Ducks are the most common type of named characters in the Donald Duck universe. Like Donald, they appear as white
American Pekin ducks. This section contains a list of characters with the surname "Duck" who are not related to Donald. Disney illustrator
Don Rosa has said that "Duck" is a common name in Duckburg (just as "Smith" or "Jones" are common in the real-life United States) and does not necessarily identify a
blood relation of Donald.
Donna Duck Donna Duck is the first love interest of Donald Duck. She was later replaced by Daisy Duck. According to some sources, Daisy was introduced in 1937 as Donna Duck, yet there is conflicting evidence as to whether Donna was an early version of Daisy or a separate character entirely. However, the fact that The Walt Disney Company released a collector's pin (See #703 on Pinpics.com) in 1999 which states, "Daisy Duck debuts as Donna Duck 1937," solidifies the fact that Daisy Duck and Donna Duck were, in fact, one and the same. Donna made her sole animated appearance in the short film
Don Donald (1937), directed by Ben Sharpsteen. It was the first installment of the Donald Duck film series and was also the first time Donald was shown with a love interest. In the story, Donald travels to Mexico to court a duck who is largely a female version of himself. She is portrayed with the same feisty temperament and impatience and was even voiced by Donald's voice actor Clarence Nash. At the end of the story she spitefully abandons Donald in the desert after his car breaks down. Some sources consider
Don Donald, Daisy's debut. These include The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts, and the Big Cartoon DataBase. In addition to this,
Don Donald is included on the Disney-produced DVD "Best Pals: Donald and Daisy." Donna's identification as an early Daisy is aided by the fact that other Disney characters, such as Goofy, were also introduced under different names (Dippy Dawg), appearances, and mannerisms. "Donna" in Italian is also the equivalent of "Don," a title Donald takes in the film's title. However, in 1951 the character of Donna was retconned in a newspaper comic strip where she appeared as a separate character from Daisy, and as an unwitting rival for Donald's affections.
Gladstone Gander Gladstone Gander is Donald's lucky cousin who is always flirting with Daisy Duck. Gladstone first appeared in "
Wintertime Wager" in ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' #88 (Jan 1948), written and drawn by Carl Barks.
April, May, and June April,
May, and
June (their surname is unknown) are the triplet nieces of
Daisy Duck. They were created by Carl Barks and were first used in the story "
Flip Decision", published in ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' #149 (Feb 1953). According to their debut story, they live in
Duckburg with their parents, though they do not appear in the comic. Their mother is a sister of Daisy. When they appear at family gatherings their parents are never present and they usually accompany Daisy. In some stories, mostly
Dutch, they live along with their aunt, but in other comics, such as the comics by Barks, they are only visiting Daisy. The triplets act as Donald's nephews' (
Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck) female counterparts, occasional rivals, occasional friends, and occasional dates. They are members of the organization
The Junior Chickadees, who serve as
The Junior Woodchucks' female counterparts. Unusually for children of their age, the girls routinely wear high-heeled shoes. Like the nephews, April, May & June usually wear the colors
red,
blue and
green, but unlike them, a color assignment has never been established. The girls also frequently wear
yellow,
purple and
orange. However, one might consider "blue" to be April's color since that was the color she wore when she appeared solo in "Dell Giant" #35. It is also unknown which nephew is paired with which niece when they double date with their Uncle Donald and Aunt Daisy. In 1998, the editors of the Dutch
Donald Duck weekly magazine decided the three girls should be modernized, and they got permission from the Disney Company to do so. Dutch Duck comic artist
Mau Heymans designed a new hairdo and new wardrobe for April, May and June. The three now have distinct appearances and do not have the "girly" occupations that they had when Barks created them. In some Danish
Egmont-produced stories, the new hairdo has been copied by other artists. April, May, and June were not seen in animation until they were given a special
cameo appearance in the
House of Mouse episode "Ladies' Night". They would later appear as regular cast members in the 2018 animated series
Legend of the Three Caballeros (all three voiced by
Jessica DiCicco). The 1987 television series
DuckTales, the character
Webby Vanderquack resembles April, May, and June in appearance. This would be referenced in the series finale of the
2017 DuckTales series "The Last Adventure!", in which the real name of its version of Webby (voiced by
Kate Micucci) is revealed to be April, while the series versions of May and June (voiced by
Riki Lindhome and
Noël Wells respectively) are clones of Webby, who is in turn a clone of Scrooge McDuck. April, May, and June returned to American comics in ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' #698. The story had them retelling "
Little Red Riding Hood" with the girls as Red and the
Beagle Boys as the wolf.
Flintheart Glomgold Flintheart Glomgold is Scrooge's archenemy and the second richest duck in the world. The character was created by Carl Barks in the 1956 story "
The Second-Richest Duck".
