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
Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics Disney archives. Each volume of the series has about 280 pages and contains close to 750 daily strips (the equivalent to a 2.5-year original newspaper run) as well as around ten pages of purely supplementary material like promotional art, portraits of the creators, and introductions. Volumes of the series are sold separately and have been released at a rate of one to two volumes per year at a suggested retail price set by the publisher at $39.99. In April 2018 it was announced that the fifth volume of the series is scheduled for release in March 2019. Donald Duck: The