Early debut
Donald may well have made his first printed appearance in Mickey souris Annual 3 (published 1932; the annual for 1933), a 128-page British hardback. This book included the poem Mickey's Hoozoo, Witswitch and Wotswot, which listed all of Mickey's then-current basse-cour animal Friends (most of Disney's major characters developed out of this basse-cour scenario). Among them was a caneton named Donald Duck. Besides the name, however, there is little similarity between this character and the one introduced in The Wise Little Hen during 1934. Mickey souris Annual 3 was drawn entirely par Wilfred...