167-478: This list of Donald Duck universe characters focuses on Disney cartoon and comics characters who typically appear with Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck , but are not related to them. For relatives of Donald and Scrooge, see Duck family (Disney) or Clan McDuck . For characters exclusive to the DuckTales franchise, see List of DuckTales characters . Ducks are the most common type of named characters in
334-756: A Ritz Hotel , first mentioned in Carl Barks' story Turkey with All the Schemings (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #148, 1953) at which Scrooge McDuck had a business meeting with Donald Duck; who was disguised as the Duke of Baloni, the World's Second-Richest Duck at that time. In the same story Scrooge later buys the Ritz Hotel and he still owns it in Don Rosa's story Attaaaaaack! (2000). Located near Duckburg
501-499: A comic strip adaptation of an in-production film, Donald's Nephews . Daisy Duck , Donald's on-again-off-again girlfriend premiered in 1940, in Mr. Duck Steps Out . Grandma Duck also appeared in 1940, as a character in the comic strip . Scrooge McDuck , the family's elderly uncle and "richest duck in the world", was created in 1947 by Carl Barks for the comic book story, Christmas on Bear Mountain . Scrooge McDuck appeared in
668-536: A 6- dimensional space of 82,653,950,016,000 ft , i.e. feet to the sixth power. Taken as an acre that is raised to a cube with each side an acre, it would be around 9 091 379 ft . A series of blueprints created for the Scrooge McDuck story " The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin " by Don Rosa state that the Money Bin is approximately 127 feet (39 m) tall, and 120 feet (37 m) wide. In
835-525: A Paperopoli — Doretta vs Brigitta?" ("Valentine's Day in Duckburg ;— Goldie vs Brigitta?") by writer Giorgio Fontana and artist Marco Mazzarello, "Zio Paperone e il nuovo canto di Natale" ("Uncle Scrooge and the new Christmas Carol") by writer Marco Bosco and artist Silvia Ziche and "Piccole grandi papere" ("Small big ducks") by writer Marco Bosco and artist Silvia Ziche — where they both appear, but they are not shown talking to each other in
1002-502: A black screen. The standard HTML color purple is created by red and blue light of equal intensity, at a brightness that is halfway between full power and darkness. In color printing, purple is sometimes represented by the color magenta , or sometimes by mixing magenta with red or blue. It can also be created by mixing just red and blue alone, but in that case the purple is less bright, with lower saturation or intensity. A less bright purple can also be created with light or paint by adding
1169-434: A boarding school! Now she's leaving..."), so she is possibly around 18 years old. In recent comics, she is often depicted as attending a university. Donald Duck universe The Donald Duck universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting of stories involving Disney cartoon character Donald Duck , as well as Daisy Duck , Huey, Dewey, and Louie , Scrooge McDuck , and many other characters . Life in
1336-576: A brief moment, but then Glittering comforts her and says that she assumes Brigitta loves Scrooge's stingness more than himself and Brigitta thanks for Glittering's "kind" words and calls her "my friend". There are only other six Italian stories — "Zio Paperone Pigmalione" ("Uncle Scrooge Benefactor") by writer Caterina Mognato and artist Sandro Dossi, "Zio Paperone e Le Grandi Conquiste" ("Uncle Scrooge and The Big Achievement") by writer Gianfranco Cordara and artist Andrea Ferraris, "Paperina di Rivondosa" ("Daisy of Rivondosa") by Silvia Ziche , "San Valentino
1503-439: A bustling metropolis . Later writers and artists adhere to this tradition recurrently. In one specific story by Barks, Monsterville (1961), Duckburg was even transformed into a futuristic city by Gyro Gearloose , however it proved that the citizens were not ready for the high level of technology that the new city provided. Thus the city was turned back to its old city structure. In comic writer Don Rosa 's stories, Duckburg and
1670-419: A certain quantity of the third primary color (green for light or yellow for pigment). Purple is closely associated with violet . In common usage, both refer to a variety of colors between blue and red in hue . Historically, purple has tended to be used for redder hues and violet for bluer hues. In optics , violet is a spectral color ; it refers to the color of any different single wavelength of light on
1837-533: A certificate for one thousand shares in the Goldopolis and Boom City Railroad that he had intentionally hidden in the now desolate city of Goldopolis to avoid that they were stolen by the McViper Clan . He had previously discovered that those shares suddenly became highly valuable. Then he at last discovers that Ducky is the granddaughter of his old friend "Hashnife Kate", who tells him about how dangerous
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#17327807886052004-538: A diplomatic level. In the story Treasure of Marco Polo (Uncle Scrooge #64, 1966) by Carl Barks, the Duckburg embassy displays a flag of Duckburg, which consists of a white duck over a green field. However, in the Don Rosa story " His Majesty, McDuck " (Uncle Scrooge Adventures #14, Gladstone Aug. 1989) Scrooge gains a short-lived independence from the United States for Killmotor Hill, thus placing Duckburg within
2171-673: A full appearance in comics for many years. Nevertheless, she can be seen in a painting adorning a wall in Fethry's house in a Danish story called "Surprise, Surprise!" from 2014. Gloria's mother is an Italian descendant called Pascoalina , who is the owner of a pizzeria in Duckburg, as shown in the Brazilian story "Genro À Bolonhesa". Mamma (Italian word for mommy) Pascoalina is portrayed as a sturdy woman with strong personality who does not approve her dear daughter's boyfriend, Fethry. Granny De Spell , whose real name may be Caraldina De Spell ,
2338-407: A good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city." Knowing how Don Rosa used gags, it is likely that this city would be Eureka, California ( Eureka meaning 'I found it'!). This fits with the river and a large forest south of Eureka. In the DuckTales episode "Double O' Duck",
2505-589: A group of adventurers. Although Gloria may be considered as Fethry's greatest love, she was not his first one, since he was in love with another girl called Rita Gansa before knowing Gloria, but then Fethry decided to dump Rita for no apparent reason. Gloria and Rita met each other in the story "Quando A Glória I-Rita". Gloria, in turn, first fell in love with Fethry's alter ego, Red Bat, before becoming Fethry's girlfriend indeed, as shown in "Morcego Vermelho Conquista A Glória". Fethry has eventually appeared showing romantic interest in other girls, while Gloria has not had
2672-522: A handkerchief. In the year 2000, a gram of Tyrian purple made from ten thousand mollusks according to the original formula cost two thousand euros. In ancient China, purple was obtained not through the Mediterranean mollusc, but purple gromwell . The dye obtained did not easily adhere to fabrics, making purple fabrics expensive. Purple became a fashionable color in the state of Qi (齊, 1046 BC–221 BC) because its ruler, Duke Huan of Qi , developed
2839-497: A larger danger. Aside from storing his money, this incarnation of the Money Bin (somewhat emptier due to Scrooge's costly search for the lost Della Duck ) also serves as the corporate headquarters of McDuck Industries and the location of Gyro Gearloose's lab. Flintheart Glomgold also owns a money bin, located near Limpopo Valley in South Africa . Glomgold's bin substitutes the dollar sign ( $ ) that appears on Scrooge's with
3006-534: A lucky charm, but Scrooge himself rejects any claims beyond sentimentality. Purple Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both. In
3173-638: A mantle of Tyrian purple, and was buried in 814 in a shroud of the same color, which still exists (see below). However, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the color lost its imperial status. The great dye works of Constantinople were destroyed, and gradually scarlet , made with dye from the cochineal insect, became the royal color in Europe. In 1464, Pope Paul II decreed that cardinals should no longer wear Tyrian purple, and instead wear scarlet, from kermes and alum, since
3340-550: A map in Don Rosa 's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck showing Calisota corresponding to the part of California north of the 39th parallel. The name is a blend of California and Minnesota , supposedly to allow all kinds of weather or climate in the stories, although Calisota has very little in common with the latter (a state in the Upper Midwest , far from the ocean) and Northern California's regional weather
3507-509: A map is shown which shows Duckburg as being located somewhere in Virginia or North Carolina. There are no references to the governor, legislature, Capitol, etc., of Calisota in any of the many stories about Duckburg. However, Duckburg seems to have its own governor, if it is not a sort of city-state . In more than one story a "Duckburg embassy" has been shown, which would place it outside the US at
