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  Fulton Gearloose
  
Name:    Fulton Gearloose
Address:    Duckburg.
Born:    18?? in Duckburg?
Died:    19??
First appearance:    1992 in Guardians of the Lost Library (just by name). First appearence in person was in 1993 in Lo$ part X - The Invader of Fort Duckburg.
Created by:    Don Rosa
Father:    Ratchet Gearloose
Mother:    Unknown
Siblings:    Unknown
Spouse:    Unknown
Children:    Gyro Gearloose (son).
Other close relatives:    Unknown
Occupation:    Repairman in Duckburg.
Member of:    He was one of the pioneer members of The Junior Woodchucks.
Drives:    Like his father and his son he probably had various vehicles which he invented hiself.

The name for Fulton Gearloose in some other languages:

Language:     Name:
Danish: Gerhard Gearløs
Dutch (in the Netherlands):   Fulton Wortel | Harry Wortel | Willem (jr?) Wortel
Finnish: Pietari Peloton
French: General Fulton (His full name will thus be Fulton Trouvetou).
German: Dankwart (jr?) Düsentrieb (The fact that both Ratchet and Fulton are called Dankwart in German translations may indicate a misunderstandig during the translations).
Italian: Fulton Pitagorico
Norwegian: Fulton Smart | Edison Smart
Portuguese:  
Spanish (in Spain): Fulton Tarconi
Swedish: Oppfinnar-Pålle (=Pål "Pålle" Johansson).
   Fulton Gearloose

Biography:

In Gyro's First Invention Don Rosa shows that Fulton Gearloose was a repairman who used to repair anything for people, and that he had a workshop in Duckburg which he ran until he handed it over to his son, Gyro in 1952. In Lo$ part X - The Invader of Fort Duckburg, he appear among the very first Junior Woodchucks. His involvement with The Junior Woodchucks is also shown in the Junior Woodchucks museum in he beginning of Guardians of the Lost Library where he is mentioned as the "inventor of the Junior Woodchucks merit badge".

Fulton Gearloose in 1902
Fulton Gearloose as a member of JW in 1902.


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