52 Facts About Grandma Duck

1.

Besides Donald, the best-known members of the Grandma Duck family are Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Donald's three triplet nephews.

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2.

Grandma Duck created a fictional timeline for when certain characters were born.

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3.

Grandma Duck had personally created several of the latter, Scrooge McDuck and Gladstone Gander being the most notable among them.

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4.

Grandma Duck had given several interviews and answered questions about his personal views on the characters and their stories.

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5.

Grandma Duck's illustrated version of the tree was first published in several fanzines and later in The Carl Barks Library.

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6.

Pintail Grandma Duck was a 16th-century Grandma Duck relative and the first early ancestor to appear in the comics.

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7.

Pintail was friends with the ship's first mate, Malcom "Matey" McGrandma Duck, who was a mutual ancestor of Donald and Scrooge.

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8.

Grandma Duck is the husband of Elvira Coot, known to the family as "Grandma Duck", and the father of Quackmore, Eider, and Daphne Duck.

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9.

Grandma Duck is Donald's paternal grandfather and the maternal great-grandfather of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, through their mother Della.

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10.

Don Rosa speculated that the Grandma Duck family originated from England, but it is unknown if Humperdink is an immigrant.

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11.

Grandma Duck appears unnamed in the 1955 film No Hunting, in which he posthumously inspires Donald to take part in hunting season.

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12.

Elvira "Grandma" Duck is Donald's paternal grandmother and the Duck family matriarch.

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13.

Grandma Duck was introduced to the Disney comic universe by Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp in the Donald Duck newspaper comic strip, first in a picture on the wall in the August 11,1940, Sunday page, and then as a full fledged character in the strip on Monday, September 27,1943.

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14.

Grandma Duck helped to raise her great-grandsons, Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck.

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15.

Grandma Duck made a non-speaking cameo in Mickey's Christmas Carol and can be spotted in the background of the DuckTales episode Horse Scents.

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16.

Quackmore Grandma Duck was born on 1875 and is the father of Donald Grandma Duck, and has been variously depicted with or without a moustache.

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17.

Grandma Duck was born in Duckburg, and from and early age displayed a heavy temper.

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18.

Grandma Duck worked at his parents' farm till 1902 when he met Hortense McDuck and they became engaged.

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19.

Grandma Duck is Donald's mother, Quackmore and Elvira's daughter-in-law, Daphne and Eider's sister-in-law, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie's maternal grandmother.

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20.

Grandma Duck was born in Scotland and is the youngest sister of Scrooge McDuck.

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21.

Grandma Duck married Goostave Gander, and in 1920 became the mother of Gladstone Gander.

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22.

Eider Grandma Duck is Donald's paternal uncle, Hortense's brother-in-law, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie's maternal grand-uncle.

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23.

Grandma Duck was first mentioned in August 1944 in the story "The Fighting Falcon" by Carl Barks.

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24.

Grandma Duck later married Lulubelle Loon and became the father of at least two sons, Abner "Whitewater" Duck and Fethry Duck.

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25.

Sheriff Dan Grandma Duck is an old cousin of Donald who happens to be sheriff of a Western town called Bent Spur Gulch.

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26.

Donald Grandma Duck was born on March 13 1913 and is the son of Quackmore and Hortense Grandma Duck, and the most well-known member of the family.

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27.

Grandma Duck is the nephew of Scrooge McDuck, the older twin brother of Della Duck, and the uncle of her sons Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck.

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28.

Grandma Duck was first described as Donald Duck's cousin, but was later referred to as Donald's twin sister.

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29.

Grandma Duck was first mentioned in a 1937 Donald Duck Sunday strip on October 17,1937 in which she writes a letter explaining to Donald that she is sending her sons to stay with him.

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30.

Grandma Duck is depicted as the caretaker of one of Scrooge's undersea research facilities that Huey and Dewey visit.

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31.

Don Rosa's Grandma Duck Family Tree states that Whitewater's real name is Abner, and "Whitewater" is a nickname.

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32.

Grandma Duck is shown to be a son of Eider Duck and Lulubelle Loon and Fethry Duck's brother, making him Donald's first cousin.

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33.

Grandma Duck is a flopped architect and inventor who was responsible for the construction of the "Jog Tunnel", which annoys the citizens of Duckburg because it really has a jog in it, and for the bad planning of Duckburg's streets.

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34.

Therefore, Dudly became very unpopular and was forced to live isolated in a lonely street, including his name was forgotten until the day that Donald discovers who planned the "Jog Tunnel", and then his girlfriend Daisy Grandma Duck reveals who is Dudly Grandma Duck through the newspaper where she works as reporter.

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35.

Dimwitty Grandma Duck is a duck who was introduced in the comic story "The Vanishing Banister", where he appears as an assistant of Donald Grandma Duck, who in turn appears working as a private detective.

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36.

Daisy Grandma Duck has a brief appearance in the beginning of this one.

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37.

Grandma Duck made his only major animated appearance in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Pacifically Peeking", and had a cameo appearance in the episode "House of Crime" of the House of Mouse TV series.

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38.

Illustrators of American Moby Grandma Duck stories include Strobl, Kay Wright, and Pete Alvarado.

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39.

Moby is a relative of Donald Grandma Duck as seen in "Sea Dog's Holiday" by Vic Lockman and Kay Wright.

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40.

Dugan Grandma Duck is Fethry Grandma Duck's nephew who is a little bit younger than Huey, Dewey and Louie.

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41.

Grandma Duck is named after Bill Clinton, who was running for President of the United States when Don Rosa created the character.

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42.

Grandma Duck founded the New Quackmore Institute near the site of one of their headquarters, building a cabana over the base itself, but his business partner Baroness Von Sheldgoose would seize control over the rest of the land the campus sat on.

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43.

Grandma Duck is introduced as an unsuccessful gold prospector and friend of Scrooge McDuck during his years in Klondike.

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44.

Grandma Duck's share included "Killmule Hill" which, renamed to "Killmotor Hill", comprises the land where Scrooge's money bin stands.

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45.

Grandma Duck later appeared in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8 and Hearts of the Yukon.

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46.

Grandma Duck married to Gretchen Grebe and they had at least two kids named Fanny and Cuthbert Coot, being the maternal grandfather of Fanny's son Gus Goose.

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47.

Grandma Duck was originally supposed to be Gladstone Gander's father, Daphne Duck's husband and Gus's uncle, but Carl Barks later changed his mind, making Goostave Gander Gladstone's biological father and Daphne's husband.

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48.

Grandma Duck debuted on May 9,1938 in Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp's Donald Duck comic strip, before making an animated appearance in the 1939 short Donald's Cousin Gus.

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49.

Grandma Duck has a tendency of falling asleep at random occasions, sometimes even standing up.

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50.

Grandma Duck made non-speaking cameo appearances in both Mickey's Christmas Carol and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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51.

Grandma Duck is an anthropomorphic male goose who possess exceptional good luck that grants him anything he desires as well as protecting from any harm.

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52.

Grandma Duck has only been used a few times since; one example is a Brazilian comic story where he competes with Huey, Dewey and Louie.

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