Grandpa Duck

[drakeborough]

Mar 23, 2017 21:05:49 GMT Scroogerello said:

Something else that I thought would be worth adding to this topic: in Don Rosa's original sketches & script for "The King of the Klondike", Grandpa Duck had a considerably larger role.

Indeed, it is worth adding to this topic. I wonder why I didn't think of mentioning it here before.

An interesting fact is that in these sketches Grandpa Duck has a different design, for example he has no goatee.

Mar 23, 2017 21:05:49 GMT Scroogerello said:

This storyline is very different from want the printed story ended up with, but I think it's a shame it was abandoned. In fact, I personally find this unpublished storyline much more entertaining and funny than the *actual* story

It is entertaining an funny indeed, but I could see why Byron decided the script needed a rewrite, and it's hard to argue against that:

But having said all that about the story, the truth is that this was the other instance in the series when my editor Byron rejected the entire first draft of the script! Ouch! My original story involved $crooge meeting up with Grandma Duck who was running a diner in Dawson City with all her family, whom I ended up using in chapter X. Grandma's husband at one point is on his way to put $crooge's claim in his safety deposit box, but Soapy has told Goldie about it and Goldie coldcocks him and swipes the claim. Goldie had a large role in this version, with her and Grandma Duck getting into a dance-hall-girl vs. frontier-wife brawl right out of DESTRY RIDES AGAIN. But Byron said that $crooge's Yukon adventure should represent the toughest, nastiest, loneliest, most miserable time in his life to be suitably dramatic! My first script had $crooge almost like the secondary character in a story about a large bunch of his friends and supporters. And Byron was right, as always! So I did a complete rewrite. It would take too much space to show you the entire original 24-page script, but we'll try to use one sequence to show you it was a funny, but lifeless tale.

Mar 23, 2017 21:05:49 GMT Scroogerello said:

I never really liked that 'Hulk-smash' sequence in the printed story, where Scrooge beats up Soapy Slick and destroys an entire riverboat.

Well, Soapy Slick crossed the line by mocking her recently died mother (Scrooge didn't even knew she was dead), so it's not like the berserk button sequence was overdone or uncalled for. Anyway, there's one thing about that epic scene that is often misanderstood: it didn't necessarily show what really happened, it's just that after the McDuck legend grew the facts were exaggerated every time the tale was retold. Indeed, in "Hearts of the Yukon" we hear Scrooge's version of the events.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Mar 24, 2017 11:20:21 GMT drakeborough said:

Mar 23, 2017 21:05:49 GMT Scroogerello said:

I never really liked that 'Hulk-smash' sequence in the printed story, where Scrooge beats up Soapy Slick and destroys an entire riverboat.

Well, Soapy Slick crossed the line by mocking his recently died mother (Scrooge didn't even knew she was dead), so it's not like the berserk button sequence was overdone or uncalled for. Anyway, there's one thing about that epic scene that is often misanderstood: it didn't necessarily show what really happened, it's just that after the McDuck legend grew the facts were exaggerated every time the tale was retold. Indeed, in "Hearts of the Yukon" we hear Scrooge's version of the events.

All this allows the sequence to make sense. It does not necessarily make it entertaining to read.

[Scroogerello]

Mar 24, 2017 12:19:07 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Mar 24, 2017 11:20:21 GMT drakeborough said:

Well, Soapy Slick crossed the line by mocking his recently died mother (Scrooge didn't even knew she was dead), so it's not like the berserk button sequence was overdone or uncalled for. Anyway, there's one thing about that epic scene that is often misanderstood: it didn't necessarily show what really happened, it's just that after the McDuck legend grew the facts were exaggerated every time the tale was retold. Indeed, in "Hearts of the Yukon" we hear Scrooge's version of the events.

All this allows the sequence to make sense. It does not necessarily make it entertaining to read.

Exactly; I did know the context of the sequence, and didn't mistunderstand it--and I still thought it was very much overdone and uncalled for. It's one of those instances where, personally, I find that Rosa takes the whole "realism" thing *way* too far, and makes too much of a superhero out of Scrooge's character. Both just seem out of place in a Disney comic, to me.

