Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Daily Newspaper Comics Volume 3 (DONALD DUCK Daily Newspaper) Hardcover – July 12, 2016

Volume 3 spans the years 1943 to 1945 as World War II is coming to a close. Donald Duck is still trying to get ahead by hook or by crook even as he tries to maintain his volatile relationship with Daisy. There are jokes about scrap drives and food rations that may not resonate so much with a modern crowd but Bob Karp had a very keen sense of humor and a sharp wit. Karp’s humor is much darker than Carl Barks and Donald skirts the edge of being a sociopath. His nephews are hardly better and often worse but I love the humor. Besides some of the topical humor related to the war effort the jokes don’t feel dated.In this volume Donald actually starts to take his parenting responsibilities serious and often gives the boys very good advice particularly about not fighting. Make no mistake, Donald is still the kind of duck who’ll put mice in a woman’s basement and then offer extermination services or take all the items from an all you can eat buffet back to his table. In one comic a pretty female duck drops an embroidered handkerchief in front of Donald and he picks it up and in the final panel he’s shown giving it to Daisy. He has no guilt about taking advantage of people and yet I already sense a softening from the previous volumes. He no longer plays sadistic pranks on his nephews and others and likewise his nephews seemed to have matured slightly. I actually kind of enjoyed the sadism of our favorite duck but it’s fun to see Karp exploring new areas of humor.Grandma Duck makes her first appearance with the joke being that she still has a mindset from the 1800’s while living in the 1940’s. We also get the first appearances of cousin “Sock” (Socrates). Today Sock would be considered a nerd and probably do quite well but in the 1940’s he would be called a sissy. The nephews, of course, have no qualms with tormenting their awkward cousin.Unlike the Mickey Mouse dailies from Fantagraphics and the Carl Barks Donald Duck comics these are all gag a day strips. I love the work by Barks and Gottfredson but almost never laugh out loud reading their comics. Having now read three volumes of Taliaferro/Karp comics I have to confess that this is probably my favorite classic Disney comic and I did not expect that to be the case. There are at least 10 laugh out loud moments for me in this volume and I am not one prone to laughing out loud. In one comic Donald is at a music store trying to buy a conductor’s baton but none satisfy him. In the final panel Donald is leading his nephews in band practice with his choice of baton, a baseball bat. The audacity of implied violence is so absurd that had I a mouthful of liquid I would have spit it all over my lovely book. In another comic the nephews are lamenting that they didn’t have the nerve to perform an initiation stunt to get them into the Third Street Tigers Club. Donald chides them for being "lily-livered" inspiring them to bravery. In the final panel they perform their stunt, nailing Donald in the head with eggs. There are some jokes that I just didn’t get but there are a ton of really really funny jokes.IDW has done a fantastic job of cleaning up the comics and presenting them in a very attractive hardbound book. For fans of early Disney comics you could hardly ask for a better time to be alive and both IDW and Fantagraphics are incredibly respectful to the work and artists. There is a brief five page introduction but clearly the comics are the star of the show. I give this volume and the entire series my highest score.

Don't usually review anymore. But I really enjoyed this collection of Donald Duck comic strips. I particularly enjoyed the patriotic ones: the rationing of meat & gas, & the purchasing of war bonds & war stamps. For those that don't know, the characters of Donald & his nephews in the comic strips is far different from that in the comic books.

These adventures of Donald Duck are pure nostalgia for me. I loved the characters then and still do now. The ducks are well drawn and the gags were fresh and funny. A few gags may be lost on todays generation but most are quite universal. Highly recommended.

This is a good selection of comic strips from daily papers. There are good tie ins with WWII as well.

I literally just opened this book up to a random strip, read it, and laughed out really loud. Already worth the purchase.

Donald Duck is always fun to read and enjoy

The comic strips are not in color very disappointed

A gift for someone else

Eu não era nascido quando estas tiras saíram nos jornais,não sei se foram lançadas no Brasil,mas Donald fez parte da minha infância,infelizmente não fará parte da infância da maior parte das crianças. As crianças no futuro acharam que não perderam nada,mas nós sabemos que estas crianças terão uma infância vazia. Quem é Mickey? Tio Patinhas? Snoopy? Jogar bolinha de gude? Jogar pião? Pique escondi? Forte Apache? Etc... e Etc... Tudo que foi bom,um dia será totalmente esquecido. Até nossa história será esquecida,os livros deixaram de existir. Não deveríamos nunca,deixar o passado morrer........

Who does not love this adorable duck and his antics, it never seems to amaze me as to how much we did not receive here in Britain, and obviously from America we can now look into past strips of Donald Duck. I look forward to other volumes when available.

Nice collectors item. I'm just starting buying these Daily Newspaper Issues and already far back in time. Looking forward to the next book

As always. It's what you need to read/know. Long lost strips from the war times. Classics, timeless. Donald Duck. Enough Said.

III capitolo delle strips di Al Tagliaferro.Forse un pelino meno geniali e pungenti dei primi 2 ma ancora decisamente di gran livello.