Donald Duck in comics appeared in a portrait on August 11, 1940, and in person on September 28, 1943. Taliaferro also reintroduced Donna Duck as a separate character from Daisy. This old flame of Donald rivaled Daisy for his affections between August 7, 1951 and August 18, 1951, before leaving him for another. Donald had already been familiar to the American reading public through his newspaper comic strip by 1942. Then Disney licensed Western Publishing to create original comic book stories, with Disney characters as their stars. But the first American Donald Duck story originally created for a comic book was created by Studio-employed
The Wreck of the Hesperus (with Paddles)". In the 1948 Donald Duck "Pearls of Wisdom" comic strip, the triplet ducklings are rowing a boat called "Hesperus II". In the 1950 Warner Brothers cartoon, "The Ducksters", Porky Pig demands that Daffy Duck tell him "In what latitude and longitude did the Wreck of the Hesperus occur?". In a 1941 Popeye short, titled "Child Psykolojiky", a picture of the Hesperus with caption is seen hanging on Pappy's wall. In "First Among Sequels", book five of the Thursday Next series, the character of Anne Wirthless travels into the poem and tries to rescue the captain's daughter. She saves