Who of you grew up (and still loves) Duck comics?

I know Duck comics aren't nowhere near as popular in the US or UK as they are in Italy, Scandinavia or Germany. That's why I thought this thread might be a nice idea, to unite thoughts and recommendations of Donald Duck / Scrooge McDuck comics.

I grew up, as many children in Germany for generations and generations since 1951, reading the weekly "Micky Maus" magazine. Even in the short timeframe in which I read it regularly, 1997-2002, many comics by great comic artists such as Carl Barks, Vicar, Don Rosa, Marco Rota and William van Horn were featured. Not to mention the great Floyd Gottfredson dailies with Mickey, but the mouse has to keep outta this thread

When I grew older, I recognized that my favourite comics were those of Don Rosa and Carl Barks. I got more in-depth with the backgrounds and the popularity of Duck comics in different countries. Not sure how it really is, but in the US Duck comics seem to be an absolute niche genre while it's basically the first comic every kid gets in touch with over here. US citizens who grew up reading Donald Duck, post here!



For me, the Duckburgh universe is one of my favourite places. I do read other comics from time to time, but there will never be something similar. I'm a total addict

 

Count me in.

Always bought the weekly "Micky Maus" & the monthly "Lustiges Taschenbuch".
I think I stopped reading that stuff at the age of 16.

 

ave: until the duck comics became too crappy (after jumbo book 100 something), then I enjoyed reading "duck comics". Now a days I tend to stay away from those comics, I much more prefer illustrerede klassikere (Classics illustrated for the non Danes) and Stjerne Klassikere(Star Classics) which were a revamp of the old Illustrated Classics.
I also enjoy the classic comics both DC and Marvel did (The Count Of Monte Cristo from Marvel is phenomenal), in the style of the old classics, just better (to me some times) drawn than the original ones. But the whole Disney face is long gone for , cause Disney has over saturated the market with bad comics. It is no wonder why the last Disney film I saw in the theatre was Mulan, which was a great collaboration of the Western drawing, and the a bit Anime style from the Japanese style. The last "classic" style Disney film for me is Lion King. So it is no wonder, why when I was around 11 I started to become interested in Manga and what not, that came from Japan.

 

Wow! Not related to comics but, today I've watched in the TV the very first episode of Duck Tales!

I don't remember seeing it before. Maybe a long long time ago. But now I know how "scrooge" (this is the english name?) - here is "Tio Patinhas", this name don't means anything money related to the kids, it's just a name - was stingy (that's the word?). And the story starts with a treasure map in a little boat. lol it was so cool! =D

About comics, I grew up reading Marvel. Mainly Spider-Man.

 

Lol @ the preview title for this when looking at the home page... "who of you grew up..." ;-) Asked on a forum for adults who collect video games lol!

I used to read some comics that had Scrooge McDuck and his nephews... I guess Duck Tales?

 

I used to watch ducktales as a kid. Was the foundation of the 90's for me really.

On the subject of comics I have 150 Beano and Dandy mini comics I need to offload. Some dating back to 83 and one is the first Beano Comic Library issue 1. How to go about this?

 

You remember the Nineties?!?

There's this website called eBay....

Don't expect them to be worth much, though.

 

Oh damn, I missed the word "reading" in the title. "Who of you grew up reading (and still loving) Duck comics"... It was late

I am surprised that this DuckTales TV-show was so popular. I always hated it because all the characters were so different from the comics, apparently. It all took place in 1990 instead of Barks' 1950's Duckburgh. They used computers, Huey Dewey and Louie were some dickhead teenagers... oh dear^^

It's incredible how many names there are for all the characters in different languages. Scrooge McDuck is called "Dagobert Duck" in German, Dagobert is a very old-fashioned German name. The fact that he's called "Duck" just like Donald Duck is very misleading because it indicates that Grandma Duck is maybe his sister (and that's also what he calls her in some Italian Duck comics!), but she's not. Scrooge is a scottish McDuck while Donald derives from the Duckburgh citizen Grandma Abigail Duck.

