Me again... , Story Titles
Olivier
mouse-ducks at wanadoo.fr
Wed Apr 25 14:54:23 CEST 2001
Hi!
>>3. Does Little Helper appear in "The stubborn stork"?
He does.
>>2. What is the text on the outside Gyro's workshop - in American?
Well, there have been many different signs. Here they are (well, most of them
I guess, I may have skipepd a story), to get inspiration from.
WDC&S 152 (May '53, "The Talking Dog"), p 7 panel 2:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor Of Anything" (sign on the fence)
"Laboratory" (sign on the roof)
WDC&S 153 (June '53, "Worm Weary"), p 4 panel 3:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor Of Anything" (sign)
"Laboratory" (sign on the roof)
U$ 14 (June '56, "Inventor of Anything"), p 1 panel 5:
"Shop" (above the door) (in the sense of "workshop")
U$ 16 (Dec '56, "Forecasting Follies), p 2 panel 5:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor"
Chrismas Parade 8 (Dec '56), "Grandma's Present" :
"G. Gearloose
Inventor of Anything" (on his briefcase)
U$ 17 (March '57, "Fishing Mystery"):
"Inventions For All Occasions"
WDC&S 201 (June '57, "The Dye is Cast"), p 2 panel 6:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor" (at the door)
U$ 19 (Sept '57, "Gyro Builds a Better House"):
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor of Anything"
U$ 20 (Dec '57, "Roscoe the Robot"), p 3 panel 2:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor"
U$25 (March '59, "The Wishing Well"):
"G. Gearloose
Inventor of Anything"
(Here comes one I like)
U$ 27 (Sept '59), "The Firefly Tracker" :
"Price
List
-------------------
Big Inventions
$ 5.00
------
Not So Big
$ 4.00
------
Fancy Ones
$7.50"
GG FC 1047 (Nov '59), inside front cover:
lotsa things
http://members.nbci.com/mouse_ducks/pix/fc1047if.jpg
(yep, that's a scan!)
GG F 1047 (Nov '59), "The Lost Rabbit Foot":
"The Customer is always right" (but I guess he removed that sign
after dealing with Gladstone)
(Another funny one)
U$ 28 (Dec '59), "The Inventors' Contest" :
"Inventions
While
U
Wait !
- - -
Big Ones . . . . $5.00
Wee Ones ..... .05 c"
WDC&S 233, "Knights of the Flying Sleds" (Feb '60), p 3 panel 8:
"Inventions while you wait!"
GG FC 1095 (April '60), "Cave of the Winds", p 5 panel 4:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventions
While
U
Wait"
GG FC 1095 (April '60), "Mixed-Up Mixer":
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventions While
U Wait" (on the fence next to his house,
with arrows on either side of "U Wait"
ponting left, at his workshop)
"Invention Shop" (sign on the roof, p 1 panel 7)
GG FC 1095 (April '60), "The Madball Pitcher", p 2 panel 1:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventions While U Wait!"
No address, nor for the place where he was born, but a sign
there (p 5 panel 7) reading
"Birthplace of Gyro Gearloose
Inventor of Topless Hats"
U$ 30 (June '60), "War Paint", p 1 panel 7:
"Inventions
by
Gyro!" (on his cart, which looks like a miniature wagon--
Western movies style-- in this story)
U$ 31 (Sept '60), "Fishy Warden":
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor Of Anything"
U$ 32 (Dec '61), "That Small Feeling", p 1 panel 2:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor" (a diploma on the wall)
GG FC 1184 (May '61), "Monsterville", p 8 panel 2:
"Gyro Gearloose
------
Inventor
Thinker
Genius" (wondering whether it's not something the city
gave him, since they are so happy with what he's done;
it sounds a bit too cocky for humble Gyro)
GG FC 1184 (May '61), "Mighty But Miserable":
"Inventions
Not a Lemon in a Carload" (on his cart)
and p 3 panel 6,
"Inventions
Shoppe
---------
Day-Old
Inventions
1/2 Off"
GG FC 1184 (May '61), "Brain-Strain", p 7 panel 4:
"Inventor" (above the door)
"Gyro Gearloose
*
Inventions
Emporium
*" (on the glass of the door)
WDC&S 249, "Stranger Than Fiction" (June '61), p 2 panel 3:
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor of Anything"
U$ 35 (Sept '61), "Fast Away Castaway":
"G. Gearloose
Inventor" (on the wooden door)
U$ 36 (Dec '61), "Duckburg's Day of Peril":
"Inventions" (on his cart)
(next, a story I love)
U$ 37 (March '62), "The Great Pop Up", p 3 panel 5)
"Gyro Gearloose
Inventor"
U$ 38 (June '62), "Madcap Inventors":
"Invention Shop
Come In And Browse"
U$ 39 (Sept '62), "Finny Fun":
"Gyro's Invention Shoppe"
U$ 40 (Jan '63), "Posthasty Postman", p 2 panel 6:
"Inventions" (above the door)
"Gyro's Invention Shop" (sign next to the door)
U$ 46 (Dec '63), "A Helper's Helping Hand":
"Inventions" (on top of the roof)
U$ 47 (Feb '64), "Man versus Machine", p 1 panel 3:
"Inventions by the Bundle"
(and here are some from a Don Rosa story)
WDC&S 607 (Jan '97), "The once and Future Duck" (1/3):
"Gyro Gearloose Insolvable Problems Solved" (above the door)
"Stand Back! Genius At Work!"
"Special Sale!
Barrel-o'-Inventions
5 bucks" (signs on either side of the door)
Conclusion:
The most common signs are "Gyro Gearloose, Inventor of Anything"
and "Inventions While U Wait". A few bargain offers were posted sometimes.
I think it should be simple: Gyro is proud of his inventions but is a simple
guy who takes pleasure inventing but doesn't make huge profit out of it (lots of
good bargains).
>>1. Do we know the adress to Gyro's workshop?
Haven't seen it.
>>BTW, I will recommend all of you to NOT turn on your computers 26/4... you
>>know, the Tsjernobyl virus...
? Whazzat? Haven't head about it
By the way, re WDC&S 171 ("The Too-Safe Safe", Dec '54),
I think it was the first instance of Gytro hitting himself on the head.
He did it a couple more times but not that often. I guess it may have been
deemed too violent and something children might have tried.
I remember a story (artist unknown) in which Gyro placed a special
kind of thiking-hat on his head: it looked like a nest I think, with birds in
it that chirped when inspiration struck. Anybody remembers it?
Olivier
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