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#17327807886053674-554: A music hall singer in Dawson City . In a flashback sequence, Scrooge catches Goldie in an attempt to rob him of his recent gold poke, and she is forced to repay the debt by helping him work at his claim at White Agony Creek. Some 50 years later, they meet again and it is revealed that Goldie is now poor and living alone at Scrooge's former claim in Yukon . Barks only used the character once, but Goldie and her relationship with Scrooge
3841-470: A newspaper comic strip where she appeared as a separate character from Daisy, and as an unwitting rival for Donald's affections. Gladstone Gander is Donald's lucky cousin who is always flirting with Daisy Duck. Gladstone first appeared in " Wintertime Wager " in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #88 (Jan 1948), written and drawn by Carl Barks. April , May , and June (their surname is unknown) are
4008-545: A nice product or not." The core Duckverse family dates back to the golden age of American animation , generally introduced in Disney shorts , weekly newspaper comics, or comic books of the period as supporting characters for Donald Duck , who premiered in 1934 in The Wise Little Hen (but was mentioned as a friend of Mickey's as early as 1931). Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie , debuted in 1937 in
4175-509: A part in a museum contest to know who has the most unusual valuable object. Gotrocks is an unpleasant old man with black and thick eyebrows, whose eyes are quite often narrowed, as suggesting that he owns a foxy personality. He has long and white hair on the right and left sides of his head and is always holding a crutch. Gotrocks was also used by the prolific Brazilian comic writer Ivan Saidenberg in four comic stories. Another very different character also called Gotrocks appears in "The Goat With
4342-570: A pound sign ( £ ), as the South African pound was the currency of South Africa until 1961. The preference for the pound sign can also be explained by Glomgold's heritage, which puts him as a citizen of South Africa with British blood, whereas Scrooge embraced America despite his pure Scottish blood. The Millionaires' club (sometimes called the Billionaires' club) is a prominent gentlemen's club in Duckburg, with its premises located in
4509-466: A preference for it. As a result, the price of purple fabric was over five times that of plain fabric. His minister, Guan Zhong (管仲), eventually convinced him to relinquish this preference. China was the first culture to develop a synthetic purple color. An old hypothesis suggested links between the Chinese purple and blue and Egyptian blue , however, molecular structure analysis and evidence such as
4676-616: A reddish to a bluish purple. According to the Roman writer Vitruvius , (1st century BC), the murex shells coming from northern waters, probably Bolinus brandaris , produced a more bluish color than those of the south, probably Hexaplex trunculus . The most valued shades were said to be those closer to the color of dried blood, as seen in the mosaics of the robes of the Emperor Justinian in Ravenna . The chemical composition of
4843-478: A redesigned, more active Granny De Spell, now sporting long blond hair, who has made several subsequent appearances. Granny De Spell's first name has not been used in English publication. However, her Italian name gives it as Caraldina, which considering the fact that the character is, in-universe, Italian, is a perfectly plausible suggestion. Further strengthening it is the fact that she bears similar first names in
5010-481: A relationship with the Brigitta from his world. Despite the fact that Brigitta MacBridge and Glittering Goldie love the same man, Scrooge McDuck, these two quite different ladies have never been in conflict because of his affection in the rare comic stories where they both appear. But in the story "The Miner's Granddaughter" by Romano Scarpa , Brigitta feels really sad when she sees Scrooge and Glittering together for
5177-697: A rural town than a burgeoning metropolis. The connection to Duckburg was removed as the land was renovated in 1996 to become Mickey's Toontown Fair . However, the Cornelius Coot statue remains. In the 2017 version of DuckTales many elements of the Duck universe from the comics of Don Rosa and Carl Barks were used, alongside elements of others Disney stories (including the original 1987 DuckTales TV series, Darkwing Duck , TaleSpin , Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers , Quack Pack , Goof Troop and others). They were brought together into one common global storyline in
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5344-460: A sample of the recently discovered substance of bombastium . The Money Bin is the building where Scrooge McDuck stores the portions of his money he earned by himself. Carl Barks invented the "money swim" in his story A Financial Fable (1950), followed by the "Money Bin" in the story Terror of the Beagle Boys (1951). In Barks earlier stories, interchangeably with the name Money Bin,
5511-592: A sea snail called the spiny dye-murex . Clothing colored with the Tyrian dye was mentioned in both the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil . The deep, rich purple dye made from this snail became known as Tyrian purple. The process of making the dye was long, difficult and expensive. Thousands of the tiny snails had to be found, their shells cracked, the snail removed. Mountains of empty shells have been found at
5678-433: A stately mansion. The club first appeared in the 1959 story The Christmas Cha Cha , written by Bob Gregory and drawn by Carl Barks . Membership of the club is exclusive, with the minimum requirement being owning at least a million dollars. Scrooge McDuck, Flintheart Glomgold and John Rockerduck are all members of the club, along with several other millionaires. Although Scrooge is clearly the wealthiest man in Duckburg, he
5845-574: A thieving adventurer that Scrooge has fought against and partnered with time and time again since they first met in Dawson. She also develops a brief mentorship with Louie Duck and reconciles with Scrooge by the end of the series. Gloria is the girlfriend of Fethry Duck , created by Brazilian comic artists in the early 1970s, when Fethry was starting to get very popular in Brazil. In her first story, "Paz, Amor E Glória" ( Zé Carioca #1099, Dec 1972), she
6012-587: A trillionaire, while Goldie remained in Dawson. Carl Barks drew inspiration for Glittering Goldie's character from Kathleen Rockwell ("Klondike Kate" Rockwell). Goldie is the owner of a wild bear called Blackjack trained by her to attack "prowlers", word used by Goldie herself in "Back to the Klondike". Goldie is eventually used in Italian or Danish comic stories, but some of those ones show situations that may conflict with others previously showed in "Back to
6179-414: A very strong will. Sometimes she has Jubal Pomp helping her. Dickie Duck (Goldie's Granddaughter) occasionally appears as her employee. Right from the beginning, Scarpa and his successors have left enough hints that Scrooge is interested in her, but does not enjoy her obsession with him. Although he pretends to be emotionless — a typical character trait — he is not. When she gets in trouble, he
6346-558: A while. She and Magica love each other dearly, but Granny tends to get on Magica's nerves in her attempt to fix her up with clumsy magician Rosolio, for whom Magica really could not care less. The character was created by George Davie and Jim Fletcher, and her first appearance was in the May 1966 comic story " A Lesson from Granny ". Starting with the 1995 story " Magica De Spell and the Great Rock of Power-Plus ", Giorgio Cavazzano introduced
6513-424: A worry room in which Scrooge paces around in circles, which has caused a circular depression in the floor, to worry and ponder about hardships that has befallen him. The worry room was first mentioned in Carl Barks' story The Secret of Atlantis ( Uncle Scrooge #5, 1954). The traditional location of the Money Bin is on top of Killmotor Hill which in turn lies atop a fault line which would prove catastrophic in
6680-815: Is a farm owned and run by Grandma Duck , a direct descendant of Cornelius Coot and Donald's paternal grandmother . Donald's cousin Gus Goose also lives on Grandma's farm as a farmhand. The farm is often a gathering site for various Duck family holiday celebrations. In other languages, Duckburg (for example Duckstad in Dutch, Entenhausen in German, Ankeborg in Swedish, Rațburg in Romanian, Andeby in Danish, or Patópolis in both European and Brazilian Portuguese)
6847-440: Is a fictional U.S. state, created by Carl Barks in his story The Gilded Man ( Four Color #422). Duckburg is among the cities located there, as well as Goosetown, a traditional rival of Duckburg, and Mouseton . Although it has many fictional elements and a variable climate, Calisota is probably synonymous with Jefferson , being roughly equivalent to Northern California . Duckburg is located north of San Francisco , with
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7014-620: Is a large statue of Duckburg's founder, Cornelius Coot . Duckburg is a major center for Space exploration , mainly operated and overseen by Gyro Gearloose , and has had expeditions to the Moon , Mars , Venus , the Asteroids , and more remote parts of the Galaxy . The city also features a sea port and is in proximity of a large forest called the Black Forest and to several mountains ,
