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Cupid Courier No. 1020

***Cupid Courier No. 1020*** is a text story presented in the form of a newspaper, written by Lupan Evezan and with illustrations by Aristide Twain. It features Journalist-649 (in his debut appearance), Foreman-964, Philatel-426, Lord Thymon, the Szaclowk, and, in their debuts, Investigation-464 and Nostradamus-066.

## Description

Issue #1020 of the *Cupid Courier*, most popular (and only) newspaper in the Cupid Homeworld. Contents include:

* An article describing a new warehouse to be built by the Department of Construction, which quickly devolves into a description of a fight between Foreman-964 and Philatel-426.
* An advertisement for a rather worryingly-named seminar to be hosted by Lord Thymon on the grounds of the Department of Motivational Speaking.
* An article noting that a significant breakthrough regarding the Szaclowk has been made, which is said to be continued on the non-existent second page of the paper, thus falling victim to the usual halving of all things related to the Szaclowk.
* An article revealing the contents of Nostradamus-066's latest backwards-vision.

### References

* The *Cupid Courier* is the number one (and only) newspaper in the Cupid Homeworld, and is published by the Department of Journalism, for which Journalist-649 works. Issue #1020 is the first to have been made available in a digitized format.
* Lord Thymon was scheduled to give a seminar on the grounds of the Department of Motivational Speaking, on the Thursday following the issue's publication, to be entitled “*How to Earn a Steady Living by Crushing Universes Beneath Your Proverbial Feet and Casting their Residents Into the Void of Swirling Oblivion*”.
* Nostradamus-066 is a prophet who has visions only of events which have already occurred.
* Optimist-411 works for the Department of Motivational Speaking
* Investigation-464 works for the Cupid Intelligence Institute, and is the head researcher for the ongoing investigation of the Szaclowk.
* The Cupid Intelligence Institute contains a Department of Journalism and a Department of Motivational Speaking.

### Continuity

* Foreman-964's and the rest of the Department of Construction's affinity for building useless warehouses was first established in *Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery* (2019).
* Philatel-426 mentions that Foreman once tried to level his stamp wing to build a warehouse, referencing the events of *Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery* (2019).
* The Szaclowk make a return appearance, having first appeared in *The Szaclowk and the Half-World (Part One of Two).*

## Behind the scenes

This story, the first in the *Cupid Courier* series, was released on the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website.
Department of Conspiracy Theories

## The Department of Conspiracy Theories

 The **Department of Conspiracy Theories** is one of the Departments of the Cupid Intelligence Institute, itself a subdivision of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.

## Description

The Department of Conspiracy Theories is a seemingly largely pointless department of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, devoted to cooking up conspiracy theories about whatever goes on in the Cupid Homeworld. For example, they put forward the theory that the Parliament had arranged for the farcical situation of all 1618 Sisters of Juliet trying to date Romeo-1020 at the same time in the hope that a first-hand demonstration of heartache would make other Cupids take more heartily to their job.

## Behind the scenes

The Department of Conspiracy Theories was only ever mentioned in 2019's *Incident Report C179B – “Of Romeos and Juliets”*.

Later installments in *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* introduced a recurring character whose “joke” was comparable to the Department's, Conspiracy-1263. It is possible that Conspiracy is or was once a member, or even the Prefect, of the earlier-introduced Department, although this has never been confirmed in a story.
Clerkie

**Clerkie**, also mistakenly known as **Clerkly**, is presumably an anthropomorphic hybrid of dognose and cockatoo.

## Description

Clerkie is one of the clerks who work at Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin. Visibly tired and worried by his boss's constant eccentricities, Clerkie is nonetheless a very resourceful man, and has, more than once, gotten him out of tight fixes.

### Physical Appearance

Clerkie appears to be a hybrid of some kind: he has dognose-like body (including dog ears), but also a crooked beak. Depending on the coloring, he can either have humanlike/dognoselike skin, or have white feathers like Gyro Gearloose. Although it is almost certain that one of the two species mixed is the dognose, whether the 'bird' aspects come from a cockatoo, a rooster, a parrot or some other species remains unknown.

## Behind the scenes

Created in 1963 by Vic Lockman and Carl Barks in *The Invisible Intruder*, Clerkie was also used by Don Rosa in two stories, *Nobody's Business* and *Last Sled to Dawson*. Don Rosa never used him again afterwards, due to disliking hybrid characters like him. Interestingly, in *Nobody's Business*, Don Rosa has Scrooge McDuck refer to Clerkie as "Clerkly", the name of another recurring clerk of Scrooge's. Whether this was a real mistake, or a conscious misnaming meant to convey Scrooge's stressed state at that point, is unknown.
Darkenblot (series)

***Darkenblot*** is a series of criminal / action / sci-fi stories written by Casty and drawn by Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, pitting Mickey Mouse against The Phantom Blot.

### Content

Darkenblot 1

Darkenblot 2.0

Darkenblot 2.1

The Return of Darkenblot 2

Darkenblot 3

(to be written)

### History

Although Casty is credited as the sole author of the cycle, the idea originated with Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, who had already proposed it to the editors of Topolino before Casty's arrival and re-popularizing of The Phantom Blot. Having worked on the futuristic series PKNA, he felt that Mickey could also appear in such a context against a technologically advanced Blot. At the time, nothing was made of it, and it took until 2012 when finally the first story was released. The series was planned as three long stories, plus one shorter interlude and a humorous spoof, and Casty has adamantly stated that there will be no additional sequel, i.e. the series ends with Darkenblot 3 despite the ambiguous ending of said story.
Danny Pudi

**Daniel Mark "Danny" Pudi** is an American actor who is best known for his role as Abed Nadir on the NBC/Yahoo! comedy series *Community* and Brainy Smurf in Sony Pictures Animation's film *Smurfs: The Lost Village*.

