24 Facts About Gladstone Gander

Gladstone Gander is a cartoon character created in 1948 by The Walt Disney Company.

Gladstone Gander is an anthropomorphic gander who possesses exceptional good luck that grants him anything he desires as well as protecting him from any harm.

Gladstone Gander has a wavy hairstyle which is depicted either as white or blonde.

Gladstone Gander was first used by an artist other than Barks in 1951: "Presents For All" by Del Connell and Bob Moore.

Gladstone Gander appears as a main character in the Big Little Book series book "Luck of the Ducks".

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In many of the Italian comic books stories, Gladstone Gander is bestowed with his luck because Fortuna, the goddess of fortune, is in love with him.

In Don Rosa's story "The Sign of the Triple Distelfink", he added the fact that Gladstone Gander was born on the day of his mother Daphne's birthday in 1920, under the protection sign of the Triple Distelfink, thus inheriting his mother's luck.

However, for all his luck, Gladstone Gander has no achievements to be proud of and no true ambitions, as he is incapable of long-term planning.

Comic artist and writer Don Rosa has commented about this on the character: "Gladstone Gander is unwilling to make the slightest effort to gain something that his luck cannot give him, and, when things go wrong, he resigns immediately, certain that around the next corner a wallet, dropped by a passer-by, will be waiting for him".

Gladstone Gander feels open contempt towards work of any kind, claiming it is beneath him, to the point of hesitating to help others even if it is to his own advantage, claiming that it seems alarmingly like work.

Also because of his good fortune, Gladstone Gander is most often characterized to be very snobbish and a gloat; especially toward his cousin Donald to whom he can be very aggravating.

In such stories, often the only way Gladstone Gander can be believably defeated is to have him win by the letter of the original story preset while the heroes later on take the bigger prize.

Gladstone Gander finds the nugget and returns to win, but Scrooge and his nephews then find a much bigger nugget they are able to fashion into a boat to return to civilization afterward with a monetary worth that is easily more than Gladstone Gander's find.

In many stories, Gladstone Gander is considered among the prime candidates for Scrooge McDuck's succession.

Gladstone Gander thinks of using the money to buy a television set until he finds a raffle ticket, in which he decides to save the money by placing it in a tree.

Scrooge is unimpressed that Gladstone Gander did not increase the money at all, but acknowledges that at least he still "had" it.

Gladstone Gander is a rival of Donald for the love of his girlfriend Daisy Duck.

However, despite having an eternal crush on Daisy Duck, Gladstone Gander has appeared in love with other duck girls in Italian and Danish comic stories.

One of those is Linda Paper, who really conquered Gladstone Gander, making him want to give up all his luck, since she is unlucky and absolutely hates lucky people.

Gladstone Gander appears in one noteworthy tale, "Gastone e il debole dalla Fortuna", by Enrico Faccini and Augusto Macchetto, first published on March 24,1998.

In Carl Barks' original version of the family tree from the 1950s, Gladstone Gander was the son of Luke the Goose and Daphne Duck who died by overeating at a free-lunch picnic.

Gladstone Gander was later adopted by Matilda McDuck and Goosetave Gander.

Gladstone Gander has a nephew named Shamrock Gladstone Gander who shares his propensity for luck.

Gladstone Gander makes two speaking appearances in the animated series DuckTales, where he was voiced by Rob Paulsen.