Hard Haid Moe (further confirmation of name)

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      Dear Per, Fredrik, et al,

      A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I remembered seeing "Hard Haid 
Moe" (as opposed to "Hog Haid Moe") on a list of international comic 
character names in Alberto Becattini's home.  But of course, my memory 
was fuzzy.

      This morning, I was looking through the index of post-1950s 
American Disney comic writers that's in Alberto's _Disney Index_ Vol. 2.   
The listing for Dick Kinney mentioned that he worked with Al Hubbard to 
create the following characters for the Studio Stories:

      Fethry Duck
      Hustler Duck (?)
      Hard Haid Moe
      Tabby (Donald's cat)
      Double-O Duck
      Mata Harrier (Double-O Duck's secretary)
      Belle Duck (?)

      Of course, DD has a white cat named Tabby in the 1946 story 
"Singapore Joe" (although he's changed color slightly in some of the 
reprints of the story).  Isn't the cat in these Scrooge-newseditor 
stories just this same old feline?  AT also gave DD a cat named Tabby, 
but this was a black cat, I think.

      I have no idea who Belle and Hustler are.  Does anyone have any 
reasonable candidates for these apparently regular characters?  I also 
get the feeling that Fethry and Moe are the only members of the group 
above who survived past the early 1970s.

      Now I have textual confirmation of Hard Haid Moe having THAT name 
(as opposed to "Hog Haid Moe").  Per, can you please change the name on 
the Disney Comics Characters page (you know, the one with the links to 
images of the various characters)?  Also, maybe you can change it on the 
interlingual guide.  (I'd ask Fredrik, but I haven't heard from him in 
months... are you still there, Fredrik?)

      David Gerstein
      <9475609 at arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>