Walt Disney Productions World Rights Reserved, Distributed by King Features Syndicate, and the date 12-13. The piece is professionally presented in a decorative blue and silver frame with a coordinated double mount and glazing. The reverse of the frame bears an official Disneyana Walt Disney Collectibles certificate issued by Walt Disney World, numbered 0157, which confirms the item as an original daily comic strip drawn by Walt Disney artists.