<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="1">I've a list of four authors who used a grandpa of Gyro:<BR>
*Barks, in Uncle Scrooge goes to Disneyland<BR>
*Rosa, in Lo$2 and "the Cowboycaptain of the Cutty Sark", in these three stories, he looks like Gyro with a longer beak, a big hat, and is called Ratchet.<BR>
*Ivan Saidenberg, Irineu Soares Rodrigues, and Verci de Mello, in "História de Patópolis:<BR>
O século das luzes" (B 810094) and "Nos tempos do avião a lenha", from 1983. In these stories, he is Prof Pardalto, with a black beard and a flat hat (Eurêka in French)</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="1"><BR>
*</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="1"> Tony Strobl and Steve Steere, in "<I>Flipsy Tootle</I>" (S 65114), in which he also has a beard and a flat hat, and is only seen on b&w photographs, and is only refered as grandpa Gearloose.<BR>
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Don Rosa, althought it was probably not intentionnally, made me believe that these characters were the same, because in "the captain of the cutty Sark", he now wears a flat hat, and it could the same cap he has in Strobl's and de Mello's stories, and in the same story, he tells at the end that he's going to open a bakery, and it's probably then that he moved to duckburg ( in strobl's and de Mello's stories, he is in Duckburg). then, he could have let his beard grow up when he arrived in Duckburg... that was Grandpa Gearloose aka Ratchet "Eureka" Gearloose's chronology :-)<BR>
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