Disney never made the comics, they licensed it to other publishers. When US comics weren't available in drug stores and supermarkets anymore, the market for licensed youth comics died in the US, as there wasn't a real market anymore. This is mostly because distribution shifted to specialty stores that didn't send unsold comics back. It's why US comics is still a superhero-laden hellscape to this day.
It never changed in Europe, Disney comics are still easily findable in stores in most European countries.
When did this change occur? I think the very tail end of Carl Barks' Duck stories was somewhere in the early 1960s, (with the last stories just being writing/story credits) and growing up I remember seeing a bunch of old comics based on properties like Hanna Barbera characters in flea markets and yard sales that seemed to be originally American and from around the 1960s or 1970s
Always wonder why the comics are mostly just popular in Europe and not the US. You'd think Disney would be churning them out.
They were popular in the 1940s and 1950s and then petered out. I believe Disney just didn't think they made enough money to bother with domestically
Disney never made the comics, they licensed it to other publishers. When US comics weren't available in drug stores and supermarkets anymore, the market for licensed youth comics died in the US, as there wasn't a real market anymore. This is mostly because distribution shifted to specialty stores that didn't send unsold comics back. It's why US comics is still a superhero-laden hellscape to this day.
It never changed in Europe, Disney comics are still easily findable in stores in most European countries.
When did this change occur? I think the very tail end of Carl Barks' Duck stories was somewhere in the early 1960s, (with the last stories just being writing/story credits) and growing up I remember seeing a bunch of old comics based on properties like Hanna Barbera characters in flea markets and yard sales that seemed to be originally American and from around the 1960s or 1970s