"Birds of a Fethry"

Things have been quiet here because, seeing as I'm almost done with my marathon Ducktales-watching session, I've been devoting most of my duck-blogging attention to my other place. But fear not--Fethry "Week" continues! Now, we will look at a contemporary Fethry story. A number of these appeared in Gemstone's books; they generally follow the format of the Hubbard/Kinney stories (except the ones in the digests--but that's a story for another day), only with less terrifying artwork--so what's not to like? For variety, here is a story where Fethry's getting on someone other than Donald's nerves.
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"Ducky Date"

One strange phenomenon resulting from Western's creative flailing around in their latter years is the Crossover Story, featuring ducks (or mice) and characters from completely different comic worlds or, often, from movies. In a way, this is a bit full-circle-y, harkening back to a time early in Disney's history when these distinctions were not at all clearly-defined, as evinced by all the comic-book Merrie Melodies adaptations and whatnot (and, of course, check out David's exhaustive compilation of cartoon adaptations that appeared in Good Housekeeping). Also, remember that those horrible mice from Cinderella were originally meant to be living on Grandma's farm, for some quite unjustifiable reason. Still, the later situation--which produced such signs and wonders as April May June/Scamp, Moby Duck/Big Bad Wolf, and Grandma Duck/Dumbo (would it cause your monocle to pop out in shock if I told you that Vic Lockman was responsible for most of this?)--wasn't really analogous: it was clearly all about novelty, novelty, novelty!
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"Donald's Buzzin' Cousin"

Hey, guess what, post one-fifty! Whoo!
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"The Health Nut"

Hey, kids, welcome to Fethry Week (disclaimer: may last more or less than a week. May not be particularly Fethry-centric. Void where prohibited; prohibited where void.)
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