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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- This is a re-edited version of a video I put out recently. I got a couple things wrong and didn't wanna spread lies so I've unlisted the original and here's the new one with my source for publication history. Enjoy!
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#disney #donaldduck #bannedbooks #carlbarks #comics #disneycomics
Donald Duck wasn't a real duck. He wasn't played by a real duck. Nor was he even voiced by a real duck. Very misleading.
I have been utterly dismantled.
Yeah, stereotypes and racism just aren’t that important with the Orange Man in charge.
@@ParkNarcz I am one of the billions who suffer from anatidaephobia -- the profound fear that somehow, somewhere in the universe, I'm being watched by a duck. Run that up the flagpole and see who smokes it.
Duck!
Donald's "bomb" causing hair loss kinda lines up with Radiation and chemotherapy doing the same thing, gotta give props to that.
0:25 In Europe I'd argue the situation is exactly the opposite. In many countries Duck comic artists such as Barks, Al Taliaferro, Don Rosa and Romano Scarpa are held in reverence, where as the animation stuff is more obscure and often directly conflicts with details in the loose comic canon.
I was definitely speaking from a more American-centric point of view, which I should have made clear. I honestly didn't think anyone but Americans and Canadians saw my videos, so I'll try to watch that kinda thing in the future.
Allowing this to be reprinted in the early 80's coincides with the time where Barks' name was starting to go mainstream (at least here in northern Europe - maybe the Italians were quicker to catch on). So perhaps Disney felt pressured to allow this back into print since the stories were starting to be in high demand.
"I am Donald Duck. Destroyer of worlds"
"You might not know Donald was more popular". Took me awhile to realize he wasn't here in the U.S. I always grew up loving Donald more then Mickey. My grandpa in SD always had the Ducktales cartoons for us grandkids to watch abd a big box of Scrooge, Donald, and triplet comics for us to root through. I even found a gemstone comic that I think was translated from Italy comics. So I knew who Feathery was before watching the Ducktales reboot. ;]
I read that story earlier this year. It’s in Dutch Donald Duck album 38, which was printed in 1984 and reprinted in 1992, 2001, 2007. It was originally in the weekly magazine in Dutch in 1975. The Carl Barks comics were, and are, very popular in the Netherlands.
When you think about it, an atom bomb that causes hair loss, and then selling hair growth to profit from that, is pretty dark. However, this story wasn’t banned at all. I think it’s great if a story can spark discussion.
That would fit into the timeline I lay out, so I don't doubt it! After 1983 the comic was available again. The story absolutely was banned in the sense that it wasn't available for 30 or so years and this was done intentionally. It's okay if you don't agree on the definition but this was 100% kept out of print for decades!
@@ParkNarcz NO, it does not agree with the timeline you laid out, as you claim that it was last reprinted in Italy in 1949 and that it was kept out of print for over 3 decades, 1949+3 decades= 1979. Though it did stay out of print for a couple of years, it was reprinted no less than five times in those years.
It was reprinted in the Dutch weekly in 1975 and it was reprinted in Italy in 1977 (so less than 30 three decades later), but its reprints had not stopped in 1949 either, it was reprinted in 1952 in Brazil and in Spain, and in 1953 again in Brazil, which means that if it was actively kept out out of print (internationally) that period did not last more than 1975-1953 = 22 years (about), which is over two, but under three decades...
It really does not show an abnormal international publication history compared to the other Western stories, except for being taken up in collected Duck stories by Barks...
You're right, and I know that now, but didn't then. I'm going to correct this, but I would say it was still banned, but only in America.
Carl Barks is an undersung creator in American comics. He was to funny animals what Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko were to superheroes.
As a Scandinavian, I was baffled when I heard how Donald Duck lost most of his popularity in the U.S and that the comics weren't as big over there. Also I have long suspected Carl Barks was a major influence on manga, I got a lot of Barksian feelings reading One Piece which I have recently gotten into.
You have either a damn lot to read or watch as the manga and anime is extensive and very long, but we'll be worth it. I've read and watched both a few times over the years so I hope you allso learn to love one piece
Damn who’d have thunk that something was off about Professor Sleazy of all people!
I am not 100% sure, but I suspect this story was published in Brazil in the 70s/80s. I vaguely remember the story points of the bombs and the spies. Barks stories were huge in Brazil too, although the author was not credited at that time.
That's very possible but I couldn't find any record of that. I probably should have said "banned in America". If you do find out that it was published in Brazil uncensored please comment here so I can correct that!
@@ParkNarcz Sure! If it bleeps on my radar I'll let you know :)!
Thank you! I honestly try my best to make these videos accurate, so I really appreciate people correcting me.
