Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #53!

By: RX

RX — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:08:24 +0000

Here in Brazil, Gyro Gearloose is a passer. His name here is “Professor Pardal” – Professor Passer, translated to English. According to Wikipedia, passer is a genus of the sparrows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passer

By: Stephen White

Stephen White — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:40:49 +0000

I feel old that the Wendy Pini story, commonly known among comic book fans of my generation, is now of urban legend status to the younger generation. I had an issue of Comics Journal from when I was about 10 years old with some photos of Wendy in it wearing the chainmail bikini, so I’ve always know about it. My dad didn’t collect Playboy for me to sneak in his room and steal, so, you know … ahem.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:01:28 +0000

Gyro is called “Professor Sparrow” (pardal) in Brazil.

By: Lord Bounty

Lord Bounty — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:20:02 +0000

ON June 2, 2006 at 12:50 pm Ted Watson wrote:

The Gyro Gearloose item: Wasn’t DC putting out comics with all Superman, all Batman, all Wonder Woman and all Superboy stories respectively in 1956?

To jump in 4 years later…

My father gave me 2/3s of his comic collection at age 6, the remaining (mostly Disney) going to my younger brother. This trove of two long boxes contained a near complete collection of Superboy, Superboy and the Legion of SuperHeroes, and LSH. And in the back of almost every one of those was a short little story about two teenagers who found this magical device with letters on it, and why you pressed H-E-R-O you were transformed into a hero. I always loved it because every hero was a reader submitted creation. Now I know WHY it was there too, it supplied the second story with no links.

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:03:59 +0000

Although Gyro himself could not appear in a comic featuring the other Disney characters, he had a nephew named Newton Gearloose – every bit as much of an inventor as Gyro himself – who appeared in a JUNIOR WOODCHUCKS story; I know this because I once owned a comic in which the story was reprinted. Also in this story were the Beagle Boys’ nephews, the Beagle Brats, who reform and join the Woodchucks.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:47:12 +0000

Gyro rejoined the fold in print decades before Duck Tales premiered on television.

By: Pzilla

Pzilla — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:35:16 +0000

I have to agree with Brian … Year One and Year Two did feel like they were published years apart, not months. Odd …

And Wendy Pini back in the day … good god, comic creators aren’t supposed to be that hot!

By: Gyro

Gyro — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:58:00 +0000

BTW Gyro Gearloose has remained a very popular character in the German Donald Duck comics, where he is named “Daniel DÃ¼sentrieb” (“Daniel Jetpropulsion”) and where his doggerel credo “Dem Ingenieur ist nichts zu schwÃ¶r” (“Noting is too difficult for an engineer”) has become proverbial.

By: Ridder ter Geit

Ridder ter Geit — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:20:51 +0000

I always heard he is a common crane.

By: Patrick J McGraw

Patrick J McGraw — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:17:13 +0000

The actual code word needed to activate the Gizmoduck armor was only “Blatherskite.” The fellow who wound up in the armor habitually exclaimed “Blatherin’ blatherskite!” and so accidentally activated the armor. He continued to use the full phrase because he never found out that he only needed to say “blatherskite.”

And not many people are commenting on how good Wendy Pini looks in that chainmail bikini because nothing needs to be said.

By: Thommy Tsunami

Thommy Tsunami — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:02:21 +0000

I can’t believe there are more responses about what species Gyro Gearloose is than there are about Wendy Pini doing an excellant job of filling out a chainmail bikini…

By: DiRT

DiRT — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:48:04 +0000

Ted –

My copy of Superman 26 (1944) contains back-up strips from Private Pete, Faffs, and Judge Jollopy, as well as a two page story called “The March” by Alton Black. Batman 25 also has 2 Private Pete stories, and the story “A Blow For Freedom” by Stan Carter.

By: JosephW

JosephW — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:44:22 +0000

Just for the record, Gyro IS a chicken. According to the recently-released “Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity” by Thomas Andrae (University Press of Mississippi), Barks is quoted from a 1975 interview: “I only figured on using him once in a very great while, so I just made a big awkward-looking chicken.” (p 99)

By: Mark_Lucas_TBP

Mark_Lucas_TBP — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:06:25 +0000

If Gladstone is a Gander, then Gyro would need a sex change to be a goose. Of course, I’m nitpicking species in a universe where Pluto is a pet dog and Goofy is not.

By: Paul Jones

Paul Jones — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:51:19 +0000

I thought Gyro as a goose too..especially as Scrooge also had another strange relative called “Gladstone Gander”

By: Eye-melt

Eye-melt — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:19:50 +0000

And incidentally, Wendy does make a good Sonja…

By: Eye-melt

Eye-melt — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:18:34 +0000

No way is Gyro a parrot. JosÃ© Carioca (Three Caballeros) is your typical Duckberg inhabitant associate parrot. Gyro looks pretty chicken-like to me…

By: Jukka Laine

Jukka Laine — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:19:06 +0000

Gyro is a parrot, everybody knows that. Even Don Rosa, who named his parrot “Gyro”.

By: yo go re

yo go re — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:28:45 +0000

No, the word really is “blatherskite.” At least in most common usage. In fact, “blatherscite” is next and “blatherscythe,” is the least-common variation, probably because it’s furthest from the original Scots word (bletherskate) and the actual pronunciation. A scythe (sounds like “five”) is what you use to cut grass or wheat, while the “skite” (sounds like “fight”) is not.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-bla1.htm

In any case, as a word adapted to English from a language without Roman characters, there’s of course going to be some difference of opinion on how to spell it. But in terms of popularity, Arcan got it right the first time.

And the cartoon in question, of course, was Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers. Heh.

No, Duck Tales it was, and while it was mainly a syndicated weekday show, it also did get some Saturday morning airplay, too.

Who’s the nerd now, dog?

–yo
oh, the shame, the shame of it all!

By: Ted Watson

Ted Watson — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:54:01 +0000

It has occurred to me that it might well be that once G.G. was established as the “no-characters-in-common” second feature, establishing an alternative one and, more to the point, incorporating Gyro into the lead series wasn’t so easy under the postal regs.