Disney Comics Characters
The English names of the characters are used here. From the character
pages you can find the translations into other languages, from
a database of translations.
This is divided into various "universes". Hopefully this will make
it easier to find the character you are looking for (even if you don't
know the name), but be aware that these "universes" often mix with
each other, so you might find Grandma Duck in a Mouse story or Tinker
Bell in a Duck story. (In a few cases I have listed the character
several times.)
The Duck "universe"
The Duck comics are the most famous and celebrated Disney
comics originally produced for comic books, and
Carl Barks's Duck comics
are among the most cherished comics of all time.
David Gerstein has written a
"Donald Duck Universe Guide"
for Egmont's writers.
It lists places and characters in most duck stories by
Carl Barks and Don Rosa.
Characters in duck stories by Barks
This includes already existing characters (such as Donald and Grandma)
as well as characters that Barks invented (like Scrooge and Gladstone).
It also includes relations that Barks never used in a story, but
made up for his Duck Family Tree.
Other older characters
Various later characters
Italian characters
Note that Rockerduck who is most often used in Italian stories
actually is created by Barks, and thus listed among the
Barks characters above. (The original Italian names are given in
parentheses where there are different English names.)
The Mouse "universe"
The most cherished artist working with the Mouse characters is usually
Floyd Gottfredson.
One way into those comics, if you haven't read them, is
David Gerstein's "crash course"
on Mickey Mouse, that is the comics he recommends as the ideal
stories with Mickey among those reprinted since 1986.
David Gerstein is writing
"The Mickey Mouse Universe"
for Egmont as a guide for writers of Mickey Mouse comics.
It lists places and characters in Gottfredson's Mickey stories.
The Characters
Various other "universes"
Characters from Disney feature films
There are comics adaptations of most of the Disney feature films,
so lots of characters could be mentioned here.
As the focus here is on comics, this section has a rather low
priority, except for characters like Scamp and Gus & Jaq who have
found new roles in comics which they didn't have in the movies.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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- Pinocchio
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- Dumbo
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- Dumbo
- Small elephant who can fly by flapping his ears
- Saludos Amigos
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- Fun and Fancy Free
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- Bongo
- A small circus bear riding a monocycle
- Cinderella
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- Cinderella
- A princess who lives with her evil stepmother and stepsisters
- Gus & Jaq
- Two mice, one thin and one fat
- Lucifer
- A cat
- Peter Pan
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- Lady and the Tramp
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- Scamp
- Lady and the Tramp's puppy
- The Sword in the Stone
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- The Aristocats
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- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
(consisting of earlier shorts)
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Disney television animation
- DuckTales
Besides Scrooge and other characters mentioned above there are
also some new characters:
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- Rescue Rangers
Chip & Dale have new roles here, and appear together with
new characters:
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About the character pages
One source for these character pages is a set of similar pages
that
Jussi Vainikainen
had earlier. But it's been reorganized (in "universes") and
some characters and
additional information from subscribers of the
Disney comics mailing list
added.
(Credits are on the individual pages.)
Most of the pictures are scanned in by Jussi.
(There's one exception by Jacob Sparre Andersen.)
The copyrights to them belong to the Walt Disney Company.
Their purpose here is to aid discussion the Disney comics list,
as there are participants from lots of countries, and it's the easiest
way to make sure we all know what characters we are talking about,
even though we may know them by different names.
Most of the one-line descriptions of the characters are from
Fredrik Ekman, back from when he
edited the
list of Disney characters with translations into lots of languages.
Per Starbäck
Part of the Disney comics pages.