7181-449: Is almost unknown in the USA and others. Dickie clearly seems to be older than Huey, Dewey, and Louie. According to Scarpa, she completed her secondary education at a boarding school (Goldie says to Scrooge in the original Italian, "Ehm, come sai, ho una nipotina che è cresciuta in collegio! Ora ne esce...", which can be loosely translated as "Er, you know, I have a granddaughter who has grown in
7348-400: Is also closely associated with the hillbilly Hard Haid Moe who dislikes Fethry very much (though Fethry does not seem to understand this), and with Donald's pet cat, Tabby . Goldie O'Gilt , a.k.a. Glittering Goldie , is Scrooge's secret sweetheart. Originally created by Carl Barks as a character in the story Back to the Klondike ( Uncle Scrooge #2, March 1953), Goldie's origins are as
7515-587: Is associated with eroticism , femininity , and seduction . The modern English word purple comes from the Old English purpul, which derives from Latin purpura , which, in turn, derives from the Greek πορφύρα ( porphura ), the name of the Tyrian purple dye manufactured in classical antiquity from a mucus secreted by the spiny dye-murex snail. The first recorded use of the word purple dates to
7682-523: Is beyond his capability. Miss Quackfaster first appeared in Uncle Scrooge #36 (Dec 1961) in the story The Midas Touch (the same story that introduced Magica De Spell ), and her last name Quackfaster was first used in Uncle Scrooge #39 (Sept 1962) in A Spicy Tale . Both stories were created by Carl Barks. Miss Quackfaster is almost always referred to by her surname. In one story by Don Rosa, The Empire-Builder from Calisota (1994), her first name
7849-430: Is credited for co-creating him. Hustler is funnily annoying and he wears big round glasses, like John Rockerduck . He is always ready to sell his services in different professional areas to Uncle Scrooge McDuck in most of his oldest stories. After almost ten years without being used in comic stories, Hustler appeared in two Brazilian ones firstly published in 1975. His last appearance was in a Brazilian story from 1991. In
8016-470: Is heavily reinforced in the DuckTales TV series where Scrooge tells his nephews about the value of hard earned cash. The dime is a key plot point in practically every story featuring Magica De Spell , a character invented by Carl Barks, as the main villain. Magica believes that by stealing the first coin earned by the richest person in the world and melting it down to a magical amulet , she can gain
8183-495: Is in turn a clone of Scrooge McDuck. April, May, and June returned to American comics in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #698. The story had them retelling " Little Red Riding Hood " with the girls as Red and the Beagle Boys as the wolf. Flintheart Glomgold is Scrooge's archenemy and the second richest duck in the world. The character was created by Carl Barks in the 1956 story " The Second-Richest Duck ". Fethry Duck
8350-469: Is known as the line of purples , or the purple line. During the Middle Ages, artists usually made purple by combining red and blue pigments; most often blue azurite or lapis-lazuli with red ochre , cinnabar , or minium . They also combined lake colors made by mixing dye with powder; using woad or indigo dye for the blue, and dye made from cochineal for the red. The most famous purple dye in
8517-401: Is not one of the colors of the visible spectrum . It was not one of the colors of the rainbow identified by Isaac Newton . According to some authors, purple does not have its own wavelength of light. For this reason, it is sometimes called a non-spectral color . It exists in culture and art, but not, in the same way that violet does, in optics. According to some speakers of English, purple
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#17327807886058684-571: Is not only home of "the Ducks", but Mickey Mouse and friends live there too. This has occasionally been implied also in English-language publications, as when Super Goof is referred to as "Duckburg's greatest hero" in a poster seen in the initial panel of the 1973 story Galactic Gourmet ( Super Goof #27, Gold Key Comics ). The story moreover pits Super Goof against the Beagle Boys, normally portrayed as living and operating in Duckburg. In
8851-427: Is not the speaker of the club nor holds any special position above the other members. A repeating scene is Scrooge arriving at the club to catch up on the daily newspapers , as he is too stingy to buy copies himself. His favourite refreshment at the club is plain tap water as it is the cheapest the club has to offer. Whenever Scrooge meets his rival Rockerduck at the club, the two end up in an argument. The speaker of
9018-502: Is often patronized by Scrooge; and Ludwig Von Drake , a knowledgeable professor. Scrooge also has several enemies, such as the Beagle Boys , a gang of robbers and escaped prisoners; Magica De Spell , an Italian sorceress; and South African Flintheart Glomgold and English-American John D. Rockerduck , both rival business men of Scrooge. Some characters have appeared alongside Donald primarily in animation, such as chipmunks Chip 'n' Dale ( Chip an' Dale , Toy Tinkers ) and Humphrey
9185-477: Is portrayed with the same feisty temperament and impatience and was even voiced by Donald's voice actor Clarence Nash. At the end of the story she spitefully abandons Donald in the desert after his car breaks down. Some sources consider Don Donald , Daisy's debut. These include The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts, and the Big Cartoon DataBase. In addition to this, Don Donald is included on
9352-584: Is revealed that Cornelius Coot at some point in Duckburg's history managed to pipe mountain water into the town. During the American Civil War , a decisive battle was fought on top of an unnamed hill in Duckburg, led by the Duckburgian General Stonewall Duck. It is not known on which side the city fought, but with General Stonewall Duck being based on the real-life Stonewall Jackson , it can be assumed they fought for
9519-403: Is simply a combination, in various proportions, of two primary colors, red and blue. According to other speakers of English, the same range of colors is called violet. In some textbooks of color theory , and depending on the geographical-cultural origin of the author, a "purple" is defined as any non-spectral color between violet and red (excluding violet and red themselves). In that case,
9686-470: Is tense because of mysterious thefts, she offers pancakes with a smile on her face saying that at least her pancakes cannot be stolen. According to the story, Scrooge and Katie meet each other in the city of Goldopolis after sixty two years. Katie's granddaughter, the cowgirl Ducky Bird , appears in the beginning of this one, meeting Donald, his nephews and Scrooge by chance. Scrooge is desperate when he meets Ducky, since he thinks it will be impossible to find
9853-442: Is the first love interest of Donald Duck. She was later replaced by Daisy Duck. According to some sources, Daisy was introduced in 1937 as Donna Duck, yet there is conflicting evidence as to whether Donna was an early version of Daisy or a separate character entirely. However, the fact that The Walt Disney Company released a collector's pin (See #703 on Pinpics.com) in 1999 which states, "Daisy Duck debuts as Donna Duck 1937," solidifies
10020-505: Is the greatest witch in the world. She is the grandmother of Magica De Spell , and taught Magica sorcery when she was a child. By the 1960s, however, she had retired to a lonely and cobwebby old castle, where she spent most of her time sitting in a rocking chair, knitting. But her mind (and curses) are still sharp as flints, and she casts a usually-disapproving eye at her granddaughter's frequent attempts to get Scrooge McDuck's Dime, though she can also be persuaded to help her descendant once in
10187-444: Is the secretary of Scrooge McDuck. She was originally hired by Scrooge's sisters Hortense McDuck and Matilda McDuck . At first Scrooge did not like the idea of having someone on his payroll but he got used to her very quickly. In fact, some stories have revealed that Scrooge has come to depend on Miss Quackfaster. Even though Scrooge is a shrewd businessman and can easily smell profit, running basic organizational jobs in his own office
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#173278078860510354-503: Is the son of Lulubelle Loon and Eider Duck (a son of Grandma Duck) and is the beatnik cousin of Donald Duck. He was created for the Disney Studio Program by Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard and was first used in the story "The Health Nut", published on August 2, 1964. Fethry has a rather unorthodox way of viewing and reacting to the world around him, as does his backwoods brother, Abner Duck (from WDC&S #267). In 1982,
10521-498: Is there to help her, and he has at times protected her from danger. Whenever another man expresses an interest in her, Scrooge seems not to be above jealousy . In the story "The Next Best Thing" by writer Lars Jensen and artist José Maria Manrique, Scrooge manipulates his rival Flintheart Glomgold into dating her, so he can feel free at last, but then he discovers Flintheart is heartlessly using her and rescues her. Though Scrooge has had chances to end their strange relationship, when she
