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Quote from user: Robb_KMarco Rota wrote and drew a long comic book story on Donald's life for his 50th birthday in 1984, which showed that as an egg, Donald fell out of his tree nest, and was found by Uncle Scrooge and Grandma Duck, and adopted and raised by them (Grandma doing the day-to-day work of raising him, and Scrooge paying for it).

It was produced by Mondadori (Italian Disney). Here is the Dutch printing (Cover and Donald's adoption):

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Awww, that's cute! ^___^ Thanks for sharing this! :)

What I think of what happend to Donald's parents is that they left him with Grandma Duck because he was to wild and angry, similar to how the nephews got in the care of Donald himself. Grandma was a better parent (I think I have red that she had raised 20 children in a comic somewhere, but I'm not sure) than Hortense and Quackmore, so they thought she could make Donald more calm.
Della was still in the care of her real parents because she wasn't so bad tempered as Donald was.

On the family tree it seems like that Cornelius Coot (my favorite Donald Duck character) is some part Dutch, I have red that he is from Holland on the Swedish Donald Duck Comic website. I know that this is off topic but is there some other source that this is "true"?

Quote from user: QuackbergOn the family tree it seems like that Cornelius Coot (my favorite Donald Duck character) is some part Dutch, I have red that he is from Holland on the Swedish Donald Duck Comic website. I know that this is off topic but is there some other source that this is "true"?
Cornelius (Cornelis) is a Dutch name. And Cornelius Coot (Cornelis Prul) wore a hat typical of The Dutch Patroons of the 1600s. So, he may well have been a Dutchman. Barks never stated which country Cornelius Coot was from. The English coot is spelt : "koet" in Dutch ("coet" in the old spelling-and in Flemish), sounding exactly the same. So, Barks may have intended Coot to be a Dutchman. Unfortunately, I never asked him about that. There are Spanish and English placenames in Barks' Calisota, but no French, Dutch or Russian names. But there was a "Mad Duke of Duckburg". The name Duckburg, itself, could possibly be Dutch, as Burg is the name for a town that surrounded a castle "burcht" (as in Voorburg, near Den Haag).

I also think that it's only a coincidence that Grandma Duck turned out to be thought of as Donald's grandmother and his nephews' great grandmother. I am sure that Taliaferro originally intended her to be Donald's mother, and that she was only referred to as "Grandma" because the Nephews were around.

The pilgrim hat Cornelius is wearing, is it typical of British settlers only or did other groups were that too? Dutch?
Timo

Well this is slightly off-topic, but I checked about this hat thing. It's called capotain. "The capotain is especially associated with Puritan costume in England in the years leading up to the English Civil War and during the years of the Commonwealth. It is also commonly called a Pilgrim hat."
Timo

Quote from user: timoroWell this is slightly off-topic, but I checked about this hat thing. It's called capotain. "The capotain is especially associated with Puritan costume in England in the years leading up to the English Civil War and during the years of the Commonwealth. It is also commonly called a Pilgrim hat."

Timo
I thought Cornelius looked a lot like a Pilgrim, but I never knew what that hat was called. Thanks for the tip! :)

Quote from user: WBQuote from user: LadyQuacklyDoes anyone know what became of Donald Duck?s parents?
Roast duck a l'orange at the Peking Palace. They were the 2 for one blue plate special with a side of fried noodles! :D

Seriously - I would love to see that Marco Rota duck story printed in the states at some time. Scrooge's life is nice, but not much is known of Donald's.
Why don't you write to Gemstone, requesting that they print it?