I had heard of this parody from Dark Horse’s Hellboy Jr. #2 (Nov. 1999) in passing but have never seen it until now. Story and color by Bill Wray, art by Stephen DeStefano. It’s a little hardcore (as well as outrageously funny), so don’t say I didn’t warn you.
(Thanks, Kevin!)
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I love a lot of comics from the 1940s and 1950s, and own about a thousand of them, but they simply don’t hold up well for rereading. The art can be great to look at (and help ID certain animators’ styles in many cases), but the stories are mostly junk, and repetitive junk at that. Carl Barks, John Stanley, and Walt Kelly are the transgressive artists at Western Publishing, period.
I think this story from WDC&S 173 (Feb. 1955) is probably in my top five favorites; of course I say that about every Barks story I reread and laugh out loud at. At around this time, people were not fond of Barks’s depiction of Donald, writing to him, saying that his behavior upset their children. I don’t have a copy of the letter, but I think Barks responded to one of them saying something to the extent of “tell your kid he’s a nose pickin’ crybaby.”
My apologies for those who hate modern coloring, it’s all I have of the story on file.
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If anyone is left around to care, Mickey doesn’t die. I hope you’ve enjoyed this serial!
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Apologies for keeping you all in suspense, but at least you aren’t waiting months like all those poor readers in 1936 did!! This probably contains my favorite bit of dialog from Pete in the whole strip’s history: “I’m sure glad I hate yuh! Cause if I didn’t hate yuh, I’d like yuh! An’ I don’t WANNA like yuh – I hate yuh too much!” We need that on bumper stickers.
Filed under classic animation, comics, floyd gottfredson
