In the 1940s a Donald Duck newspaper strip was used for public service announcements in American national parks. The strip was printed as posters and put up in parks with bear problems telling visitors to not feed the bears.
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| Image from Heritage Auctions |
The strip used is the May 19, 1941 newspaper strip, but according to a note I found in a 1944 Conservations of Wildlife Resources hearing, the posters were probably printed and used from that year on.
I've seen pictures of this poster pop up here and there on the internet. But what I didn't know until recently is that they also made postcards with the same strip.
The back side is marked with "U.S. Government Printing office 1944", and the front have the same version of the strip as the poster. Compared to the original newspaper strip, not much is changed – but the panels are numbered and "Sequoia Park" is changed to "National Park".
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| The strip is printed in IDW's Donald Duck newspaper archive vol.2 |
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