[drakeborough]

Mar 24, 2017 12:19:07 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

All this allows the sequence to make sense. It does not necessarily make it entertaining to read.

I don't think that sequence was meant to be fun, I think it was meant to be epic. The whole point of chapter 8 is that Scrooge's failures in the preivious 20 years were not in vain, because he gained experience, and thus in his Klondike days he was at the peak of his powers, both mentally and physically. That chapter was the climax of the "Life and Times" series, and that scene was the climax of the chapter.

Mar 24, 2017 12:42:11 GMT Scroogerello said:

I did know the context of the sequence, and didn't mistunderstand it--and I still thought it was very much overdone and uncalled for. It's one of those instances where, personally, I find that Rosa takes the whole "realism" thing *way* too far, and makes too much of a superhero out of Scrooge's character. Both just seem out of place in a Disney comic, to me.

I guess it's a matter of tastes: for me, the clever bend of realism and comedy is one of the best thing in the series, and in Don Rosa's stories in general. Scrooge already seemed much of a superhero in the flashback sequence of "Back to the Klondike", so it makes sense that Rosa would draw on that story... and yet the fact that what we see here is not what really happened avoids making Scrooge an actual superhero.

But we are OT in this thread, so I think it's better if we stop here, since we all already expressed our ideas on the matter.

[Scroogerello]

I guess it's a matter of tastes: for me, the clever bend of realism and comedy is one of the best thing in the series, and in Don Rosa's stories in general. Scrooge already seemed much of a superhero in the flashback sequence of "Back to the Klondike", so it makes sense that Rosa would draw on that story... and yet the fact that what we see here is not what really happened avoids making Scrooge an actual superhero.

But we are OT in this thread, so I think it's better if we stop here, since we all already expressed our ideas on the matter.

In "Back to the Klondike", the flashback was told by Scrooge himself. Scrooge very much seems to be an unreliable narrator (for example, the way he tells it, he had a very stern, no-nonsense attitude towards Goldie, whereas, in the present, we see that he certainly is charmed by her). In various other Barks stories (such as "The Golden Nugget Boat" and "The Loony Loonar Gold Rush"), it is very much evident to other characters that Scrooge is just bragging about his past, and I find that the Scrooge's fighting scène in "Back to the Klondike" might fall into this category of windy tales as well (or not; Barks' stories often have a wonderful sense of ambiguity concerning these things). I like this part of Scrooge's character-- it reminds me of Grampa Simpson's rants about his past from "The Simpsons". You never knew whether he was telling the absolute truth or not.

And regardless of that, the fighting scène in Barks' comic was comical, cartoonish slapstick violence--not the rather harsh, and (IMO) too-realistic wounding of characters that is shown in Rosa's Lo$ #2.

But you're right: I'm going off-topic--again!

On the topic of Grandpa Duck, something else that I found rather peculiar is that, in the 2007 Dutch reprint of Strobl's "The Good Old Daze", Grandpa Duck was renamed "Dirk", and was said to he Grandma's former farmhand, of no relation to the Duck family. Perhaps they did this to avoid questions from readers as to what happend to Grandpa Duck, but it does seem odd--especially since, in the 1960s Dutch translation of the same story, he *was* said to be Donald's grandfather!

[drakeborough]

Mar 24, 2017 14:24:59 GMT Scroogerello said:

In "Back to the Klondike", the flashback was told by Scrooge himself. Scrooge very much seems to be an unreliable narrator 

To me, it has always seemed obvious that the flashback in "Back to the Klondike" shows what really happened. Sure, in some of his later stories Barks played with the idea of Scrooge recounting tall tales, but the tone of this flashback is totally different from the ones in "The Golden Nugget Boat" and "The Loony Loonar Gold Rush".

