<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Chris,<DIV><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Giving credit where credit is due, I believe<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><EM style="font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">DuckTales</SPAN></EM><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>was primarily responsible for the "Huey = red, Dewey = blue, Louie = green" color scheme. It may have existed prior to<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><EM style="font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">DT</SPAN></EM><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>at isolated moments, but<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><EM style="font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">DT</SPAN></EM><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>truly<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><STRONG style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">codified</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>it (through constant visual repetition, if nothing else). The rationale (sorry, I can't identify where it first appeared) was stated as being:</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Huey is the brightest of the three "hues," that is, red.</DIV><DIV>Dewey is the color of "dew" or water, blue.</DIV><DIV>That "leaves" Louie, and leaves are green.</DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>DuckTales may have used this "codified" formula, but it didn't originate it. I first heard it - in very much this form - in mid-summer 1986, when I was first hired by Another Rainbow/Gemstone. That's not to say that Another Rainbow/Gladstone originated it, either, because it seemed to be a well-established formula even then.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">Of course, there are occasional glitches: e.g., the recent Gemstone reprinting of "The Mysterious Stone Ray" in which the identity of the Nephew left behind on the beach with the Beagle Boy changes in "mid-flight."</FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Colorists are only human, though they are often expected to be able to read minds, especially those of editors and artists ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV></BODY></HTML>