A look at the good old days of the Disney Afternoon and Darkwing Duck strips in Disney Adventure magazine.
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Graham:Let’s get dangerous as we review Darkwing Duck Classics, straight ahead.

Announcer:Welcome to the Classy Comics podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise Idaho, here is your host Adam Graham.
Graham:Darkwing Duck was a 1990s superhero cartoon and a series set in the same universe as Duck Tales. So everyone in the world was an anthropomorphic animal with a predominance of ducks and dogs. Darkwing was very popular in the 1990s and 2010 got the first of two comic book reboots. The first, of course, being with Boom Studios. Later the series would have a run with Joe Books. However, during the brief time that Boom Studios had the license, they released a volume called Darkwing Duck Classics and this collected comic book material from the early days of Darkwing Duck on the air in the 1990s. So, we take a look at this out of print volume.
The book begins with Darkwing Ducks mini-series. It was a four part mini-series for Disney Comics that they really did envision becoming a longer running series but there were financial problems at Disney Comics and so that didn't work out. The mini-series was based on the two part pilot episode for the series called Darkly Dawns the Duck and they actually made that the title of the first chapter in the four part series but they called the overall title of the book Brawl in the Family, which to me is just not as good a title, sounds pretty generic and could apply to a lot of things while Darkly Dawns the Duck sets the mood of this superhero story.
But at any rate, in the story Darkwing Duck is a crime fighter who has some pretty good success against small time criminals. The important thing to understand about Darkwing Duck, both in the comic and in the cartoon, is that he is a cartoon character in the true sense of the word. It's a situation where if you drop an anvil on Darkwing Duck, he will be more likely to turn into an accordion for a second and then resume his normal shape as opposed to, well, dying as most of us would. With that said, Darkwing is a terror to criminals but he's not a terror to big enough criminals to really earn a place of prominence and that's something that Darkwing Duck wants and fortunately for him Taurus Bulba is plotting an evil plan that will allow Darkwing to gain some prominence. Taurus Bulba is a bull criminal and he's locked up in prison.
However, he's also running his evil base from behind bars just changing into his prison uniform when the warden is coming around and he wants his men to steal the Waddlemeyer Ramrod, a device with the power to alter the gravity of objects and with which he plans to commit a major crime wave and he manages to succeed in having his men steal the Ramrod because Darkwing does a lot of showboating while trying to stop them and it's also during this time that Darkwing runs into Launchpad McQuack. Launchpad McQuack was a major character in the T.V. series Duck Tales but here he's on his own and really a fan of Darkwing Duck and wants to be a sidekick, which I guess shows his ambitions of going down a notch since the days of Duck Tales when he was always wanting to be a hero. But at any rate, he tries to help D.W. Things don't work out and Darkwing blames Launchpad for the failure but even with the Ramrod, that's not going to allow Taurus Bulba to control it because he needs to get the codes and it's thought that the codes actually belong to the one person who got the Waddlemeyer would have told his granddaughter, Gosalyn and so they set out to kidnap her from the orphanage but Darkwing is on their trail and kidnaps Gosalyn from them before they can get her away and interrogate her and they go ahead and run away from the c...