Fethry Duck Fethry Duck is the son of Lulubelle Loon and Eider Duck (a son of Grandma Duck) and is the beatnik cousin of Donald Duck. He was created for the
Disney Studio Program by
Dick Kinney and
Al Hubbard and was first used in the story "The Health Nut", published on August 2, 1964. Fethry has a rather unorthodox way of viewing and reacting to the world around him, as does his backwoods brother,
Abner Duck (from WDC&S #267). In 1982, the Brazilian Disney market created a young nephew for Fethry named Dugan Duck who tends to be quite a handful. Like Goofy (Super Goof) and Donald (Superduck), since the early 1970s Fethry has occasionally donned superhero garb and called himself the Red Bat (not related to the villain of the same name whom Mickey Mouse faced in his heroic guise as "Plastic Mickey"). Occasionally
Gloria, Fethry's girlfriend (created by Gerson Luiz Borlotti Texeira), would team-up with the Red Bat as another costumed crime-fighter called the
Purple Butterfly (Borboleta Púrpura). Even Fethry's nephew, Dugan, has donned a costume and called himself
Red Bat Junior. Fethry often appears in Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck tales. In his earliest adventures he supposedly lived in another state (possibly New York or California, and had to visit via airplane or train. However, since 1964 he has resided in an old house definitely in Duckburg. He is also closely associated with the hillbilly Hard Haid Moe who dislikes Fethry very much (though Fethry does not seem to understand this), and with Donald's pet cat,
Tabby.
Goldie O'Gilt '''Goldie O'Gilt
, a.k.a. Glittering Goldie''', is Scrooge's secret sweetheart. Originally created by Carl Barks as a character in the story
Back to the Klondike (
Uncle Scrooge #2, March 1953), Goldie's origins are as a music hall singer in
Dawson City. In a flashback sequence, Scrooge catches Goldie in an attempt to rob him of his recent gold poke, and she is forced to repay the debt by helping him work at his claim at White Agony Creek. Some 50 years later, they meet again and it is revealed that Goldie is now poor and living alone at Scrooge's former claim in
Yukon. Barks only used the character once, but Goldie and her relationship with Scrooge was later picked up and expanded by other creators. One of these was Don Rosa who used her in several stories, including
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and
Last Sled to Dawson, where it is implied that Scrooge and Goldie fell in love with each other, but never revealed their feelings of affection to the other one, and eventually drifted apart as Scrooge traveled across the world and became a trillionaire, while Goldie remained in Dawson. Carl Barks drew inspiration for Glittering Goldie's character from
Kathleen Rockwell ("Klondike Kate" Rockwell). Goldie is the owner of a wild bear called
Blackjack trained by her to attack "prowlers", word used by Goldie herself in "Back to the Klondike". Goldie is eventually used in Italian or Danish comic stories, but some of those ones show situations that may conflict with others previously showed in "Back to the Klondike". Some examples are her comic appearances in "Arriva Paperetta Yè-Yè" by
Romano Scarpa, where she appears as a resident in a nursing home and as a grandmother of
Dickie Duck, a girl who has recently completed her secondary education, and in a Danish story called "The Old Lady", where Donald ignores who is Scrooge's former love of Klondike when his uncle asks him to pick Goldie up at the train station, since she is coming for a visit. But Donald and his nephews knew Goldie personally in "Back to the Klondike". Curiously, Goldie appears taller than Scrooge in another Danish story, "After The Ball". Goldie appears in the original
DuckTales animated series, where her appearance is largely based on her comics origins. She has also been reimagined for the
DuckTales reboot as a thieving adventurer that Scrooge has fought against and partnered with time and time again since they first met in Dawson. She also develops a brief mentorship with
Louie Duck and reconciles with Scrooge by the end of the series.
Gloria Gloria is the girlfriend of
Fethry Duck, created by Brazilian comic artists in the early 1970s, when Fethry was starting to get very popular in Brazil. In her first story, "Paz, Amor E Glória" (
Zé Carioca #1099, Dec 1972), she was a hippie girl. But her look and behavior were radically revamped in later stories and her hippie side was quite softened. She still looks like a hippie, but she acts more like an eccentric and a bit neurotic urban girl. For example, she appears using a vintage hair dryer, wearing high heels or practicing jogging in some stories. Along with her boyfriend Fethry, Gloria was used in various Brazilian parodies of famous stories, especially during the 1980s. In the early 1980s she gained an alter ego called
Purple Butterfly, as shown in "Nasce Uma Heroína... Borboleta Púrpura". Gloria's alter ego and Fethry's one, Red Bat, were shown working as a superhero duo in some stories, despite their mutual rivalry, and she proved to be a competent ally. Besides, Gloria was shown as a close friend of
Daisy Duck in some stories, and in 1993 a Brazilian comic subseries called
O Clube da Aventura showed Daisy,
Minnie Mouse,
Clarabelle Cow,
Clara Cluck and Gloria as a group of adventurers. Although Gloria may be considered as Fethry's greatest love, she was not his first one, since he was in love with another girl called
Rita Gansa before knowing Gloria, but then Fethry decided to dump Rita for no apparent reason. Gloria and Rita met each other in the story "Quando A Glória I-Rita". Gloria, in turn, first fell in love with Fethry's alter ego, Red Bat, before becoming Fethry's girlfriend indeed, as shown in "Morcego Vermelho Conquista A Glória". Fethry has eventually appeared showing romantic interest in other girls, while Gloria has not had a full appearance in comics for many years. Nevertheless, she can be seen in a painting adorning a wall in Fethry's house in a Danish story called "Surprise, Surprise!" from 2014. Gloria's mother is an Italian descendant called
Pascoalina, who is the owner of a pizzeria in Duckburg, as shown in the Brazilian story "Genro À Bolonhesa". Mamma (Italian word for mommy) Pascoalina is portrayed as a sturdy woman with strong personality who does not approve her dear daughter's boyfriend, Fethry.