10688-487: Is to stay in the city lately. On their next appearance in the story, Katie and Ducky think Scrooge and his nephews are in trouble with robbers, after they heard some shooting coming from the old hotel where Scrooge decided to spend the night. Soon Katie and Ducky discover that Donald and the triplets are dealing with ghosts inside the hotel. Katie Mallard also has a cameo appearance in the second-to-last episode of " The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck " by Don Rosa, where she
10855-452: Is truly frustrated with his behavior, he has instead chosen to pass them by and even apologizes to her at times. On another note, Brigitta acts as Scrooge's personal nurse whenever he is sick and has nursed him back to health on many occasions. She is among Scrooge's most trusted allies and she volunteers to help whenever he asks for it. Scrooge's relatives are quite friendly with Brigitta and seem to have accepted her as an unofficial member of
11022-467: Is used by the pigment maker to lower the melting point of the barium in Han Purple. Purple was regarded as a secondary color in ancient China. In classical times, secondary colors were not as highly prized as the five primary colors of the Chinese spectrum, and purple was used to allude to impropriety, in contrast to crimson, which was deemed a primary color and symbolized legitimacy. Nevertheless, by
11189-512: Is used for April in Dutch while May and June are called Juultje and Babetje in the Netherlands respectively. This would be referenced in the series finale of the 2017 DuckTales series "The Last Adventure!", in which the real name of its version of Webby Vanderquack (voiced by Kate Micucci ) is revealed to be April while the series versions of May and June (voiced by Riki Lindhome and Noël Wells respectively) are clones of Webby, who
11356-505: Is variable enough by itself. Brutopia (a portmanteau word from brute and Utopia ) is a fictional country appearing in several Donald Duck stories. It was created by Carl Barks in the story A Cold Bargain from 1957. Brutopia is a hostile country, aiming for world domination. It hence is clearly a caricature of the Soviet Union . In the Duck universe, Brutopia occasionally attempts to steal Scrooge's money so as to devastate
11523-586: Is written in Cyrillic script. On the other hand, Brutopians seem to speak perfect, non-accented English; and other stories show English language texts being used by Brutopians. In 1957, Brutopia's military spending budget amounted to one trillion dollars plus all the kitchen sinks of its happy people (a number that on closer inspection turned out to be five). Scrooge McDuck outbid the Brutopian government by paying one trillion dollars and six kitchen sinks for
11690-465: Is younger. Dickie Duck ( Italian : Paperetta Yè-Yè ) was created by Romano Scarpa . She first appeared in "Arriva Paperetta Yè-Yè" ("The Miner's Granddaughter", published in Topolino #577 (Dec 1966). She was introduced as Goldie O'Gilt 's granddaughter. In the story "Paperetta e la leggenda del luna park" by Romano Scarpa she calls Huey, Dewey, and Louie cuginetti (small/young cousins) (in
11857-676: The Book of Exodus , God instructs Moses to have the Israelites bring him an offering including cloth "of blue, and purple, and scarlet," to be used in the curtains of the Tabernacle and the garments of priests. The term used for purple in the 4th-century Latin Vulgate version of the Bible passage is purpura or Tyrian purple. In the Iliad of Homer , the belt of Ajax is purple, and
12024-486: The CMYK printing process is near the center of the line of purples, but most people associate the term "purple" with a somewhat bluer tone, such as is displayed by the color "electric purple" (a color also directly on the line of purples), shown below. On the CIE xy chromaticity diagram , violet is on the curved edge in the lower left, while purples are on the straight line connecting the extreme colors red and violet; this line
12191-537: The Confederacy . However, the real-life state of California, in which the fictional state of Calisota is located according to Don Rosa, was a Unionist state, making Duckburg a more likely member of the Union . Duckburg remained a quiet, small town until the arrival of wealthy businessman Scrooge McDuck. He had bought the old fort and the hill from fellow prospector Casey Coot , a descendant of Cornelius Coot, during
12358-553: The Klondike Gold Rush in 1899. Scrooge proceeded to construct his famous Money Bin on the location, which would eventually cause McDuck an incredible variety of problems and dilemmas. The first one was caused by the Junior Woodchucks , who were squatting in the site and using the old fort as their headquarters, even though they did not have legal title to it. The dispute led to a small war in 1902, involving
12525-563: The Philosopher's Stone at one point, but it was later confiscated by the International Money Council as it could devastate the economy because of its capability to turn base metals into gold. The Danish and Norwegian names for "the Money Bin" are Pengetanken and Pengebingen , respectively, and these have become a regular word in these languages for a large amount of money or cash. Russell W. Belk mentions
12692-472: The RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purple is created by mixing red and blue light in order to create colors that appear similar to violet light. Purple has long been associated with royalty, originally because Tyrian purple dye—made from the secretions of sea snails—was extremely expensive in antiquity. Purple was the color worn by Roman magistrates; it became the imperial color worn by
12859-709: The Roman Republic , it was worn by generals in their triumphs , and by the Praetor Urbanus when he rode in the chariot of the gods into the circus at the Ludi Apollinares . During the Empire, the toga picta was worn by magistrates giving public gladiatorial games, and by the consuls , as well as by the emperor on special occasions. During the Roman Republic, when a triumph was held,
13026-499: The United States . The most prominent landmark in Duckburg is Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin , a giant building sitting on Killmotor Hill (formerly known as Killmule Hill) in the center of town. The money bin contains both office space, Scrooge's private living quarters and, most famously, three cubic acres of money, the results of Scrooge's lifetime of business and treasure-seeking adventures. Another major landmark in some stories
13193-606: The bey of El Dagga from Egypt , who is mentioned in Yarvard's first appearance; Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring by Carl Barks from 1943. One of the things the bey learned at the university was that mummies do not eat. Duckburg is also the home of the Billionaires Club of some of which Scrooge McDuck, John D. Rockerduck and, according to some stories, Flintheart Glomgold are influential members. Duckburg also has
13360-440: The spectral colors violet and indigo would not be shades of purple. For other speakers of English, these colors are shades of purple. In the traditional color wheel long used by painters, purple is placed between crimson and violet. However, also here there is much variation in color terminology depending on cultural background of the painters and authors, and sometimes the term violet is used and placed in between red and blue on
13527-562: The 1960 Disneyland Records LP, Donald Duck and His Friends , in a plot that involved Donald and the Beagle Boys . With the exception of Scrooge's brief cameo in The Mickey Mouse Club opening theme, this marked the first appearance of a Barks-created character in a medium other than the comics and story books. Later, in 1963, the Beagle Boys played a role in Chipmunk Fun, an LP that also mentioned Scrooge. Most of
13694-526: The 1980s. In the early 1980s she gained an alter ego called Purple Butterfly , as shown in "Nasce Uma Heroína... Borboleta Púrpura". Gloria's alter ego and Fethry's one, Red Bat, were shown working as a superhero duo in some stories, despite their mutual rivalry, and she proved to be a competent ally. Besides, Gloria was shown as a close friend of Daisy Duck in some stories, and in 1993 a Brazilian comic subseries called O Clube da Aventura showed Daisy, Minnie Mouse , Clarabelle Cow , Clara Cluck and Gloria as
13861-478: The 20th century, purple retained its historic connection with royalty; George VI (1896–1952), wore purple in his official portrait, and it was prominent in every feature of the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953, from the invitations to the stage design inside Westminster Abbey . But at the same time, it was becoming associated with social change; with the Women's Suffrage movement for the right to vote for women in
14028-466: The 4th century BC shows a nobleman wearing a deep purple and embroidered toga. In Ancient Rome, the Toga praetexta was an ordinary white toga with a broad purple stripe on its border. It was worn by freeborn Roman boys who had not yet come of age, curule magistrates , certain categories of priests, and a few other categories of citizens. The Toga picta was solid purple, embroidered with gold. During
14195-514: The 6th century AD, purple was ranked above crimson. Several changes to the ranks of colors occurred after that time. Through the early Christian era, the rulers of the Byzantine Empire continued the use of purple as the imperial color, for diplomatic gifts, and even for imperial documents and the pages of the Bible. Gospel manuscripts were written in gold lettering on parchment that was colored Tyrian purple. Empresses gave birth in
