Have we ever seen the triplets use a pickaxe? I know we've seen then with sledgehammers in (at least) one story.
I would imagine that Huey, Dewey, and Louie used pickaxes in at least a few stories to help dig through rubble to rescue Donald and Scrooge from a cave-in collapsed mine, or to chop through ice to save them.
Ha! Ha! I think it's a little ironic that one of my OWN stories is the first example of that that ANYONE posted here! Below is a scan of the bottom half of Page 6 of my 17-page 1992 Uncle Scrooge story, "Reunion At Beaver Creek"(D 92047), in which he and his nephews return to his old haunts in The Klondike area of The Yukon. Huey and Donald use pickaxes to chop ice off of Uncle Scrooge, who has just slid down a sluice box full of freezing water, and after landing and exposed to the bitter-cold far below freezing air, the icy water has frozen around him. That gag was based on my youthful experiences in Manitoba in conditions of almost 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, and over 100 degrees below zero wind chill effect, under which when a person spits, the saliva/water freezes to ice, instantly, before one's eyes, upon leaving one's mouth. I'm so old that I left Canada before we changed over from The Royal Measurement System, to The Metric System. The entire page can be seen at the link below:
Below is a scan of the bottom half of Page 6 of my 17-page 1992 Uncle Scrooge story, "Reunion At Beaver Creek"(D 92047), in which he and his nephews return to his old haunts in The Klondike area of The Yukon.
Why does the INDUCKS entry for this piece say the artist is unknown, are they not your storyboards? Also, out of curiosity, since this is an unpublished and apparently unfinished work, how does it have a story code and what are INDUCKS' policies regarding indexing such material?
Below is a scan of the bottom half of Page 6 of my 17-page 1992 Uncle Scrooge story, "Reunion At Beaver Creek"(D 92047), in which he and his nephews return to his old haunts in The Klondike area of The Yukon.
Why does the INDUCKS entry for this piece say the artist is unknown, are they not your storyboards? Also, out of curiosity, since this is an unpublished and apparently unfinished work, how does it have a story code and what are INDUCKS' policies regarding indexing such material?
Yes, those are my storyboards. Inducks doesn't consider storyboards as artwork. Strange, eh? The story has a code number because it was bought and paid for. As soon as Sanoma stories are accepted in principle, they are given a story code number, and can be indexed in COA. Egmont doesn't allow them to be indexed until the storywriter is paid. Dutch Disney has been notoriously late in having some of my stories printed. 22 years later is the longest wait I've had, then 15, then 12, then 8, 7, and 5 years, all finished by Jan Gulbranson. I still have a 12 page story from 2014, written together with Frank Jonker, that waited a few years (2017) to have Sander Gulien draw the final pencils and have Tony Fernandez ink it. They still haven't published it.
"Reunion At Beaver Creek" was shelved in 1993, when Byron Erickson discovered that Egmont had way too many stories and pages of stories backed up that could be used for several years. It has long been forgotten. I also had a 22 page Donald Duck adventure story shelved then ("The Upside Down World", which included a dictator/king who was cruel to his people, overthrown with the help of Donald and his nephews, and a dinosaur-like animal that lived in that upside-down world, underground). I think that is one of my best stories.
“The Legendary Super Pickax” is namedropped in issue #1 of Uncle Scrooge: His First Millions. The pickax’s “power” seems to be breaking after it is mentioned.
“The Legendary Super Pickax” is namedropped in issue #1 of Uncle Scrooge: His First Millions. The pickax’s “power” seems to be breaking after it is mentioned.
Do you mean Dell Four Color 386 - "Only A Poor Old Man"?
AHA! An Italian story. No wonder I didn't remember that incident. I missed getting that first IDW Uncle Scrooge. But, you are right about us being WAYYYYY off topic.
Anyone else know any stories with Huey, Dewey, and Louie using pickaxes? But why would someone ask that question?
AHA! An Italian story. No wonder I didn't remember that incident. I missed getting that first IDW Uncle Scrooge. But, you are right about us being WAYYYYY off topic.
Anyone else know any stories with Huey, Dewey, and Louie using pickaxes? But why would someone ask that question?
That is something I have wondered several times in this forum when I see extremely specific questions of this type.
AHA! An Italian story. No wonder I didn't remember that incident. I missed getting that first IDW Uncle Scrooge. But, you are right about us being WAYYYYY off topic.
Anyone else know any stories with Huey, Dewey, and Louie using pickaxes? But why would someone ask that question?
I'm adding stories to my 'need to track this down' list. My... 'interests' are oddly specific.
AHA! An Italian story. No wonder I didn't remember that incident. I missed getting that first IDW Uncle Scrooge. But, you are right about us being WAYYYYY off topic.
Anyone else know any stories with Huey, Dewey, and Louie using pickaxes? But why would someone ask that question?
That is something I have wondered several times in this forum when I see extremely specific questions of this type.
Same here. When I see this type of questions in this forum I have like the impression of reading slightly autistic people, or some kind of compulsive behaviour. No offense intended here, autism is a common thing, and most of us human beings fall a bit in the autism range.
Here, in Andersen’s “Liquid Gold”, they use pickaxes in one page while digging for gold with their uncle in a mine won in a breakfast pack ( which later reveals to be a complete empty one, due to Uncle Scrooge telling the breakfast owner that his nose told him that it was empty, long story) .