Hello, first post, was wondering if you all could help me with a question I've had for several years about Duck comics.
So because I have no life, I've been trying to track down the appearances of all the ancestors on Gilles Maurice's famously enormous Duck family tree. I've found most of them over the years, but a few notables still elude me. In particular, I'd like to know the source for the characters identified as Kerababor and Bovspryd McDuck on the tree, since they look like cool pirate captain ducks. Punching those names into Google just gets me the tree and sites that have copied it, so I'd imagine they're called something else in the actual stories they're in. Any help?
Others I've never been able to find are: * A very hairy duck called Pieretto Paperetto on the tree. * Sandy and Malcolm, cousins of Scrooge. They look a lot alike and the tree has them as brothers, but is that the case in the actual story/ies? * Daisy's great-grandparents. * Grandma Elvira's great-grandmother. * Scrooge's maternal grandfather MacPaperson.
Thanks a bunch!
Last Edit: Jun 26, 2017 23:55:46 GMT by stuftmcduck
Hello, first post, was wondering if you all could help me with a question I've had for several years about Duck comics.
So because I have no life, I've been trying to track down the appearances of all the ancestors on Gilles Maurice's famously enormous Duck family tree. I've found most of them over the years, but a few notables still elude me. In particular, I'd like to know the source for the characters identified as Kerababor and Bovspryd McDuck on the tree, since they look like cool pirate captain ducks. Punching those names into Google just gets me the tree and sites that have copied it, so I'd imagine they're called something else in the actual stories they're in. Any help?
Others I've never been able to find are: * A very hairy duck called Pieretto Paperetto on the tree. * Sandy and Malcolm, cousins of Scrooge. They look a lot alike and the tree has them as brothers, but is that the case in the actual story/ies? * Daisy's great-grandparents. * Grandma Elvira's great-grandmother. * Scrooge's maternal grandfather MacPaperson.
Thanks a bunch!
MacPaperson is also known by the unofficial English name Duckson O'Drake. In the original version of Romano Scarpa's Secret of Success, the letter is signed by Scrooge's grandfathr MacPaperson — the fact that the man's family name is not De'Paperoni suggests MacPaperson is meant to be the maternal grandfather of Scrooge. In the American translation of Secret of Success however, the letter is now said to be penned by Scrooge's father Fergus instead.
Daisy's great-grandmother has an Inducks code: she appears in a 1958 Tony Strobl story where she is said to have won a beauty contest in 1891. She is specifically said to have been named Daisy Duck, and the namesakeness and resemblance cause a confusion with present-day Daisy, as the judges of the new beauty contest somehow don't realize they're two different people and say that, having already won the contest once, Daisy is not qualified to enter it again.
Daisy's great-grandfather originates in this S-coded story (though it's not explicitly said that his name is Duck), where it is said that he was a heroic policeman — or so Daisy thinks, because, after some research, she discovers he was a lying gloryhound who stole his colleagues' accomplishments.
Hello, first post, was wondering if you all could help me with a question I've had for several years about Duck comics.
So because I have no life, I've been trying to track down the appearances of all the ancestors on Gilles Maurice's famously enormous Duck family tree. I've found most of them over the years, but a few notables still elude me.
A past version of the tree had an explanatory table, though some characters are missing from there because the tree has changed since then.
In particular, I'd like to know the source for the characters identified as Kerababor and Bovspryd McDuck on the tree, since they look like cool pirate captain ducks. Punching those names into Google just gets me the tree and sites that have copied it, so I'd imagine they're called something else in the actual stories they're in. Any help?
Others I've never been able to find are: * A very hairy duck called Pieretto Paperetto on the tree. * Sandy and Malcolm, cousins of Scrooge. They look a lot alike and the tree has them as brothers, but is that the case in the actual story/ies? * Daisy's great-grandparents. * Grandma Elvira's great-grandmother. * Scrooge's maternal grandfather MacPaperson.
Thanks a bunch!
Excluding the characters for which Scrooge MacDuck has already provided an answer, I only know about two of them:
*Pieretto Paperetto appears in the story Paperino e la vecchia ricevuta (1967), written by Carlo Chendi and drawn by Luciano Gatto, and is said to be a distant cousin of Grandma Duck (which, in this story, is called Genoveffa). We discussed the story on pages 3-4 of the Grandpa Duck thread. Here is an image in which the character explains how he is related with Grandma Duck:
*Grandma Duck's great-grandmother appears in Nonna Papera story (1988), written by "Staff di IF" and drawn by Alessandro Gottardo. Inducks doesn't identify the writer, but some websites credit the story to Claudia Salvatori.
Last Edit: Jun 27, 2017 16:15:45 GMT by drakeborough
Thank you! Pieretto was one of the three I wanted most, along with the pirates.
…pirates? You don't mention any pirates in your original post. Is it a typo, perhaps?
Ahem:
"I'd like to know the source for the characters identified as Kerababor and Bovspryd McDuck on the tree, since they look like cool pirate captain ducks."
…pirates? You don't mention any pirates in your original post. Is it a typo, perhaps?
Ahem:
"I'd like to know the source for the characters identified as Kerababor and Bovspryd McDuck on the tree, since they look like cool pirate captain ducks."
Oh, right. Since they didn't ring any bell, I'd overlooked them the first time, and rereading your earliest message I'd simply skimmed over the bullet point list. Sorry.
I found this page on Maurice's site, which lists a lot of characters not on the first version of the tree. I've been able to match up several to characters on the second version, but I sadly still can't tell who Kerababor and Bovspryd are.
Sorry for the double post but here's the full list of characters I'd like help with:
* Kerababor and Bovspryd. * Grandma's great-great aunt, Miss Abigail. * Daisy's great-great grandfather Jason. * Daisy's great-grandfather Dreary. * Jake, Cyrus, and Eider, uncles of Grandma. * Angus and Tom, great-uncles of Donald. * Grandma's brother Gus. * Scrooge's cousins Wilma, Sandy, and Malcolm. * Scrooge's second cousin Miser. * Audree, aunt of Donald. * Paperozzo and Gorman, relatives of Gus.
Thanks a whole lot!
Grandma's uncle Eider is mentioned in the Junior Woodchucks story Gold of the '49ers (1972), written by Carl Barks and drawn by Kay Wright. The story also had a 1993 remake by Daan Jippes.
* Jake, Cyrus, and Eider, uncles of Grandma. * Paperozzo and Gorman, relatives of Gus.
Eider is, as already mentioned, from a Barks story; Cyrus is mentioned in this 1971 story where he is just said to be Grandma's uncle (we don't know if he was a maternal or paternal uncle). When cleaning up Grandma's attic, Donald finds a box having belonged to Cyrus, in which, instead of treasure, he is disappointed to find a 1873 bottle cap. He gives it to Gladstone, who promptly finds out that the bottle cap is actually hugely valuable to a collector.
I know Paperozzo is from this Luciano Bottaro story. He is said to be a cousin of Donald Duck, and, judging from his appearance and clothing style, it was reasonable to assume he was from the same branch of the family tree as Gus; personally, I think of him as Gus's brother. Don't know about Gorman though.