14362-591: The American economy, and to fund the creation of doomsday weaponry. Its national coat of arms has been shown either as a dagger or the hammer and shackles. Whether Brutopia is a stand-in for all of the USSR, or just for part of it, varies with the story. Sometimes parallels to Russia are drawn directly. Don Rosa has suggested that Brutopia might instead represent the eastern part of Siberia . The language of Brutopia often looks somewhat Slavic . On some occasions it
14529-556: The Bear ( Rugged Bear , Grin and Bear It ), as well as Mickey Mouse ( The Dognapper , Magician Mickey ), Goofy ( Polar Trappers , Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back Alive ), and Pluto ( Donald and Pluto , Window Cleaners ), who are more often associated with the Mickey Mouse universe . Duckburg / ˈ d ʌ k b ɜːr ɡ / is the fictional city , located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota , that serves as
14696-596: The Brazilian Disney market created a young nephew for Fethry named Dugan Duck who tends to be quite a handful. Like Goofy (Super Goof) and Donald (Superduck), since the early 1970s Fethry has occasionally donned superhero garb and called himself the Red Bat (not related to the villain of the same name whom Mickey Mouse faced in his heroic guise as "Plastic Mickey"). Occasionally Gloria , Fethry's girlfriend (created by Gerson Luiz Borlotti Texeira), would team-up with
14863-505: The Dime while helping the Beagle Boys rob McDuck, stopping when she realized this would mean McDuck would no longer be the world's richest person, rendering the Dime worthless. According to a comic story by Don Rosa , it is an 1875 Seated Liberty dime , but in a comic story written by Pat and Carol McGreal and drawn by Maximino Tortajada Aguilar, the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 Seated Liberty dime . Scrooge earned
15030-471: The Disney-produced DVD "Best Pals: Donald and Daisy." Donna's identification as an early Daisy is aided by the fact that other Disney characters, such as Goofy, were also introduced under different names (Dippy Dawg), appearances, and mannerisms. "Donna" in Italian is also the equivalent of "Don," a title Donald takes in the film's title. However, in 1951 the character of Donna was retconned in
15197-885: The Donald Duck universe centers on the city of Duckburg and is a part of the larger Mickey Mouse universe . In addition to the original comic book stories by Carl Barks , the Duckburg cast was featured in Little Golden Books , television series such as DuckTales (1987–1991), Darkwing Duck (1991–1992), and the DuckTales reboot (2017–2021), and video games such as DuckTales (1989), QuackShot (1991), Goin' Quackers (2000), and DuckTales: Remastered (2013). "Donald Duck universe", sometimes called Duckverse or Scrooge McDuck universe , are unofficial terms used by Disney, but are sometimes used by fans. Disney comics artist/writer Don Rosa has also used
15364-410: The Donald Duck universe. Like Donald, they appear as white American Pekin ducks. This section contains a list of characters with the surname "Duck" who are not related to Donald. Disney illustrator Don Rosa has said that "Duck" is a common name in Duckburg (just as "Smith" or "Jones" are common in the real-life United States) and does not necessarily identify a blood relation of Donald. Donna Duck
15531-515: The English rock band of Deep Purple which formed in 1968. Later, in the 1980s, it was featured in the song and album Purple Rain (1984) by the American musician Prince . The Purple Rain Protest was a protest against apartheid that took place in Cape Town , South Africa on 2 September 1989, in which a police water cannon with purple dye sprayed thousands of demonstrators. This led to
15698-449: The German (Karoline) and French (Caroline) versions. Granny De Spell's precise age is also unknown, but she states in her debut that she was already the queen of sorcery before Madam Mim was even born, making her at least over 1500 years old. Gotrocks is a not very well-known rival of Scrooge McDuck. He was used for the first time in the May 1966 story "The Luck of Pali" by Bob Gregory and Tony Strobl , where he and Scrooge both take
15865-524: The Great and other rulers, by bishops and, in lighter shades, by members of the aristocracy, but rarely by ordinary people, because of its high cost. But in the 19th century, that changed. In 1856, an eighteen-year-old British chemistry student named William Henry Perkin was trying to make a synthetic quinine . His experiments produced instead the first synthetic aniline dye , a purple shade called mauveine , shortened simply to mauve . It took its name from
16032-402: The Klondike". Some examples are her comic appearances in "Arriva Paperetta Yè-Yè" by Romano Scarpa , where she appears as a resident in a nursing home and as a grandmother of Dickie Duck , a girl who has recently completed her secondary education, and in a Danish story called "The Old Lady", where Donald ignores who is Scrooge's former love of Klondike when his uncle asks him to pick Goldie up at
16199-1011: The Long Silky Hair" as a rival of Scrooge too. Brigitta MacBridge , is a supporting character created in Italy by Romano Scarpa , first appearing in "The Last Balaboo" ( Topolino #243, July 1960). While she first appeared in 1960, her relationship with Scrooge McDuck is said to have started in 1930. The relationship did not start well. Scrooge, who at the time had already been isolated from his family, when hearing of her feelings about him reacted quite cynically. He bought her an expensive fur coat and in exchange asked her to never bother him again. This did not work. Brigitta truly loves Scrooge, and for decades she has tried every method to get him to return her love. This includes stalking him, which greatly infuriates Scrooge. To impress him she has established her own business and at times acts as his rival. She has proven to be cunning and skilful and seems to have
16366-521: The Money Bin in Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth , where he remarks that Scrooge's "childish fascination with money", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the Money Bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain. Penelope Fritzer in the article Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron considers it possible for
16533-462: The Money Bin to symbolize the entire Disney empire. The Money Bin in the DuckTales 2017 reboot is given a total redesign. Here it is depicted as a large tower situated on an island in the waters near Duckburg, connected to the city via a bridge, and visible directly from Scrooge's bedroom window. It is perceived as a costly architectural fancy by Scrooge's board of directors, though Scrooge candidly claimed its deranged staff being let go would cause
16700-604: The Purple Chamber, and the emperors born there were known as "born to the purple," to separate them from emperors who won or seized the title through political intrigue or military force. Bishops of the Byzantine church wore white robes with stripes of purple, while government officials wore squares of purple fabric to show their rank. In western Europe, the Emperor Charlemagne was crowned in 800 wearing
16867-526: The Red Bat as another costumed crime-fighter called the Purple Butterfly (Borboleta Púrpura). Even Fethry's nephew, Dugan, has donned a costume and called himself Red Bat Junior . Fethry often appears in Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck tales. In his earliest adventures he supposedly lived in another state (possibly New York or California, and had to visit via airplane or train. However, since 1964 he has resided in an old house definitely in Duckburg. He
17034-473: The Spiderman universe. All of those guys had their own universe, and so the ducks have their own universe." Barks adds, "Whenever I wrote the script and it was drawn by some other artist ... it came out looking so different, it didn't look like it belonged in the duck universe .. .Didn't look as real, or I use the word, 'sincere'. You couldn't tell whether the guy who drew it was really interested in turning out
17201-404: The United States marines and navy , led by then President Theodore Roosevelt . Eventually however, the construction of the Money Bin, and Scrooge's establishment of various businesses in and around Duckburg, caused Duckburg's population to swell, and turned the small town into a bustling city and a global financial centre within a few decades. Calisota / ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ s oʊ t ə /
17368-578: The absence of lead in Egyptian blue and the lack of examples of Egyptian blue in China, argued against the hypothesis. The use of quartz, barium, and lead components in ancient Chinese glass and Han purple and Han blue has been used to suggest a connection between glassmaking and the manufacture of pigments, and to prove the independence of the Chinese invention. Taoist alchemists may have developed Han purple from their knowledge of glassmaking. Lead
17535-414: The ancient sites of Sidon and Tyre. The snails were left to soak, then a tiny gland was removed and the juice extracted and put in a basin, which was placed in the sunlight. There, a remarkable transformation took place. In the sunlight the juice turned white, then yellow-green, then green, then violet, then a red which turned darker and darker. The process had to be stopped at exactly the right time to obtain
