Fethry & Moby

[Thierry Fernand]

> We Egmonters "killed" Fethry from our Danish
>production in the early 1990s because the character had been
>misused too often - readers (and editors) were used to him
>acting like a dumber twin of Donald rather than an
>interesting character of his own.
>The Italian Fethry stories were comparatively okay, though,
>so we continued to publish *those* in our pocketbooks,
>because they were still popular enough. Makes perfect sense,
>I hope :-)

Absolutely, yes. You made me curious of what these Danish 
supposedly bad Fethry stories look like. I can't think of any 
of them, but maybe they just didn't appear in France.

After a difficult look in Inducks, I have to say I can't find 
many of them. If you disregard covers, gags and remakes, it 
turns out that I only got 11 of these Fethry Danish stories, 
most being quite old. (But maybe I did something something 
wrong in my search?).

> Very recently (this year) we've begun to feature an >*occasional* new Fethry story in our own production, so he
>*is* returning to the weeklies once in a while. But he's not
>the boring Fethry of our older stories - that version
>remains dead!!! The "new" Egmont Fethry is the *real* Fethry
>created by Dick Kinney in 1964.
> There have been two of the new Fethry stories this >year, and according to present plan, more will be coming in >2001.

Thanks for sharing these very good news with us. I am looking 
forward to see the results obviously (let's hcross our 
fingers so that Hachette will publish them).

Regarding Moby, I heard that this character really was dead 
because of his job (killing cachalots & whales) being not 
something Disney would allow for the "hero" of one of its 
comics. At least I have never seen any recent story - 
Italian, Danish or Mongolian - with him.

But maybe you have more information about this?
(I must say that I had never been very fond of this character 
myself - his US stories really have somehow awful art).

Favio


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