When Gladstone really cares about Donald..or on the contrary

[poordonald]

I wonder whether there is a story that Gladstone really cares about Donald..or on the contrary. 

For some stories they will reach to some agreement that "women is hard to get along with" stuff after some chaos over typical Daisy-Donald-Gladstone fool around, but that's not what I'm looking for. I prefer to some more "real empathy" moment.

D-98371 depicts that Gladstone accused Scrooge seriously of not treating Donald in a fair way

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{Spoiler}however it's in Scrooge's dream..

Really wondering whether there is sort of plot that like in other stories, or on the contrary, Donald shows real empathy to Gladstone when the lucky guy's not with his luck during plot.

I assume such kind of plot is more likely to appear in Denmark / Netherland stories, since in Barks traditional, Gladstone is more like a pure “Donald's natural enemy”.

Thanks!

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Well, there's the famous sequence in “Luck of the North”!

[crazycatlord]

In Gastone e la fortuna inopportuna, Donald seems very helpful in aiding Gladstone (although the aid being to theach Gladstone to have bad luck).

[crazycatlord]

They also seem vert friendly to each other (and with Gladstone very prone to help Donald) in Donald's Wishing Cousin

[poordonald]

Thanks a lot Clan McDuck MacDuck crazycatlord, I will definitely check stories you mentioned here.

[RobbK1]

In Barks' 1951 story in which Scrooge has his nephews all working on his farm, and his money is all stored in a giant corn crib, which all blows away and is scattered all over USA, Gladstone acts friendly to Donald, inviting him to come along with him on a fishing trip, and to share in his good luck. Gladstone also sees Donald down on his luck in "Christmas For Shacktown", and offers to use his luck to get Donald the $4 he needs. Donald feels guilty about sending Gladstone to the frozen wastes of Arctic Northern Canada (Or Greenland- somewhere where Inuits live) in Donald Duck 256, "Luck Of The North", and so he travels there to "rescue" him. So is was concerned about Gladstone's welfare.

[poordonald]

Jul 27, 2022 9:19:10 GMT RobbK1 said:

In Barks' 1951 story in which Scrooge has his nephews all working on his farm, and his money is all stored in a giant corn crib, which all blows away and is scattered all over USA, Gladstone acts friendly to Donald, inviting him to come along with him on a fishing trip, and to share in his good luck. Gladstone also sees Donald down on his luck in "Christmas For Shacktown", and offers to use his luck to get Donald the $4 he needs. Donald feels guilty about sending Gladstone to the frozen wastes of Arctic Northern Canada (Or Greenland- somewhere where Inuits live) in Donald Duck 256, "Luck Of The North", and so he travels there to "rescue" him. So is was concerned about Gladstone's welfare.

Thank you very much! Will take a read at them.

Looks like I have the inaccurate impression that Barks only depicts Gladstone as Donald's annoying competitor.

[RobbK1]

The Barks 1951 story is in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories # 126.  Barks was still developing Gladstone's character back when these 3 stories were made.  It was later, 1953, when he started only having Gladstone and Donald fighting and being enemies all the time, and Gladstone only dealing with his luck, and nothing outside of his luck, except for being a rival with Donald for dating Daisy.