Gyro's grandpa

[Goofy313g@aol.com]

I've a list of four authors who used a grandpa of Gyro:
*Barks, in Uncle Scrooge goes to Disneyland
*Rosa, in Lo$2 and "the Cowboycaptain of the Cutty Sark", in these three 
stories, he looks like Gyro with a longer beak, a big hat, and is called 
Ratchet.
*Ivan Saidenberg, Irineu Soares Rodrigues, and Verci de Mello, in "História 
de Patópolis:
 O século das luzes" (B 810094) and  "Nos tempos do avião a lenha", from 
1983. In these stories, he is Prof Pardalto, with a black beard and a flat 
hat (Eurêka in French)
* Tony Strobl and Steve Steere, in "Flipsy Tootle" (S 65114), in which he 
also has a beard and a flat hat, and is only seen on b&w photographs, and is 
only refered as grandpa Gearloose.

Don Rosa, althought it was probably not intentionnally, made me believe that 
these characters were the same, because in "the captain of the cutty Sark", 
he now wears a flat hat, and it could the same cap he has in Strobl's and de 
Mello's stories, and in the same story, he tells at the end that he's going 
to open a bakery, and it's probably then that he moved to duckburg ( in 
strobl's and de Mello's stories, he is in Duckburg). then, he could have let 
his beard grow up when he arrived in Duckburg... that was Grandpa Gearloose 
aka Ratchet "Eureka" Gearloose's chronology :-)

Gilles






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