@@ParkNarcz This story felt familiar to me as well so I did some digging and sure enough, it was published here in Brazil at least 4 times, once in 1952 (on its own), in 1953 (as part of the 100th Donald Duck issue) in 2008 (as part of a complete Carl Barks collection) and now in 2024 (as part of the brazilian version of the Fantagraphics collection)
Thank you! Can you tell me your source? Also, were these versions the same as the original or were they altered?
I wish Disney would stop being so politically correct & release, uncut, 'Song of the South' on DVD.
Thanks so much for making this, I am a big fan of Donald and didn't know of this story!
Thanks for watching! If you love Donald you should dig my channel, cause I talk about him a lot!
Donald Duck is still the most popular Disney character in Finland. Everyone read these comic books from Al Taliafero, Carl Barks, Don Rosa. Mickey Mouse was never popular here. He reeks of american dream too much.
Germany as well! Far bigger than Mickey
I’ve been looking for this comment 🙌
@Halbmond Mickey is supposed to be an optimistic character (versus Donalds anger management flaws). No matter how bad things get Mickey is hopeful. That became very popular in the dark times of 1930s Depression when 1/3 of people were jobless
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1:36 Hey, it's Radioactive Man's catchphrase!
There's been some interesting Duck/Mickey Mouse comics written and drawn by Italian artists. Two of the most bizarre I've seen are semi-adaptions of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Call of Cthulhu' and 'The Shadow over Innsmouth'. The source material ain't exactly something I'd imagine kids reading these comics would be familiar with 😂
I’ve got to find those if they’re available anywhere.
And I thought
the H.P. Lovecraft ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ book with Dr Seuss style art was wild.
Lol this has been republished lots in the Netherlands, have this album still. I remember this story and I really liked it, funny how weird and moralistic American Disney are and always have been apparently.
Carl Barks is the goat and all his stories are awesome. The cube people of Peru and the viking crown of America are great aswell. Don Rosa is also great for expanding the lore on Bark’s work tenfold.
I didn't mean to imply that there were no other reprints besides the ones I mentioned. I just kinda skipped forward to now but I see how it probably looks that way. I did provide a link in the description to make the exact publication history clear but yeah, sorry about that.
@ nah its cool glad you made a video about the comic
0:34 lol Carl Barks. Too close to Karl Marx lol glad I checked captions on for that one 😂. Good vid.
On of the most popular newspaper comic strips started as "Karl-Barks-Stadt" but people would not probably get that (with young people not even remembering Chemnitz was once called Karl-Marx-Stadt) so it was very renamed "Fingerpori".
@mikkoolavijarvinen3653 thanks lol glad I'm not the only one who thought Marx.
According to my possibly dodgy memory, the long oblong comics came to Melbourne, Australia, sometime around late 1940's, certainly by early 1950's. So far as I know, they were distributed by Gordon and Gotch (now Are Media) through newsagents, and were very popular. They were certainly still on sale at late 1950's.
By the early 1950's (possibly before - I cannot remember), my father was buying the regular portrait-style 'Donald Duck' comic books by Carl Banks for myself and my siblings. In his spare time, my father moonlighted as literary and culture critic for one of Melbourne's main newspaper, and he instructed us that these comics were works of high imagination and art, and we should study them as such.
I can't afford the FantaGraphics books, but luckily I live in Denmark, where I can buy the old magazines second hand for around 30 cents each. This means that I can still read plenty of stories with Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear (and Moby Duck) as well.
Br'er Rabbit pre dates animation, let alone Disney.
Yeah, if anything, censoring him is more offensive than having him around, since he’s a staple of African folklore that slaves brought to America
I have this story. In the NL, the stories by Carl Barks have been published in 135 albums from 1975 to 2010. My (childhood) treasure.
Thank you!
Can you tell me more or maybe suggest a good NL comic database that confirms this?
Donald duck has become death the destroyer of worlds
Carl Barks & Jack Kirby are my two favorite comic artists.
I used to love the Donald/Unca Scrooge Comics in the 70's 🤓😎✌🏻
The boy ducks are called «Kukken», «Fitta» and «Rasshølet» in Norway
No.
On an unrelated topic, I was wondering what's been happening with that issue of Steamboat Willie falling into public domain? I just haven't heard anything new since the report from earlier this year.
It's in the public domain. There's nothing new to report. The inevitable cheap cashgrab horror movie has come and gone. There's simply nothing new to write about.
Given how long it took people to realise the full dangers of radiation, I can definitely understand why a plot about a homemade 'atom bomb' and baldness that seems not unlike the results of radiation poisoning would end up in the "why did we not realise this was a bad idea" hindsight manner.
Donald Duck comics are famous in Europe
I'm sure I read this story in one of the German LTBs (Lustige Taschenbücher - funny pocket books). I have to look it up in my almost 600 books. 😂
It was released in Germany around the time of the Another Rainbow release I think, but it was censored I believe.
