"External" Beagle Boys

[Anders Engwall]

Harry Fluks wrote:
 
> My car licence plate is "GG-VL-36". I realise
> now that it means Gladstone Gander, Very Lucky. But what does the 36 mean?

Easy, 36 is the maximum number of Beagle Boys if you allow the first
triplet of their number to be *any* permutation of 1, 7 and 6.

Harry replied to Joel:
 
> In the Dell/Gold Key universe,
> there were three child Beagles, the "Beagle Brats", numbered 1, 2 and 3.
[...] 
> The brats also appeared in a story called "Uncle 001", where a Beagle carries
> the number 001 because he was the first inhabitant of his prison. Again
> drawn by Strobl. USA publication unknown.

Apparently the BB's have several more or less distant relatives that
are not members of the BB's, but are BB's nevertheless (eh, was that
understandable?) -- like this Uncle 001, for instance. I recall other
stories featuring "external" BB's of this kind, most drawn by Strobl.

The ones I can remember offhand are

The gentleman crook
The explosives expert
The intellectual
The stool pigeon

A peculiar one was the cousin or whatever that had exceptionally good
hearing and wound up in a padded cell, where he finally found the silence
he wanted.

There are/were probably lots more, esp. if you include Italian stories.

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