Can’t wait to see what inventions he comes up with next. Drake looks between the card and the scary mad scientist twice before taking the card. Justice League #389 The Atom. In all of these, Von Drake wears a pink shirt, black tie, red vest, and a lab coat. Ludwig appears as a recurring character in the DuckTales reboot as the head of spy agency S.H.U.S.H.[36]. Professor Ludwig Von Drake is a cartoon character created in 1961 by The Walt Disney Company. Gyro left him alone once he took it to keep working on his inventions, leaving Drake to his own devices with the card. He also is the mentor to Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera aka Gizmoduck, voiced by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Even more insane: A year later, Disney got another letter, this time from Richard Greenwald, a scientist at Harvard. Von Goof is also a scientist, whose appearance is almost identical to Von Drake, except for the fact that Ludwig Von Drake is a duck and Ludwig Von Goof is a dog. For unknown reasons, he uses a motorized wheelchair. He is a villainous scientist that first appeared in Donald Duck #102 as a rival to Gyro Gearloose, Duckburg 's resident inventor. The Disney studio encouraged the writers of Duck comics to introduce this new character in print, and already in September 1961, Von Drake started appearing in Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp's featured daily strips. Gyro Gearloose is one of the characters in the 2017 reboot of DuckTales series. Like other villains in Disney comic stories, Emil has occasionally taken part in crossover tales, teaming up with rouge gallery members such as Pete, the Beagle Boys, and Mad Madame Mim In one continuity, Emil is the leader of the Bad-7, a group of supervillains comprised of various Mickey Mouse antagonists. Ludwig can play the piano and acoustic guitar, as shown in a few television specials and more. [3] Said to be an uncle of Donald Duck, he is described as a scientist, lecturer, psychologist, and world traveler. Elvira could have an Austrian ascendancy to explain her kinship to Ludwig. Ludwig was best fleshed out in this anthology cartoon, where Donald's psychology was examined, as we got to see some of his worst temper tantrums. In addition to being Scrooge's scientist, he is assisted by … The character displayed his "expert" knowledge on … RELATED: DuckTales Honors Donald Duck’s 83rd Birthday in New Short ... Jim Rash as mad scientist Gyro Gearloose, Josh Brener as tech billionaire Mark Beaks, Keith Ferguson as Scrooge’s archenemy Flintheart Glomgold, Eric Bauza as the Beagle Boys and Corey Burton as Ludwig Von Drake. The events showed in this one presumably happened after the ones showed in "Duckburg, U.S.A.", which was published two months later. He was first introduced as the presenter in the cartoon An Adventure in Color, part of the first episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color on NBC. Get Started. His mind warped, Zoster blamed all of Duckburg for his misfortune and vowed vengeance. The track list for the "Ludwig Von Drake" LP: As of February 2010, the digitally remastered LP can be downloaded exclusively at the iTunes Store.[37]. Ludwig Von Drake comes from Vienna, Austria and has a fascination with knowledge. Emil Eagle is an anthropomorphic eagle created by Jack Bradbury, Steve Steere and Vic Lockman. [11] Grandma Duck, Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Daisy Duck, Gladstone Gander, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Gus Goose, and Gyro Gearloose also appear in this same story waiting to know Ludwig at the train station, and Grandma enthusiastically exclaims, "Professor Ludwig Von Drake! Outside of Donald Duck stories, Emil would later go on to appear as an antagonist for Mickey Mouse and a number of his supporting cast, the most notable of which being Super Goof, who first encountered Emil in The Goofs of Super Goof in February of 1970. 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