Granny De Spell Granny De Spell, whose real name may be
Caraldina De Spell, is the greatest witch in the world. She is the grandmother of
Magica De Spell, and taught Magica sorcery when she was a child. By the 1960s, however, she had retired to a lonely and cobwebby old castle, where she spent most of her time sitting in a rocking chair, knitting. But her mind (and curses) are still sharp as flints, and she casts a usually-disapproving eye at her granddaughter's frequent attempts to get Scrooge McDuck's Dime, though she can also be persuaded to help her descendant once in a while. She and Magica love each other dearly, but Granny tends to get on Magica's nerves in her attempt to fix her up with clumsy magician Rosolio, for whom Magica really could not care less. The character was created by George Davie and Jim Fletcher, and her first appearance was in the May 1966 comic story "A Lesson from Granny". Starting with the 1995 story "Magica De Spell and the Great Rock of Power-Plus", Giorgio Cavazzano introduced a redesigned, more active Granny De Spell, now sporting long blond hair, who has made several subsequent appearances. Granny De Spell's first name has not been used in English publication. However, her Italian name gives it as Caraldina, which considering the fact that the character is, in-universe, Italian, is a perfectly plausible suggestion. Further strengthening it is the fact that she bears similar first names in the German (Karoline) and French (Caroline) versions. Granny De Spell's precise age is also unknown, but she states in her debut that she was already the queen of sorcery before
Madam Mim was even born, making her at least over 1500 years old.
Gotrocks Gotrocks is a not very well-known rival of Scrooge McDuck. He was used for the first time in the May 1966 story "The Luck of Pali" by
Bob Gregory and
Tony Strobl, where he and Scrooge both take a part in a museum contest to know who has the most unusual valuable object. Gotrocks is an unpleasant old man with black and thick eyebrows, whose eyes are quite often narrowed, as suggesting that he owns a foxy personality. He has long and white hair on the right and left sides of his head and is always holding a crutch. Gotrocks was also used by the prolific Brazilian comic writer
Ivan Saidenberg in four comic stories. Another very different character also called Gotrocks appears in "The Goat With the Long Silky Hair" as a rival of Scrooge too.
Brigitta MacBridge Brigitta MacBridge, is a supporting character created in Italy by
Romano Scarpa, first appearing in "The Last Balaboo" (
Topolino #243, July 1960). While she first appeared in 1960, her relationship with Scrooge McDuck is said to have started in 1930. The relationship did not start well. Scrooge, who at the time had already been isolated from his family, when hearing of her feelings about him reacted quite cynically. He bought her an expensive fur coat and in exchange asked her to never bother him again. This did not work. Brigitta truly loves Scrooge, and for decades she has tried every method to get him to return her love. This includes stalking him, which greatly infuriates Scrooge. To impress him she has established her own business and at times acts as his rival. She has proven to be cunning and skilful and seems to have a very strong will. Sometimes she has
Jubal Pomp helping her.
Dickie Duck (Goldie's Granddaughter) occasionally appears as her employee. Right from the beginning, Scarpa and his successors have left enough hints that Scrooge is interested in her, but does not enjoy her obsession with him. Although he pretends to be emotionless — a typical character trait — he is not. When she gets in trouble, he is there to help her, and he has at times protected her from danger. Whenever another man expresses an interest in her, Scrooge seems not to be above
jealousy. In the story "The Next Best Thing" by writer Lars Jensen and artist José Maria Manrique, Scrooge manipulates his rival
Flintheart Glomgold into dating her, so he can feel free at last, but then he discovers Flintheart is heartlessly using her and rescues her. Though Scrooge has had chances to end their strange relationship, when she is truly frustrated with his behavior, he has instead chosen to pass them by and even apologizes to her at times. On another note, Brigitta acts as Scrooge's personal nurse whenever he is sick and has nursed him back to health on many occasions. She is among Scrooge's most trusted allies and she volunteers to help whenever he asks for it. Scrooge's relatives are quite friendly with Brigitta and seem to have accepted her as an unofficial member of the family; she is even present in family meetings. Brigitta has also helped them against the
Beagle Boys and
Magica De Spell at times.
