<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Per:<BR><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Maybe an idea thought up at Disney used for some merchandise?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Or maybe an idea originating from the work on DuckTales even though</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">you heard it before DT premiered? (September 11, 1987.)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>My best guess is that Bruce Hamilton established it with Carl Barks - his touchstone for all artistic matters concerning the Ducks, including color - during one of the countless Q&As they exchanged during the early 1980s. Again, it doesn't mean they would necessarily have originated the formula, but simply agreed that it would be the one that Gladstone would use.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV></BODY></HTML>