Duck family (Disney) strip, Della writes to Donald that the boys had placed a firecracker under their father's chair as a prank and that their father had been sent to the hospital. This was the reason why the boys first showed up at Donald's house. Thereafter the father is generally assumed to have disappeared. In "The Richest Duck in the World", when Scrooge mentions that the few family members he had had disappeared, the boys respond "We know how "that" feels!" Donald's cousin Fethry Duck was created for the Disney Studio Program by Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard and was first used in
Duck family (Disney) Flemming Andersen and makes part of the comic subseries "Tamers of Nonhuman Threats". Humperdink appears unnamed in the 1955 film "No Hunting" in which he posthumously inspires Donald to take part in hunting season. Elvira "Grandma" Duck (née Coot; born October c. 1855) is Donald's grandmother and the Duck family matriarch. In most stories, she is simply referred to as "Grandma Duck". She was introduced to the Disney comic universe by Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp in the "Donald Duck" newspaper comic strip, first in a picture on the wall in the August 11, 1940, Sunday page, and then as