Super Duck Comics #86
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSuper Duck Comics #86 is not a landmark or key issue in the traditional sense, but it is a representative artifact of Archie's long-running Silver Age funny-animal line in its final years. The series as a whole — running 94 issues from 1944 to 1960 — stands as one of the more durable funny-animal titles of the postwar era, outlasting most of its genre peers at MLJ/Archie. Issue #86 falls squarely in the late-run period when the book was winding toward its 1960 conclusion, offering a window into how Archie sustained a comedic anthropomorphic title through the full transition from Golden Age wartime publishing into the Silver Age. Its modest editorial content — a comedic duck story alongside a prose history feature on the Alamo — reflects the hybrid humor-and-educational filler approach common to Archie's line in this period.
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Super Duck was created in 1943 by staff artist Al Fagaly for MLJ Comics (later Archie Comics) as a deliberate parody of Superman, complete with a red-and-blue costume. By the time the character received his own title in Fall 1944, the superhero conceit had been dropped in favor of a suburban slapstick formula closely modeled on Carl Barks's Donald Duck work, with Supe recast as an irascible everyman duck in black shirt and red lederhosen. By issue #86, the series was published under the Close-Up, Inc. imprint with Richard H. Goldwater as editor, and regular contributors across the run included Fagaly himself alongside Red Holmdale; Fagaly had been the dominant cover artist through the early 1950s but was no longer the primary hands on the title by the late 1950s.
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- Published July 1959 by Archie Publications (indicia publisher: Close-Up, Inc.); edited by Richard H. Goldwater.
- Issue #86 falls within the simplified 'Super Duck' logo era (issues #68–88), just before the series rebranded its cover title to 'The Adventures of Super Duck' for its final issues (#89–94).
- Contains a six-page comedic story titled 'The Stuntman,' in which Super Duck takes a job as a movie stuntman to impress his girlfriend Uwanna, while she swoons over actor Monty Duck.
- Also includes a prose feature on the story of the Alamo — an educational text-with-illustration filler piece typical of Archie titles of the era.
- Super Duck ('the Cockeyed Wonder') was created in 1943 by Al Fagaly for MLJ Comics as a parody of Superman; his first-ever appearance was in Jolly Jingles #10 (Summer 1943).
- The series ran from Fall 1944 to December 1960, completing a 94-issue run — one of the longest funny-animal titles in Archie's publishing history.
- Regular series contributors included creator Al Fagaly and artist Red Holmdale; Fagaly was also well known outside comics for co-creating the syndicated daily gag panel 'There Oughta Be a Law!' with MLJ editor Harry Shorten.
- Super Duck stories were later reprinted in Archie digest titles including Jughead Jones Comics Digest, Laugh Comics Digest, and Archie's Mad House, keeping the character in circulation well past the series' 1960 end.
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