# Paternity of Huwey,Louey&Dewey? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2002, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669 "2002-08-13T11:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![effac3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@effac3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/effac3d)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/1 "2002-08-13T11:47:15Z")
I used to be a big fan of Don Rosa and his duck comics as a kid.(Life and times of Scrooge McDuck was a great series!) And i remember a family tree he drew to show all the relationships between the characters. Well on the tree he left the father of the young ducks blank with a note saying he would reveal it in the future and that everyone would be surprised by the revelation. Was it ever revealed? For some reason i must resolve this open thread from my childhood šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/2 "2002-08-13T12:08:12Z")
Now, thatā€™s obscure. Do you remember who their mother was? That might help remind people. ---
**Author:** ![effac3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@effac3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/effac3d)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/3 "2002-08-13T12:16:34Z")
Yes i think it was Della Duck,the sister of Donald. What jogged my memory was reading this thread : [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=129495&pagenumber=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=129495&pagenumber=2) Iā€™m hoping Octavia will read this thread,as he seems to know his stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/4 "2002-08-13T12:32:18Z")
The family tree was printed in Walt Disneyā€™s Comics and Stories #600. I donā€™t know if heā€™s written that story yet. Are they even publishing Disney comics in the States anymore? I know that Gladstone stopped publishing a few years ago (right at the time my subscription was about to lapse) and they said that a company called Gemstone was negotiating with Disney for the rights. Apparently the nogociations were tough, and I never heard that they managed to hammer out a deal. Itā€™s possible itā€™s been published in Europe, but, unfortunately, Iā€™m not too up on European comics. I know that Rosa works (or did work) for Egmont, in Holland, though. All his stories are published in Europe before being published anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/5 "2002-08-13T12:33:12Z")
Don Rosa! Damnit. Iā€™m not going to get anything done tonight, 'cos I know Iā€™m not going to rest until I can find where I stashed all of my Disney comics from the 80s and 90s. Della Duck appeared in the flesh (feathers?) in his Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck. Her husband was never named, but was hinted that he was a brother of Daisy Duck. But thatā€™s like asking the square root of a million ā€“ no one will ever know. ---
**Author:** ![effac3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@effac3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/effac3d)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/6 "2002-08-13T12:53:00Z")
1,000 is good enough for me šŸ˜ƒ Well after a little digging on google i have found that the consensus is that it is Daisyā€™s brother,even if it is never explicitly said. Loopus: I have no idea if they are still being printed in the US,last time i ever saw them was around 93 i think and i just assumed that disney or whoever had shut down the comics division. You mean Don Rosa is still producing comics,but theyā€™re not coming to the US? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/7 "2002-08-13T16:19:56Z")
Huey, Dewey, and Louie always referred to Donald as ā€œUnca Donald.ā€ So he ainā€™t their father. From a timeline I saw on the Net, Rosa seems not to be working regularly, but he does do special stories with the Duckburg citizens for Europe every so often. And of course, the Duckmeister, Carl Barks, is dead. So we may never know. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/8 "2002-08-13T16:30:33Z")
Hereā€™s a page you might be interested in, **effac3d** : [The D.U.C.K. Man](http://duckman.pettho.com/). It contains a lot of info on Rosa, and even has some of his stories scanned, including a new chapter of _The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck_ from 2001. Since it was never printed in English, the scanned version is (badly) translated from the French version. Rosa is still working for Egmont, as far as I know, so Europe has first dibs on his work. Since I donā€™t think they are publishing Disney comics in the US anymore, he is, indeed, producing new work we never get to see. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/9 "2002-08-13T16:49:34Z")
ā€¦and where does it leave us with Daisyā€™s nieces, April, May and June that Huey, Dewey and Louey are always forced to dance with at social functions? ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/10 "2002-08-13T17:35:49Z")
Hereā€™s a somewhat poor quality [scan of the Duck family tree](http://duckman.pettho.com/tree/american.html) ā€“ if you know the name youā€™re looking for, you can make it out. This is the one from Walt Disneyā€™s Comics & Stories #600. April, May & Juneā€™s mother: > [@](#): > > A sister of Daisy Duck. Once, when he was asked if the mother of April, May and June is Donna Duck who appeared in a few stories before Daisy appeared, Don Rosa said that is a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/11 "2002-08-13T18:21:26Z")
Hereā€™s the webpage of [Gladstone Comics](http://www.brucehamilton.com/gladstone/), the last publisher of Disney Comics in the US. Their latest ā€œnewsā€ on the matter of ever publishing them again is from [Fall 2001](http://www.brucehamilton.com/brucehamco.html), and is this: > [@](#): > > As Bruce Hamilton announced at the Carl Barks tribute panel at this yearā€™s Comic Com International, things are going forward on a new license to publish Disney comics in the USA. Steve Geppi, owner of Gemstone Publishing and CEO of Diamond Comics Distributors, is considering a draft license from Disney, which while not necessarily final, is a large step towards it. ---
**Author:** ![Osbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Osbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osbie)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paternity-of-huwey-louey-dewey/123669/12 "2002-08-23T05:45:54Z")
I donā€™t recall reading anything in the stories that revealed who H, D, & Lā€™s father is, and as you can see from the otherā€™s posts, it would seem that is going to be one of the mysteries of the ages (at least as far as how Carl Barks would have arranged things). Iā€™m intrigued by Barksā€™ comment that weā€™d be surprised by who their father is. _racking brain to think of the possibilities_ I am certainly not a Duck expert (but thanks for thinking it). All I know is what I learned reading the comics over and over again with my dad and my brother. Iā€™m pretty sure I didnā€™t come close to reading all of them either. Oā€™ happy thought - the tales that await me! Iā€™m sorry to hear that theyā€™ve stopped producing the comics in the US. Not so very long ago, my brother bought several reissued versions of some of the most classic Barksā€™ stories with cardstock covers and vibrant color pages. IIRC, they may have even featured an ad for Sea Monkeys or possibly a way to earn cash, prizes, and a feeling of accomplishment selling _Grit_ magazine. Oh, and **effac3d** , as this is a board designed to fight ignorance, my sense of duty requires me to inform you that I am a girly-type humanoid. (Absolutely no offense taken, however.)