Gladstone Gander

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

WOUTER, 4 AUGUST 2000:

> Gladstone Gander. But when was his first appereance? As far as I know,
> it was the story about him and Donald making bets about swimming in 
> the winter and drinking loads of lemonade in 1948, but I can have 
> missed a story earlier.

Yes, it's that story. (WDC 88)

> What I noticed was that Gladstone was reasonable taller than Donald,
> which makes sence, since he's a goose. But there are a lot of storys in
> which they have the same seize. Has Carl Barks himself made storys 
> in which their size is different or just other animators?

I don't know what you mean. Please explain.

> And how about his luck? In the first storys Gladstone hasn't got an 
> unusual amount of luck, he's just quite lazy. When did this luck 
> thing get along?

Maybe in the hole-in-one golf story of WDC 96?


Best wishes,

--- Daniel