Why is this in the same box as Jonah Hex and G.I. Joe Special Missions?

All part of my process! Or maybe a bunch of each was bought at the same store? But today we've got from 1978, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #v39#3 / 459--Gold Key did not give a rip for numbering, but reprinting "Balloonatics", story and art by Carl Barks.

Donald Duck just wants to get the yard raked--seems simple enough. But Huey, Dewey, and Louis are tear-assing about with balloons. After his leaf pile explodes, Donald rages out, following the balloon strings, but finding not his nephews but inventor Gyro Gearloose. Gyro had given them some balloons to test out, but apparently also has time...to build a giant Donald Duck balloon for him to terrorize his nephews with!

While the kids rake, Donald takes a nap on his balloon, accidentally hitting the gas switch and floating away! He wakes up freezing, ten miles up, with no way down, and that's the least of his problems: the army has seen him on radar, and aren't taking any chances. A pilot advises it could be "an enemy spy device," but what enemies did Duckberg have? Ah, probably a bunch. The pilot pops the balloon with a dart, leaving Donald falling and scrambling to grab enough of the popped balloon to use as a parachute. Which, along with landing in the leaf pile, saves him, although the leaves are scattered all over the yard again.

I think I picked this up with a bunch of other books, one of my last visits to EntertainMart. Hopefully, we'll see them again if not real soon, soon enough.