THESEMBLANCE

From time to time readers of funny animal comic books experience a new story they seem to remember having seen, at least in parts, previously, and this may well be true. It is not uncommon for writers and graphic artists to occasionally borrow plotlines or images for their own purposes, and Carl Barks was one of their favourite 'victims'. Below is an easily recognizable example of a whole duck story, in which the well known and extremely productive artist Anthony 'Tony' Joseph Strobl (see more HERE), borrowed Barks' famous WDCS178 'Neighbour Trouble' and made his own very similar version. Strobl's story was never credited to Barks.

Brief, joint synopsis for WDCS178 'Neighbour Trouble' and DD76 The Quest for Quiet:

Donald Duck moves to a quieter neighbourhood in order to get a good night's sleep. But he misjudges his new neighbour's identical intentions and soon a noise war is raging.
It is interesting that the two artists arrived at very different endings both involving a giant alpenhorn; Barks made Donald pay justly for his unruliness by rendering him half-deaf caused by a thundering tone from said musical instrument, while Strobl let things escalate uncontrollably by having Donald continuously play the alpenhorn in order to further harrass the innocent neighbours...

EXTRA

Here is another artist's example, in which John 'Jack' Morin Bradbury (see more HERE) borrowed an entire sequence from Barks' WDCS161 'The Fix-it Shop'. The story was published in DG38 The Right Approach, and tells about a vacuum cleaner salesman visiting Daisy Duck, while Donald is hiding in the adjacent room to get some pointers on sales techniques (after inadvertantly having wrecked the salesman's vacuum cleaner without him knowing about it). Here are a few similar panel examples: