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Right! The one where Donald has an identity crisis.

OMG! can't imagine Donald with no clothes on! Awww!!

I have that story in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #10. It's called Hook and Ladder Duck. I used to have two copies of that issue but now I only have one. I gave the second copy to one of my younger cousins.

You're probably right Coolwater although Fireman Donald is another story that I have in Donald Duck #295. It does have a similar theme though. The difference is that Daisy and Gladstone are in the later story.

Quote from user: CoolwaterHaven't you read your Barks? :P

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Well, at least Donald has a helmet on. :D
Would you believe that in some early European reprints of the story, this particular page was left out?
While I'm tempted to say censors objected to the unclothed duck, I'm not absolutely sure this was the reason. (But others might know...)

Quote from user: ramapithWould you believe that in some early European reprints of the story, this particular page was left out?
While I'm tempted to say censors objected to the unclothed duck, I'm not absolutely sure this was the reason. (But others might know...)
Actually this very story "Fireman Donald" was published in Germany already in the second issue of "Micky Maus" in 1951, when the magazine started. I have an unaltered nostalgia reprint of that issue from the 80s, and there is nothing changed, censored, ore left out of the drawings. It could be, however, that in other countries someone felt obliged to cover the unclothed Donald with a fig leaf through leaving out the page or panel. Editors sometime really have the wildest and weirdest ideas, I guess. Where was that page left out?

Generally I would believe that in more "prudish" America there has always been a greater tendency of censoring such things than in Europa. But anyway, a naked Donald Duck body has probably been neither here nor there really a prominent object of such interference. As far as I see it, Donald's "anatoid" body is simply too different from human body in shape, colour, and anatomy, that a reader would seriously think of something sexual when seeing it. And after all the Ducks run around without pants the whole time without that somebody ever seriously became indignant about that. Barks never had problems with his editors when he undressed his Ducks, he did get, however, a serious one when he drew a female Duck with all-too humanoid-realistic breasts in one of his early stories ...

Quote from user: CoolwaterQuote from user: ramapithWould you believe that in some early European reprints of the story, this particular page was left out?
Actually this very story "Fireman Donald" was published in Germany already in the second issue of "Micky Maus" in 1951, when the magazine started. I have an unaltered nostalgia reprint of that issue from the 80s, and there is nothing changed, censored, or left out of the drawings. [...] Where was that page left out?

Generally I would believe that in more "prudish" America there has always been a greater tendency of censoring such things than in Europe.
We never censored "Fireman Donald" over here. The reprints I was thinking of are Dutch!

In the 1990s, a Disney approvals person asked Gladstone to put an undershirt on the previously naked Scrooge in "The Treasure Temple of Khaos" (H 87068), and on Donald on the last page of Rosa's first "Black Knight" story.
When I worked at Gemstone, our Disney liasons were more reasonable, so we could show Donald shirtless if necessary. Fer gosh sakes, he's not really nude?he's still covered with feathers!