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This ponders me a lot...
In the TV Shows, Movies, and the front of the comics...it's Blue. But when you look inside the comics...it's Black!
Now why is that?

The first Donald Duck newspaper strips of Karp/Taliaferro were printed in black and white. The blue shirt of the cartoon Donald got black there. The black shirt was kept in the later, coloured, comics. The shirt was blue, however, on the comic book covers, where the colour would help to attract the reader/buyer (or, respectively, where one believed it would--I have my doubts that Western and successors could ever provide empirical evidence that a blue-shirted cover Donald attracted masses of buyers that a black-shirted would not have).
The same thing with Huey, Dewey, Louie's sweat shirts, by the way: black in the comics, coloured on the covers.

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderThen why does Donald wear a RED sailor suit on the front covers of the early Donald Duck Weeklys in the Netherlands?
I've always wondered that, myself. I don't remember sailors in The Dutch Navy ever having red uniforms.

Maybe it was just done on the orders of the Margriet editor, to add lots of colour, to make the stories attractive to the young kids?

Quote from user: David KopsI think it was cheaper, because some stories back then were printed entirely in red. Also, I heard that red ink dries faster, but maybe that's not that important anymore.

http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/zz246/DGC019/DonaldDuck-fc328-02ifc.jpg
Yeah, today Ink (any color) dries real fast...yet it's so darn expensive!