Donald Duck in comics birth. According to Carl Barks, Donald's parents are Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck. Donald’s sister is named Della Duck, but neither she nor Donald's parents appear in the cartoons or comics except for special cases, like "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck". According to Rosa, Donald and Della are twins. Taliaferro introduced Donald's car, on July 1, 1938. It is recognizable by its license plate number "313". Though Donald briefly drove other cars both in Taliaferro's strip and in later stories, this car would stay with Donald throughout the following decades. The car's constant breakdowns and need of repairs
Donald Duck in comics and Patricia Pig and Donald Duck..." Donald may well have made another early printed appearance in "Mickey Mouse Annual" #3 (published 1932; the annual for 1933), a 128-page British hardback. This book included the poem "Mickey's Hoozoo, Witswitch and Wotswot", which listed all of Mickey's then-current barnyard animal friends. Among them was a duckling named Donald Duck. Besides the name, however, there is little similarity between this character and the one introduced in "The Wise Little Hen" during 1934. "Mickey Mouse Annual" 3 was drawn entirely by Wilfred Haughton. The Donald of "The Wise Little Hen" made his printed debut