"IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK..."

 

ANGRY DUCK: Call yourself a voice coach! I've been paying you millions of dollars for 90 years ––– and there are STILL people who CAN'T UNDERSTAND A WORD I'M SAYING!!

 

PROFESSOR OWL: Pardon...? Say again.....?

 

 

A BIG ISSUE

 

It's Donald Duck's 90th Birthday and yet he is as belligerent as ever...

 

ANGRY DUCK: 'It's all very well saying "Don't mention it", but it really IS – IN THE ROOM!'

"THEY'D EATEN EVERY ONE!"

Angry Duck:  

"What do you mean: 'WHAT OYSTERS?'"

CAT BURGLAR

 

Angry Duck:

"GET YOUR CHESHIRE PAWS –– OUT –– OF –– MY –– COMIC-BOOKS!"

"GIVE A LITTLE WHISTLE"

The newcomer to the bookshelves asserts his position...

 

 

"YOU ARE – NOT – MY CONSCIENCE!"

 

 

 

['Real-Life Information'. Newcomer: 'Donald Duck 70 Years' figurine by Royal Doulton (1998); Long-time Resident: Jiminy Cricket Disney Christmas Ornament (c. 1983; inspired by JC's performance as The Ghost of Christmas Past in Mickey's Christmas Carol; the original hanging eyelet and ribbon have been surgically removed!]

MORNING BLUES!

Sometimes this is just how you feel in the morning –––

even on a Friday!

 

 

 

[Illustration: Cover of vintage breakfast menu (c. 1940) from the Walt Disney Studio Restaurant, Burbank, California, USA]

Today, my American friends are celebrating National Peanut Butter Day!

 

I became hooked on this sticky, nutty, product when I was, maybe, six or seven years old and I pestered my mother into letting me try it solely because the jars from Sun-Pat then being sold in the UK came with a picture of this Walt Disney icon on the lid and a label carrying the sing-song mantra: SUN-PAT DONALD DUCK CRUNCHY PEANUT BUTTER.

 

Surprisingly, I succeeded in getting it added to the regular grocery shopping-list – remembering my Mother, I'm not sure how I did that! – and it became a much-loved breakfast spread long before I discovered the additional pleasure derived from a second topping of jelly – or, as we say, jam.

 

Mind you, if I'm honest, I'm no longer certain whether, back then, I actually really LIKED peanut butter that much, or whether it was totally down to the compelling marketing powers of the Disney Duck! I suspect the latter and, of course, I was – then and now – a 'Walt-nut'!

Anyway, I really wish I'd kept the empty jars: those selling on eBay (all of them with bashed, battered and rusty old lids) change hands for surprisingly toothsome prices.

 

 

 

COMIC-BOOK COVER ART: NEW YEAR SPECIAL EDITION!

In celebration of the Latest New Year, here is a selection of comic covers marking New Years from 1938-2024, featuring comic-book characters past and present from Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny through to Batman, Spider-Man and Dare Devil...

 

 

 

 

 

LONG LIVE KING MICKEY

 

To mark the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, the Disney Store in the UK have released a limited edition (only 2000 and only £14.00 a piece) 'Coronation Day' pin-badge featuring a monarchical Mickey Mouse costumed along the lines of his appearance in his 1990 film, The Prince and the Pauper. 

 

Unsurprisingly, this desirable little collectible sold out faster than the proverbial hot-cakes.

Interestingly, it's not the first time that Disney – at least in the UK – has taken the knee to the British Crown: 70 years ago this month, May 1953, Mickey Mouse Weekly celebrated the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with this cover illustration showing the progress of the Gold State Coach watched by a cheering, flag-waving crown including Mickey and the gang. 

 

And 16 years earlier, in May 1937, Mickey Mouse Weekly had a cover marking the Coronation of His Majesty King George VI with the Mouse and the Duck cheer-leading the celebrations with, again, a prominent presence of the Union flag – which (as is not always the case) is correctly displayed the right way up!