Other Disney projects include, appearing as a camera technician in *Captain America: The Winter Soldier and* providing the voice of Levander Hart in the *Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja*.

He voices Huey Duck in *DuckTales 2017*.
Conspiracy-1263

**Conspiracy-1263** is a Mark 13 Clockwork Cherub.

## Description

A member of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, Conspiracy-1263 is a metaphorically tinfoil-hatted, and very literally thick-skulled, Conspiracy is, as his name suggests, a fervent conspiracy-theorist. Bizarrely skeptical about some elements of the Crew's day-to-day life, yet boundlessly creative when it comes to constructing alternative explanations for them, he has notably alleged that Lord Thymon is a highly advanced animatronic figure, that all the clouds in the Cupid Homeworld are actually large helium balloons, and that “the Cupid Parliament may in fact be a bunch of literal sock puppets controlled by an enormous caterpillar”.

## Behind the scenes

Conspiracy-1263 first appeared in 2019's *The Cupid Suggestion Box*.
Corrupted Timeline

## Corrupted Timelines

A new version of Ludwig von Drake blinks into existence as the Prime Universe is mutated into the Goofified Timeline.

## Background Information

### Type

Aberrant Timeline

**Corrupted Timelines** (***list***) are a type of temporal anomalies.

## Description

Corrupted Timelines occur when an individual carelessly travels in time, altering the past by their sheer presence. Unlike "normal" alterations to the timeline, the changes in a corrupted timeline are chaotic and unpredictable, and may not causally follow the time-traveler's actions all that directly. By their nature, corrupted timelines are unstable and illogical, and it is relatively easy to unmake them by canceling out the change that sparked them in the first place.

## Behind the scenes

Corrupted Timelines appear in various time-travel stories, such as *Outta Time* (2019).
Cyrus Squandergilt

**Cyrus Squandergilt** is a male dognose.

## Description

The 6th-richest man in the world in 1968, Cyrus Squandergilt is a friendly-looking, overweight man who spent his free time as a billionaire tending his roses. However, mad scientist Doctor Zantaf used a hypnotic gas he had devised to force Squandergilt to give Zantaf all his money, reducing the poor fellow to poverty — a turn of events which terrified Scrooge McDuck. It is possible that Squandergilt's fortune was restituted to him after Zantaf's eventual (albeit temporary) defeat.

## Behind the scenes

Squandergilt appears in the 1968 story *Tycoonraker!*. His English name was chosen by Joe Torcivia, a transparent pun on the name of iconic 19th-century businessman Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Darkwing Doubloon (story)

***Darkwing Doubloon*** is a cartoon written by Bruce Reid Schaefer and directed by Tad Stones and Alan Zaslove. It features, in their debuts, Seaman Drake/Darkwing Doubloon, and the following ancestors who share the names of their descendants: Fenton Crackshell, his alias Gizmoduck, Launchpad McQuack, Gosalyn Mallard, Stegmutt, Negaduck, Megavolt, Quackerjack, Liquidator, Bushroot, Herb Muddlefoot, Tank Muddlefoot, and Binkie Muddlefoot.

## Plot

A long time ago, Darkwing Duck's ancestor, the infamous Darkwing Doubloon, along with the ancestors of Gosalyn Mallard, Launchpad McQuack, and the Justice Ducks, fight supervillainous pirates on the high seas!

## Behind the Scenes

*Darkwing Doubloon* is the 40th episode of *Darkwing Duck*.
Cybernetiquette

***Cybernetiquette***, or ***Cybernetiquette Comix***, was a semi-interactive animated comic once available for viewing on the British and Australian Disney websites.

## Description

Cybernettiquette is a series designed to teach young children about proper conduct and safety on the internet. The three episodes share a similar structure, but not cast.

### Episodes

* *Who's Afraid of Little Sweet Sheep?*
* *The Bad Apple*
* *Web Mania*

## Behind the scenes

For unknown reasons, *Cybernetiquette* (alongside the similar *Surfswell Island*) was deleted from Disney's website at some point since the 2000's, replaced with a blander, character-less list of Internet safety tips. Episodes 1 and 2 could, up until recently, still be accessed on the Australian website, but obviously through an oversight, as no link pointed to them anywhere on the site, and Episode 3 was deleted - episodes 1 and 2 have since been deleted from the website as well. No episodes remain on the British website either. Fortunately, however, all three episodes are still available for viewing online, having been uploaded to YouTube.
Cupid Tax Department

## The Cupid Tax Department

 The **Cupid Tax Department** is an organization composed of Clockwork Cherubs, internal to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.

## Description

Presumably attached to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's Cupid Parliament, the Cupid Tax Department handles the collection of taxes from other members of the Crew. As elsewhere, these tax collectors are not too well-liked by the rest of the population.

## Behind the scenes

The Cupid Tax Department was mentioned in the 2019 short story *Cupid Fact File No. 177 — The Green Gorillas*.
Cupid Fact Files

The ***Cupid Fact Files*** are a series of short stories published from 2019 onwards.

## Description

The concept and justification of the *Cupid Fact Files* was that, for better ease of access, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids was painstakingly digitizing the numerous Fact Files in its archives, which concern various things, locations and beings encountered by the Cupids during their crusade to spread love throughout the multiverse. The short stories ranged from *faux*-encyclopedic, worldbuilding-heavy affairs to “History records” that amounted to narratives of their own.