John D. Rockerduck is said to find his rival's relationship amusing and is himself friendly with Brigitta, including John already pretended to be in love with her to make Scrooge jealous. And it really worked for Brigitta, but then Scrooge discovered her pact with John, who was interested in keeping Scrooge busy in a possible marriage with Brigitta. These events were shown in the story "Zio Paperone e l'amore a seconda vista" ("Uncle Scrooge and Love at Second Sight"). In the story
Brother From Another Earth! (1995), written by
Rudy Salvagnini and drawn by
Giorgio Cavazzano, a parallel-universe Scrooge is bankrupt and married to Brigitta, whose shopaholic ways are contributing to his money problems. When the parallel-universe Scrooge fools the Earth A Scrooge into trading places, the Earth A Scrooge works to set things right by retiring his debts and seeking money-making opportunities. He also put Brigitta on a strict budget and says she should do her own cooking, as she was once a restaurateur. After Scrooge solves the money problems of his parallel-universe counterpart, he returns to his own world but realizes he may be missing out on marriage, so he starts a relationship with the Brigitta from his world. Despite the fact that Brigitta MacBridge and Glittering Goldie love the same man, Scrooge McDuck, these two quite different ladies have never been in conflict because of his affection in the rare comic stories where they both appear. But in the story "The Miner's Granddaughter" by
Romano Scarpa, Brigitta feels really sad when she sees Scrooge and Glittering together for a brief moment, but then Glittering comforts her and says that she assumes Brigitta loves Scrooge's stingness more than himself and Brigitta thanks for Glittering's "kind" words and calls her "my friend". There are only other six Italian stories — "Zio Paperone Pigmalione" ("Uncle Scrooge Benefactor") by writer Caterina Mognato and artist Sandro Dossi, "Zio Paperone e Le Grandi Conquiste" ("Uncle Scrooge and The Big Achievement") by writer Gianfranco Cordara and artist Andrea Ferraris, "Paperina di Rivondosa" ("Daisy of Rivondosa") by
Silvia Ziche, "San Valentino a Paperopoli — Doretta vs Brigitta?" ("Valentine's Day in Duckburg — Goldie vs Brigitta?") by writer Giorgio Fontana and artist Marco Mazzarello, "Zio Paperone e il nuovo canto di Natale" ("Uncle Scrooge and the new Christmas Carol") by writer Marco Bosco and artist Silvia Ziche and "Piccole grandi papere" ("Small big ducks") by writer Marco Bosco and artist Silvia Ziche — where they both appear, but they are not shown talking to each other in the first three stories, including they do not even meet face to face in any panel of the stories "Zio Paperone Pigmalione" and "Zio Paperone e Le Grandi Conquiste". In
German and
Dutch, she is named Gitta (sometimes Brigitta) Gans (Gans = Goose). In newer Dutch comics her name is changed to Brigitta MacBridge.
John D. Rockerduck John D. Rockerduck is a wealthy oil magnate, and one of Scrooge McDuck's main business rivals. Rockerduck was created by
Carl Barks, who used him in one story: "
Boat Buster", first published in ''
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' #255 (Dec 1961).
Magica De Spell Magica De Spell is an evil sorceress who is always trying to steal Scrooge's
Number One Dime in order to make an amulet that will give her the Midas Touch. The character was created by Carl Barks in the December 1961 story "The Midas Touch".
Miss Quackfaster Emily Quackfaster or
Florence Quackfaster is the secretary of Scrooge McDuck. She was originally hired by Scrooge's sisters
Hortense McDuck and
Matilda McDuck. At first Scrooge did not like the idea of having someone on his payroll but he got used to her very quickly. In fact, some stories have revealed that Scrooge has come to depend on Miss Quackfaster. Even though Scrooge is a shrewd businessman and can easily smell profit, running basic organizational jobs in his own office is beyond his capability. Miss Quackfaster first appeared in Uncle Scrooge #36 (Dec 1961) in the story
The Midas Touch (the same story that introduced
Magica De Spell), and her last name Quackfaster was first used in Uncle Scrooge #39 (Sept 1962) in
A Spicy Tale. Both stories were created by Carl Barks. Miss Quackfaster is almost always referred to by her surname. In one story by Don Rosa,
The Empire-Builder from Calisota (1994), her first name was said to be
Emily. However, in Geoffrey Blum's
Uncle Scrooge comic
World Wide Witch (2001, published in the US in Uncle Scrooge #320), her first name is given as
Florence instead (her full name is seen on the door to her office). Later stories by other authors have occasionally used the name Emily again. She was also known as
Miss Typefast in some stories and on the 1987 show
DuckTales she was called
Mrs. Featherby. In
the 2017 DuckTales series she is once again known by the name of Emily Quackfaster and is the somewhat unhinged keeper of Scrooge's private archives.
Hustler Duck Hustler Duck is an obscure character created by Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard that works as a marketing man. He first appeared in "The Good Earth", first published in
Almanacco Topolino #94 (Oct 1964). The American cartoonists who most frequently used this character were Jim Fletcher and
Vivie Risto, although Hubbard is credited for co-creating him. Hustler is funnily annoying and he wears big round glasses, like
John Rockerduck. He is always ready to sell his services in different professional areas to Uncle Scrooge McDuck in most of his oldest stories. After almost ten years without being used in comic stories, Hustler appeared in two Brazilian ones firstly published in 1975. His last appearance was in a Brazilian story from 1991. In the comic story "A Star is Born", Hustler calls an aunt of him, but the name of this aunt is not revealed.
