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U$53
Interplanetary Postman
Presumably Donald
constantly changes dwellings in the stories. At
least, his house changes appearance in every
story. Known addresses are: 1313 Webfoot Walk (U$05
'The Atlantis Story') and 13 Quack
Street (WDCS201 'The Super Dye').
As for Scrooge he is known to live in his Money
Bin on top of Killmotor Hill, but before that he
seems to have had headquarters in several office
buildings. We also learn that he once lived at
1313 Quack Street (U$53 Interplanetary
Postman).
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| BEAGLE BOYS |

U$58
The Giant Robot Robbers
All the Beagle Boys wear
visible signs with their prison numbers and this
- in some way - helps to identify at least a few
of them. Although Barks undoubtedly saw his gang
of crooks as one organism without special
features some of them can be distinguished; 176-176
is the dumber one, 176-860 takes the lead, 176-761
is well informed and educated, and 176-167 likes
cooked prunes!
Now for the big question: How many
Boys are there in all? See HERE (bottom
part).
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| AUCTIONS |

U$61 So Far No Safari
The ducks have gone to
several auctions in which different sums have
been mentioned. It all started in FC0256
Luck of the North where an old trunk was
bought for 50 cents, and in U$61 So Far
and No Safari Scrooge and Flintheart
Glomgold tried to outbid each other for a gold
mine. The bids started at one million pounds and
two shillings and were raised by one shilling at
a time!
In U$17 A Cold Bargain
Scrooge managed to buy a ball of Bombastium at
the end price of one trillion dollars and six
kitchen sinks!
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| NEPHEWS |

WDCS261 Medaling Around
As we all know Donald has
three nephews named Huey, Dewey, and Louie, but Barks
happened to draw a fourth nephew 4 times during
his long story career. Besides the panel shown
above it happened in FC1025
Mastering the Matterhorn and in WDCS0276
Beach Boy (twice!!!). In the USA
the extra nephew was soon named Phooey.
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| DONALD'S CAR |

DD45
The Dogcatcher
Donald's red car with the
licence number 313 was the brainchild of artist
Al Taliaferro who drew the newspaper strips for a
great many years. Barks used it numerous times in
his stories, but in one he made several slips
with the number; in U$14 'The Gyro Fence
Story' the car switches licence plate
number from 313 to being blank to 818.
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| MONEY BIN |

FC0386 Only a Poor Old Man
The contents of Scrooge's
Money Bin is a study in numbers. We are
frequently told precisely how much money it
contains (Scrooge knows every single coin!), and
the figures become more and more elaborate as
time goes by. No doubt, that Barks enjoyed
inventing the fanciful and incredible figures. HERE they are...
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| BODY PARTS |

U$06 'The Tralla-La Story'
A rule of thumb in the
funny animal comic books is that the characters
only have 4 fingers on each hand and 4 toes on
each foot, but a few times Barks forgot this
unwritten law on the number of extremities.
Examples: In WDCS130 'The Rare Coin Story',
WDCS146 'The Omelet Story', and
in WDCS159 'The Wispy Willy Story' some
of the secondary characters are five-fingered. At
least in U$06 'The Tralla-La Story' Barks
was consistent; all the inhabitants had
5 fingers!
And in U$52 The Great Wig Mystery
one tribe member has 4 toes on his left foot and
5 toes on his right foot...
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| PERSONALIA |

U$43
For Old Dime's Sake
Personal details such as
the ducks' height and weight are very hard to
come by as Barks rarely approached the subjects.
Still, we have a few references; in WDCS188
'Olympic Tryouts' Donald found himself
surrounded by human sized athletes at a sporting
event. He reaches up to their hips in height, and
in U$43 For Old Dime's Sake Magica
de Spell measured Scrooge to be 3 feet tall.
In MOC04 Maharajah Donald Donald
is just 2 pounds short of reaching 100 pounds
after his feathers had been filled with gold dust.
Presumably, he normally weighs in at around 90
pounds (circa 41 kilograms).
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| PARROT |

FC0282 The Pixilated Parrot
The story about
numbers is undoubtedly FC0282 The
Pixilated Parrot in which a parrot is
seen counting different things during the entire
story. But the parrot's 'excuse' for being part
of the plot is really that it also remembers the
number combination for Scrooge's safe, which, in
the end, saves the day!
This was by no means the only time Scrooge needed
to remember the combination for his safe. In U$09
The Lemming with the Locket it was
scribbled on a piece of paper, and in DBP
'The Impenetrable Money Bin' he had it
tattooed on his chest!
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