### List of Fact Files

* *Cupid Fact File No. 94 — The Euclidean Plane*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 177 — The Green Gorillas*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 184 — The Mob of the Maroon Magpie*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 180 — The Society of the Rhyming Dove*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 444 — The Faction of the Fooling Fish*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 315 — The Szaclowk & the Halfworld*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 124 — The Interdimensional Tavern*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 057 — The Wellsians*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 643 — The Drove of the Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 828 – On the Origins of Hooligans*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 192 – The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 1023 — The Trio of the Talking Turkeys*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 624 — The Salamandyrs and the Automata*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 1225 — Father Christmas*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 2020 — The Decade Stone*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 158 — The Phantom of Flatwoods*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 1522 — The Grammar-Killers*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 765 — Madame Tarsa*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 232 — Chronon Fleas*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 2033 — The Ennead of Eigengrau Easter Eggs*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 2114 — The Constellation of Preposterous*
* *Cupid Fact File No. 782 — The Indescribable Object*

## Behind the scenes

The *Cupid Fact Files* are among the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids-related media released on the website, *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids*.

The *Fact Files* can be found here.
Cupid Judge

## The Cupid Judge

 The **Cupid Judge** is an Clockwork Cherub.

## Description

A Cupid Judge was in the employ of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Department of Discipline in 2019. He sentenced Juliet-178 to romanticizing a ludicrously high number of creatures in punishment for having built a copy of herself to shirk work, only for the copy, being an accurate copy, to do the exact same thing, and so on and so forth.

## Behind the scenes

This Cupid Judge is mentioned in *The Labors of Juliet* (2019).
Dale

**Dale** is an anthropomorphic chipmunk and the brother of Chip.

## Description

Dale is a somewhat rascally chipmunk, the brother of Chip , and member of the detective agency known as the Rescue Rangers. Though dedicated to his job as a Rescue Ranger, he is a fun-loving, mischievous prankster who is sometimes irresponsible and forgets to think before he acts. He spends his free time reading comic books and playing video games. He is also a known candy addict. He frequently finds himself being knocked on the head by Chip when he says or does something foolish.

## Gallery

***Scrooge McDuck Wiki*** has a collection of images and media related to ***Dale***.
## Behind the scenes

An early version of Dale, as well as an early version of his brother, Chip, first appeared in 1943's *Private Pluto*. In *Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers*, Dale's shirt seems to be reminiscent of Thomas Magnum in *Magnum P.I*.

## Notes and References

1. ↑ *Disneystrology*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Dull Kinda Danger*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 | *Dutch Duck comics to include LGBT couples for first time* on *The Feathery Society*
4. ↑ *Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers*
Darkwing Rabbit

Darkwing Rabbit wields the Toon Sword against Paddywhack

**Darkwing Rabbit** is a Toon resembling an anthropomorphic duck/rabbit hybrid and an unknown universe's counterpart to both Darkwing Duck and Roger Rabbit.

## Description

Wielding a Toon sword, Darkwing Rabbit is a costumed crimefighter hailing from an unknown alternate universe.

In 2010, he was kidnapped by the dimension-traveling duo of Negaduck and Magica De Spell, who hypnotized him and forced him to cause chaos in the Prime Universe's version of St. Canard as part of a plot to discredit that universe's Darkwing Duck which involved setting loose hypnotized versions of Darkwing from across the Multiverse. Darkwing Rabbit took part in the mass chaos caused by the Darkwings of the Multiverse, before he (and the other Darkwings) were released from the hypnosis spell by Quiverwing Duck. Darkwing Rabbit then took part in the battle against Paddywhack, who had recently possessed Negaduck and was rampaging through the city.

After Paddywhack was defeated, Darkwing Rabbit, like the rest of the Darkwings, was sent back to his home universe, where he presumably continued with his normal life.

The specifics of the universe which Darkwing Rabbit originates from are unknown. He is, of course, a cross between Darkwing Duck and Roger Rabbit, but whether everyone in his universe is a hybrid with Roger Rabbit, or a hybrid with another Toon, or if the only difference in his universe is the fact that Roger and Darkwing are the same person, or something else entirely, is entirely unknown.

## Behind the scenes

Darkwing Rabbit first appeared in *Crisis on Infinite Darkwings* in 2011, and later made cameo appearances in other stories, mostly in flashbacks to the aforementioned story.
Clerk Quigley

**Clerk Quigley** is a male anthropomorphic duck.

## Description

Clerk Quigley was, by late 1980, one of the clerks who worked at Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin, and well-known to Donald Duck as such. Quigley, being greatly fond of opera, kept opera records in the office, to which he often listened with rapture during his 10-minute-long lunch breaks.

## Behind the scenes

Clerk Quigley appears in the 1980 story *Rallying Around*.
Department of Phenomena

## The Department of Phenomena

The **Department of Phenomena** is one of the Departments of the Cupid Intelligence Institute, itself a subdivision of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.

## Description

The Department of Phenomena was one of the several departments of the C.I.I. which studied the mysterious Szaclowk and their Halfworld. They documented the fact that the entire Halfworld was "halved", not just its inhabitants, thereby deducing that the Szaclowk's myth about their ancestors having intentionally cast off half of their physical forms was in fact just a myth.