Katie Mallard Katie "Hashknife Kate" Mallard is an old friend of Scrooge who first appeared in "Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad" by
Carl Barks (
Uncle Scrooge #56, March 1965). Katie is portrayed as a kind and brave woman. She uses some humor in the story too. For example, when everybody around her is tense because of mysterious thefts, she offers pancakes with a smile on her face saying that at least her pancakes cannot be stolen. According to the story, Scrooge and Katie meet each other in the city of
Goldopolis after sixty two years. Katie's granddaughter, the cowgirl
Ducky Bird, appears in the beginning of this one, meeting Donald, his nephews and Scrooge by chance. Scrooge is desperate when he meets Ducky, since he thinks it will be impossible to find a certificate for one thousand shares in the
Goldopolis and Boom City Railroad that he had intentionally hidden in the now desolate city of
Goldopolis to avoid that they were stolen by the
McViper Clan. He had previously discovered that those shares suddenly became highly valuable. Then he at last discovers that Ducky is the granddaughter of his old friend "Hashnife Kate", who tells him about how dangerous is to stay in the city lately. On their next appearance in the story, Katie and Ducky think Scrooge and his nephews are in trouble with robbers, after they heard some shooting coming from the old hotel where Scrooge decided to spend the night. Soon Katie and Ducky discover that Donald and the triplets are dealing with ghosts inside the hotel. Katie Mallard also has a cameo appearance in the second-to-last episode of "
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" by Don Rosa, where she is younger.
Dickie Duck Dickie Duck () was created by
Romano Scarpa. She first appeared in "Arriva Paperetta Yè-Yè" ("The Miner's Granddaughter", published in
Topolino #577 (Dec 1966). She was introduced as
Goldie O'Gilt's granddaughter. In the story "Paperetta e la leggenda del luna park" by Romano Scarpa she calls
Huey, Dewey, and Louie cuginetti (small/young cousins) (in the third panel of the first page) and then
cugini (cousins) (in the fourth panel of the second page), showing she has developed a close relationship with the McDuck/Duck family. Dickie does not have an official family name in Italy, being "Yè-Yè" a reference to
Yé-yé, a style of pop music of the early 1960s, which she uses with her original name, "Paperetta", as if to show her love for pop music. She has become popular in
Italy,
Denmark,
Brazil and some other countries, while she is almost unknown in the
USA and others. Dickie clearly seems to be older than Huey, Dewey, and Louie. According to Scarpa, she completed her secondary education at a boarding school (Goldie says to Scrooge in the original Italian, "Ehm, come sai, ho una nipotina che è cresciuta in collegio! Ora ne esce...", which can be loosely translated as "Er, you know, I have a granddaughter who has grown in a boarding school! Now she's leaving..."), so she is possibly around 18 years old. In recent comics, she is often depicted as attending a university. Goldie and Dickie's connection as grandmother and granddaughter is loose, but has been referenced in multiple stories since then. The first one was in the Italian story "Arriva Paperetta Yè-Yè" (published in the US as "The Miner's Granddaughter" in IDW's Uncle Scrooge #18), Just like Moby Duck, Dickie is one of the few secondary characters who was cast as a small figurine in two different Italian collections by
De Agostini.
0.0. Duck and Mata Harrier 0.0. Duck and
Mata Harrier are a secret-agent duo. They were created by
Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard for the
Disney Studio Program, a unit that produced Disney comics for foreign publication. Their first story was "The Case of the Purloined Pearls" published in 1966. 0.0. Duck's name is a play on "
007" (a.k.a. "James Bond") while Mata Harrier's one is an obvious play on "
Mata Hari". They appeared for the first time in the story "The Case of the Purloined Pearls", where they fought against agents of the evil organization "BLONK". Then the agents of this organization became the traditional rivals of 0.0. Duck and Mata Harrier in their subsequent stories, most of them created by Brazilian cartoonists. 0.0. Duck owns a small dog ironically called
Wolf. The latest comic appearance of 0.0. Duck, Mata Harrier, Wolf and agents of BLONK was in the 20th adventure of the comic subseries
Tamers of Nonhuman Threats, called "Things that Go Blonk". Even 0.0. & Mata's subchief, created by Brazilian comic artists in 1975, appears in this one.
Belle Duck Belle Duck is a plus-sized, tall and elegant duck lady. She appeared for the first time in "Belle Corners the Coin Collection" with drawings by the cartoonist Al Hubbard, first published in
Topolino #591 (March 1967). In this story, Scrooge meets Belle again 40 years after their last meeting. He tells to his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie before her arrival at his house that she was the most charming girl of her town, being daughter of a tycoon who lived in a mansion. But later Belle reveals that now a riverboat called
The Gilded Lily is everything that she can own, since she spent all her inheritance money. Scrooge cannot hide his surprise at seeing his old crush's look after all those years when they finally meet each other in the story.
