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''Aku Ankka'' (Finnish for Donald Duck) is a Finnish weekly Disney comic book magazine published by the Sanoma Magazines. ==History and profile== The first issue of ''Aku Ankka'' was published on 5 December 1951〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/67/SanomaWSOY-Corporation.html )〕 and sold 34,017 copies. The first issue, with a special Christmas theme and the Snow White story published later in the 1950s, are very prized collectors' items and can fetch a price of several thousand euros on the collector market. Until 1956, the magazine was published monthly, between 1956 and 1960 biweekly, and since 1961, once a week every Wednesday. In August 2010 2893 issues was published.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://coa.inducks.org/country.php?c=fi )〕 ''Aku Ankka'' is part of Sanoma and is published by the Sanoma Magazines.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf )〕 Despite being a part of a multinational franchise with most stories produced abroad, ''Aku Ankka'' has become a cultural icon in Finland. This is largely due to the magazine's colourful and innovative use of the Finnish language. Many characters' names are Finnish language spoofs of established celebrities' names. In 2001, in recognition for their work for the Finnish language, the editorial team were given the ''Kielihelmi''-award by the Finnish language department of University of Helsinki's Faculty of Arts.〔(The Finnish language department of the University of Helsinki ), Retrieved 17 November 2006. 〕 The ''Aku Ankka'' comic is now more popular in Finland than in the country of its origin, the United States (where Disney is better known for its cartoons and films than comics). The United States Donald Duck cartoonist Don Rosa is exceptionally popular in Finland, and has acknowledged this by creating ''The Quest for Kalevala'', a Donald Duck story specifically set in Finland. There is a popular urban legend that Donald Duck was once banned in Finland for not having any pants. This myth was sparked by an incident in 1977, when Helsinki councilman Markku Holopainen proposed discontinuing the use of city funds for the purchase of ''Aku Ankka'' comics for youth centers, to cope with the city's financial difficulties. The following year, as Holopainen was running for a Parliament seat, his opponent called him "the man who banned Donald Duck from Helsinki". Holopainen lost the election. A similar incident took place a few years previously in Kemi, and international reports exaggerated the situation in claims that the character's attire and his unmarried relationship to Daisy Duck were the culprits. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aku Ankka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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