"Truant Officer Donald" is a 10-page Disney comics story written, drawn, and lettered by Carl Barks. Characters in the story include Donald Duck, his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and the boys' schoolmates Butch and Finnegan. The story was first published in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #100 (January 1949). The story has been reprinted several times since.[1]
| "Truant Officer Donald" | |
|---|---|
| Story code | W WDC 100-02 |
| Story | Carl Barks |
| Ink | Carl Barks |
| Date | January 1949 |
| Hero | Donald Duck |
| Pages | 10 |
| Layout | 4 rows per page |
| Appearances | Huey, Dewey and Louie |
| First publication | Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #100 |
The story was based on an animated short of the same name first released in August 1941. In this story, Truant Officer Donald tries to catch his school-skipping nephews using radar, a periscope, and other surveillance devices. The comic book story has a different ending than the animated short, in which after Donald catches the boys and takes them to school, it is revealed that this day is a Saturday, in which there is no school. However, Donald reveals that as Truant Officer, he has a spare key to the school, with which he opens the school doors and marches his nephews inside to write 'Crime does not pay' on the classroom blackboard.[2]
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- ^ "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #100 (January 1949)". Grand Comics Database. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
- ^ Barks, Carl (2013). Walt Disney's Donald Duck in "Lost in the Andes" (2nd ed.). Fantagraphics Books. pp. 127–136, also unpaged 'Story Notes'. ISBN 978-1-60699-474-0.
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