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===Fethry Duck<!--'Fethry Duck' and 'The Red Bat' redirect here-->===
Donald's cousin '''Fethry Duck'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> was created for the non-US market by [[Disney comics#Disney Studio Program|Disney Studio Program]] employees [[Dick Kinney]] (writer) and [[Al Hubbard (comics)|Al Hubbard]] (artist) and was first featured in the story "The Health Nut", published on August 2, 1964.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fethry Duck - Index |url=https://inducks.org/character.php?c1=date&c=FE&view=4 |website=Inducks |access-date=18 September 2019}}</ref> Kinney and Hubbard created Fethry to be a [[beatnik]] member of the Duck family (the definition being "a person who rejects or avoids conventional behavior"). Fethry quickly adopts new hobbies and lifestyles and eagerly pursues the latest fads and trends, causing chaos for friends and family in the process. In his first story, Fethry is introduced as moving to Duckburg and having a prior acquaintance with Donald, who is already aware of Fethry's obsessive tendency. Fethry wears a stocking [[cap]], for reasons revealed in "The Health Nut": he was convinced by a self-help book author that one's head is healthier when it's kept hot. Fethry's trademark [[sweater]], usually bearing a black stripe, is typically a different color depending on which country the story is published in.

Only three stories with Fethry initially appeared in the United States (''Donald Duck'' #105–106 and ''[[Walt Disney's Comics and Stories]]'' #304). Later, some of the Fethry Studio Program stories were reprinted in the ''Wonderful World of Disney'' giveaway magazine published in 1969–1970 for [[Gulf Oil]]. However, the character became popular in foreign markets. In Europe, Fethry has appeared in numerous Italian-produced comics. In Brazil, the character had his own comic book title during the 1980s, which lasted 56 issues. Hubbard and Kinney developed more than fifty comic stories with Fethry.<ref>[http://inducks.org/comp2.php?default_o=1&xapp=FE&creat=AH Inducks - Page to Al Hubbard's stories with Fethry Duck]</ref> The vast majority were published in English in Australia between 1964 and 1969, often in one-shot comics billed ''Donald and Fethry Duck''—suggesting a comedic duo—or simply ''Fethry Duck''.<ref>[http://inducks.org/issue.php?c=au/GS+338 Inducks - Page to the Australian comic cook ''Giant (G Series) No. 338'']</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://inducks.org/issue.php?c=au/GS+475|title=Australia: Giant (G Series) # 475 - I.N.D.U.C.K.S.|website=inducks.org|access-date=24 August 2018}}</ref>

Since Fethry was not created by Carl Barks and was never used in any of Barks' stories, popular American artist/writer [[Don Rosa]] does not consider Fethry part of the Duck family. However, due to editorial pressure from supervisor [[Byron Erickson]] at the helm of Egmont, Rosa reluctantly included him in his ''Duck Family Tree''. According to this [[diagram]], Fethry is the son of [[Eider Duck]] and [[Lulubelle Loon]], the [[cousin]] of Donald Duck and the brother of [[Whitewater Duck|Abner "Whitewater" Duck]] (from Barks' 1962 story, ''Log Jockey'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/tree/tree_rosa.html |title=The D.U.C.K.man - Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree - Don Rosa's own comments |publisher=Duckman.pettho.com |access-date=2010-07-06}}</ref>

Fethry also works with Donald for Scrooge McDuck's secret organization, originally called the P.I.A. (in Italian), as an assistant of the detective [[Umperio Bogarto]] (in 1996) and as Moby Duck's First Mate (in the early 2000s).<ref>[http://inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Bay+stories Inducks - Page to the comic subseries ''Le storie della Baia'']</ref> Donald has often teamed up with Fethry to work for Scrooge (usually with disastrous results), with Donald being the "[[double act|straight man]]" and Fethry the "funny man", although Donald's reactions to Fethry and attempts to neutralize him are often as humorous as Fethry's mishaps. In 1970s stories drawn by [[Tony Strobl]], Fethry is the owner of a hyper-friendly dog named Poochie. Several Brazilian stories also featured Fethry's pet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://inducks.org/character.php?c1=date&c=Poochie&view=4|title=Poochie - I.N.D.U.C.K.S.|website=inducks.org|access-date=24 August 2018}}</ref>

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Since the early 1970s, Fethry has occasionally donned superhero garb as '''the Red Bat'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> ({{langx|pt|Morcego Vermelho}}) in Brazilian Disney comics. The Red Bat was created by artist Carlos Edgar Herrero and writer [[Ivan Saidenberg]].<ref>[https://weirdspace.info/Disney/FethryDuck.htm Fethry Duck/Morcego Vermelho/The Red Bat (From Disney)]</ref>

In 2018, Fethry made his first animated appearance in the ''[[DuckTales (2017 TV series)|DuckTales]]'' episode "The Depths of Cousin Fethry!", voiced by [[Tom Kenny]]. He is depicted as the caretaker of one of Scrooge's undersea research facilities that Huey and Dewey visit. While they are at first put off by his odd behavior, the two come to respect Fethry after he protects them from a sea monster. He later returns in "Moonvasion" to help protect the Earth from the invading Moonlanders and in "The Last Adventure!" to attend [[Webby Vanderquack]]'s birthday party.