Post by mkr on Dec 22, 2022 19:04:29 GMT
A thought... is it explicit this guy is who he claims to be? The improbable age, the nonsensical relation to the deceased... is there maybe supposed to be an implication this guy is a con artist trying to (badly) bluff his way to the inheritance?
Dec 21, 2022 23:58:12 GMT sim said:
Dec 21, 2022 9:33:40 GMT mkr said:
I just read the American publication of D 6572. As the authors are from the UK, I assume that the original script is also in English. So, in the story, these two ducks indeed appear. But they are not relatives of Scrooge at all. Bran McDuck is called Bran Eiderbill in the story, and he is the caretaker of Dismal Downs. The younger one is just called Bucky and he is a nephew of Bran. The only possible relatives in the story are some unnamed potraits in the castle, that could be assumed to be McDuck ancestors, but that is not explicitly said. Images here.
I also have the later version (2003), but it's in my old house and couldn't check it right now.
Anyways, it would look weird to me if they hadn't been intended to be related to Scrooge, American publishers sometimes changed stuff like this.
It is indeed possible that the American publshers are the ones that changed the original story. Maybe there is someone who has access to the Norwegian, Swedish or Danish versions of 1982, to see what is stated there? If that is similar as the Italian, then it is indeed likely that the later American version was changed.