Little Hawk, I could probably have written your post. I still have a number of re-issues of some of those classic comics, and wish I knew where to get more of them. Just thinking of some of those stories brings a glow to me.

I always wondered why so many people seemed so fond of Mickey Mouse, who's as exciting as a limp noodle. Donald et al. have personality! Maybe not always pleasant personality, but there is some gumption there.

I suppose my favorite "genre" of the duck comics were the stories that tied into historical or other-cultural facts and legends. El Dorado, Shangri La, Ali Baba--I can't recall all of them right now, but the tales were very creatively and convincingly woven from threads of things we'd heard and wondered about.

Long live Unca Donald!