Huey Dewey and Louie are called "Tick, Trick und Track" in German, Gyro Gearloose is Daniel Düsentrieb and Flintheart Glomgold was, unexpectedly, renamed to "Mac Moneysac". Magica is Gundel Gaukeley, Donald and Daisy's names stayed the same but Gladstone Gander became Gustav Gans, suggesting a cousinhood with Gus Goose who's called "Franz Gans" in German.

Our translator Dr. Erika Fuchs also translated "turkey" with "goose" because no one eats a turkey in Germany for Christmas (resp. Thanksgiving). This way, Gladstone Gander (Gustav Gans/Goose) sometimes ate a Gans/goose for Christmas. :-0

 

Same here

Bought "Mickey Mouse" magazine for ages, but eventually stopped.
However, STILL buying the "Lustige Taschenbuch" comics, I got two big boxes full of only those!

Also watched Duck Tales a lot, but like the paper-comics more, though like Duck Tales a lot too

 

Hell yeah, Duck comics were (are) great, at least the ones by Carl Barks and Don Rosa...Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck is probably my favorite series of them all.

I think you've confused two series there...in DuckTales Huey, Dewey and Louie were definitely little kids like they're supposed to be. In the shitty 90s cartoon Quack Pack they were teenagers.

 

Man, Ducktales was the best show ever. You must have been watching something else, because the Ducktales I used to watch ruled.

 

Ah right, I confused it with Quack Pack:

aaaaaaaargh!!!

I haven't watched the actual Duck Tales show very often because it was only broadcasted in the morning here in Germany. In the morning = TV had to be off (and still does )

 

I loved these as a kid.

But then, as an adult, I re-read them with this book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_Donald_Duck

and enjoyed them even more.

The Spanish version of "Reading Donald Duck" is required reading in most Media Analysis majors, or at least used to be back in the day.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Donald-Duck-Imperialist/dp/0884770230

Also, the book is historical - made in Chile in 1971, just a bit before one of the few Latin American democracies was destroyed by imperialism (1973) in a deadly coup that kept fascism in power for 17 years and killed, at least, 30,000 Chileans.

As a Latin American, Chile's history explains to me a lot of what happened to our countries in the late 20th - and this book shows what Chile had become and could have kept were it not for the meddling of certain political forces (I will not name countries or churches). As an academic, I find that work to be brilliant - Mattelart's work in general (not just this book, some of his critical theories on Mass Communication too) was tremendous.

So yes, I still really enjoy Duck Comics. Even more so than most.

 

LUSTIGE TASCHENBÃœCHER

 

Why do you always exclude little but mighty switzerland?

 

I grew up reading lots of Donald Duck, never really liked Mickey Mouse. I still enjoy Don Rosa, that man puts an immense depth into his comics.

 

teh fun fact: The first Micky Maus magazine came out in Switzerland in late 1936 and was published for about a year until about December 1937. Those issues are now worth 250 Euro each and very, very rare. (The initial release for the real "Micky Maus" comics was 1951 in Germany @teh others who aren't familiar with Germany's MM)

They renamed Donald "Schnatterich" though

 

awwww....I still buy Lustige Taschenbücher sometimes (although thay got really expensive -.-), mostly used ones due to the high price,
there´s a great Comicshop in Frankfurt that sells used ones, I always pick up some when I´m there^^

Why? idk, probably because they are easy to read, which is perfect when I need something to do and I am to lazy to think too much (also it´s better than the stuff we have to read in school)

 

wow, i've learn to read with Donald Duck comics and still have a lot of Donald/Mickey comics in spanish, and some brazilian editions.

 

Love them!!

My dad used to buy me Donald Duck comics when I was little.

I remember he was the only person who read them properly.. Haha, everyone else in my family really hated them,
Sadly, when I learnt how to read, dad kinda stopped reading for me. And seeing I was really interested in books, he stopped buying the comics.

However, having shared that with him, is one of the happiest of my childhood memories