## Behind the scenes

The Department of Phenomena is mentioned in *Cupid Fact File No. 315 — The Szaclowk & the Halfworld* in 2019.
Dale (2017 Continuum)

## Dale

**Dale** is a male anthropomorphic chipmunk and the 2017 Continuum's counterpart to the original Dale.

## Description

At some future point, Dale and his crew will encounter the Duck families in the course of their adventures.

## Behind the scenes

The *DuckTales 2017* version of Dale's design and upcoming appearance were teased in 2019 at a convention. His design and costume appear based most directly on the version of Dale seen in *Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers*.
Cuzco

A truck from the city of Cuzco

**Cuzco** is a city located in Peru, South America.

## Description

Scrooge McDuck rented a truck from Cuzco.

## Behind the scenes

Cuzco is a real city in Peru and remains one of its largest cities to this day. In the past, Cuzco was one of the most major locations in the history of the Inca Empire. It was mentioned in *The Son of the Sun*.
Darkwing Duck (series) (2017 Continuum)

## *Darkwing Duck*(2017 Continuum)

A “Darkwing Duck” poster.

***Darkwing Duck*** is an in-universe live-action TV series from the 2017 Continuum, resembling the real-life *Darkwing Duck* animated series.

## Description

The *Darkwing Duck* series (which retains only a few dedicated fans in the present day) was a low-budget live-action TV series in the 1980's and 1990's of the 2017 Continuum. It saw Darkwing Duck, a catchphrase-spouting night-dwelling superhero (played by egotistical actor Jim Starling, famous for doing all of his own stunts), fighting various supervillains. The series was cancelled before it could deliver a proper finale which would have cleared up the frustratingly confusing cliffhanger of the last broadcast episode, where Darkwing Duck realized his latest and greatest enemy was none other than an exact copy of himself.

In 2019, two attempts were made to revive the *Darkwing Duck* brand; the first was an amateurish fanfilm written by long-time fan Launchpad McQuack and starring Bentina Beakley as a gender-flipped Darkwing; the other was a gritty live-action reboot entitled *Darkwing: First Darkness*, directed by Alistair Boorswan. Boorswan's film could not be completed following a series of accidents caused by Jim Starling, driven mad with jealousy at having been replaced for the title part by the president of his fanclub, Drake Mallard. These events led to Drake Mallard becoming a real-life version of Darkwing Duck, with the maddened Starling adopting the identity of Negaduck as his archnemesis.

## Behind the scenes

The in-universe *Darkwing Duck* TV series (somewhere between the real-life *Darkwing Duck* TV show and the famous Adam West *Batman* TV series from the 1960's) was first mentioned in the 2017 *DuckTales 2017* episode *Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System*.
Darkwing: First Darkness

## *Darkwing: First Darkness*(2017 Continuum)

***Darkwing: First Darkness*** is an unmade in-universe live-action film from the 2017 Continuum.

## Description

This gritty reboot of the *Darkwing Duck* franchise was proposed by psychologically-minded British director Alistair Boorswan to Scrooge McDuck's movie studios, McDuck Pictures, which, so far, had only produced office safety videos. The movie would have starred Drake Mallard (president of the *DW* fanclub and future real-life Darkwing) as the titular superhero, fighting a surprisingly muscular take on Megavolt. *First Darkness* was, as its name implied, extremely dark, featuring a Darkwing Duck unafraid to hurt civilians and damage the city in his attempts to take down evil both without and within.

This ostentatious grittiness was not to the taste of Scrooge's grandnephew Dewey Duck, and, since Scrooge intended to market the film as a fun action flick, he considered that Dewey was a good enough example of the target audience to be handed the reins of the production. Dewey's over-the-top approach to filmmaking (which included buzzsaw jugglers and Darkwing Dancers) combined with disgruntled former Darkwing Jim Starling's attempts to sabotage the production ended up sinking the film, which was never completed.

## Behind the scenes

A parody of Christopher Nolan's gritty reboot of the *Batman* story, *Darkwing: First Darkness* is central to the story of the 2019 *DuckTales 2017* episode *The Duck Knight Returns*.
Costume Store Owner

## The Costume Store Owner

The **Costume Store Owner** is a male dognose.

## Description

By late 1964, this jolly bald man owned a costume store in downtown Duckburg, not far from Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin. He sold Scrooge a “tropical suit” and an “eskimo suit” ahead of Scrooge travelling to South Africa to mine for diamonds that he could then gift to people for Christmas.

## Behind the scenes

This unnamed character only ever appeared in the 1965 story *Christmas Album*
Demon Dog of Castle McDuck

## Agnes McDuck

The **Demon Dog of Castle McDuck** is a supernatural dog and the 2017 Continuum's counterpart of the Hound of Castle McDuck.

## Description

The Demon Dog was installed as the defender of Castle McDuck by Sir Swamphole McDuck. A vicious creature, it acted to protect the catacombs of the castle, without regard for who might be seeking them. It was not, however, immune to fear, as the ghosts of Clan McDuck banded together with their descendants to drive it off.

## Behind the scenes

The Demon Dog first appeared in the DuckTales 2017 episode *The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck]]*, which first aired August 4, 2018. It was based on a concept from the original DuckTales.
Coming Soon: Disney Sorcerer's Arena

Screenshot from the webcast.

## Video

***Coming Soon: Disney Sorcerer's Arena*** is an animated webcast serving as a trailer for the video game *Disney Sorcerer's Arena*. It features Iago, Jafar, Captain Hook, Oogie Boogie, Syndrome, Sulley Sullivan, Ariel, Robin Hood, Mickey Mouse, Peg-Leg Pete, Hopper, Jack Skellington, Hades, Helen Parr, Buzz Lightyear, Quorra, Aladdin, and Darkwing Duck.

