Super Duck Comics #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSuper Duck Comics #16 belongs to the heart of Al Fagaly's prolific mid-run on one of Archie/MLJ's most distinctive funny-animal titles — a series that had already completed its pivot from wartime Superman parody to a Carl Barks-influenced suburban comedy format by the time this 1947 issue went to press. The book is historically notable as part of the anthology tradition that kept the Archie line commercially diverse during the postwar years, bundling the Super Duck strip alongside backup features starring human Archie-universe characters. Its significance within the broader Archie catalog lies in demonstrating how MLJ/Archie cross-pollinated their anthropomorphic-animal and teen-humor properties within a single issue, a practice that helped knit together the company's expanding shared universe of characters in the late 1940s.
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Super Duck was created in 1943 by staff artist Al Fagaly for MLJ Comics (the company that would become Archie Comics), debuting in Jolly Jingles #10. The character originally spoofed Superman with a red-and-blue costume and vitamin-derived powers, but retooled into a grumpy everyman duck in the mold of Carl Barks's Donald Duck work by the time the solo series launched in Fall 1944. By issue #16 in 1947, the book was published under the Close-Up, Inc. imprint and carried the full cover title 'Super Duck the Cockeyed Wonder,' with Fagaly continuing to handle the lead strip and covers. Regular contributors to the series alongside Fagaly included Red Holmdale.
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- Super Duck Comics #16 was published in 1947 by Archie Comics (under the Close-Up, Inc. imprint, which handled issues #5–94 of the series).
- The series carried the full cover title 'Super Duck the Cockeyed Wonder' through issue #67, so #16's cover branding reflects that longer title.
- Super Duck was created by staff artist Al Fagaly (1909–1963), who illustrated most covers through the early 1950s and signed the lead stories throughout this period.
- By 1947, the Super Duck strip had fully transitioned from superhero parody to suburban domestic comedy, with Supe's cast including his bratty nephew/younger brother Fauntleroy Duck, girlfriend Uwanna, and rival Dapper.
- Fauntleroy Duck — one of the characters indexed for this issue — was a recurring cast member of the Super Duck strip throughout the mid-run; he later starred in his own Archie spin-off series, Fauntleroy Comics, published annually from 1950 to 1952.
- The issue is part of the mid-run anthology format in which Archie-universe human characters (such as Archie Andrews, Veronica Lodge, Wilbur Wilkin, and others) appeared as backup features alongside the lead Super Duck strip.
- Super Duck Comics stories from this era were later reprinted in Archie digest series including Jughead Jones Comics Digest (as late as 1979), Laugh Comics Digest, and Archie's Mad House.
- The Super Duck Comics series ran for 94 issues total, from Fall 1944 to 1960, making #16 a mid-Golden Age entry in a long-running and editorially stable run.
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