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In an untitled
story by Jack Bradbury and Carl Fallberg, from "Donald Duck"
#53, Donald Duck and Gladstone Gander inherit from a relative called
Pokerface McDuck, and Donald shows his family tree to Huey, Dewey and Louie,
in which we can see Scrooge, Grandma, Gladstone, Donald, Pokerface himself
("Here he is, way out on this limb!") and even Daisy. We cannot
draw lots of conclusions from this rather brief tree, but it is, as far
as I know, the first Duck Family Tree that appeared in a story. |
1953 |
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In Tony Strobl's and Carl Fallberg's story "Uncle
Donald and His Nephews - Family Fun", from "Dell Giant" #38, Grandma
shows to the Ducks their family tree, where we can also see unknown characters
: 2-gun Duck, Blackduck and Ebenezer Duck, znd also a "?", a mysterious
forgtten relative, which turns out to be a Cave Duck hatched from an egg
that has been transported to the Ducks' house with an invention of Gyro.
We also learn that Daisy and her nieces are part of the same family, and
also Gyro! |
1960 |
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In Tony Strobl's and John Liggera's story
"The
Family Tree Spree", from "Ludwig Von Drake" #3, Donald Duck shows
to Ludwig von Drake his family tree, that has been made by a swindler who
made him believe he had very prestigious ancestors. Then Ludwig builds
Donald's family tree himself ("Look! Your only ancestors who weren't
simple mortals were a ruffian and a pseudo-scientist who wanted to prove
that Earth wasn't round!"). Eventually, Ludwig realises he's from the
same family and both of them decide to dig a hole and bury the trees in
it... |
1962 |
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In Massimo De Vita's and Michele Gazzarri's story "Heir
Cooled" (S 71021), first published in Italian "Almanaco Topolino"
#230, Scrooge changes his floor into a gigantic family tree (we can see
the names of Grandma, Fethry, Gladstone, Daisy, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Gus,
as well as unknown distant relatives (one of them is called Soupic in the
French version). Then, the Ducks go in the search for a lumberjack relative
similar to Barks' Whitewater, called Onagésime Picnald in French,
Dietbald Duck in German and Andreas And in Danish to see if he'll be a
good heir. |
1976 |
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In "O
Nascimento do Biquinho", ("Dugan's Birth", B 810124) by
Irineu Soares Rodrigues and Gérson L. B. Teixeira, from the Brazilian
"Tio Patinhas" #203 (actually the first story in which Biquinho meets Fethry),
Gloria takes a look at Fethry's family tree (just his name is readable),
in which she notices the drawing of an egg. Fethry explains that this egg
has been stolen four years ago in his sister's house, who lives in country
region of Duckburg, by a tribe, the Marrantos. Then both of them go in
the search for Biquinho/Dugan, Fethry's nephew who hatched from this egg... |
1982 |
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In the story "A
invenção de Bertold Pardaltz" ("Bertold Pardaltz'
invention", B 810201), by
Roberto O. Fukue and Ivan Saidenberg,
first published in the Brazilian "O Pato Donald" #1580, Gyro finds an old
book of his family, in which he discovers the Gearloose family tree, and
then he goes back in time to Middle Age, where (or should I say when?)
he meets his ancestor, called Bertold Pardaltz in the original version
and Bertrand Trouvetou in French, who invented gunpowder before China...
We cannot read any names on this tree. |
1982 |
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In Don Rosa's story "The
Duck Who Never Was" (D 93574), a special story for Donald's 60th
birthday, Gus explains to Donald how he's related to Scrooge, and draws
a family tree on a wall with a chalk. This is actually a simplified version
of Don Rosa's well-known tree, except that Donald isn't in it : he just
wished he was never born! Then, he visits Duckburg and sees how the city
and his relatives would be if he has never existed. Note there is a mistake,
in the French version at least : the translator inverted Scrooge's (fr
: Picsou) and Gus' (moi = me) places. |
1994 |
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In the "The
Family Tree" (D 92071), by Marçal Abella Bresco,
Paul Halas and Jack Sutter, first published in 1996 in the Danish "Anders
And Ekstra" #1996-05, Scrooge shows a family tree of his family (but the
whereabouts of one relative, count Florian de Canard (Danish name, even
though Canard means Duck in French), is unknown. So Donald, Scrooge and
the nephews travel in time with a time machine made by Gyro to find this
relative. In the same story, they also meet other relatives to him, all
unnamed except one whose name is de Canard. No readable names here. |
1996 |
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In the splash panel of "Archimede
e l'idea luminosa", ("Gyro and the bright idea"), by Bruno
Sarda and Roberto Vian, first published in the Italian "Topolino" #2203,
we can see a kind of family tree with Gyro and his ancestors, and among
them, a hero of the story, an ancestor called Alex Pythagorion (Archimede
Pitagorico is Gyro's Italian name) in French and Alex Gearløs in
Danish, who was the real inventor of the electric bulb, but Edison registered
the patent just the day before him. |
1998 |
