Talk:Ludwig Von Drake
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In the Disney comic book continuity, Ludwig Von Drake was born in Vienna, Austria in about 1870. Some creators have presumed that his family is a Germanic branch of the Duck family but that hasn't been included in any major stories. Ludwig had a fascination with knowledge. Since his youth he had been trying to obtain as many diplomas, in any science, as possible. By 1930, the professor had emigrated to the United States and he married the already retired Matilda McDuck. Matilda had presumably died by 1948 because on that year her brother Scrooge McDuck claimed he was the last McDuck. Ludwig spent the rest of his life as a loner. Among his other interests was psychology and he tried to make a psychological study of his nephew Donald Duck. According to Don Rosa's timelines, Ludwig was dead by 1970. But that does not Disney themself think.
According to a controversial, but intriguing, theory, von Drake was one of the scientists extracted from Germany by U.S. Intelligence in Operation Paperclip at the end of WWII.
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Regarding from who Ludwig von Drake was named, anyone has proof regarding Mises or Beethoven? If none can be procured, perhaps the attribution should be dropped.
[edit] Obscure comic book with Donald Duck as a foil
I've been looking for an obscure comic book where Ludwig von Drake teaches Donald Duck about trigonometry, economics, and business. To do so, he talks about financial terms like interest, the prime lending rate, purchase power, and the velocity of money, rate of return, and gross national product. It's apparently intended for college students. And if you don't master the first few pages, you won't be able to make it to the end of the comic book because it starts getting cluttered up with a bunch of formulas! If my memory serves me correctly, the comic book ends with Donald coming back down to reality and playing a game of pool, and banking the ball off three or four sides before dropping the 8-ball in the side pocket. It was first published well before 1969, when I first laid hands on it, and it begins with a terse dialog between Donald Duck and Ludwig Von Drake. I don't think it was between Donald and Scrooge. Can this particular publication be identified better?
[edit] Ludwig von Drake sometimes substituted by Gyro Gearloose
Hi, found this info in this all-german comic forum: http://www.comicforum.de/comicforum/showthread.php?t=78071 Here the gist: Since the late 1970s, von Drake hasn't appeared anywhere else but in the Disney pocket books, and banned from the weekly/monthly comics at great extent. His last appearance was in "The Secret of the Cod card" (sp?) #27/1976; after that, he was merely given an "encore" in Mickey Mouse #33/1991, which is the only Barks story where Ludwig can be seen in at most 2 pictures. The reason why, they ask? Well, there's a murmur behind the scenes that the "younger" artists are unable to draw him, for he was not drawn by anyone but the long-time artists Strobl, Murry, K. Wright and Fletcher. Important also that the banning of Ludwig off the weekly/monthly issues is NOT a German phenomenon, mind you, but even in the Netherlands, they immediately retouche the Ludwig figure out of the comic and replace him by someone else. Sometimes these stories are drawn completely from scratch (Gyro Gearloose #37/2004) where you will find a remake of the "Ghost Deed no. 27" from Mickey Mouse #7/1964, where Ludwig has been replaced by Gyro. Phew! That's all about it! -andy 80.129.127.151 06:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- I don't think it's the younger artists, as much as the younger readers, that aren't familiar with Ludwig von Drake. I mean, he basically fell out of favour in the 70's, and no-one has been interested in a revival. 惑乱 分からん 11:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
- It sounds a little bit like political correctness. After all, Ludwig von Drake was the only character with a stiff German (Dutch) accent. You will find the same phenomenon accounting for the disappearance of the comic series Katzenjammer Kids, and that's not even a Disney strip.
[edit] Repeated edits to Sing-Along Songs section
An anonymous IP keeps deleting one listed title and adding another with no edit summary. Others are reverting and issuing warnings. (I think we're close to WP:3RR on the IP editor also.) I have no idea whether the IP edit is valid or not. Rather than go back and forth endlessly, someone needs to find a good citation to a reliable source that lists the video titles and mentions characters who appear. Otherwise this back-and-forth is totally pointless. Karen | Talk | contribs 19:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
