Humperdink Duck in Vacation Parade #2, June 1951

[lgiver@postoffice.pacbell.net]

Alecto:
                The Grandma duck story in the Australian comic is the 
same as one in Dell's
"Vacation Parade #2" in June, 1951.  Gus & Jaq play violin music and Grandma
Duck starts remembering when she acquired her attic keepsakes.  First a 
hat she wore
on a date with Humperdink at the fish peddler's picnic in 1905.  Then 
shoes she
wore to a dance, and on page 5, panel 2, Humperdink's muddy coat.  She 
recalls in
a thought balloon he spread it on a mud puddle for her to walk on.  This 
is to
only picture of Humperdink in this story---quite different from his 
appearence
in Rosa's duck family tree.   The young Humperdink in Grandma's thought 
balloon
had a substantial mustashe at the end of his upper beak
          Don Rosa's time schedule required Humperdink & Grandma to be 
married
much earlier than 1905 (as Sigvald's site shows) so that their son 
Quackmore is about
the same age as Scrooge's sister Hortense (about 8 years younger than 
Scrooge).
                                    Best wishes,            Larry Giver.