## Plot

The battle between summoned heroes and villains in the Sorcerer's Arena doesn't seem to be going well, despite the best efforts of a Trident-wielding Ariel — until one more Enchanted Card is brought down from the skies, with Mickey Mouse in full sorcerer garb stepping out and taking the lead!

### References

* Coalitions of villains and heroes are summoned opposite each other in the Sorcerer's Arena via Enchanted Cards.

### Continuity

* This scene is a trailer for, and takes place within, *Disney Sorcerer's Arena* (2020).
* Like in *Mickey's House of Villains* (2002), Mickey Mouse once more dons his Sorcerer's Apprentice garp from *Fantasia* (1940) in order to fight a magical duel against a coalition of villains.

## Behind the scenes

This animated short was released online in February of 2019.
David Gerstein

**David Gerstein** is a Disney comic writer, localizer, and archival editor.

## Career

A self-described "archival editor" at heart, Gerstein is a specialist of early *Mickey Mouse* media who has also worked as a Disney comic writer and localizer, and as the editor of numerous printed Disney comics lines (notably for Fantagraphics). Gerstein is also very active on the online fan community, even having a blog of his own (though it has long sat unupdated).
Crowned Ghost

## The Crowned Ghost

The **Crowned Ghost**, whose mortal name may have been **Tiber Garret**, was a human man who is now a ghost.

## Description

The Crowned Ghost is one of the 999 “happy haunts“ in the Haunted Mansion. An old man wearing a large silver crown, he is usually found in the Ballroom; being part of the Over Four Hundred Club, he participates in the Birthday Girl's unending deathday party.

## Behind the scenes

The Crowned Ghost appears in all versions of the *Mansion*, beginning with the 1969-opened Disneyland version.
Dance of Dreams

***Dance of Dreams*** is an unofficial animated trailer for an equally-unofficial, nonexistent trailer. It was created by a fan known as “Dawnbuneary”, and features Webby Vanderquack, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, and a Masked Villainess.

## Description

In a pastiche of the usual *DuckTales 2017* televised promo, clips are shown of an episode entitled *Dance of Deams*. The plot summary given by Dawnbuneary is:

“*When Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby are given a mysterious invitation to a dance, it's up to them to figure out who had sent it and why.”*
## Behind the scenes

The unofficial *Dance of Dreams* trailer was created by the tumblr user Dawnbuneary, known for other such good-natured hoaxes hosted at *Fake DuckTales Screenshots - They're Totally Real, Guys*.

The clip was animated entirely by Dawnbuneary over a period of several months; the audio, rather than impersonators, makes use of audio-clips from other roles of Kate Micucci, Ben Schwartz and Bobby Moynihan, sampled and then repurposed for their *DuckTales 2017* roles.

The promo was sufficiently realistic to gain significant attention online, to the point that fan-art was drawn of it, and that those fans who realized it was not a real episode began clamoring for Dawnbuneary to complete the work and create an entire unofficial episode based on her summary. Though uncertain of her ability to do so, Dawnbuneary claims to have a detailed outline of what the plot of an entire *Dance of Dreams* episode might be. She has revealed little about it, save for the fact that masked duck lady seen at the end of the promo is supposed to be the episode's antagonist.
Croissant de Triomphe

Title card

***Croissant de Triomphe*** is a cartoon story. It features Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Scoot, and, in a cameo appearance, Cinderella and Prince Charming.

## Synopsis

Minnie is running a restaurant in France, while Mickey and Daisy are running a bakery across the city. Unfortunately, the restaurant soon runs out of croissants, its most popular menu item. Mickey, with the help of his scooter Scoot, must quickly cross the streets of the busy city with the croissants, before Minnie's customers leave for good.

## Behind the scenes

*Croissant de Triomphe* is the third episode of the Mickey Mouse cartoon series (although it was released first as a preview online on March 12, 2013). It was officially released on June 30, 2013.
Coff-In!

First page of the story

 ***Coff-In!*** is an semi-official comic story by Bill Barry. It features Gaylord Ghoul, Victor Frankenstein, Egor, Count Dracula, and Frankenstein's Monster. The Coffin of the Coffin Occupant is also glimpsed, though the ghost himself is not.

## Description

Supernatural reporter Gaylord Ghoul is broadcasting live to the spirit world from the grand opening of the Haunted Mansion to the public, which many famous monsters have attended.

## Behind the scenes

Coff-In! was first published in *Backstage Magazine* vol. 9, no. 2, in Winter of 1969. It was written by Bill Barry, a Disney employee, and published in the Disney Imagineers' magazine; however, it was not approved by Disney itself, making it at most semi-official.
Crownus

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## Family

### Children

Zeus (?)
Hades (?)
Poseidon (?)

## Behind the Scenes

### Index

***2017 Hades stories***

**Crownus** is a titan and Cronos' counterpart from the 2017 Continuum.

## Description

Crownus was among the Titans fought and defeated by the Greek gods, including Zeus and Storkules' mother. Imprisoned in the Underworld, he eventually escaped in 2020 when Zeus tricked Storkules into freeing him. The gigantic Titan proceeded to capture and swallow Della Duck, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Selene, Storkules, and Zeus despite their efforts against him. Spotting Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck and Webby Vanderquack heading for Zeus' laurel wreath, he prepared to intercept him only to be confronted and stopped in his tracks by Daisy Duck, who matched his furious roar with her own. This enabled the kids to retrieve the wreath, use its power to defeat Crownus, and rescue his prisoners, with Zeus tipping him back into the chasm from which he had escaped the Underworld...only to stumble in after him.