17702-485: The ancient world was Tyrian purple , made from a type of sea snail called the murex , found around the Mediterranean. (See history section above). In western Polynesia , residents of the islands made a purple dye similar to Tyrian purple from the sea urchin . In Central America, the inhabitants made a dye from a different sea snail, the purpura , found on the coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua . The Mayans used this color to dye fabric for religious ceremonies, while
17869-567: The building's official name was the McDuck Building , which was only used on facade signs. Eventually however, the name was discontinued in the later stories by Barks and subsequent writers and artists. While the first stories showing the Bin treated it as if it had just been built, later continuity established that Scrooge had built the Money Bin in 1902 after having traveled around the world to make his fortune, mostly through prospecting and
18036-557: The characters have appeared in the 1980s Disney cartoon series DuckTales . Disney's Darkwing Duck series is nominally set in the separate DuckTales universe , in a metropolis called St. Canard, although aside from sharing the denizen Launchpad McQuack , and a few crossover episodes involving Gizmoduck , there is no interaction. Much of the DuckTales and all of the Darkwing Duck material do not appear in Barks' comics, as
18203-460: The city is often depicted as a pig, whose name most of the time goes unmentioned and is referred instead by readers as the Pig Mayor . However, in some stories the office of mayor is held by various dog characters. The size and structure of Duckburg varied in the works by Barks: it was adjusted to better fit the story he wanted to tell; it could vary from a small town to a medium-sized city, to
18370-555: The clergy, and they often wore square/violet or purple/violet caps and robes, or black robes with purple/violet trim. Purple/violet robes were particularly worn by students of divinity. Purple and violet also played an important part in the religious paintings of the Renaissance. Angels and the Virgin Mary were often portrayed wearing purple or violet robes. In the 18th century, purple was still worn on occasion by Catherine
18537-499: The club often holds contests requiring spending excessive amounts of money and displaying a flamboyant millionaire lifestyle. Although Scrooge hates these contents because of the excessive spending, he is always forced to take part, in order to maintain his membership and status in the club. The Number One Dime (sometimes also called Lucky Dime in some games) is the first coin that Scrooge McDuck ever earned (or, according to some stories, produced). The Number One Dime first appeared in
18704-463: The color of the women's liberation movement . In the concentration camps of Nazi Germany , prisoners who were members of non-conformist religious groups, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses , were required to wear a purple triangle . During the 1960s and early 1970s, it was also associated with counterculture , psychedelics , and musicians like Jimi Hendrix with his 1967 song " Purple Haze ", or
18871-408: The color terms violet and purple varies even among native speakers of English, for example between United Kingdom and United States. Optics research on purple and violet contains contributions of authors from different countries and different native languages, it is likely to be inconsistent in the use and meaning of the two colors. According to some speakers/authors of English, purple, unlike violet,
19038-475: The comic story "A Star is Born", Hustler calls an aunt of him, but the name of this aunt is not revealed. Katie "Hashknife Kate" Mallard is an old friend of Scrooge who first appeared in "Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad" by Carl Barks ( Uncle Scrooge #56, March 1965). Katie is portrayed as a kind and brave woman. She uses some humor in the story too. For example, when everybody around her
19205-411: The comics by Barks, they are only visiting Daisy. The triplets act as Donald's nephews' ( Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck ) female counterparts, occasional rivals, occasional friends, and occasional dates. They are members of the organization The Junior Chickadees , who serve as The Junior Woodchucks ' female counterparts. Unusually for children of their age, the girls routinely wear high-heeled shoes. Like
19372-463: The comics by Don Rosa, Duckburg was a fort built on Killmule Hill on June 17, 1579, by British explorer Sir Francis Drake in the area he named Nova Albion , in what would later become the state of Calisota. It was originally known as "Fort Drakeborough". In the year 1818, during the Spanish colonization of California (1697–1821), the fort had been handed over by its departing British occupants to
19539-452: The day Scrooge earned the Dime, are the only other ones who know. McDuck kept it as a reminder not to be fooled again in the future. When he emigrated to the US three years later, he carried it with him. Scrooge still has the dime and keeps it on a pillow under glass because of its sentimental value. Donald Duck , Huey, Dewey, and Louie , and Gladstone Gander among many others think it is really
19706-469: The desired color, which could range from a bright crimson to a dark purple, the color of dried blood. Then either wool, linen or silk would be dyed. The exact hue varied between crimson and violet, but it was always rich, bright and lasting. Tyrian purple became the color of kings, nobles, priests and magistrates all around the Mediterranean. It was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ); in
19873-595: The dime in 1877 in his hometown of Glasgow , when he started working as a shoeshine boy on his tenth birthday. Before that it belonged to Howard Rockerduck (the father of John D. Rockerduck ). The customer who paid it to him, a ditch-digger called Burt, seemingly "cheated" Scrooge. In reality, Scrooge's father, Fergus McDuck , gave Burt the dime specifically for paying Scrooge for his services. Scrooge McDuck never learned that fact, although Fergus did reveal it to Scrooge's sisters Matilda and Hortense. Burt and Magica De Spell, who learned about this when she traveled in time to
20040-442: The dime is no longer in his possession. In fact, in some series, Scrooge is so attached to the dime that he becomes hysterical, to the point of losing his mind, whenever he loses possession of the dime. It is never made clear whether the dime actually brings good luck , or if Scrooge merely believes in it so much that he is distressed and makes bad decisions whenever he no longer has his dime . Since Barks never actually said that it
20207-483: The dye from Byzantium was no longer available. Bishops and archbishops, of a lower status than cardinals, were assigned the color purple, but not the rich Tyrian purple. They wore cloth dyed first with the less expensive indigo blue, then overlaid with red made from kermes dye. While purple was worn less frequently by Medieval and Renaissance kings and princes, it was worn by the professors of many of Europe's new universities. Their robes were modeled after those of
20374-552: The dye from the murex is close to that of the dye from indigo , and indigo was sometimes used to make a counterfeit Tyrian purple, a crime which was severely punished. What seems to have mattered about Tyrian purple was not its color, but its luster, richness, its resistance to weather and light, and its high price. In modern times, Tyrian purple has been recreated, at great expense. When the German chemist Paul Friedander tried to recreate Tyrian purple in 2008, he needed twelve thousand mollusks to create 1.4 ounces of dye, enough to color
20541-477: The early decades of the century, with Feminism in the 1970s, and with the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s. In the early 20th century, purple, green, and white were the colors of the Women's Suffrage movement, which fought to win the right to vote for women, finally succeeding with the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Later, in the 1970s, in a tribute to the Suffragettes, it became
20708-555: The editors of the Dutch Donald Duck weekly magazine decided the three girls should be modernized, and they got permission from the Disney Company to do so. Dutch Duck comic artist Mau Heymans designed a new hairdo and new wardrobe for April, May and June. The three now have distinct appearances and do not have the "girly" occupations that they had when Barks created them. In some Danish Egmont -produced stories,
20875-522: The establishment of various businesses. Scrooge's favorite pastime is to dive off a springboard into his money and swim through it. In most comic books stories, Scrooge lives at the Money Bin in his private quarters on the top floor, with the rooms often filled with large amounts of money. Because of Scrooge's frugality he has at times even made his own furniture and architecture out of his money; like using moneybags as chairs or using stacked paper bills as stairs to reach high places. The Money Bin also has
21042-517: The event of an earthquake , and this earthquake occurred in the story Land Beneath the Ground! (1956) by Carl Barks. The Money Bin is the victim of repeated assaults by Scrooge's enemies who try to steal his money, such as the Beagle Boys , who are after the bulk of Scrooge's money, and Magica DeSpell , who is after Scrooge's " Number One Dime ", the first dime Scrooge ever earned. To protect against these attempted break-ins, Scrooge has installed
