Thursday, April 26, 2012

Donald Duck and the Diabolical Duck Avenger


DONALD DUCK AND THE DIABOLICAL DUCK AVENGER

Now here's something interesting: Fellow fan Blotling has just brought us a translation of the first-ever appearance of the Duck Avenger, from the Italian comic "Topolino".

The Avenger was a lot less sympathetic in his first appearances - in fact, he wasn't even supposed to be much of a superhero, just a way for Donald to take care of the people who wronged him. The superhero thing came later, when people eventually got tired of Donald just being a jackass.

19 comments:

  1. I'm from Brazil and I have a comic book called "The duck avenger saga". There are 4 stories in this comic book:

    Donald Duck and the Diabolical Duck Avenger;

    A story about an advertising battle about soft drinks between Scrooge and Rockerduck (which Duck Avenger settles);

    A story in which the Beagle Boys built a floating castle that causes cold weather in an attempt to break in McDuck's vault;

    A story about Scrooge being kidnaped by Rockerduck and being rescued by Duck Avenger.

    Unfortunately, this comic book is too old and might tear apart if I try to scan it. But these stories might be found elsewhere.

    Oh, and keep up the good work with the blog. =)

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  2. Oh, sweet. I've wondered when this were going to show up on this site!

    Now, to finally read about the REAL origin of the Duck Avenger!

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  3. @Vinícius Kowalski Ashtear I think you talk about this issue, don't you?
    https://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=br/EL++++3
    ;)

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  4. Yes, this is the issue I was talking about. The PKNA series was partially published in Brazil too. But only 6 non-continuous editions were published. I have these also.

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  5. Just as a heads-up, I'll hopefully get part 2 done by next weekend sometime (which should probably translate into Sunday or Monday, if I know myself well enough)

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  6. Hi to all! Thanks for your work!
    Here the translation of a remark about the Donald's alter ego by Giovan Battista Carpi,creator of the Duck Avenger with Guido Martina

    "At first it was a Freudian case: the expression of Donald’s frustrations that he worked off through revenge and a new identity"

    The original:

    "All'inizio era un caso freudiano: l'esternazione delle frustrazioni di Paperino che trovavano sfogo attraverso la vendetta attuata sotto questa nuova identità"

    Sorry for my poor english

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  7. Y'know, scratch that time estimation, too much stuff going on right now. Part 2 will be done when it's done.

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  8. PKNA#40 - A Single Breath:
    http://www.mediafire.com/?cyhg4o34aa6clgm

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  9. Excellent post!!! Can we please have the second part of the story? thnx!!

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  10. PKNA#41 - Agdy Days:
    http://www.mediafire.com/?8ip89cr7v28805a

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  11. Hey I found a scan of a German pocketbook I remembered from my childhood.
    It's title translates to "The Funny Pocketbook - Duckburg Special #12: The Duck Avenger - How it Began...".
    It contains 9 early Duck Avenger stories. If you want, I can use it to translate the rest of the first story.
    I could also translate the second story "The Duck Avenger is Back" while you finish the first.

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  12. I actually am working on it, have approx. 1/3 left of it. It's just that I've not had enough time for it. But I intend to get it done asap.

    I don't have access to scans of the second story (if you're talking about "Paperinik alla riscossa", http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++743-AP ) though I think I've seen one part (think it was part 2) of it floating around on the web. I've planned to do it if I could get a hold on it, but if you can, be my guest :)

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  13. Apparently, despite it's name, the issue didn't contain the first comics, but the first comic and some later ones.
    However I found the issue that had the first 4 stories(The Funny Pocketbook #41 - A different side of Donald).
    Interesting about this issue is, that it also contains about 30 extra pages that connect the stories with each other. I finished the first 4 of those pages, that take place before "Donald Duck and the Diabolical Duck Avenger". I hope my English is not to bad.
    http://www.mediafire.com/?y1y194yp4j42sxa

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    1. That's great!! Can you please translate the rest of them? Thanks in advance!

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    2. Dear lord, that artwork is almost as bad as Ducktales #3! Ok, it's maybe not that brutal, perhaps not even close, but still bad nonetheless.

      Interesting still, post away!

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  14. Blotling you gotta forgive them for being in the 70's

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