Casey Coot:
>>>>>My first question is: what are the numbers of Blackheart Beagle's sons? Many different numbers have been used by you and Barks, but in "The Beagle Boys vs. The Money Bin" their numbers are 176-167, 176-176 and 176-671. Are those the "real" numbers according to you?
Blackheart Beagle had only 3 sons who were shown in Barks' untitled story of $crooge fighting them during on the Mississippi River, and which I also used in chapter 2 of my "Life of $crooge". In my story I used the same 3 prison ID numbers on their shirts as Barks used in his original story. I won't go run off to see what those numbers were -- I assume you can easily check that for yourself. I should have used those same 3 numbers when I showed those sons in the scrapbook being looked at in the "vs. the Money Bin" story. Did I not?!?!
The Beagle Boys Barks used in his "modern day" stories, and which I used in all my "modern day" stories, were (I decided) Blackheart Beagles' *grandsons*, so there were more than 3. In the story about the "Menehune Mystery" $crooge mentions that there are 36 Beagle Boys on the ship in the story (then there must have been some cousins in there was well?). In another story Barks once showed 12 Beagle Boys in one panel. But normally he used 7 Beagle Boys, so I never used more than 7 myself. Obviously, I was never afraid of extra work or overdoing everything, but I also NEVER wanted it to seem like I wanted to top Barks, so if he generally used a maximum of 7 BBs, that was all I wanted to use.
As to the prison numbers of those 7 grandsons (not sons), I used the same numbers that Barks did. The 6-digit numbers always started with "176" and then used those same 3 numbers as the last 3 digits after a hyphen. Therefore, the numbers were 176-176, 176-671, 176-617, 176-716, 176-761, & 176-167. There is no 7th combination possible. That's why you'll notice that when I ever showed all 7 BBs in one panel, one of them would always have his back turned to you so that you could not see his number (because I don't know what it would be!).
>>>>>My next question is: which of the seven "modern" Beagle Boys are brothers, and who are their fathers? I guess that 176-167, 176-176 and 176-671 are sons of the fathers with the same numbers, but where should I put the other ones?
It should be no difficult feat for 3 sons to father 7 grandsons. Or even 12 grandsons. As to the 36 grandsons mentioned in the "Menehune Mystery" story, I'll leave it to you to figure out whose sons they were. But as I said above, my guess is they were simply cousins.
As to which grandsons are the sons of which fathers... cripes, I dunno. Just having the same prison number would not be an indication of a father-son relation. After all, the prison system assigns the numbers, right?
I don't envy you the mission of creating a Beagle Boys Family Tree. Seems slightly impossible.
>>>>>Thank you for existing!
Think nothing of it. It's something that I seem to accomplish without even concentrating on it.