History ComicStrip / ThePertwillabyPapers

* LeftHanging: The ''Knighttime'' StoryArc had two additional chapters planned, but Don Rosa never got around to finishing these. The later Duck comic ''The Once and Future Duck'' can be considered a SpiritualSuccessor.

Fifteen years before he started his career in [[ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics Disney Comics]], and while he was still studying engineering at the University of Kentucky, Creator/DonRosa created this comic.

Don Rosa has later [[RecycledScript reused quite a few of the series' story elements]] for his Duck Comics.

* DumbBlonde: Feather at first. Don Rosa tried to give her a more even-handed portrayal in later comics by making her display the common sense that Lance often lacks.

* AdolfHitlarious: [[spoiler:An elderly Adolf Hitler is revealed to be the villain of one story. Notably, Hitler actually retains quite a bit of menace throughout the story; the gags that happens around are often played for BlackComedy at other's expense rather than slights against Hitler himself, and it is only his defeat and death at the end of story that is portrayed as truly humiliating for him personally.]]

Fifteen years before he started his career in DisneyComics, and while he was still studying engineering at the University of Kentucky, Creator/DonRosa created this comic.

* TakeMeInstead: Smyte volunteers for a questionable and potentially lethal experiment and Lance ends up offering himself as a test subject instead. Smyte [[InvokedTrope fully expected]] this to happen, as he knows that Lance is [[GoodIsDumb too much of a goody-two-shoes]] to allow another man to put himself in danger and hoped that Lance would perish in the experiment.

* DumbBlonde: Feather at first. Don Rosa tried to even her out a bit more in later comics by making her smart where Lance usually is dense.

!!The Pertwillaby Tropes:

!!The Pertwillaby Tropes:

!!The Pertwillaby Tropes:

First published in the campus newspaper, ''The Pertwillaby Papers'' follows Lancelot "Lance" Pertwillaby, a gifted but rather dense aspiring scientist and adventurer, who goes on expeditions around the world with various eccentric professors and his rather airheaded girlfriend, Feather Fluffnuthin, always closely followed by his sworn enemies, Schuyler Roatch III, RichBastard extraordinaire, and Professor Viktor Dimitrius Smyte, [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain who is definitely not a former Nazi scientist and high-ranking SS officer in hiding]], who are hoping to cause "[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident an unfortunate accident]]" for our hero.

* NonIndicativeFirstEpisode: The first series evolves around Lance's attempt to cheat himself into college, and contains elements of satire over TheSeventies's politics. The rest of the series is about his adventures around the globe.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Smyte attempts to hijack their plane, [[ThoseTwoGuys Ted and Frank]] unanimously decide that they aren't going to bother with it, puts on their parachutes, and jumps out the cabin door.
* SpeechBubbles: Every characters' speech bubble has a notably distinct style.
* StupidJetpackHitler: [[spoiler:Doing the last few months of WorldWarII, the Germans managed to invent and produce a prototype nuclear submarine and six nuclear warheads labeled V3. They were however lost in the Arctic Sea, until our heroes finds them again that is]].

* ThoseTwoGuys: Pilot Ted and Co-pilot Frank, who's work often brings them in some form of indirect contact with our heroes.