Misc

[James Williams]

>Once upon a time there was a thread here about why there are so 
>many uncles and cousins and so few parents in Disney comics.  I
>think the answer is a combination of several things, one of the 
>most important being that no creator had full control of the stories.  
>More distant relatives are easier to create on the fly and then 
>discard later.  

Either Carl Barks or Don Rosa has a actual geneology chart for 
the ducks.  Its suppose to include something like five generations.

Some of the characters, like Donald's sister, are suppose to appear
for the first time ever in Rosa's "The Life of Scrooge".

>The cover date for US 12 was "Dec.-Feb 1956" so if the story took 
>place in 1955 or 1956 Scrooge is born in 1880 or 1881, but that is 
>perhaps a bit early.  Jack L. Chalker gets his year of birth to be 
>in the range 1860-1865, and Don Rosa's drawing of Scrooge's grave 
>shows it as 1867.

All of this assumes that the year a story is published has a 
relationship to the year the story occured.  Most of Don
Rosa's stories (excluding 'The Duck Who Fell To Earth') are
suppose to take place in the 40s or 50s.