Mar 24, 2017 14:24:59 GMT Scroogerello said:

And regardless of that, the fighting scène in Barks' comic was comical, cartoonish slapstick violence--not the rather harsh, and (IMO) too-realistic wounding of characters that is shown in Rosa's Lo$ #2.

What scene of chapter 2 are you referring to? Or did you mean to write chapter 8?

Mar 24, 2017 14:24:59 GMT Scroogerello said:

But you're right: I'm going off-topic--again!

That's because there are so few appearances of Grandpa Duck that, unless he appears again, or unless we find more info about one of his past appearances, there are not many other things that could be said in this thread after all the things we already said.

Well, I guess that with a little bit of creativity we can still find new things: for example, what do you think of Inducks' idea of indexing "Grandpa Duck" and "Humperdink Duck" as two separate characters?

Mar 24, 2017 14:24:59 GMT Scroogerello said:

On the topic of Grandpa Duck, something else that I found rather peculiar is that, in the 2007 Dutch reprint of Strobl's "The Good Old Daze", Grandpa Duck was renamed "Dirk", and was said to he Grandma's former farmhand, of no relation to the Duck family.

You talk about a 2007 Dutch edition, is that a typo? According to Inducks, the story was published twice in the Netherlands, the first time 1965 and the second time 2000.

Regardless of the date, it's such a shame that in a modern edition we still have idiotic examples of censorship like that. Making him a farmhand so that poor readers are not scared after being reminded of the fact that the character is death in the present? Really? Bah.

By the way, is he ever called "Grandpa Duck" at one point in the original English version, or is he just "Grandpa" like in the few panels we saw on page 1 of this thread?

Mar 24, 2017 14:24:59 GMT Scroogerello said:

Perhaps they did this to avoid questions from readers as to what happend to Grandpa Duck, but it does seem odd--especially since, in the 1960s Dutch translation of the same story, he *was* said to be Donald's grandfather!

O tempora o mores... it's sad to think that there was less censorship in the 1960's than now.

I was thinking: if Grandma Duck's late husband has been said to be Donald's grandfather in the 1965 translation, then this means that Dutch authors and translators regard and/or regarded Grandma Duck as Donald's grandmother, isn't it? I'm asking it because it is stated here that "In the stories of the Dutch Donald Duck Weekly for many years, Grandma was shown as being [...] Donald's mother". Do you know if that info is correct or not?

[Scroogerello]

Mar 24, 2017 14:24:59 GMT Scroogerello said:

On the topic of Grandpa Duck, something else that I found rather peculiar is that, in the 2007 Dutch reprint of Strobl's "The Good Old Daze", Grandpa Duck was renamed "Dirk", and was said to he Grandma's former farmhand, of no relation to the Duck family.

You talk about a 2007 Dutch edition, is that a typo? According to Inducks, the story was published twice in the Netherlands, the first time 1965 and the second time 2000.

Yes, I meant to refer to the 2000 version. It's the 1965 version that does refer to him as Grandpa (the same goes for Lars Jensen & Flemming Andersen's 2013 story Grandpa Duck).

Perhaps they did this to avoid questions from readers as to what happend to Grandpa Duck, but it does seem odd--especially since, in the 1960s Dutch translation of the same story, he *was* said to be Donald's grandfather!

O tempora o mores... it's sad to think that there was less censorship in the 1960's than now.

I was thinking: if Grandma Duck's late husband has been said to be Donald's grandfather in the 1965 translation, then this means that Dutch authors and translators regard and/or regarded Grandma Duck as Donald's grandmother, isn't it? I'm asking it because it is stated here that "In the stories of the Dutch Donald Duck Weekly for many years, Grandma was shown as being [...] Donald's mother". Do you know if that info is correct or not?

I'm fairly certain that there have never been any Dutch stories that identify Grandma and Donald's mother. It's a common misconception that this is the case European stories. Grandma and Uncle Scrooge are presented as siblings on occasion, but Grandma is never Donald's mother (note that she is identified as Scrooge's *older* sister in such stories). I would say this tradition is still active in the Netherlands; as recently as 2009, a Dutch story had to be altered due to Scrooge being too evil towards his own sister: workingforthedisneydollar.blogspot.nl/2014/07/sibling-rivalry.html .

