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Fethry Duck

Fethry Duck

Donald Duck's half-crazy cousin.

Name:
Fethry Duck
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Aliases:
  • Red Bat
  • Morcego Vermelho
  • Paperoga
  • Dussel Duck
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
  • Agility
  • Unarmed Combat
First issue:
Topolino (1949) #453 Zio Paperone e i guardiani truffaldini
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Fethry is a son of Lulubelle Loon and Eider Duck. His brother is Abner "Whitewater" Duck. Their paternal grandparents are Dabney Duck and Elvira "Grandma Duck" Coot. Their first cousins include Donald Duck, Della Duck and Gladstone Gander. Fethry is a beatnik. He has a rather unorthodox way of viewing and reacting to the world around him.

As the Red Bat
As the Red Bat

Since the early 1970s, Fethry has occasionally donned superhero garb and called himself the Red Bat. Occasionally the hippie Gloria, Fethry's girlfriend (created by Ivan Saidenberg), would team-up with the Red Bat as another costumed crime-fighter called the Purple Butterfly (Borboleta Purpurea). Even Fethry's nephew, Biquinho, has donned a costume and called himself Red Bat Junior. Fethry often appears in Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck tales. In his earliest adventures he supposedly lived in another state (possibly New York or California), and had to visit via airplane or train. However, since 1964 he has resided in an old house definitely in Duckburg. He is also closely associated with the hillbilly Hard Hair Moe and Tabby, Donald's pet cat. Both dislike Fethry very much but Fethry doesn't seem to understand this and is always friendly to them.

The character has many stories produced in Italy, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, but most in Brazil, where he had his own comic book.

Other Media

Television

Fethry Duck in DuckTales 2017
Fethry Duck in DuckTales 2017

Fethry Duck made his first animated appearance in DuckTales 2017 series, although he didn't appear in the 1987 series, in 1991, he is mentioned by one of Donald Duck's nephews in a Brazilian miniseries, and also appears in a one-page French story with Uncle Scrooge and Launchpad McQuack, finally a speechless cameo in the series published by Boom! Studios in 2011.

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