## Behind the scenes

Crownus appears for the first time in New Gods on the Block, the fifteenth episode of Season 3 of DuckTales 2017. He is quite obviously based on Cronos, father of the first Olympian gods in Greek mythology. Notably, his stomach acts as a prison, referencing the fact that Cronos swallowed his first five children, who due to being immortal remained alive but captive in his belly until being freed by Zeus and led in rebellion against him. His name is an obvious play on the name Cronos and the species name crow.
Dash It, Mickey!

The first and only page of the story

***Dash It, Mickey!*** is the unofficial name of a comic story. It features Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Huey, Dewey, and Louie are mentioned, but do not appear.

## Description

Donald is angry that his nephews have left him to wash the dishes by himself, but Mickey assures him that they are probably just reading *Disney Magazine....*

## Behind the scenes

*Dash It, Mickey!* was published in the British *My Little Pony* #18 in 1986, as an advertisement for the then-new *Disney Magazine*.

Oddly, the comic has gained popularity among the *My Little Pony* fandom, and is apparently part of an internet meme which involves replacing Mickey and Donald in the second panel with two other characters and changing the dialogue.
Dad Jokes

First & only page of the story.

***Dad Jokes*** was the thirteenth story created by Sara Bardi for *Mal's Manor*, being a parodical one-page comic based on *Phantom Manor*. It features Henry Ravenswood and Jake.

## Description

Henry Ravenswood whispers a rather threatening sort of pun to his daughter's sweetheart.

## Behind the scenes

*Dad Jokes* was created suggestion by Sara Bardi in 2020.
DUCKhunt

### Maker(s)

The Webmaster, Asger Brix Jensen, Anders Chr. Sivebæk, Arthur de Wolf, Alexander Grünke, Arttu Salminen, Apostolis Trikourakis, Dominik Altevogt, Geir J. Netland, Gilles Maurice, Jano Rohleder, Kai Saarto, Mathias Hagensen, Mike Schneiderath, Stefan Dziewas, Sigvald Grøsfjeld Jr., Shaun Hamilton, Sauli Jokinen, Tristan Havelick, Thomas Pryds Lauritsen

## History

### Archive

**Link**

***DUCKhunt*** is a now-inactive and partially-offline fan website about the works of Don Rosa. Created by a numerous and dedicated teams, it featured news, studies, and rare behind-the-scenes material.

## Description

*DUCKhunt* featured a variety of content about Don Rosa, his life and his works, including a timeline of Rosa's life, an index of his non-Disney comic work, articles & interviews, a repository of the storyboarded form of deleted scenes from *The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck* (the "Lost Scripts") and more. There was also a gallery of sketches made by Rosa for fans at signing and a database of changes and censorships to Rosa stories in reprints. While Rosa was still active, it maintained a section about upcoming stories, which is, of course, now defunct.

Additionally, in 1998, *DUCKhunt* organized a "story contest" wherein which readers of the website were invited to submit synopses for new Duck comics stories. The final ranking was published on the website and included the following stories:

* *How Donald and Daisy met!*
* *The Millennium Map!*
* *The Treasure of Valhalla*
* *The Treasure of Troy*
* *Return to No Issa!*

## Behind the scenes

What remains of *DUCKhunt* is hosted on its own domain, www.duckhunt.de. Large parts of the site were instead hosted at www.duckman.pettho.com , whose disappearance is responsible for the truncated nature of the website in its present form (although it can all be accessed via the Internet Archive).
Daytrip of Doom

A still from the episode featuring Webby Vanderquack, Huey Duck, Dewey Duck and Louie Duck.

## Crew

### Writer(s)

Rachel Vine
Francisco Angones
Madison Bateman
Colleen Evanson
Nate Federman
Noelle Stevenson
Christian Magalhaes
Bob Snow
Matt Youngberg
Emmy Cicierega
Ben Holm
Jason Reicher

## Other Information

### Dates

September the 23th, 2017 (release date)

***Daytrip of Doom*** is a cartoon written by Francisco Angones and a team of writers (see infobox) and directed by Dana Terrace and John Aoshima. It features Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, Webby Vanderquack, Donald Duck, Bentina Beakley, the Beagle Boys, Ma Beagle, Jane, Josie and Toby. The Job Applicant makes a cameo appearance. Timmy Jenkins and the Funso Host also made their debuts.

## Plot

Huey, Dewey and Louie decide to take Webby to a daytrip to "Funzo's Funzone", a family playground they seem to consider the "bes place in the world". Unfortunately, Webby has no clue how to act in public, non-threatening company and proceeds to wreak havoc. However, her skills end up coming handy when the children have a run-in with the Beagle Boys.

### Continuity

* This episode features an appearance by a walk-on anthropomorphic piglet character whom *They Put A Moonlander On The Earth!* (2020) would later reveal to be Timmy Jenkins, as well as introducing the Funso Host who, in *Moonvasion* (2020), would be granted greater significance by being revealed as a disguise of the 2017 Continuum version of the Phantom Blot.

## Behind the scenes

*Daytrip of Doom* is the second episode of the *DuckTales 2017* series.
Donald Duck and His Friends

Cover of the record

***Donald Duck and His Friends*** is an audio story (whose writer is unknown) based around a collection of American folk song, featuring Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, Mickey Mouse, Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, Chip and Dale, Scrooge McDuck and the Beagle Boys.

