Trivia / Disney Ducks Comic Universe

• Defictionalization: If one were to visit Naples they could actually find Magica's house (a casemate that during World War II was used as an anti-aircraft battery and was repurposed for tourism).
• Referenced by...: In The Widow of Desire Natalie Stuart shows actress Diana Darbee the white Russian lynx coat her late husband bought her. Natalie then lets Diana try on the coat, and Diana says she feels like Scrooge diving into his money.
• Science Marches On: "Return to Forbidden Valley" attempted to rectify the outdated aspects of the dinosaurs from "Forbidden Valley". But alas, the comic has become as outdated as its predecessor, particularly with Velociraptor lacking feathers and Spinosaurus being an allosaur-like theropod with a sail.
• What Could Have Been: It took twenty years from Scrooge's first appearance in comics (Christmas on Bear Mountain, 1947) to his first proper role in animation (Scrooge and Money, 1967) — and twenty more years until he became a star character in animation (DuckTales, 1987) — but there was actually talk of bringing Scrooge to animation much sooner. In the fifties, when Scrooge's solo comic was beginning to really get popular, The Disney studios contacted Carl Barks to ask him to provide a story for a Scrooge McDuck cartoon, and Barks complied. According to Barks, the story was based around a similar concept to the opening parts of Only A Poor Old Man, with Scrooge trying to convince Donald how happy and carefree the life of a rich man is, while at the same time nearly suffering breakdowns at the thought of thieves or other threats to his money. For some reason, Disney ended up not using this story, and as they couldn't seem to get a grasp on the character of Scrooge at the time, the cartoon was never made.
• Word of God: Don Rosa has never envisioned Donald Duck's voice as sounding anything like any of his animated depictions, and suggested that Carl Barks felt the same. Instead, Rosa believes Donald to sound similarly to actor Charles Grodin. This factoid would later be subtly referenced in DuckTales (2017), which temporarily gave Donald a "normal" sounding voice (by Don Cheadle) via a device made by Gyro called the "Barksian modulator".

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