Donald Duck #10/1955
Donald Duck #10/1955 is a representative unit of the Dutch weekly's pivotal third year of full-color publication — issue #10 of 1954 had been the milestone that brought the entire magazine into color, and the 1955 run consolidated that achievement across a readership that was rapidly turning the title into one of the Netherlands' most widely read periodicals. As a typical issue of the era, it carried translated Carl Barks Donald Duck lead stories alongside backup strips featuring the Wolf family and the three little pigs, cementing the recurring cast — Midas Wolf, Wolfje, Knir, Knar, and Knor — that would define Dutch Disney comics for generations. The 1955 volume also marks the year Endre Lukács began drawing original in-house Wolf stories, making issues from this run the earliest home for Dutch-produced Disney narrative content. Within the weekly's broader cultural arc, 1955 issues sit at the threshold moment just before issue #40 of the same year introduced the first non-Disney strip, Tom Poes, signaling that the magazine was ready to expand beyond pure American translation.
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De Geïllustreerde Pers launched the Dutch Donald Duck weekly on 25 October 1952, working from a template supplied by Danish publisher Gutenberghus, which had run Scandinavian Disney weeklies since 1948; in the early years the Dutch, Danish, and German editions shared identical film separations and coloring. Through 1955 the editorial team — operating out of the offices of the sister women's magazine Margriet under chief editor Anton Weehuizen — filled each 24-page issue primarily with translated American material, sourcing Carl Barks Donald Duck stories as lead features and Disney backup strips for the remaining pages. The covers of the era were overwhelmingly the work of Hungarian-Dutch illustrator Endre Lukács, who by 1955 was also beginning to write and draw original Wolf-family stories in-house, with editor and journalist John Bakkenhoven contributing scripts.
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- Published in 1955 by De Geïllustreerde Pers (Amsterdam) as part of the Dutch weekly 'Donald Duck — Een vrolijk weekblad,' which had launched on 25 October 1952.
- By the time of this issue, the weekly had been fully in color since issue #10 of 1954, when De Geïllustreerde Pers celebrated the transition by distributing a free all-color bonus issue.
- Lead stories in 1955 issues were translated Carl Barks Donald Duck strips, sourced via Gutenberghus (Denmark); backup slots were filled by stories featuring Midas Wolf/Wolfje, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Pluto, Broer Konijn (Br'er Rabbit), Bruin Beer, and the three pigs Knir, Knar, and Knor.
- Midas Wolf (the Big Bad Wolf) and his good-natured son Wolfje had appeared in Dutch Disney comics since the very first issue of October 1952, making the Wolf-family backup strip one of the longest-running recurring features of the magazine.
- Hungarian-Dutch illustrator Endre Lukács — the first regular local Disney artist in the Netherlands — dominated cover production throughout the 1950s and from 1955 onward also drew original in-house Wolf-family backup stories, with John Bakkenhoven among the credited writers.
- Each standard 1955 issue ran 24 pages; the format would not expand to 32 pages until issue #40 of 1958.
- Later in the same 1955 run (issue #40), the weekly published its first non-Disney strip, a Tom Poes story produced by the Toonder Studios — a landmark that placed the entire 1955 volume at a pivotal editorial juncture.