As Disney comics production waned in the United States in the 1960s, Kalle Anka began printing more European-produced content, from Scandinavia and Italy.

Now, Kalle Anka & C:o and its Scandinavian sister editions Anders And & Co. (Denmark) and Donald Duck & Co (Norway) are identical, apart from the language.

The first Swedish Disney comics magazine was the annual Musse Piggs julbok (Mickey Mouse's Christmas Book), first published by Åhlén & Åkerlunds Förlags in 1936.

Each 36-page annual reprinted a complete continuity from the US Mickey Mouse comic strip by Floyd Gottfredson, which had been appearing in Swedish newspapers and weekly magazines since 1930.

This tradition lasted for decades, printing Taliaferro strips with increasingly old-fashioned 1940s-style covers, until the final issue was released in 2017.

Each 20-page issue included mostly original material, written by Roland Romell and drawn by Lars Byland and Birger Allernäs.

One regular feature was a one-page comic called "Småpiggarnas äventyr" ("The Adventures of the Little Mice"), starring Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse fighting with Donald Duck.

("The Defective Agency"), was a redrawn version of a strip created by Wilfred Haughton for the UK magazine starring Goofy and Toby Tortoise.

The second feature was a "Lilla Stygga Vargen" ("Li'l Bad Wolf") story by Gil Turner or Paul Murry.

This would be followed by a two-page illustrated text story, and then two to eight pages of other material from the comic featuring characters like Pluto, Dumbo, Thumper and Chip 'n' Dale.

The first was a version of the 1937-38 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs adaptation from the Silly Symphony comic strip, which was published as Kalle Anka & C:o #9B/1951.

The first issue of Farbor Joakim (Uncle Scrooge) -- the classic "Only a Poor Old Man"—was published in the US as Four Color #386 in March 1952, and in Sweden as Kalle Anka & C:o #1B/1954 in January 1954.

The new series included one-shots from various characters like Långben (Goofy, 4/1954), Lilla Stygga Vargen (Li'l Bad Wolf, 5/1954) and Pluto (4/1955).

In 1957, Kalle Anka & C:o went to a bimonthly schedule, so the "one-shots" and longer stories were cut into parts for serialization in the main comic.

Rydahl's version took Mickey and Goofy out of the story, and replaced them with Donald, Grandma Duck, and Huey, Dewey and Louie.

The first was an Oppfinar-Jocke (Gyro Gearloose) story published in June in issue 24/1964: "Tuffa tag i varuhuset" ("Rough Sale-ing"), drawn by Tony Strobl and John Liggera.

[4] The first Italian story began in issue 3/1965, "Salte Pedro går till sjöss igen" ("Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold...

Meanwhile, in the mid-60s, many European publishers began introducing monthly digest-sized Disney pocket books, including France's Mickey Parade (1966) and Germany's Lustiges Taschenbuch [de] (1967).

The first issue of Kalle Ankas Pocket featured Uncle Scrooge, and was titled "Tuff till tusen miljarder" ("Tough to the Thousand Billions").

In the first two years, the comic continued to publish adaptations and stories based on Disney animated movies, including The Sword in the Stone and The Jungle Book.

[21] Once Farbror Joakim started, the Italian comics appeared more rarely in the weekly Kalle Anka & C:o, and stopped completely after 1979.

There was still a back catalog of Italian stories that Kalle Ankas Pocket and Farbror Joakim could use, but they started to exhaust the supply by the early 80s.

In the early 70s, as Carl Barks retired from Disney comics work, publishers began to recognize the unique attachment that readers felt for his Duck stories.

These books were originally titled Kalle Anka: ett urval äventyr av Carl Barks för första gången i Sverige (Donald Duck: a selection of stories by Carl Barks for the first time in Sweden), but they're known to fans as Kalle Anka Guldbok (Donald Duck's Gold Books) because of their gold-colored covers.

1995 saw the first release of an annual Christmas pocket, Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul!

[21] In 1996, the newsstand magazines changed again, with Kalle Anka & C:o growing from 48 to 64 pages, and Musse Pigg & C:o dropping the double-numbering, and becoming a 40-page monthly comic again.

Stål-Kalle, Donald Duck's superhero alter ego, had been regularly featured in Kalle Ankas Pocket since 1978, but he got his own monthly comic in 1997, a translation of the Italian PKNA - Paperinik New Adventures.

Each issue collects a particular miniseries like Stjärnkrig (Star Wars), Stål-Kalle (Steel-Duck) and Kalle som liten (Donald Duckling).

For a long period in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, "Grandma Anka" was responsible for the majority of these pages - behind this pseudonym hid the editor and publisher Signe Wiberg.

In recent years, this type of material has existed under a number of different headings - the most popular being "Svinesson", a pig journalist character who only appeared in one 1951 Carl Barks story, "Gladstone's Luck".