Junior Woodchucks of the World is a fictional scouting organization appearing in Disney comics and the DuckTales animated television franchise, most notably in adventures featuring Disney characters Huey, Dewey, and Louie as members.
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Junior Woodchucks were created by Carl Barks in 1951, in the story "Operation St Bernard".
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In 1966, they got their own title, Huey, Dewey, and Louie and the Junior Woodchucks, published by Gold Key Comics for 62 issues, and then continued by Whitman Comics for another 20 issues until 1983.
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Junior Woodchucks first appeared in Barks' 10-page Donald Duck story "Operation St Bernard".
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Junior Woodchucks stories tended to "civilize" the nephews, who were usually seen as mischievous and immature in the 1940s.
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In 1992, the Barks stories for the Junior Woodchucks title were redrawn by Dutch Disney comics artist Daan Jippes for Donald Duck Weekblad.
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However, it does not contain information that a Junior Woodchucks Woodchuck is already supposed to know, such as the location of Cape of Good Hope nor does it contain information on allegedly non-existent things.
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Information is readily available by searching the extensive index; the key skill of a Junior Woodchucks Woodchuck is retrieving information quickly from the Woodchuck book in the midst of a dangerous situation, such as a grizzly bear attack, an earthquake, falling out of an airplane sans parachute, or being swallowed alive by a crocodile.
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Just as the Junior Woodchucks are based on the Boy Scouts of America, their Guidebook is inspired by the Boy Scout Handbook.
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The first Junior Woodchucks were Grand Marshal Osborne and Exalted Overseer Taliaferro and Fulton Gearloose, the father of Gyro Gearloose.
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Junior Woodchucks is a para-militaristic organization with its leadership being much more similar to that of army officers than to real-life Scoutmasters.
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General Snozzie is the Official Hound of the Junior Woodchucks and was created by Carl Barks in his story Dodging Miss Daisy from 1958.
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Little Booneheads is another Scouting organization alongside the Junior Woodchucks, first mentioned in Ten-Stars Generals by Carl Barks.
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In season three, it is revealed that this iteration of the Junior Woodchucks was founded by renowned adventurer Isabella Finch and her grandson Bradford Buzzard, founder and director of F O W L, was the first Woodchuck.
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