21209-413: The fact that Daisy Duck and Donna Duck were, in fact, one and the same. Donna made her sole animated appearance in the short film Don Donald (1937), directed by Ben Sharpsteen. It was the first installment of the Donald Duck film series and was also the first time Donald was shown with a love interest. In the story, Donald travels to Mexico to court a duck who is largely a female version of himself. She
21376-416: The family; she is even present in family meetings. Brigitta has also helped them against the Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell at times. John D. Rockerduck is said to find his rival's relationship amusing and is himself friendly with Brigitta, including John already pretended to be in love with her to make Scrooge jealous. And it really worked for Brigitta, but then Scrooge discovered her pact with John, who
21543-428: The first three stories, including they do not even meet face to face in any panel of the stories "Zio Paperone Pigmalione" and "Zio Paperone e Le Grandi Conquiste". In German and Dutch , she is named Gitta (sometimes Brigitta) Gans (Gans = Goose). In newer Dutch comics her name is changed to Brigitta MacBridge. John D. Rockerduck is a wealthy oil magnate, and one of Scrooge McDuck's main business rivals. Rockerduck
21710-510: The general being honored wore an entirely purple toga bordered in gold, and Roman Senators wore a toga with a purple stripe. However, during the Roman Empire , purple was more and more associated exclusively with the emperors and their officers. Suetonius claims that the early emperor Caligula had the King of Mauretania murdered for the splendour of his purple cloak, and that Nero forbade
21877-483: The greatest security system in the world, which includes Gizmoduck in the DuckTales TV-Series, to thwart any thought of even trying to intrude onto the premises. Barks defined the volume of money contained inside as "three cubic acres", but the exact meaning of a "cubic acre" left to the reader to interpret, since an acre is a measure of area , not length . Taken literally, a cubic acre would be
22044-478: The home of Donald Duck , Scrooge McDuck , Huey, Dewey, and Louie , Daisy Duck and most of their supporting cast. Duckburg was first mentioned in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #49 in 1944, and was created by Carl Barks . The city is populated by various anthropomorphized animals, with dogs, different birds (including ducks , geese and chickens ) and pigs as the most dominant ones. The mayor of
22211-624: The late 900s AD. Purple first appeared in prehistoric art during the Neolithic era. The artists of Pech Merle cave and other Neolithic sites in France used sticks of manganese and hematite powder to draw and paint animals and the outlines of their own hands on the walls of their caves. These works have been dated to between 16,000 and 25,000 BC. Purple textiles, dating back to the early second millennium BCE, were found in Syria , making them
22378-491: The mallow flower, which is the same color. The new color quickly became fashionable, particularly after Queen Victoria wore a silk gown dyed with mauveine to the Royal Exhibition of 1862. Prior to Perkin's discovery, mauve was a color which only the aristocracy and rich could afford to wear. Perkin developed an industrial process, built a factory, and produced the dye by the ton, so almost anyone could wear mauve. It
22545-870: The manner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Donald Duck and his maternal uncle Scrooge McDuck received nearly equal exposure in comics. (The reduced emphasis on Donald in the 1980s version of DuckTales was largely due to a Disney mandate that forbade its nascent television division from using major characters from the Golden Age of Animation, including Donald and Daisy. ) Other primary characters include Donald's three young nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie , and girlfriend Daisy Duck . Several secondary characters have also achieved star status in certain publications, such as Grandma Duck , Donald Duck's grandmother; Gladstone Gander , Donald Duck's incredibly lucky cousin; Gyro Gearloose , an inventor who
22712-616: The most notable being "Old Demon Tooth", usually depicted as a towering pointed peak leaning slightly to the side. The main river of the city is the Tulebug River, first mentioned in The Money Well (1958) by Carl Barks, and it is located near Killmotor Hill. Duckburg is home to Yarvard University (a play on the universities of Harvard and Yale ), an institution more notable for its athletic teams than for its academic achievements. It also has had international students, like
22879-478: The nephews, April, May & June usually wear the colors red , blue and green , but unlike them, a color assignment has never been established. The girls also frequently wear yellow , purple and orange . However, one might consider "blue" to be April's color since that was the color she wore when she appeared solo in "Dell Giant" #35. It is also unknown which nephew is paired with which niece when they double date with their Uncle Donald and Aunt Daisy. In 1998,
23046-602: The new hairdo has been copied by other artists. April, May, and June were not seen in animation until they were given a special cameo appearance in the House of Mouse episode "Ladies' Night". They would later appear as regular cast members in the 2018 animated series Legend of the Three Caballeros (all three voiced by Jessica DiCicco ). Due to the 1987 incarnation of Webby Vanderquack resembling April, May, and June, Dutch translators named Webby " Lizzy ", which
23213-546: The oldest known purple textiles in the world. These findings include textiles from a burial site in Chagar Bazar , dating back to the 18th-16th centuries BCE, as well as preserved textile samples discovered in gypsum at the Royal Palace of Qatna . As early as the 15th century BC, the citizens of Sidon and Tyre , two cities on the coast of Ancient Phoenicia (present day Lebanon), were producing purple dye from
23380-515: The parallel-universe Scrooge fools the Earth A Scrooge into trading places, the Earth A Scrooge works to set things right by retiring his debts and seeking money-making opportunities. He also put Brigitta on a strict budget and says she should do her own cooking, as she was once a restaurateur. After Scrooge solves the money problems of his parallel-universe counterpart, he returns to his own world but realizes he may be missing out on marriage, so he starts
23547-464: The power of the ancient King Midas , so that everything she touches becomes gold and she can be rich beyond her wildest dreams. The fact that this will only work if the coin indeed belongs to the richest person in the world at the time, and is the first coin that person earned, is crucial, and is made into a plot point in some stories. However, the dime only has magical value because of these circumstances and not on its own. Magica once successfully stole
23714-544: The rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire , and later by Roman Catholic bishops . Similarly in Japan , the color is traditionally associated with the emperor and aristocracy. According to contemporary surveys in Europe and the United States, purple is the color most often associated with rarity, royalty, luxury, ambition, magic, mystery, piety and spirituality. When combined with pink , it
23881-476: The short wavelength end of the visible spectrum, between approximately 380 and 450 nanometers, whereas purple is the color of various combinations of red, blue, and violet light, some of which humans perceive as similar to violet. On a chromaticity diagram , the straight line connecting the extreme spectral colors (red and violet) is known as the line of purples (or 'purple boundary'); it represents one limit of human color perception . The color magenta used in
24048-421: The slogan The Purple Shall Govern . The violet or purple necktie became very popular at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, particularly among political and business leaders. It combined the assertiveness and confidence of a red necktie with the sense of peace and cooperation of a blue necktie, and it went well with the blue business suit worn by most national and corporate leaders. The meanings of
24215-475: The state of Calisota is located on the West Coast of the United States , though Carl Barks himself and other writers often leave the city's location more vaguely defined. However, in Don Rosa 's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck , the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: "I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast… but if you get out
24382-503: The story The Round Money Bin , created by Carl Barks and first published in Uncle Scrooge #3 (September, 1953). In this story, the dime is so old that it has become thin as a razor blade and allows Scrooge to cut binding ropes and escape from the Beagle Boys. In later stories, it is insinuated that the dime brings good luck to Scrooge and has helped him become a rich man. In some stories, he instantly starts losing money whenever