[drakeborough]

Mar 24, 2017 18:36:52 GMT Scroogerello said:

Yes, I meant to refer to the 2000 version.

Ok, so it was just a typo.

Mar 24, 2017 18:36:52 GMT Scroogerello said:

It's the 1965 version that does refer to him as Grandpa (the same goes for Lars Jensen & Flemming Andersen's 2013 story Grandpa Duck).

Do you know how many panels or pages of the 2013 story feature Grandpa Duck? And is he called Grandpa Duck, or just Grandpa?

Mar 24, 2017 18:36:52 GMT Scroogerello said:

I'm fairly certain that there have never been any Dutch stories that identify Grandma and Donald's mother. It's a common misconception that this is the case European stories. Grandma and Uncle Scrooge are presented as siblings on occasion, but Grandma is never Donald's mother (note that she is identified as Scrooge's *older* sister in such stories).

Thanks for the answer, this is just what I suspected. If that's the case, the situation is similar to Italian comics, where Scrooge and Grandma were often identified as sibilings in the past, but Grandma was never identified as Donald's mother: she was his grandmother, while Scrooge was Donald's uncle. Of course, this is a textbook example of Orwellian doublethink, since one's grandma is not his/her uncle's sister.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

"Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct"

I see how some fans didn't realize the doublethink aspect of the issue and mistakenly thought that in Europe she is/was portrayed as Donald's mother.

By the way, did Dutch authors get that idea (Scrooge and Grandma as sibilings) from translations of Italian stories, or did they independently came up with the same idea? And how many countries (beside Italy and Holland) use or used that idea?

Mar 24, 2017 18:36:52 GMT Scroogerello said:

I would say this tradition is still active in the Netherlands; as recently as 2009, a Dutch story had to be altered due to Scrooge being too evil towards his own sister: workingforthedisneydollar.blogspot.nl/2014/07/sibling-rivalry.html .

That tradition is still alive in 2009? Too bad. Is it just something implicitly accepted as true by editors, or are there stories from the recent years in which they are said to be sibilings? I wonder if the editor actually told Geradts that Scrooge and Grandma are still regarded as sibilings, or if the editor just said "Even Scrooge wouldn't do that to a family member" and Geradts interpolated that the old "they are sibiling" idea is still active.

[Scroogerello]

The 2013 story (or the Dutch version, at least) refers to him as "Grandpa Duck", and not just "Grandpa".

A more recent example of Grandma and Scrooge being portrayed as siblings is the 2013 Dutch translation of this story:
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++582-A

Besides Dutch/Italian productions, German comics also portray Scrooge and GD as siblings (this is one of many examples: coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=H+21129 . I'm not even sure if Grandma refers to Scrooge as her brother in the original version, but she does in the German translation.

As for the whole "Doublethink" idea--if Scrooge were Grandma's brother, he would be Donald's great-uncle. It's very common to refer to your great-uncle as just "uncle", so it wouldn't really be impossible.

[drakeborough]

Mar 24, 2017 19:52:58 GMT Scroogerello said:

The 2013 story (or the Dutch version, at least) refers to him as "Grandpa Duck", and not just "Grandpa".

Thanks for the info. How many scenes are there with the character in the 2013 story? And do you know if he's also called "Grandpa Duck" in the English version of the Strobl story?

Mar 24, 2017 19:52:58 GMT Scroogerello said:

A more recent example of Grandma and Scrooge being portrayed as siblings is the 2013 Dutch translation of this story:
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++582-A

I don't have the story, so I can't say if the reference to them being sibiling is already present in the original version or if it's something added by the Dutch translator. All I know is that in the story you linked Grandma's name is said to be Genoveffa (this is way before Rosa took the name Elviry from an obscure old story and made it mainstream as Elvira). I guess we could have a separate thread for Grandma Duck's names: in addition to Elviry/Elvira and Genoveffa, I know she is called Abigail in two stories written by Carl Fallberg, and I think the Dutch translation of Rota's "From Egg to Duck" introduced the name Dora (no name is used in the original), which became official in Dutch stories and was even used in translations of Rosa stories that use Elvira.