@ParkNarcz it's been called "Donald and the cosmic bomb". I'm not sure if that can be called censored as many things get changed a bit during translation and the name isn't really vital as it obviously isn't an atomic bomb but just a name Donald gave it.
Gold Key published Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse comic books.I read them along with the Marvel and DC superheroes.The two Disney comic books were slice of life.Reolace the anthropomorphic animals with humans they were rather realistic.
Gold Key was just a part of the Western Publishing family. And it came about after Western decided to publish its licensed comics on its own (previously, the comics were published through Dell Comics, the only major publisher able to bypass the notorious "Comics Code Authority" through its "Pledge to Parents" which appeared in pretty much every single comic, usually on the inside front cover; even the vaunted Archie Comics Group succumbed to the CCA). In the 1970s, Western established "Whitman" as an imprint for the comics they sold through toy stores but they largely reprinted the Gold Key material.
@josephwest124 Whitman,the best in books and toys for girls and boys.
Glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Nothing wrong with the Song Of The South characters. Modern Disney can rot.
Modern Disney cannot create, only destroy. Now they're going to destroy Muppet Vision 3D, the last project that Jim Henson worked on.
@KasumiKenshirou EVEN when Song of the South was just released in the 1940s, many movie critics criticized it for stereotyping black characters. Some theaters refused to show it. If it was obvious 60 years ago then it’s even more obvious now
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Lol that into was a big cognitive dissonance for me. Growing up in 90s Poland, back in the day the terms "Donald Duck" and "comic books" were virtually synonymous. There were weekly thin Donal Duck comic books for elementary school kids with a toy bundled to each issue, and a monthly "Gigant" for teens that were thick like an actual novel each. Anything like Marvel, DC, etc., or manga, was extremely niche and usually for late teen/early adult conesseurs, incomparably less popular. And they would be mainly known from... Cartoons on TV. Spiderman, X-men, Batman, Superman, Dragonball, Pokémon, etc.? These were mainly cartoons on TV, people maybe knew comic books existed at all, but hardly anyone saw any IRL, let alone owned them. And that kinda perpetuated this misconception the comic books are for kids, cause hardly anyone knew Spawn besides the movies, but everyone knew Donald Duck. It's kinda like someone associating all video games out there with Nintendo, that Mario is for kids, and although knowing that more mature stuff existed, it's not the 1st thing that comes to ones mind.
this is gallows humour
Disney has been forcing fantographics to censor the classic Disney comics recently.
Why.
@@disneyboy3030Political Correctness reasons.
Last I heard, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is essentially banned. A couple of the stories within are banned, and without them the rest wouldn't make sense. Disney told Don Rosa that these stories were banned. Rosa even offered to redraw the "offensive" parts but they refused. (I think the banned stories were ones featuring Bombie the Zombie.)
@ It is available on Kindle but Disney will not allow hard copies to be reprinted uncensored.
@@KasumiKenshirou why did they refuse the offer.
I’m shocked Professor Sleezy was a villain!
Where is the Kaboom??? There was supposed to be a Kaboom!
When I think about it Donald Duck seems to of just diminished more and more since the time I was a kid in the 80s
It was also published several times in the nordic countrys.
I've always found him to be the most annoying character. His noises, his attitude, everything.
0:24 No, the comics are actually the real deal and way more popular with people of all ages. They make Donald more popular than Micky. The cartoons are for little kids but Donald is a bit different in them so most people care less about the cartoons and prefer the comics. But I'm German and apparently it's different in the US.
I have another reprint of the story from Greece that was featured in "Η Μεγάλη Βιβλιοθήκη Disney Τόμος 40 - Ο Σερίφης της Μαύρης Κοιλάδας"which in English it translates to"The Disney Great Library Volume 40 - The Sheriff of Black Valley" it the only story that not only included a translation in greek of course but it included the English version too.
I didn't wait.
If you get that joke... you're the only one.
I don't get it! It's brilliant!
When I was a kid Disney meant wholesome family entertainment. I heard as Walt was being laid to rest Disney corp execs were approving the company to engage in R rated entertainment. Disney today is some of the most vicious & violent & sex entertainment out there. What a world we have created. All for the almighty $$.
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Donald's bomb and the real one both make hare disappear...
The story has been published in the Dutch Donald Duck weekly and books multiple times. Probably the same for the rest of Europe.
BTW That mouse, what's its name, err Micky. Just a minor character that gets a few pages every now and then, often as a side kick to Goofy.
0:15 why past tense.... mikey is still a nobody compared to Donald.
What is the difference between Donald Duck and Donald Trump?
One is a cartoon character with a hot temper and the other is a duck.
Didn’t you already upload this video? I’m kinda confused lol.
Read the description
Yeah, I made a mistake and wanted to correct it. I'll have a new video out next week!
Lol I realize now why you were so confused. I forgot unlisting the original video didn't make it not visible. I just made the first one private so it wouldn't confuse people. Sorry about that!