## Plot

There's a party at Donald Duck's house, where several of his friends were invited. Jiminy Cricket is the host of the party and leads the other to sing various songs — though Donald always threatens to ruin the fun with his temper. The party is also interrupted by a surprise appearance by Scrooge McDuck, who ropes Donald into a hair-brained scheme to put his money on the Moon away from the Beagle Boys' reach.

### Continuity

* Scrooge McDuck would again try to keep his money safe from the Beagle Boys by sending it into space aboard a rocket in *Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket* (1960), released that same year.

## Behind the scenes

This record was released in 1960 through *Disneyland Records*.
Cupid Fact File No. 192 — The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat

***Cupid Fact File #192 — The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat*** is a prose story, written by Lupan Evezan. A *Cupid Fact File*, it features the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, the Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat and the Gang of the Green Gorilla.

## Description

Like other *Cupid Fact Files*, the short story purports itself to be a digitized version of a file from the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Archives, detailing information about a target that is, or was once, of interest to the Crew. In this case, it is the mysterious and improbably-named organization known as the Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat, with the better part of the Fact File being taken up by a summary of the business-minded Muskrats’ first encounter with the Cupids.

### Continuity

* The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat and its rivalry with the Gang of the Green Gorilla originated in the comments section of *Joe Torcivia's The Issue At Hand*.

## Behind the scenes

This short story was released in 2019 on the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website.
Creamo Catnera

**Creamo Catnera** is a boxer and anthropomorphic cat from Mouseton.

## Description

Creamo Catnera is a cat who was, as per his own account, born in a shack in Mouseton. He was expelled from school for getting into physical fights with his teacher. He later fled town after knocking over a steamroller. He returned to Mouseton in 1931 to fight the world's heavy-lightweight boxing champion, Ruffhouse Rat, in a high-profile championship match. Due to Ruffhouse's cowardice, Creamo's boxing opponent ended up being Ruffhouse's trainer Mickey Mouse, who defeated the cat thanks to help from his friend, Butch.

### Physical Appearance

Creamo Catnera is a very large and muscular black cat.

## Behind the scenes

Creamo Catnera first appeared in 1931's *Mickey Mouse, Boxing Champion*, playing the role of the story's main antagonist. The strip in which he first debuted was originally released on March the 25th, 1931. He was created as a parody of boxer Primo Carnera.

A year later, in the animated short, *Barnyard Olympics*, a similar character appeared. This character was also a large, muscular, black cat, athlete, and opponent of Mickey Mouse. It is unknown if the two were supposed to be the same character. Some descriptions of the short claim that the character in *Barnyard Olympics* is actually Peg-Leg Pete. However, Pete's design from *Alice Comedies* and *Oswald the Lucky Rabbit* is also seen in the short as a separate character, which, unless Bear Pete and Cat Pete are actually separate characters, would mean that the cat athlete can't possibly be Peg-Leg Pete in-universe.
Demons' Whirlpool

## The Demons' Whirlpool

Huey, Dewey and the Exalted Grand Marshal standing over the Whirlpool as Donald Duck threatens to drown in it.

### Location

Black Forest, downstream from the Millpond

### Visitors

Huey, Dewey and Louie
The Exalted Grand Marshal
Donald Duck

## Behind the scenes

### In

*Ten-Star Generals*

The **Demons' Whirlpool** is a treacherous landmark in the Black Forest near Duckburg.

## Description

The Demons' Whirlpool is a large and potentially deadly whirlpool just downstream of an old mill, located on the outskirts of the Black Forest as it is accessible from Duckburg. In 1951, Donald Duck was rescued by his nephews from the Whirlpool in front of the Exalted Grand Marshal of Duckburg Burrow Number 13, to whom it was well-known. This contributed to their promotion to Ten-Star Generals within the Junior Woodchucks.

## Behind the scenes

The Demons' Whirlpool appears in the 1951 story *Ten-Star Generals*.
Demogorgana

A set of Demogorgan Runes.

**Demogorgana** is a magical other realm.

## Description

Demogorgana is a timeless demonic realm, akin to Pandemonium, with a well-known magical tradition which Magica De Spell claims to be well-versed in. There exists a Domogorgan Runic Alphabet, which Violet Sabrewing used in her ritual to contact the Shadow Realm in 2019.

At some point prior to 2018, Goldie O'Gilt traveled to Demogorgana to steal the Eye of Demogorga, an artifact which protects its wearers from burns. An uprising ensued by the Demons inhabiting Demogorgana, who were enraged at being stolen from; Scrooge McDuck soon traveled to Demogorgana to stop the Demons from pursuing the thief into the "real world". Before he succeeded, he was stuck in Demogorgana long enough that the timelessness of the otherworldly realm had a de-aging effect on him, prolonging his lifespan.

## Behind the scenes

Demogorgana is repeatedly mentioned in the 2018 *DuckTales 2017* episode, *The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains*. It came up again in *The Shadow War* and *Friendship Hates Magic*.

It is likely named after the Demogorgon, a demon of Medieval occult lore.
Close-Knit Family

First page of the story.

***Close-Knit Family*** is a short comic story written by Frank Ridgeway and drawn by Bill White. It features Grandma Duck and also mentions Daisy Duck, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck and Scrooge McDuck (with the last three appearing in thought balloons).

## Plot

Grandma Duck falls asleep while planning out what to knit for who. Things go wrong.

## Behind the scenes

This story was only ever printed in English in 1991 in *Walt Disney's Comics and Stories* #566.
Daisy Beth

**Daisy Beth**, who probably became **Daisy von Duckenstein** in the second half of her life, was a female anthropomorphic duck.