Mar 24, 2017 19:52:58 GMT Scroogerello said:

Besides Dutch/Italian productions, German comics also portray Scrooge and GD as siblings (this is one of many examples: coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=H+21129 . I'm not even sure if Grandma refers to Scrooge as her brother in the original version, but she does in the German translation.

Uh? You know about the German version but not the Dutch version? I thought you were Dutch. By the way, which panel say they are sibilings?

Mar 24, 2017 19:52:58 GMT Scroogerello said:

As for the whole "Doublethink" idea--if Scrooge were Grandma's brother, he would be Donald's great-uncle. It's very common to refer to your great-uncle as just "uncle", so it wouldn't really be impossible.

Well, technically what you say is true, but I don't think the idea behind Dutch and German stories (and Italian stories of the past) is that Scrooge is Donald's great-uncle and is called uncle for brevity. After all, many Italian stories have Scrooge saying that Donald is his nephew and HDL are his grand-nephews. So, it seems Guido Martina (assuming it was him who came up with the idea of them being sibilings) just didn't realize that it doesn't make sense to have Donald's uncle and Donald's grandma being sibilings. If this is true, then it's really a case of doublethink. What I don't know is if Dutch and German authors took the idea from Italian stories or just had the same idea themselves.

Unrelated trivia: some kids who tested the latest DuckTales videogame in 2013 did not know who Scrooge was and called him "Grandpa Duck".

[...]
A show that perhaps we grew up with, but I don’t think many kids these days know who “Unca Scrooge” is.
They don’t. They absolutely do not and that is no joke. We did focus tests when they played the game. They had no idea who the character was and didn’t know what Ducktales was.
What did kids say during the focus tests?
They go, who is this “Grandpa Duck?” They didn’t have a real connection to him apart from him being part of the duck family in Ducktales.
[...]

Source: interview with producer Rey Jimenez.

[Scroogerello]

Mar 24, 2017 22:25:38 GMT drakeborough said:

Mar 24, 2017 19:52:58 GMT Scroogerello said:

The 2013 story (or the Dutch version, at least) refers to him as "Grandpa Duck", and not just "Grandpa".

Thanks for the info. How many scenes are there with the character in the 2013 story? And do you know if he's also called "Grandpa Duck" in the English version of the Strobl story?

In that 2013 story, Grandpa Duck appears in 4 panels in total, and is seen in a picture in another panel In original dialogue of "The Good Old Daze", he is just named "Grandpa".

Uh? You know about the German version but not the Dutch version? I thought you were Dutch. By the way, which panel say they are sibilings?

I am Dutch--I just happen to have this story in a German issue and not in a Dutch one. In the panel in the bottom left of the page, Grandma refers to Scrooge as "my brother".

As for Grandma's first name: "Dora" has been used consistently in Dutch stories for many years. An interesting note is that, in the Dutch stories, Scrooge is basically the only person to call Grandma by her first name (in English, even Scrooge calls her "Grandma").

[drakeborough]

Mar 24, 2017 22:57:17 GMT Scroogerello said:

In that 2013 story, Grandpa Duck appears in 4 panels in total, and is seen in a picture in another panel

Do you have some pictures of those five panels? I have only seen a single panel so far (the one posted on page 1 of this thread) and it was even edited to remove the dialogue in the caption boxes.

Mar 24, 2017 22:57:17 GMT Scroogerello said:

In original dialogue of "The Good Old Daze", he is just named "Grandpa".

Thanks for the info. I wonder if Jensen knew that, or if he thought the Strobl story siad "Grandpa Duck" (as incorrectly stated in many websites) and decided to use "Grandpa Duck" because of that. No big deal either way. And since you have read the Strobl story, how many pages feature Grandpa?

