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Hi everybody!
I need Fethry Duck's sketches and informations about his first appearances.
I've read here that Barry Grossman colored the first story of him. Do you know more? Anyone has scans?
Ps: Welcome "mistermango"! Could you please not to make the forum heavy with your silly (and useless) posts?
Bye!
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I believe that "The Health Nut" was the first story with Fethry that was drawn (in 1964 by Al Hubbard). It was not printed in USA until by Gladstone (or was it Gemstone). Most of the Fethry stories were drawn for Disney Studios, and used to supply foreign Disney Comics franchises/publishers.

Actually Barry Grossman colored the 1st US printing (2003) of "The Health Nut" with color guides supposedly different than those in the 1st worldwide publication (1964, Topolino #453).

Quote from user: AndreaActually Barry Grossman colored the 1st US printing (2003) of "The Health Nut" with color guides supposedly different than those in the 1st worldwide publication (1964, Topolino #453).
WDC 638 is the Gemstone issue in question, for those wondering.

Quote from user: germundWe published Kinney's full layout sketches for The Health Nut in a Swedish hardcover last year.
http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=se/DKAA1965-02
Couldn't you send me them via e-mail?

By odd coincidence, Baar Baar Jinx, I was wondering this very thing as I was out walking today--how one is supposed to pronounce the "th" in Fethry. But I would use the descriptives "soft" and "hard" in the opposite way: hard as in thing, soft as in there. A soft (there) "th" would make the name sound virtually identical to "feathery". I have always pronounced it with a hard (thing) "th". In either case, though, while it is certainly meant to associate to "feathery" in the reader's mind, I think "Fethry" is a far superior name to "Feathery". For one thing, "feathery" seems too feminine for a male character. And "Fethry," as a made-up word that is similar to some existing names (Guthrie, Jethro), is just more believable as a name. (Note that the "th" in both Guthrie and Jethro is a hard "thing" th.)

As for me??I pronounce it "feathery," but I'll never spell it any way other than Fethry!
(Now if you'll excuse me, cousin, I've got to get back to reading How To Spread Yourself Too Thin by Braden Butter, the great time management expert. His word is liquid gold!) </Fethry>

Quote from user: Robb_KIt seems to me that Fethry should sound like "feathery" rather than like the "th" in Jethro. I don't think that "feathery" sounds more "feminine" than "masculine". I don't think it matters whether that character's name is spelt "Fethry" or "Feathery".
It's not the *sound* of "feathery" that I think is too feminine for a guy...it's the appearance of the word. Note that I said that in either case (no matter which way you pronounce it), "Fethry" is a better name for the character than "Feathery."

It's possible (but I'm not sure about this) that English pronunciation rules would indicate that it should be a hard (thing) "th" in "Fethry", since the "th" comes at the end of a syllable, not followed by an "e". Both, sooth, lath, cloth. Bathe, soothe, lathe, clothe. Truth, truthful, Goth, moth, faith, faithless. But even if that's the case, I would say that personal names are pronounced the way the persons in question choose, so the rules of pronunciation often do not apply.