DCML Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13 (identical twins & triplets)

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Thu Aug 10 23:13:42 CEST 2006


Don Markstein wrote:

> Twice, several years apart, Barks mentioned that one of the Beagle Boys 
> liked prunes. As far as I know, it's the only individual trait he ever 
> gave a Beagle Boy, who otherwise were almost as much alike as Nephews. 
> It's also an example of continuity in his stories. And by the way, 
> that's what initially turned me off to DuckTales -- the fact that you 
> could tell one Beagle from another without reading his number. They even 
> had different names. Booo! 

The "identifying" of Beagles on DT didn't strike me as an "inferior" idea in the least -- merely different.  Vic Lockman created plenty of "specialty" Beagle Boys in his stories.  The only difference between that convention and the one used on DT was that the "specialty" B-Boys still looked like the "regulars" (though Intellectual-176 did wear glasses, as I recall).

> Also by the way, I can't think of any other examples of identical 
> triplets in comics -- or in stories in general, for that matter. In 
> fact, just off the top of my head, I can't think of any absolutely 
> identical twins, other than Heckle & Jeckle, the Terrytoons stars, and 
> the twins in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. 

Thomson and Thompson from Tintin immediately come to mind.  The only difference between them was that one had more curve in his mustache; it was the sort of thing that you'd miss if you blinked.  (Given Don Rosa's "An Eye for Detail", I'll bet Donald could have told them apart with little trouble.)  And Henry Boltinoff (I think) created Dover and Clover -- oddly enough, also a pair of twin detectives -- for DC Comics in the 1940s.

Chris Barat
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