Mar 24, 2017 22:57:17 GMT Scroogerello said:

I am Dutch--I just happen to have this story in a German issue and not in a Dutch one.

I understand.

Mar 24, 2017 22:57:17 GMT Scroogerello said:

In the panel in the bottom left of the page, Grandma refers to Scrooge as "my brother".

I guess I could have seen that in the scans present on Inducks, but they are so small that it's impossible for me to see every word. It's strange how apparently there are two different translations for the same recent 1-pager. And no Dutch scans on Inducks.

By the way, do you know if S-coded stories used the idea of Grandma and Scrooge as sibilings or not? I am asking this because the only Italian translation (from Topolino #715) of Strobl's "Circle Of Evil" has this scene:

Scrooge calles her "nonna" ("grandma") as anyone else ususally does, but she calls him "fratello caro" ("dear brother"). Does anybody know if "brother" is already present in the original version or, as I suspect, it's something added by the translator?

I have the same question for "cent portafortuna" ("lucky cent") in the next panel. I know that changing dime to cent is definitely something done by the translator, but did the original story say "lucky dime"? Or did it say "Number One Dime" and the luck reference is something added by the translator?

Mar 24, 2017 22:57:17 GMT Scroogerello said:

As for Grandma's first name: "Dora" has been used consistently in Dutch stories for many years.

Which confirms what I have read in the very first month of DCML archives (August 1992). Can you confirm that the name was first used in the Dutch translation of "From Egg to Duck"? Or that the name Dora was also used in some modern translation of Barks stories? Or that it was used instead of Elvira in Rosa stories like "The Invader of Fort Duckburg", "W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N." and "The Sign of the Triple Distelfink"?

Mar 24, 2017 22:57:17 GMT Scroogerello said:

An interesting note is that, in the Dutch stories, Scrooge is basically the only person to call Grandma by her first name (in English, even Scrooge calls her "Grandma").

I saw a few examples of that in Inducks. For example, this is a 1-pager from 1988 (it's good when a scan is big enough that I can read the dialogue):

I guess that the name Dora in Dutch stories is much more used than Elvira is in countries which use that name.

And I see that one of the many German names Grandma had during the years is/was Dorette. The name is so similar to Dora that I wonder if Germans authors/translators were influenced by Dutch comics (or viceversa) or if it's a coincidence.

[Scroogerello]

The name "Dora" was, indeed, used in the Dutch version of Lo$, too, as well as in Barks translations (e.g. "That's No Fable"). I don't know whether there are any examples from before 1984, but the name has been used very often. There's a few older translations (e.g. "The Fantastic Riverboat Race") where Scrooge does call her "Grandma", but that is a very rare exeption.

There already is a topic about Scrooge and Grandma being siblings, so I suggest we move the discussion to that thread. I guess the discussion on GD's first name could fit there, too.

[drakeborough]

Thanks for the answer and the scan. And yes, I also got OT.

[drakeborough]

Mar 24, 2017 19:52:58 GMT Scroogerello said:

A more recent example of Grandma and Scrooge being portrayed as siblings is the 2013 Dutch translation of this story:
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++582-A

Mar 24, 2017 22:25:38 GMT drakeborough said:

I don't have the story, so I can't say if the reference to them being sibiling is already present in the original version or if it's something added by the Dutch translator. All I know is that in the story you linked Grandma's name is said to be Genoveffa (this is way before Rosa took the name Elviry from an obscure old story and made it mainstream as Elvira).

I got hold of the story ("Paperino e la vecchia ricevuta", 1967, text by Carlo Chendi and art by Luciano Gatto), and there's no reference to Grandma and Scrooge being sibilings in the original Italian version. Since you said there's a reference to that in the Dutch version, it must have been added by the Dutch translator. Can you tell me the page and panel in which the reference is present?

That said, we are not off-topic if we discuss that story here because I saw that it contains multiple mentions of the very subject of this thread: Donald's grandfather.

