Happy birthday to Donald

Donald debuted on June 9, 1934, in the Walt Disney short film The Wise Little Hen.

Amongst many facts about Donald, here’s one which I think is particularly pertinent in the week of the D Day commemorations.

The famed duck starred in a series of shorts during World War II that involved the positive-thinking duck developing deep appreciation for the American troops and a hefty dislike of Nazi Germany (referred to as “Nutzi Land" in the films). In the most famous of these, Der Fuehrer’s Face, Donald has a horrible nightmare that he is working in a Nutzi Land factory, a dream he’s more than grateful to wake up from. The film won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoons in 1943, and turned Donald into something of a hero.

Happy birthday to Donald, a hero in many ways and who I remember fondly from growing up as a kid in the 1970’s. My blip today is of a Donald and Mickey comic from 29th December 1973, when I was 8 years old … gosh, how time flies.