 The character has rarely appeared in American stories but appears regularly in Latin American and European stories, and especially in Italian ones.He also appeared in stories produced by the now defunct Disney Studio Program.His first appearance in an Italian story was "Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante" ("Uncle Scrooge and the flying kiwi") by Giampaolo Barosso and Giorgio Bordini, first published on March 1, 1963.