Illustration 7.1 - Donald, Daisy and HD&L on the grave of $crooge McDuck.

The most recent informations provided from Don Rosa (from his notes on the birth and death dates of the Ducks) is that $crooge McDuck died in 1967, 100 years old, and that Grandma Duck also died sometime before 1970. This mean that by 1970 someone else (most likely the near family) had taken over $crooge's Money Bin including his fortune and Grandma Duck's farm.

The heirs to the McDuck empire


Illustration 7.2 - HD&L as the heirs of $crooge McDuck.

Neither Carl Barks nor Don Rosa have ever told us anything at all about Duckburg after the death of $crooge and Grandma Duck, at least not directly. What really happened with the Ducks from the late 1960s may never be told. But Scrooge tests for Heir / Some Heir Over the Rainbow by Carl Barks and Nobody's business by Don Rosa where HD&L shows to be better qualified than their uncle Donald and Gladstone Gander (Donald failed to show a business talent and Gladstone failed to show an interest for hard work and business) to rule the McDuck empire, may be seen as hints that HD&L was the ones to take over after $crooge.

Unknown destinies

The stories of Carl Barks and Don Rosa however don't give us any clue whatever whether Donald and Daisy finally married and even less whether they ever had children together. But, since Donald already had raised HD&L one might find it hard to imagine him starting all over again with his own child or children. But off course one never knows...

Duckburg at the dawn of a new millennium

Based on the geographical short distance to Silicon Valley and that most modern duck-stories (even though they're not Carl Barks or Don Rosa stories) show a very modern and high-tech city, we may assume that Duckburg is one of the leading cities in the world within electronics and hi-tech at the dawn of the new millennium...

Born ca. 1940 as triplets. Sons of Della Duck, Donald's twin sister and her husband who is still unknown. However, Don Rosa says that he is a brother of Daisy Duck and that's why HD&L keep calling her their aunt.

HD&L moved in with their uncle Donald Duck before the Christmas of 1947. Rumour say that the reason for this was that they used to be very difficult to raise and that they were sent to Duckburg after blowing a firecracker under their father's chair.

Ca. 1951 HD&L joined The Junior Woodchucks. They were accepted as full members after tracking the remainders of the old Fort Duckburg in one of McDuck's factories where it was stored to be ground into sawdust. First McDuck refused to donate the remainders of Fort Duckburg to the JW, but he changed his mind when his employees threatened to quit their jobs if he decided to procede the destruction of the remainders of the fort. Afterwards the fort was rebuilt in the Black forest nearby Duckburg.

Later HD&L often helped their uncles through all kinds of trouble with their JW Guidebooks combined with their JW expertise.

In at least two contests arranged by McDuck, HD&L showed to be the better qualified for taking over the McDuck empire...