Getting Thor

Getting Thor is a comic story written and drawn by Carl Barks. It features Gyro Gearloose, the Little Helper and a picture of Thor, and, in their debuts, Old Blackie and the Fiercest, Fightingest Scarecrow That Ever Snorted Fire. The Storm Gods are mentioned.
==Plot==
Gyro Gearloose, having trouble with crows who seem bent on eating his strawberries, works hard on inventing the fiercest scarecrow ever designed. However, Little Helper has a simpler, more whimsical plan: he dresses up as Thor and scares the birds away riding a flying chariot he created.
===References===
* Gyro Gearloose is seen using the bulky Steam Back Scratcher, whose patent was “refused”.
* The Little Helper reads the book The Life of Thor, an illustrated retelling of the Norse god's life. According to it, Thor and his mighty hammer “battled the Storm Gods”.
* Gyro's Lab comes with a garden where Gyro grows strawberries.
* Old Blackie, whom Gyro knows on sight, is hailed as “the smartest crow in seventeen states”.
* The Helper chases Old Blackie and his murder of crows out of Duck County and into Goose Egg County.
* Gyro is put-out by this, as he had just invented “the Fiercest, Fightingest Scarecrow That Ever Snorted Fire” and now has no birds on which to test it.
===Continuity===
* The Little Helper is once more seen reading The Life of Thor in the unofficial comic story An Exquisite Duck! (2020), in a panel which also contains many other references to Gyro stories by Carl Barks.
* Gyro Gearloose would again work on an improved, robotic form of scarecrow in Bird-Bothered Hero (1969).
==Behind the scenes==
First printed in 1957 Uncle Scrooge #21, this story was then reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #209 and, of course, in all versions of the Carl Barks Library.
fr:Halte aux corbeaux !
el:Ιστορία: Τα Κοράκια
it:Archimede Pitagorico e i corvi
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