Tony Strobl was the American cartoonist who most frequently drew this character, despite Hubbard was the cartoonist who first drew her. Belle is an independent, self-assured, generous and warm-hearted woman, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck adore her. She also has a joyful personality and she loves to give parties on her riverboat by using Scrooge's money. Borrowing money from Scrooge is generally the first thing that Belle thinks of when she intends to repair
The Gilded Lily or to buy a new piece of machinery for it. She often shows a daring behavior towards Scrooge, like in "The Return of Belle Duck" by Strobl, where Scrooge asks her about what they will talk about and she answers, "About your money... and how I'm going to spend it!". In "Go West, Young Duck" by
Dick Kinney and
Tony Strobl, Belle tells the story of a European ancestor of her called
Christina Duck who tried to find America in 1492. After many years without a comic appearance, the last one had been in a Brazilian story from 1982, Belle appeared again in "Riverboat Rovers" by Lars Jensen and José Ramon Bernardo, first published in 2007. Thus far, Belle Duck's latest appearance was in a Danish story written by Lars Jensen and drawn by Andrea Ferraris first published in 2015.
Grand Mogul The
Grand Mogul is an anthropomorphic tall duck with a big chest who appears in stories of the
Junior Woodchucks. He first appeared in "Rescue of the Grand Mogul" by Vic Lockman and Tony Strobl (
Huey Dewie and Louie Junior Woodchucks #2, Aug 1967). In various comic stories, the Grand Mogul was shown with a big belly instead of a big chest. He is often portrayed as a self-confident, demanding and rigid leader, but not rarely he has clumsy attitudes. The name
Grand Mogul is actually rarely mentioned in the Junior Woodchucks comic stories, since their leader's official name traditionally changes from one story to another (e.g.
Great J.A.W.B.O.N.E.,
Great C.O.O.L.H.E.A.D.,
Great I.R.O.N.H.E.A.R.T.,
Great T.O.P. B.R.A.S.S. — these abbreviations are always spelled out in a text box when they are first mentioned, but their expansions are usually quite contrived), but it was stipulated as the generic one when someone wants to refer in English language to the leader of this group of scouting boys created by
Carl Barks. His real name never was revealed. Before the story "Whale of a Good Deed", firstly published in
Huey, Dewey, and Louie/Junior Woodchucks #7, the Junior Woodchucks' leader was generally shown as some Carl Barks's
dognose (a human face with dog snout). But even in later stories with the Junior Woodchucks a character with
dognose look eventually appears as their leader. The comic story "Rescue of the Grand Mogul" possibly was the first one where the name
Grand Mogul was used to refer to the leader of the Junior Woodchucks, but it was written by
Vic Lockman, not by Barks, and its title refers to the rescue of a
dognose leader. Since 1992 the cartoonist
Daan Jippes, a fan and follower of Carl Barks, has used the
Grand Mogul in many old comic stories written by Barks. He has redrawn those ones. A new
Grand Mogul was introduced in Italy in the 1990s, whose nickname is
Mogul Bertie. His real name is said to be Bertie McGoose. He is a goose guy with blonde hair, being quite more easy-going than the original Mogul. And his chest is not as big as the Grand Mogul's one. He has a crush on the leader of the Italian version of the
Chickadees,
Clarissa (original Italian name), a human-like girl. Mogul Bertie became a major character in the Italian comic book series
Giovani Marmotte (Italian name for the Junior Woodchucks). But other characters also became popular among Italian comic readers with this comic book series, especially
Alvin, a scared chicken kid, and
Lardello (original Italian name), a gluttonous pig kid. Alvin is actually a revamped version of an old character from foreign market stories, who has only one story published in America, "The Spirit of Chief Firebird", where he is called Willie.
Roberta Roberta is an anthropomorphic female duck who appeared for the first time in "Uncle Scrooge and the Witches in Action" ("Zio Paperone e le streghe in azione") from
Topolino #812 (June 1971), written by
Rodolfo Cimino and drawn by
Giorgio Cavazzano. She is a witch friend of
Magica De Spell and has been used in various Italian stories, becoming a relatively popular character. In her first comic appearance, Roberta is described as a technological witch, but she does not hesitate to use ancient wizardry knowledge to help Magica to steal Scrooge's
Number One Dime. Despite being a duck, Roberta possesses a very different beak comparing to the usual ones in this particular universe. Her beak is longer and pointier. Roberta originally has big, frizzy blonde hair and blue eyes. After having three comic book appearances during the 1970s, Roberta started being used again during the 1990s in comic stories mostly written by her co-creator Rodolfo Cimino. Her last comic book appearance thus far was in a story from 2008, where she appears with her original look.
