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Daisy Duck
167 appearances · Golden Age · 1938–2024 · 5 key issues
Who is Daisy Duck?
Few characters can claim a Platinum Age debut and still be going strong nearly nine decades later, but Daisy Duck is exactly that kind of enduring icon — first gracing the pages of Mickey Mouse Magazine back in 1938 and never really leaving. A fixture of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Four Color, she has shared countless adventures alongside Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and the irrepressible nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie across 167 catalog appearances and five collector-recognized key issues. That kind of longevity speaks for itself: Daisy isn't just part of the Disney comics landscape, she is part of its foundation, a Platinum Age original whose presence stretches across the full, glorious sweep of American comics history.
Mickey Mouse Magazine
#4 [28]
#4 [28]
★ First appearance
Mickey Mouse Magazine #4 [28]
Trivia
- Daisy Duck's comic-book roots trace back not to the printed page but to animation — she was folded into Western/Dell's Disney line as part of the studio's sweeping character-licensing operation, the same machine Western had been building since the 1930s and ran continuously through its Disney comics tenure from 1940 to 1962.mouseplanet.com
- In those early Western years Daisy rarely drove stories on her own terms; instead she functioned as the social fulcrum of Donald-versus-Gladstone rivalry plots, making her less a standalone hero than the romantic-comedy catalyst behind some of the brand's most endlessly reusable setups.mouseplanet.com
- Carl Barks has written more of Daisy Duck's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 35 issues.
Appearances (most recent 150 of 167)
Mickey Mouse Magazine (1935)
Large Feature Comic (1939)
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Comic (1943)
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1940)
Walt Disney's Comics- Wheaties Set A (1950)
Walt Disney's Vacation Parade (1950)
Stateside Comics (1953)
Walt Disney's Donald Duck Fun Book (1953)
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (1965)
Walt Disney Super Goof (1965)
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes (1962)
Walt Disney Moby Duck (1967)
Donald and Mickey (1972)
Hanna-Barbera the Funky Phantom (1972)
The Little Monsters (1964)
Walt Disney's Donald Duck No Such Varmint [Dynabrite Comics] (1979)
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (1984)
Walt Disney's Disneyland Birthday Comics Digest (1985)
Uncle Scrooge Bargain Book: Walt Disney's Comics in Color (1995)
Walt Disney Comics First Appearances (1997)
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures (1993)
Walt Disney Giant (1995)
Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Friends (2003)
Walt Disney's Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse (2005)
Comic Zone (2006)
Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (2003)
Wizards of Mickey (2010)
Disney's Hero Squad (2010)
Uncle Scrooge: The Hunt for the Old Number One (2010)
DuckTales (2011)
Darkwing Duck (2010)
Darkwing Duck / DuckTales: Dangerous Currency (2011)
Walt Disney's Donald Duck Family Comics (2012)
Uncle Scrooge: The Grand Canyon Conquest (2015)
Mickey and Donald Christmas Parade (2015)
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (2011)