Gideon McDuck

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Gideon McDuck is a fictional character and duck who appears in various Walt Disney comics. He was created by Romano Scarpa, and made his first appearance in a story published on February 10, 1956.

Gideon is presented as Scrooge McDuck's younger brother, and mainly appears in Italian comic stories; in those stories, Gideon is the editor of the newspaper "The Cricket", the most credible newspaper in Duckburg. Gideon also has an antagonistic relationship with his brother Scrooge.

Gideon's existence doesn't agree with Carl Barks's view of Scrooge as the last of the Clan McDuck. Though Don Rosa hasn't used him in his family tree or his timelines, some fans have suggested that Gideon could be an illegitimate son of Fergus McDuck, born somewhere between the death of Fergus' wife on 1897 (by Rosa's timelines) and Fergus' own death on 1902. Additionally, by the same timeline, Gideon would have died sometime after 1970, probably having outlived Scrooge, though his exact dates of birth and death are still unknown. Under this theory, it still would leave Scrooge as the last legitimate McDuck.

Gideon is also a younger half-brother of Rumpus McFowl, Matilda McDuck and Hortense McDuck.