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
Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" is a comic book story starring Donald Duck that was originally printed in "Four Color" #9 (the first "Four Color" issue titled "Donald Duck") in October 1942. The script was by Bob Karp and illustrated by Carl Barks and Jack Hannah. The story is significant for launching the first American Donald Duck adventure comic series. The first Donald Duck adventure comics had so far only appeared in Italy, in the first issue of the Italian Disney comics magazine "Paperino" by Federico Pedrocchi. In this story Donald and his nephews Huey,