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 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,