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$crooge McDuck's faithful servants and employees. Included among them are Mrs. Betina Beakley, $crooge's housekeeper who is gullible and easily flustered, but not stupid. She possesses a heart of gold and an iron clad sense of responsibility. She also serves as cook and the grandnephews' nanny. Beakley is a duckbill, and the grandmother and guardian of young Webby. Duckworth, $crooge's butler is loyal and trustworthy. He keeps a very stiff upper lip. He also serves as $crooge's chauffeur and general gentleman's gentleman. Duckworth is a dogface. In a tale in an issue of "Walt Disney Comics & Stories" (issue & date unknown) $crooge's chauffeur is a whacky duckbill named "Dudsworth," but in Italian comics he is also a dogface by the name of "Battista" (though it is possible that "Battista" and "Duckworth" are not meant to be the same character), Gandra Dee, while not a direct employee, she is the receptionist at $crooge's bean factory (as seen in the "Magical World of Disney: Super DuckTales", though the bean factory was later destroyed in "Attack of the Metal Mites"), a commercial spokes-model and local beauty queen. Girlfriend of Fenton Crackshell. Gandra is a birdbeak (probably an anthropomorphic chicken). Miss Emily Quackfaster (also known as Miss Typefast in some comics, and called Mrs. Featherby in "DuckTales"), she is $crooge's personal secretary and his Money Bin's office receptionist. She is a stern, efficient elderly duckbilled woman who wears her hair in a bun. $crooge's sisters Matilda and Hortense hired Emily after he left them in charge of his Money Bin in the, then, tiny village of Duckburg, while he was abroad earning the family fortune. Upon first meeting her $crooge was quite aggitated to find someone on his payroll, but he soon warmed up to her presence and she has been his longest full-time employee. Titus Wadly, $crooge's stingy financial secretary, limo driver and money guard. Wadly has appeared in more than a handful of tales such as "Moby Duck" #2 (June 1968) in "Mysterious Cargo to Istandupp," "Uncle Scrooge #77 (Aug. 1968) in "The Jillion-Dollar Diamond," "Super Goof" #19 (Nov. 1971) in "The Mysterious Black Pearl Ring," and "Huey, Dewey and Louie, Junior Woodchucks" #48 (Feb. 1978) in "The Whole Truth Club," and probably more. Wadly is a duckbill, and strangely, $crooge refers to Wadly as his "only" employee, which supposedly explains why Wadly must switch roles to perform seemingly unrelated tasks). In "Uncle Scrooge" #77 it is explained that Wadly was formerly a criminal called "Mac the Mechanic" known as the "World's most Gadget-Happy Hoodlum." Upon his parole Scrooge offered him a chance to reform and work in his employ. For Scrooge Wadly designed many gadgets, including secret passageways located in his limosine and mansion. After a high-voltage shock from her TV set Mrs. Crackshell, Fenton's mother, was embued with clairvoyant abilities ("DuckTales" episode "My Mother the Psychic"), so $crooge hired her as his personal financial consultant (a.k.a. "psychic"). Another accident removed these powers and she went back to her life as a microwave TV dinner couch potato. When $crooge has his own accident (in "DuckTales" episode "Blue Collar Scrooge"), he suffers from amnesia and becomes a homeless vagabond. Mrs. Crackshell, not recognizing him (no one does), takes him in and cares for him until he finally regains his memory (as well as his Brogue accent). Mrs. Crackshell's usual appearance is that of a drudge, wearing a fuzzy pink long bathrobe, fluffy slippers, large curlers in her hair and far too much make up. Another employee of $crooge's was a wonderful Romano Scarpa creation named Mr. Bunz from "The Man from Oola-Oola" (Paperino e l' uomo di Ula-Ula) Topolino #216 (Aug. 10, 1959 (finally printed in the USA in "Uncle Scrooge Adventures" #28 - 29, Sep. 11, 1994). Several years before the beginning of the so-called "Computer Age" $crooge had two large Accounting Departments working tirelessly on the job of keeping track of every last penny of his fortune. Unfortunately, one day the figures so carefully calculated on their compumeters didn't agree!! The result was a 25 cent discrepancy, and this drove $crooge into a serious bout with depression and a fear that he would be "broke in less than a billion years!" $crooge, determined to find a way to prevent this from ever recuring, learned of the German Scientist Professor Hansenfeitz invention of the world's first "mechanical brain." Purchasing the giant computer $crooge learned that the machine was so tempermental that it would ONLY work for someone it truly liked. This turned out to be a cute and furry native named Mr. Bunz of a secluded island named Oola-Oola. $crooge fired his Accounting staff and set up an ajoining room to the Money Bin whose environment matched Bunz's natural habitat. Things went well for a while, until money began disappearing from the Bin and Mr. Bunz was wrongfully blamed. It was soon discovered that the Beagle Boys were actually behind the devious plot, but the damage was already done and Mr. Bunz returned to Oola-Oola. In an attempt to rectify a serious injustice, $crooge's guilt and gratitude caused him to generoulsy give his "mechanical brain" (which Bunz considered to be a true friend) to Mr. Bunz to live with him on Oola-Oola. Some other, less significant employees who appear at least once were in Earl Owl from "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" #318, who apparently serves as $crooge's night watchman (alternate to Titus Wadly who guards during the day?); Eggburt, the Office Boy from "Donald Duck" (Christmas Album) #99 (Jan. 1964), as does $crooge's Robot Substitute who "takes over only if $crooge is to be gone for quite a spell." Other employees (covered elsewhere) include: Launchpad McQuack, $crooge's personal pilot; Fenton Crackshell, his accountant; GizmoDuck, $crooge's personal body-guard and Money Bin watchman; Gyro Gearloose, his personal inventor on retainer; Donald Duck, who, along with the Nephews often serves as $crooge's personal attache' and company go-fers (they are paid a wage of 30 cents per hour); and Moby Duck, as an often hired cargo ship captain. |
$crooge's Staff