This is the plot of the story (I'll include many spoilers): while looking for a costume for a masked ball, Donald finds his grandfather's uniform when he was part of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Inside the uniform's cap there's a receipt belonged to Pietrino Paperino (his name can be translated as Little-Peter Little-Duck, and is similar to Donald Duck's Italian name, Paolino Paperino, which means Little-Paul Little-Duck. I guess the logical English localized name of Pietrino Paperino would be Peter Duck). According to the receipt, Peter Duck had loaned Scrooge ten dollars so that Scrooge could buy an equipment to be a gold prospector in the Klondike (Soapy Slick is reading this and says hi); in exchange for the loan, Scrooge had to repay Peter with half of the gold he would find in the Klondike plus the interests. And since all of Scrooge's money directly or indirectly derives from the gold he found in the Klondike, half of Scrooge's money now belongs to the heir of the late Peter Duck, which is Donald Duck. Scrooge decides to do a research on Peter's will, and finds out that he left everything to his grandson, Donald Duck, with the exception of his uniform which was left to Peter's cousin Tom Paper (Peter and Tom were both part of the 7th Cavalry Regiment). Since Donald found the receipt in Peter's uniform's cap, Scrooge concludes that Donald doesn't own it. Tom Paper is dead, and in his will he left everything (i.e. Peter's uniform) to his distant relative Pieretto Paperetto, who is still alive and tells Scrooge that he gave up his inheritance in favour of Grandma Duck who is a distant cousin of him. Grandma Duck tells Scrooge that a mysterious benefactor once gave her the money to rebuild her farm (which had been destroyed by a fire) without revealing his identity: he didn't expect to be refunded, but she still decided to gave him something, and she gave him the rights on that uniform. The benefactor was actually Scrooge, and now that he owns the uniform and the receipt contained in it, Donald doesn't own anymore half of Scrooge's money and even has to repay him of the 10 million dollars he already spent. The story ends with an example of Writers Cannot Do Math, as Scrooge wrongly says that, if Donald pays him one dollar per day, it would take him about 27,387 years and six months to pay the whole debt.

I won't upload every panel in which Donald's grandfather is mentioned, but I will at least upload the panels where he actually appears:

SCROOGE: Hi, Peter!

PETER: Scrooge, my boy! How did it go for you? Did you find the gold?

SCROOGE: Yes, and I came to pay my debt with half of the gold I found!

PETER: Are you kidding? I don't want it!

SCROOGE: But you lend me those ten dollars and...

PETER: It was you who insisted to sign the receipt! I gave you those ten dollars as a gift! So, keep your gold!

SCROOGE: Thanks, Peter!

PETER: You are a good boy, and you really deserve to make a fortune!

SCROOGE: I was so moved that I forgot to tell him to destroy the receipt! I am sure he forgot too!

I can also confirm that what I read about Grandma Duck's name is true: in this story, she is actually referred to as Genoveffa Papera ("Genevieve Duck"):

SCROOGE: Then you are the heir of Tom Paper!

PIERETTO PAPERETTO: Yes, but I gave up that inheritance in favout of a distant cousin of mine. Genevieve Duck!

SCROOGE: It's Grandma Duck!

PIERETTO PAPERETTO: ?

By the way, now that I think about it, I am not sure that what I said in the first paragraph of this message is 100% true. Peter is never said to be Grandma Duck's late husband, and it seems he is not since his heir is Donald and not Grandma Duck; plus, we are told Grandma Duck is the distant cousin of the distant relative of a cousin of Peter, so it seems the two of them are basically unrelated. Every family tree has two sides, and if Peter was Donald's grandfather but was unrelated to both Scrooge and Grandma Duck then it seems that, in the context of this story, Peter belonged to one side of Donald's family tree and both Scrooge and Grandma belong to the other. If Scrooge and Grandma are implied to belong to the same side of Donald's family tree, then it's possible that Chendi did think of Scrooge and Grandma as sibilings when writing this story. Maybe. Or maybe I am seeing too much into this issue despite the fact that this is just a story written in a period when writers didn't always think too hard about what they were doing and often had no idea of what exactly they were implying.