Manuel Gonzales appearing in Taliaferro strip

[Martin Olsen]

A reply to Rich who wrote:
> Martin Olsen said:
> > I can confirm that the Mexican lady duck appearing in the Donald Duck 
> > dailies in August 1951 was indeed named Donna. We never get to 
> > know har last name - even her mailbox has only "Señorita Donna".
> > The continuity ran for two weeks, from August 7 to August 18, 1951. 
> > In the last strip Donald is introduced by Donna to her fiancé, Manuel 
> > Gonzales!
> 
> Heh!!! Unless I totally misunderstood that last comment...That's GREAT! 
> Does Mr. Gonzales then actually appear in thecomic strip?  If so, is he a
> "duckbill" also? :-) 
> 

Mr. Gonzales does indeed appear in the second panel of the strip. He is not a "duckbill". He is in fact an almost-human-faced character ("dagface" shape, but no black nose) with five(!) fingers on each hand. I wouldn't be the least surprised if this is actually a caricature of the real Manuel Gonzales. 

Martin.