
Each story arc in the comic was four issues long, as 88 total pages of story was the required length for Boom!'s trade paperbacks. The series was written by Aaron Sparrow (uncredited), Ian Brill, and drawn by James Silvani, and was set one year after the end of the show.

It ultimately ran for 18 issues, with the addition of a special "annual issue", from June 2010 to October 2011. The second Darkwing Duck comic series, published by Boom! Studios, was originally announced as a four-issue miniseries, but then extended into an ongoing title due to positive fan reaction. In July 2022, it was announced the Disney Comics series will be reprinted in trade collections by Dynamite Entertainment. "Brawl in the Family" was fully reprinted in Disney's Colossal Comics Collection #4, and later reprinted again by Boom! Studios for the trade paperback Darkwing Duck Classics, which also contained the first four Darkwing Duck stories from Disney Adventures. As a result, plans for a regular Darkwing title were cancelled, and for the next three years, Darkwing Duck comics were featured only in Disney Adventures. However, right when the mini-series came out, the Disney Comics Implosion occurred and resulted in the cancellation of most of the company's regular titles. Like the TaleSpin mini-series before it, it was intended to serve as the beginning for a regular Darkwing Duck comic book.

Coinciding with the show's premiere on the Disney Afternoon and ABC, it featured "Brawl in the Family", a comic adaptation of the show's two-part series premiere, " Darkly Dawns the Duck". The first Darkwing Duck comic book was a four-issue mini-series published by Disney Comics from September to December of 1991.
