Gyro Gearloose: The Pied Piper of Duckburg
Story code: H 89174 Publisher: Oberon First Published: April 1990 Pages: 8 Versions: Single-part version only Plot and story: Carl Barks (pages 1-3) | Don Rosa (pages 4-8) Art and ink: Carl Barks (sketches for pages 1-3) | Don Rosa Story-type: Gyro Gearloose gag-story Characters: Scrooge McDuck | Gyro Gearloose | Little Helper | Miss Quackfaster | Ludwig von Drake (seen in one panel only) Locations: Scrooge's overflow bin | Duckburg (various locations) | The Money Bin D.U.C.K.-dedication: Don Rosa didn't include a D.U.C.K.-dedication in this story because he wouldn't manipulate Barks' drawings. Rottefangeren DD&Co 8/1993 Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 5 (December 2004) DD&Co 19/2011 Rottefængeren fra Andeby Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 5 (April 2005) AA&Co 19/2011 Gnagande bekymmer Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 5 (March 2005) Comments: Gyro Gearloose invents a super-strong liquid cheese in order to get invading rats out of Scrooge's overflow Bin. Interesting facts: Carl Barks scripted and penciled the first three pages of this story in the 1950s and then put the unfinished story aside, apparently because he "didn't feel like drawing all those pages of mice and children". So whatever the original ending was, it also involved lots of children doing something. In the late 1980s Bruce Hamilton at Gladstone Comics had those original first three penciled pages from Barks. He thought it would be interesting to have Don Rosa completing the story, and thus gave him copies of those pages to trace and ink.
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