Reginella Reginella is an anthropomorphic female duck created in Italian Disney comics by writer
Rodolfo Cimino and artist
Giorgio Cavazzano, first appearing in "The Kingdom Under the Sea" ("Paperino e l'avventura sottomarina"), from
Topolino #873 (Aug 1972). She is a queen who governs an undersea kingdom inhabited by duck-like aliens forced to live in our planet after losing their spaceship in a disaster. She became one of Donald Duck's greatest loves. In her first comic appearance, she knows Donald after he is captured by one of her subjects while he was practicing the underwater fishing to fulfill her own order, since she is irresistibly attracted by his look and intends to make him her king. However, she is advised by her counselor to let him go, after Donald commits an act of cowardice. Donald's romance with Reginella ended up becoming a trilogy, whose first two "chapters" were respectively published in 1972 and 1974. The last one was published only in 1987. After the end of this trilogy, Reginella appeared in two comic stories published during the 1990s. She also had a cameo appearance in a commemorative story to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Italian comic book series
Topolino. She also appears in a long comic story by
Silvia Ziche.
O.K. Quack O.K. Quack is an
alien duck who appears in some Italian
comics created by Carlo Chendi and drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano. His first appearance was in "
Topolino" #1353 (Nov 1981) in the story "Paperino e il turista spaziale" (published in the US as "The Tourist at the End of the Universe" in IDW's Uncle Scrooge #30). He is an alien who came from space, and more precisely from the planet Duck, with his
spaceship shaped as a coin and that can be shrunk to the size of a dime and reads O.K. Quack's fingerprints as a means of activating its size mechanism. He also appeared in some other stories such as "Zio Paperone e il satellite bomba" (published in the US as "Scare of the Sky Satellite!" in IDW's Uncle Scrooge #33) from "Topolino" #1354, "E quando Paperino prende una decisione..." ("And when Donald takes a decision...") from "Topolino" #1373; "Zio Paperone e la moneta disco volante" ("Uncle Scrooge and the flying saucer coin"); "Zio Paperone e la piramide capovolta" ("Uncle Scrooge and the upside-down pyramid"). In all of these stories O.K. Quack is looking for his spaceship that has been lost and is circulating as a dime somewhere in Duckburg. O.K. Quack soon reveals his strange abilities such as being able to communicate mentally with seemingly inanimate objects (usually convincing locks to "unlock themselves", but he particularly likes talking to flowers) and telekinesis (moving things with the power of his mind, even buildings as big as Scrooge's money bin). He does not understand the concept or use of money (in this way he seems to have been inspired by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson's Eega Beewa). Franco Fossati once defined him as "...a perfect character who with his innocence criticizes the absurdity of our society. Going on with time he will adequate to our times and to our every-day way of living and we'll forget that he came from space." Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck and the Nephews know that O.K. Quack is a space alien and are actively trying to help him find his ship. They first met him in the money bin where he entered talking to Scrooge's locks and was looking at Scrooge's coins thinking that they were all spaceships. Thus he does not require any cover story and can freely act in his strange ways (at least in front of them). He sometimes lives in the Money Bin, and sometimes in a rented room in a small hotel in Duckburg where he met Humphrey Gokart, a sorry private detective whose services O.K. has contracted to also help locate his spaceship. As for his initials "O.K." there has been no real explanation and it is assumed that they basically mean the same as the American expression meaning "alright!" Other friendly aliens like O.K. Quack have appeared in Italian stories and have also become friends of members of the
Duck Family, such as
Little Gum, who is able to make different shapes with chewing gums, and
Etci, who came from a planet where everybody likes to invent facts and developed allergy to lies. His name is the Italian onomatopoeia for a sneeze.
Humphrey Gokart Humphrey Gokart (original Italian name: Umperio Bogarto) is a
private detective. He was created by Italian cartoonists
Carlo Chendi and
Giorgio Cavazzano in 1982 to be used as a supporting character in two stories with
O.K. Quack. Ironically, Gokart became more popular than O.K. He is named after the actor
Humphrey Bogart. Gokart's office is straight from a typical 1920s-era American detective novel. He is running severely late on payment of his rent. Gokart wears a
trench coat, a
fedora and gum-soled shoes. As a detective, Gokart is rather clumsy and incompetent. Despite this,
Scrooge McDuck often relies on his services, because he is by far the cheapest detective in
Duckburg. Gokart started his career as a
hotel detective, with the job of looking for clients who left without paying. After moving on to bigger cases, Gokart has started cooperating with
Fethry Duck.
Pandy Pap Pandy Pap is an Italian Disney character who appeared in three comic stories drawn by the cartoonist
Giorgio Cavazzano during the 1990s; her first story was "Zio Paperone e la fabbrica d'aria" (
Topolino #1783, Jan 1990). She is a radical ecologist who became friends with
Huey, Dewey, and Louie and the
Junior Woodchucks. Pandy has straight blonde hair and wears hot pink short overalls.
