Duck family (Disney) strip, Della writes to Donald that the boys had placed a firecracker under their father's chair as a prank and that their father had been sent to the hospital. This was the reason why the boys first showed up at Donald's house. Thereafter the father is generally assumed to have disappeared. In "The Richest Duck in the World", when Scrooge mentions that the few family members he had had disappeared, the boys respond "We know how "that" feels!" Donald's cousin Fethry Duck was created for the Disney Studio Program by Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard and was first used in
Disney comics it dropped down to ca. 180.000 today. In spite of the name, most stories of "Micky Maus" feature Donald Duck as he is the most popular Disney character in Germany. Many other titles were/are published by the same company, most notably "Die tollsten Geschichten von Donald Duck" (1965-today), the "Lustige Taschenbuch" (1967-today, mainly Italian stories from "Topolino" and "I Classici di Walt Disney"; see Donald Duck pocket books, of which both "Topolino" and "Lustiges Taschenbuch" are national versions) and many others. In East Germany (1949–1990), no Disney comics were printed. The first Italian Disney comics was published already in the