Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck is a WB Studio character from the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series. Daffy Duck made a total of 176 appearances during the golden age of animation.

Overview
Daffy Duck was voiced by Mel Blanc and his first appearance was in the cartoon Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937. Daffy Duck would appear in a total of 176 cartoons during the golden age of animation with the final appearance in the cartoon The Trial Of Mr. Duck in 1968.

Appearance/Personality
Daffy Duck is a duck with black feathers and a orange beak and feet with a white collar around his neck. Daffy first appeared on April 17, 1937 in "Porky's Duck Hunt", directed by Tex Avery and animated by Bob Clampett. The cartoon is a standard hunter/prey pairing for which Leon Schlesinger's studio was famous, but Daffy (barely more than an unnamed bit player in this short) was something new to moviegoers: an assertive, completely unrestrained, combative protagonist. In Daffy's early days, he was way more zanier (usually with Porky Pig) and later on would develop a huge bitter and more greedy personality too (usually with Bugs Bunny or Speedy Gonzales). Overall, Daffy was one character where in some shorts he would be the winner and other shorts be the looser. Virtually every Warner Bros. cartoon director put his own spin on the Daffy Duck character – he may be a lunatic vigilante in one short but a greedy gloryhound in another or an outright villain in another (particularly the 1960s shorts where he is paired with Speedy Gonzales). Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones both made extensive use of these two very different versions of the character.

1937/1968

 * The first 15, 20th & 21st  Looney Tunes cartoons were produced in black-and-white the rest are in color. All Merrie Melodies were produced in color.
 * Daffy Duck appeared in 100 Looney Tune cartoons and 76 Merrie Melodie cartoons for a total of 176 cartoons.