Howard Rockerduck Howard Rockerduck, invented by Don Rosa, is an American businessman and the father of Scrooge's rival
John D. Rockerduck. He first appeared in "
The Raider of the Copper Hill", published in
Anders And & Co. #1993-02 (Jan 1993). Howard Rockerduck, implied to be much older than Scrooge, was already a millionaire by the time Scrooge was earning his fortune. Unlike his son, who is not above resorting to cheating and even criminal behavior to compete with Scrooge, Howard Rockerduck is an honest and honorable businessman. Howard Rockerduck has made only two major appearances in the comics. His first appearance was when Scrooge was earning his fortune in the
American Old West. Howard, who was traveling with his wife and infant son John on a
stagecoach to
Butte, Montana, spotted Scrooge digging for gold beside the road. Impressed with Scrooge's efforts, Howard stayed to help Scrooge out while his wife and son continued to Butte without him. Howard Rockerduck later appeared in Scrooge's old hometown
Glasgow in Scotland, when
Magica De Spell used
time travel to steal Scrooge's
Number One Dime while he was still a small boy. In this timeline, Howard was only a background character and did not even meet Scrooge. He was traveling on a holiday in Europe, flaunting his riches and trying to flirt with the local ladies, who were not very receptive to this behavior. After an encounter with Magica, who Howard first thought was a normal Scottish lady, but who later even caused Howard's stagecoach to crash in her mad pursuit of Scrooge's famous dime, Howard decided he had had enough of the temper of the Scottish ladies and bought a ticket on a ship back to the United States.
Princess Oona Princess Oona is a character created by
Stefan Printz-Påhlson and his wife
Unn Printz-Påhlson in the story "Princess Oona" (
Anders And & Co. #1995-47, Nov 1995). During a trip to the Stone Age in
Gyro Gearloose's time machine Gyro and
Donald Duck first meet the incredibly strong cave-duck Oona. On the journey back to the future she stows away in the time machine, and has remained in
Duckburg ever since. All of the early Princess Oona stories—and a significant percentage of modern ones—were illustrated by the Chilean artist Victor Arriagades Rios, better known by his artist name
Vicar. After having written the first couple of stories about Princess Oona, Stefan Printz-Påhlson asked the rest of the Egmont crew to do stories with the super cave girl. So far about 25 have been created, teaming Princess Oona with such well-known Disney characters as
Scrooge McDuck,
Daisy Duck,
Gladstone Gander, the
Beagle Boys and
Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Oona claims to be attracted to Donald and she is always trying to get his attention, but in the story "Love and War" by Lars Jensen and
Vicar she falls for Gladstone. The adventures of Princess Oona have appeared in Disney publications in many countries including Norway, Denmark, Sweden,
Estonia,
Finland, Germany, France, Italy, the
Netherlands, Hungary,
Brazil,
Iceland and Russia. She has not appeared in any animation, though she is similar to the
DuckTales character
Bubba the Caveduck.
Evronians The
Evronians are a race of extraterrestrial ducks who appear in
PKNA comics, first created in 1996. They are antagonists of Donald's superhero alter ego the "Duck Avenger" (). Individual Evronian characters are listed in the main article.
Boomer Buff Boomer Buff (original italian name: Bum Bum Ghigno) is a character created by
Corrado Mastantuono in 1997. Boomer Buff is a rotund man who dresses in
overalls and a red chequered shirt. He also has protruding front teeth, similar to
Goofy, and thick black eyebrows. Boomer Buff is a general layabout with no permanent profession. He is frequently seen in various short-timed jobs, but his laziness and clumsiness prevent him from holding them for long. In his first appearance he was an antagonist to Donald Duck and Gyro Gearloose, but has since become their friend.
Velma Vanderduck Velma Vanderduck is a rich Dutch woman who competes with Scrooge. Her first appearance was in "Two-Bit Tycoons", in
Anders And & Co. #1999-38 (Sept 1999). She is a redhead with green eyes. Velma has a personal secretary,
Jackson Jackdaw, an anthropomorphic jackdaw. Thus far, Velma has already appeared in six stories written by Lars Jensen. The last one was published in 2016.
Fantomallard Fantomallard (Italian: Fantomius), occasionally translated as
Phantom Duck, was a notorious masked
gentleman thief during the 1920s. Fantomallard was the alter ego of
Lord John Lamont Quackett, an aristocratic playboy who liked to play jibes at other aristocrats. By donning a special suit and a bright blue mask covering his entire face, Lord Quackett turned into Fantomallard, a gentleman thief who robbed richer aristocrats of money or other valuables he thought they had got by unjust means, and then dealt out his loot to help the poor. Decades later, Donald Duck accidentally discovered Lord Quackett's secret hideout and decided to become
the Duck Avenger (Italian: Paperinik). In the first stories, the Duck Avenger was a vindicator who continued his predecessor's work, but later stories turned him to more of a
superhero character, fighting crime for altruistic instead of egoistic reasons. Some stories take place in Fantomallard's time in the 1920s, featuring the original Fantomallard instead of the modern Duck Avenger. These stories are easily identifiable by using less saturated colours, evoking the feel of classic 1920s-era films.
Dolly Paprika Dolly Paprika was Fantomallard's female partner-in-crime during the 1920s. Dolly Paprika was the alter ego of
Dolly Duck (Italian: Dolly Papera), Lord Quackett's girlfriend. When masked, Dolly Paprika wore a red outfit masking her entire body. She supported her boyfriend on his nearly every adventure and often took advantage of her seemingly harmless appearance to fool her adversaries. ==Other bird characters==