Zeke Varg, Hiawatha, Bongo och Bror Kanin hade väl sin storhetstid på 40- och 50-talen (då bl.a.
Paul Murry tecknade) - såvitt jag förstår utmönstrades de gradvis ur den amerikanska serieproduktionen under den senare delen av 1960-talet. Kanske p.g.a. politiska konjunkturer, mig anta att indianskildringen i
Hiawatha väl kunde uppfattas som fördomsfull och flera av figurerna kring Lilla Vargen hade ju sitt närmaste Disneyursprung i filmer som
Song of the South som också låg på hyllan under flera decennier.
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Ursprungligen postat av Toonopedia
The Song of the South characters remained popular throughout the 1950s and well into the '60s. But about the late 1960s or early '70s, it seems to have been decided that a depiction of an uneducated black man, forcibly prevented most of his life from reaching his intellectual potential, but nonetheless succeeding in using icons of his own rich cultural heritage to impart wisdom to a child of wealth and privilege, was in some inexplicable way demeaning to other members of his race. The movie stopped being re-released. The newspaper comic ended on December 31, 1972. In 1975, Gold Key Comics put Brer Rabbit on the cover of an issue of Walt Disney Showcase, but he had to share it with Bucky Bug. He hasn't completely disappeared from comic books, but neither has he been seen there on a regular basis. /.../ The animated characters are sometimes seen, but are nowhere near as prominent as they once were.
Moby Duck är väl däremot en senare skapelse som tillkom i samma våg som figurer som kusin Knase, Skogs-Ola och Emil Örn, kring 1965-67. Enligt Wikipedia förekommer han nu endast i italiensk och brasiliansk disneyproduktion.