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 Adventures Comics published the title from 1990 to 1993, this one being the only one of the "new" Disney comic books to survive the company's comic implosion in 1991. They started a new numbering, issues #1-38. Gemstone Publishing published its own series of "Donald Duck Adventures", this one as a digest size graphic novel alongside "Mickey Mouse Adventures". These 128-page comics were sized 5" × 7½", and started a new numbering yet again, #1-#21. This "Donald Duck Adventures" was canceled in December 2006. Donald Duck Adventures Donald Duck Adventures was a comic book series featuring the adventures of Donald Duck and