Fethry Duck

Fethry Duck is the slightly mixed-up, extremely eccentric cousin of Donald Duck and a regular supporting character in the Donald Duck comic book series. Fethry often unwittingly annoys others via his peculiar vision on the world.
==History==
Fethry was originally created by the Disney studios, by Dick Kinney (writer) and Al Hubbard (artist) for a number of stories intended for the European market. Although this makes him an American invention, his first appearance was first printed in the Italian Topolino #453 in the story "The Health Nut", published on August 2, 1964.
His first appearance in the USA was not until 1966 in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #304. Only in the early 2000s was Fethry genuinely accepted into the American comic books, whereas he has always been a fairly popular character in Europe (especially Italy) and Brazil.
Since his introduction, Fethry has been a recurring character in Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck tales. In his earliest adventures, he supposedly lived in another state (possibly New York City or California), and visits via airplane. However, since 1964, he has been shown living in Duckburg on occasions. He is also closely associated with the hillbilly Hard Haid Moe and Donald's pet cat Tabby, who strongly dislikes Fethry and his antics (though Fethry is always completely oblivious to this).
In the Brazilian Disney comics, Fethry soon became one of the most popular members of the Donald Duck character cast, and he starred in various comics with him as the titular character. Some of these comics gave him a secret identity named "Morcego Vermelho" (The Red Bat), created by Carlos Edgar Herrero (artist) and possibly Ivan Saidenberg (writer). Fethry's stint as Morcego Vermelho ran in Almanaque Disney, Edição Extra, and a few other Disney comic book series from 1973 to 1990. The Red Bat stories remained a Brazilian phenomenon, but a few stories have made it to Europe, mostly Italy. The Brazilian comics also provide Fethry with a nephew, Dugan, and a girlfriend, Gloria.
==Appearances==
===DuckTales (2017)===
Fethry made his first animated appearance in the reboot's season two episode "The Depths of Cousin Fethry!". He works as the caretaker for the McDuck Sublab, and knows a Friendly Krill named Mitzy.
He comes back in the season finale "Moonvasion!", where he and Gladstone rescue Donald, Della, Webby and the triplets from the island they were and helping in saving the Earth along with Mitzy. He appears at least once more in the series' finale episode "The Last Adventure!", where he attends Webby Vanderquack's birthday party and accidentally slips up the news to Della that Donald is going on a worldwide vacation with Daisy before being pulled away by Gladstone. He later appeared near the end of the finale along with the rest of his family and their allies and watched as Magica De Spell turn Bradford Buzzard into a non-anthropomorphic buzzard.
==Trivia==
*Kinney and Hubbard created this character to be a beatnik (meaning "a person who rejects or avoids conventional behavior") member of the Duck family.
*Fethry wears different colors of the same sweater depending on which country the story is published in (ex: in Brazil, his sweater is generally yellow; in the Italian comics, he usually wears a red one; and, in the comic books of Egmont Publishing, the traditional color of his sweater is pink). The 2017 version of DuckTales has him wearing a yellow sweater with a red jacket.
*It is revealed in The Health Nut that Fethry wears a stocking cap because he was convinced by a self-help book author that one's head is healthier when it's kept hot.
*In DuckTales (2017), Fethry is a former Junior Woodchuck.
==Gallery==
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517px-Fethry duck.jpg|Fethry with John D. Rockerduck in "Rightful Owners".
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