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| "El Pato Donald" ("Donald Duck"), Nº223, October 19, 1948. Published weekly by Editorial Abril of Buenos Aires, this magazine featured (at least during the former years of its long run) not only the Walt Disney characters of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, Bucky Bug and adaptations of movie cartoons, but also an assortment of Italian comics, possibly from the "Corriere dei Piccoli", a weekly comic suplement very popular in post WWII Italy. Those comics, which were not of the humurous type, but dealt with exotic adventure, appeared in monochrome (not black but blue or green ink), while the Disney stuff came full-colored. The paper was of the cheapest kind -which was wonderful, in my humble opinion!-, including covers; that lowered the price of the mags, of course. Besides, Mexican comics had not reached our beaches yet, so the competicion was almost nil. The format was quite large, but the mag was thin. All the stories had the "to be continued next week" line, a common and fruitful practice by then. Two curiosities about this publication were: a) Covers were not original Disney art, but made by Argentine artists, under the Disney license. The main artist was Luis Destuet, who managed to create a Donald Duck character much his own, in his particular, likable style. b) A subtitle was run, (EL PATO DONALDO), for there was already a sort of anglophobia by then -which would burst in full, alas!, almost 4 decades later, with the Malvinas War- and they tried to "Spanish-ize" English names. They called "Superman" "Superhombre". | ||
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