Early debut
Donald may well have made his first printed appearance in Mickey mouse Annual 3 (published 1932; the annual for 1933), a 128-page British hardback. This book included the poem Mickey's Hoozoo, Witswitch and Wotswot, which listed all of Mickey's then-current barnyard animal mga kaibigan (most of Disney's major characters developed out of this barnyard scenario). Among them was a sisiw ng pato named Donald Duck. Besides the name, however, there is little similarity between this character and the one introduced in The Wise Little Hen during 1934. Mickey mouse Annual 3 was drawn entirely sa pamamagitan ng Wilfred...
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