Gyro Gearloose

[Harry Fluks]

Wilmer Rivers writes:

> Gladstone Publishing Company has just started advertising a new series
> of 6 albums featuring Gyro Gearloose.  In the copy for this ad, they
> describe Gyro as an "inventing chicken".  This got me to wondering: in
> what story, or stories, is Gyro ever referred to as a chicken?

I always thought Gyro was a crane [Dutch "kraanvogel"; I got the English
word from a dictionary].
The Dutch publisher once answered that to a letter of a reader.

Harry Fluks