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I read the The Case of the Vanishing Coats from 1935 yesterday and wondered when and (more important) why did Disney separate Ducks and Mice in comics. Is it part of Carl Barks achievement? Or was it intended from the beginning on? But a lot of cartoons feature Donald and Mickey (and Goofy).

Kneon I have that story in Donald Duck #286 and in my version of the story Donald's shirt is blue.
Maybe the version you read is from a foreign country where they don't have a good color scheme.

Whoever was responsible for the partition of the empire between Mickey and Donald, a monument should be built for him!

Quote from user: HarukuroI don't know the exact details, but I think that Donald himself was a factor in the split. He rose in popularity which got people to think about having him in his own stories, not just with Mickey and/or Goofy. So they gave Donald his own individual cartoons and eventually his own comic strip (written by Ted Osborne and art by Al Taliaferro). It wasn't until 1942 that Carl Barks started to work on Donald Duck comics with "Donald Duck finds Pirate Gold" (he also provided some plots for earlier daily strips apparently).
Carl Barks himself, however, in his animation days in the 1930s, contributed essentially to Donalds formation as an own, distant character who would gain more popularity. Thomas Andrae pointed out that the automatic barber chair gag that Barks thought out for "Modern Inventions" (1937) actually was the first scene where Donald was prominently the center of action and that it was this scene with which the groundstone for Donald's career as an own character was laid.