Moby Duck, Dimwitty, and Porpy The Porpoise

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In a message dated 10/7/2003 3:47:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jongraywb at hotmail.com writes:
<<This question has bothered me for SO LONG because back when I collected 
Disney comics AVIDLY and I never knew about the message lists and such, I 
came across Gold Key back issues of these books and had NO EARTHLY CLUE who 
or what Moby Duck and his "crew" was. :P>>

as they say: everybody is a newbie at some time
    most of us saw Donald and Mickey first on tv (in my case it was the 
mickey mouse club and the disneyland tv show). but most of the others we got from 
comic books (yes, i am old enough that I was an adult when they did ducktales - 
so back in the old days we would have had no earthly clue who or what Uncle 
Scrooge was...untill we read the comic book)




<<Needless to say I didnt buy the books (cause I was kinda revolted by the 
shoddy artwork and haphazard stories -__-)>>

same guys who were doing the Donald and Junior Woodchucks comics (well minus 
one of the Woodchuck writers <g>)  art by tony strobl and kay wright ((i guess 
i must be the only guy who thinks  Wright is  ok on this list))
<< but who in the world were they 
supposed to be, where and when did they debut, and who thought that they 
were popular enough to carry thier own book? I guess they were maybe 
semi-popular characters during the late Gold Key Era? Were they ever used 
overseas?>>
who were they susposed to be?  two sailors and a porpoise!   going out on 
adventures in the days when whailing was considered adventuresome rather than 
enviromental damaging.,...
      introduced in an issue of Donald Duck  112, i seem to recall a couple 
of other  guest appearances  in Donald Duck, before Moby got his own book in 
1967. lasted a few years, ended, then revivied in the middle 70s


<<Anybody have any info on these 3 characters? Its obvious that at 
least Donald and the kids know of him somehow in the story I saw, and 
perhaps - only Moby is an old relation creted by who knows what? (I didnt 
know what to make of that Dimwitty Duck creature cause it sure as heck was 
no Duck i'd ever seen...) ^^;;>>
Dimwittty is even less PC than Moby -- but somebody has to swab the deck

   for some reason i feel Moby was created by Del Connell, anybody know for 
sure?
steven rowe
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