Escape From Forbidden Valley is a Disney comic written and drawn by Don Rosa, as a sequel to Forbidden Valley by Carl Barks.
Scrooge McDuck has taken his nephews on yet another adventure, though this time, for slightly lower stakes than usual - the Ducks are venturing into the jungles of the Amazon in the hopes of bartering with a local tribe for Scrooge's favorite nutmeg tea. However, things quickly take a turn for the worse when the natives in question aren't the tribe Scrooge was expecting, but rather, the vicious Stickaree, the same indians Donald once fought back during the events of Forbidden Valley, and who's village was destroyed in the ensuing dinosaur stampede. The Stickaree haven't forgotten Donald either, and promptly drag him off to the now-walled off Forbidden Valley for some long-awaited revenge. Throwing their old enemy over the wall and leaving him stranded in the Valley alone, the Stickaree's hopes of seeing Donald eaten alive by a vicious predator are dashed when he is instead unwillingly adopted by a motherly Hadrosaur.
Now it's up to the triplets and Scrooge to rescue Donald, though Scrooge has a secondary motive - a dinosaur from the Forbidden Valley would make an excellent addition to his zoo, after all.
Escape From Forbidden Valley provides examples of:
- Arc Welding: This story serves as a sequel for three stories of Carl Barks: "Spicy Tale", "Forbidden Valley", and "The Trail of the Unicorn."
- Bamboo Technology: Scrooge's plane loses it's wings while flying through the narrow pass that leads into the Forbidden Valley, and the main body is wrecked by an angry Triceratops, leaving only the intact motor and propeller. To get back over the wall blocking off the Valley, Scrooge and the nephews build a large stabilizing "sail" out of wood and leaves, turning the motor into a makeshift helicopter.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: The insects in the Forbidden Valley are just as big as the other wildlife, but special mention goes to the giant moth that the characters campfire attracts. Being a moth, it's completely harmles, it just won't leave until the following morning, and even lets Dewey use it as a pillow during the night.
- Blatant Lies: The triplets' reaction to Donald asking if they saw him being spanked.
- Call-Back: The story is a sequel to The Forbidden Valley by Carl Barks.
- Cannibal Tribe: The Stickaree, who are implied to have eaten a member of the Peace Corps that visited them. They don't show any interest in eating the Ducks though (and it's uncertain if that would even count as cannibalism), and only want revenge on Donald for getting their village destroyed.
- Comedic Spanking: At one point the Hadrosaur, annoyed at his constant ranting, starts spanking Donald thinking he needs some discipline. The triplets' reactions are mixed to say the least.Huey: Is that hadrosaur doing what I think she's doing to unca Donald?Dewey: Giving him something he mighta needed since... "since dinosaurs ruled the Earth"?
- Death World: Downplayed; the Forbidden Valley has plenty of harmless fauna, but it's also filled with monstrous predators, and it's even dangerous to swim in the water, which is full of piranhas and electric eels.
- Head Pet: The giant moth insists on sitting on Dewey's head while staring at the campfire. Considering it's as big as he is, you'd think it'd be too heavy, but Dewey barely notices it.
- Here We Go Again!: The Stickaree village gets destroyed by dinosaurs again due to a Tyrannosaurus getting tripped over the wall blocking off the Forbidden Valley from the outside world.
- Pet the Dog: Noticing the heartbroken look on the Hadrosaur's face, Donald hands her one of Scrooge's dinosaur eggs so she can still have a baby to raise for her own. When Huey asks if that was a good idea, since they don't know what kind of egg it was, and it might have been a Tyrannosaurus, Donald replies that if it was, one day the Forbidden Valley "will have a very sweet-natured Tyrannosaur". After the second egg, which came from the same nest, hatches, it turns out to be another Hadrosaur.
- Raptor Attack: The pack of Velociraptor that Scrooge muscles his way through in order to get one of the dinosaur eggs they are eating. The Velociraptor actually have the correct skull shapes, and they are also accurate in size in that they are not much bigger than Scrooge. They still don't have feathers though, due to the comic being written in 1999.
- Savage Spinosaurs: Scrooge and the triplets get chased by a Spinosaurus (which is still depicted with a carnosaur-like head rather than the crocodile-like one it had in reality) after Scrooge claims two dinosaur eggs from the raptors.
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: After Donald is found by the hadrosaur, they are attacked by a Tyrannosaurus that the hadrosaur kicks over the wall that blocks Forbidden Valley from the outside world. The T. rex ends up chasing after the Stickaree, and is still doing so when the Ducks head for home.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: The giant moth drawn by the campfire, Dewey tries to chase it off twice, and it comes back anyway. It leaves on it's own the next morning once the sun is up.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: There's no mention of the actual instigator of the events of Forbidden Valley, Argus McSwine, who hasn't been heard from in years.