24549-750: The story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Frank Lloyd Drake, who is based on the real-life architect Frank Lloyd Wright . The Money Bin also contains various valuable artifacts like the Golden Fleece , the Crown of Genghis Khan , the Crown of the Mayas , the Candy-Striped Ruby and the Goose Egg Nugget. According to Carl Barks' story The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone (Uncle Scrooge #10, 1955) Scrooge also owned
24716-560: The tails of the horses of Trojan warriors are dipped in purple. In the Odyssey , the blankets on the wedding bed of Odysseus are purple. In the poems of Sappho (6th century BC) she celebrates the skill of the dyers of the Greek kingdom of Lydia who made purple footwear, and in the play of Aeschylus (525–456 BC), Queen Clytemnestra welcomes back her husband Agamemnon by decorating the palace with purple carpets. In 950 BC, King Solomon
24883-412: The terms Barks Universe and Italian Duck Universe to describe different versions of history. According to Carl Barks , the comic book creator of Scrooge McDuck , Duckburg , and its original cast of characters and themes (who also developed Donald Duck and created Daisy Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie for the early Donald Duck cartoons) — "Now we're beginning to read about Batman's universe,
25050-608: The third panel of the first page) and then cugini (cousins) (in the fourth panel of the second page), showing she has developed a close relationship with the McDuck/Duck family. Dickie does not have an official family name in Italy, being "Yè-Yè" a reference to Yé-yé , a style of pop music of the early 1960s, which she uses with her original name, "Paperetta", as if to show her love for pop music. She has become popular in Italy , Denmark , Brazil and some other countries, while she
25217-430: The traditional color wheel. In a slightly different variation, on the color wheel , purple is placed between magenta and violet. This shade is sometimes called electric purple (see shades of purple ). In the RGB color model , named for the colors red, green, and blue, used to create all the colors on a computer screen or television, the range of purples is created by mixing red and blue light of different intensities on
25384-403: The train station, since she is coming for a visit. But Donald and his nephews knew Goldie personally in "Back to the Klondike". Curiously, Goldie appears taller than Scrooge in another Danish story, "After The Ball". Goldie appears in the original DuckTales animated series, where her appearance is largely based on her comics origins. She has also been reimagined for the DuckTales reboot as
25551-591: The triplet nieces of Daisy Duck . They were created by Carl Barks and were first used in the story " Flip Decision ", published in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #149 (Feb 1953). According to their debut story, they live in Duckburg with their parents, though they do not appear in the comic. Their mother is a sister of Daisy. When they appear at family gatherings their parents are never present and they usually accompany Daisy. In some stories, mostly Dutch , they live along with their aunt, but in other comics, such as
25718-515: The two TV series were created decades after Barks's active years as a comic artist. Later, a few characters would be the main characters in the show Quack Pack . However, in the magazine Disney Adventures , there was a five-part crossover/storyline titled "Legend of the Chaos God" which began with TaleSpin , and continued with Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers , Goof Troop , and DuckTales , then concluded with Darkwing Duck . Duckburg
25885-519: The use of certain purple dyes. In the late empire the sale of purple cloth became a state monopoly protected by the death penalty. According to the New Testament , Jesus Christ , in the hours leading up to his crucifixion , was dressed in purple (πορφύρα: porphura ) by the Roman garrison to mock his claim to be ' King of the Jews '. The actual color of Tyrian purple seems to have varied from
26052-486: The visiting hunter and fur trader Cornelius Coot , who Americanized the British name of the fort to "Fort Duckburg". "Drake" means a male duck, while "borough" and "burg" are synonyms . Cornelius Coot turned the old fort into a trading post for fellow traders and hunters, and their families. Eventually a small town grew around the fort on top of Killmule Hill. In Carl Barks' story The Day Duckburg Got Dyed (1957), it
26219-452: Was a hippie girl. But her look and behavior were radically revamped in later stories and her hippie side was quite softened. She still looks like a hippie, but she acts more like an eccentric and a bit neurotic urban girl. For example, she appears using a vintage hair dryer, wearing high heels or practicing jogging in some stories. Along with her boyfriend Fethry, Gloria was used in various Brazilian parodies of famous stories, especially during
26386-630: Was because of the coin that Scrooge was the richest duck in the world, Don Rosa, after various informational exchanges with Barks, for a faithful production of The Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck , clarified that the Number One Dime is not actually an amulet, and that this vision was just a myth. The Number One Dime is just a sentimental object that happens to be the first coin Scrooge received for his work. Rosa made clear, also, that Scrooge made his fortune working hard and being honest. This point
26553-509: Was called Mrs. Featherby . In the 2017 DuckTales series she is once again known by the name of Emily Quackfaster and is the somewhat unhinged keeper of Scrooge's private archives. Hustler Duck is an obscure character created by Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard that works as a marketing man. He first appeared in "The Good Earth", first published in Almanacco Topolino #94 (Oct 1964). The American cartoonists who most frequently used this character were Jim Fletcher and Vivie Risto , although Hubbard
26720-440: Was created by Carl Barks , who used him in one story: " Boat Buster ", first published in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #255 (Dec 1961). Magica De Spell is an evil sorceress who is always trying to steal Scrooge's Number One Dime in order to make an amulet that will give her the Midas Touch. The character was created by Carl Barks in the December 1961 story "The Midas Touch". Emily Quackfaster or Florence Quackfaster
26887-446: Was interested in keeping Scrooge busy in a possible marriage with Brigitta. These events were shown in the story "Zio Paperone e l'amore a seconda vista" ("Uncle Scrooge and Love at Second Sight"). In the story Brother From Another Earth! (1995), written by Rudy Salvagnini and drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano , a parallel-universe Scrooge is bankrupt and married to Brigitta, whose shopaholic ways are contributing to his money problems. When
27054-406: Was later picked up and expanded by other creators. One of these was Don Rosa who used her in several stories, including The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and Last Sled to Dawson , where it is implied that Scrooge and Goldie fell in love with each other, but never revealed their feelings of affection to the other one, and eventually drifted apart as Scrooge traveled across the world and became
27221-426: Was reported to have brought artisans from Tyre to provide purple fabrics to decorate the Temple of Jerusalem . Alexander the Great (when giving imperial audiences as the basileus of the Macedonian Empire ), the basileus of the Seleucid Empire , and the kings of Ptolemaic Egypt all wore Tyrian purple. The Roman custom of wearing purple togas may have come from the Etruscans ; an Etruscan tomb painting from
27388-409: Was said to be Emily . However, in Geoffrey Blum's Uncle Scrooge comic World Wide Witch (2001, published in the US in Uncle Scrooge #320), her first name is given as Florence instead (her full name is seen on the door to her office). Later stories by other authors have occasionally used the name Emily again. She was also known as Miss Typefast in some stories and on the 1987 show DuckTales she
27555-423: Was the first of a series of modern industrial dyes which completely transformed both the chemical industry and fashion. Purple was popular with the pre-Raphaelite painters in Britain, including Arthur Hughes , who loved bright colors and romantic scenes. At the turn of the century, purple was a favorite color of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt , who flooded his pictures with sensual purples and violets. In
27722-408: Was the setting for one of the three initial levels of the video game Quackshot and also for the second level of the video game Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers . Duckburg was also used for the setting of Mickey's Birthday land (later Mickey's Starland) at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom from 1988 to 1996. It even included Grandma Duck's Farm and a statue of Cornelius Coot , though it was more of
27889-430: Was the setting of the 1987 animated series DuckTales . The cartoon's version of Duckburg was based loosely on the comics' version. Duckburg appeared in the 1990s animated series Quack Pack . In Quack Pack, Duckburg was populated almost entirely by human beings , with Donald, Daisy, and Donald's nephews as the only anthropomorphized animals that usually appeared. Moreover, the Money Bin is nowhere to be seen. Duckburg
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