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Daisy Duck

Daisy Duck

1,370 appearances · Golden Age · 1938–2024 · 5 key issues
Who is Daisy Duck?

Daisy Duck debuted in the late 1930s as a spirited, fashionable duck who became a close companion to Mickey Mouse's world and a devoted girlfriend to Donald Duck. Confident and charming, she quickly became a beloved fixture of Disney's animated universe.

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]
★ First appearance
Mickey Mouse Magazine #4 [28]
Jan 1938

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.

Top series

Covers through the years — 1947–2018

Four Color #178 1947
Four Color #178
Walt Disney's Donald Duck #26 1952
Walt Disney's Donald Duck #26
Four Color #819 1957
Four Color #819
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #49 1964
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #49
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #187 1981
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #187
Gladstone Comic Album #5 1988
Gladstone Comic Album #5
Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #1 2003
Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #1
Comic Zone #3 2006
Comic Zone #3
Uncle Scrooge: The Grand Canyon Conquest #[nn] 2015
Uncle Scrooge: The Grand Canyon Conquest #[nn]
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[18] 2018
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[18]

Appearances (151–300 of 1,370, oldest first)

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1962)
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge (1963)
#49
Walt Disney's Donald Duck (1954)
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (1965)
#1
Walt Disney Super Goof (1965)
#1
Walt Disney's månedshefte (1967)
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes (1962)
Walt Disney Comics Digest (1968)
Golden Comics Digest (1969)
#8