Donald S. Mcalvany

Donald Duck gets his own entry in the increasingly popular Walt Disney Treasures line. The Chronological Donald, Volume One contains the first 36 Donald Duck shorts.
Spanning seven years, these shorts were released at a time when the irascible duck was growing in popularity and upstaging the studio's first solidifed cartoon star, Mickey Mouse

Of Disney's classic Fab Five characters (or the Spectacular Six if you include the often-ignored Daisy), Donald Duck is arguably the most popular. Mickey, of course, will always be the most recognizable due to him being an iconic status symbol, but Donald tends to be the character most people cite as their favorite. As Mickey grew into the Disney figurehead, the studio's animators became much more aware of what sort of situations to put him in. The bad boy antics of his early days no longer seemed to sit well with the character meant to represent the company,
so the team used Donald as a means of letting loose. Without the pressure of iconization, Donald was able to (frequently) lose his temper, get into fights, and play devilish pranks on other characters. Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume 3 showcases his shorts from 1947-1950, made following World War II.

1942 is most visible as the year of Bambi on Walt Disney's resume, but even as the United States waged World War II, the visionary's studio was enjoying success from less elaborate efforts in its cartoon production field. The popularity of Disney's original personality-turned-icon, Mickey Mouse, had already been eclipsed by the comically irascible Donald Duck, though both these lines and other animated endeavors were embraced by the public.