## Description

Orphaned at a young age, British-born Daisy Beth became Scrooge von Duck's ward at the turn of the 19th century. In his Bellerive House near Geneva, she met the two boys who would go on to vie for her love, elegant Gladstone Clerval and his cousin, creative and eccentric Victor von Duckenstein.

As the three young persons grew, Daisy seemed to secretly favor Victor's attentions, though she never made that explicit, much to both young men's chagrin. Full of quiet and elegant charm, the clever Miss Beth was an amateur philosopher who liked to muse about the nature of fate and the inevitable, and shared her thoughts — quite unlike his — with Victor.

While Victor was studying in Ingoldstadt, Daisy continued her idle life, waiting for her beloved to return. When Gladstone Clerval proposed to her, she accepted but delayed the wedding, hoping this would be pressure enough for Victor to finally grow up, return to Bellerive, and admit his feelings to her. The plan backfired however, as, coupled with his belief that Growl had died, these news contributed to breaking Victor's heart and spirit.

On the day of Gladstone and Daisy's wedding, fortunately, Wilm, Wolf and Waldo von Duckenstein, together with Growl himself, prevented the ceremony by faking the triplets' kidnapping at the "monsters"’s hands. In the ensuing manhunt, Victor manned up and admitted his feelings to Daisy, later moving to Calisota with her and founding a family. It is hinted that Daisy and Victor became the ancestors of Donald Duck (who, amusingly, would himself become enamored with one Daisy, with a rival named Gladstone to boot).

## Behind the scenes

Daisy Beth appears in the 2016 story *Duckenstein*.

As the story is one of the *Grandi Parodie*, he is a historical counterpart to a present-day regular — namely, Daisy Duck, though she is still a distinct character in look and personality. As to the "*Frankenstein* parody" aspect of things, she serves as the story's equivalent to Elizabeth Lavenza, though unlike the original Elizabeth, Daisy survives the events of the story — her murder at the Monster's hand being replaced with the kidnapping of the triplets. This is reminiscent of the 1931 film *Frankenstein*, where, while the Monster still attempts to kill her, Elizabeth survives and eventually marries the scientist (here named Henry Frankenstein).
Department of Architecture

## The Department of Architecture

 The **Department of Architecture** is one of the Departments of the Cupid Intelligence Institute, itself a subdivision of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.

## Description

The Department of Architecture is responsible for drafting blueprints for new building projects within the Cupid Homeworld. Once they have completed their new plans, they send them to the Department of Construction through the Department of Postal Services.

## Behind the scenes

The Department of Architecture was first mentioned in 2019's *Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery*.
Darth Vader Goes to Disneyland

***Darth Vader Goes to Disneyland*** is a live-action webcast featuring Darth Vader, the Singing Busts, a Pop-Up Ghost, pictures of Mickey Mouse, Pluto and Dumbo, and two women dressed as Cinderella and Belle. King Arthur is also mentioned.

## Plot

Come to Disneyland to visit an attraction about himself, *Star Tours*, galactic oppressor Darth Vader finds it not open yet and decides to enjoy himself like a regular guest instead.

## Behind the scenes

This short was released on YouTube in June of 2011 on the official Disney Park YouTube channel. Teasing the opening of the new *Star Tours* ride in Disneyland, it was the first *Star Wars*-related film production by Disney, before they fully bought out Lucasfilms the next year (though, of course, it features a parody Disney version of Darth Vader, and is not canonical to *Star Wars* in any way).

Erin Glover wrote a fictional article to tie in with the webcast's release.
College Material

First & only page of the story.

***College Material*** is a comic one-pager written by Pat & Shelly Block, and drawn by Juan Torres Perez. It features Donald Duck.

## Plot

Intent on improving his education to better his professional expectations, Donald Duck takes a test to see what college curriculum suits him best. He may not like the result.

### References

* Donald ends up studying at Bubbles' Clown College.

## Behind the scenes

This story was first printed in 2001 in the Norwegian *Donald Duck & Co* #2001-17, and was printed in English in *Mickey Mouse* #281.
Dewey Duck (2017 Continuum)

## Dewey Duck

**Dewford Dingus "Dewey" Duck**, also known by the *nom de plume* **DJ Daft Duck** and as **Turbo Duck** (the name his mother, Della Duck, originally meant to give him), is a young anthropomorphic duck and the 2017 Continuum's counterpart of Deuteronomy "Dewey" Duck.

## Description

Dewey is the triplet brother of Huey and Louie, living with their uncle Donald ever since the disappearance of their mother Della, about whom they don't remember a thing. Unlike his counterpart in the main universe, Dewey is different from his brothers, as they are from him. Dewey is distinguished by his assertive, adventurous temper (rather like a younger Scrooge's, but more egotistical). In 2019, he was made into, technically, a Greco-Roman God, following his theft of the Sandals of Hermes, though he made little of his newfound status afterwards.

### Quotes

**Catchphrases**

*Nailed it!*
*Nurp!*
**Other**

*Nothing will stand in our way!*
*Onward to adventure!*
*No can Dewey!*
*A cool head needs a cool hat! Not unlike this bold and daring chapeau. And the story behind it is equally bold and daring!*
## Behind the scenes

This version of Dewey first appeared in 2017 in *Welcome to Duckburg*.

In this universe, Dewey's middle name is Dingus rather than his first name, which here is Dewford. This makes him the first 2017 Continuum character to have his name changed from the main continuum version. In *Raiders of the Doomsday Vault*, he claims that his middle name is Dingus, presumably after his great-grandfather Dingus McDuck.