I remember Gyro Gearloose well. The interplay between him and the little "helper" was really funny. (The "helper" was a little mechanical man about 6 inches tall with a glowing lightbulb for a head. He was usually running around engaged in some subplot...like negotiating with some chipmunks over a nut or something...while Gyro was involved in the main plot, and the 2 plots would get interwoven in some way. Carl Barks was the man who drew those stories and he had a fantastic gift for both the art and for clever storylines.

The funniest Gyro Gearloose story, I think, was the one where he invented a machine that was a mechanical brain. It could presumably answer ANY question accurately. The answers that it gave to the questions, however, turned out to be not what Gyro expected at all, and this led to a whole series of hilarious situations.

My favorite comics in the 50s and 60s were the duck comics, and I considered them way smarter than all those dumb superhero comics which most of my peers were reading. I was already a total outsider anyway, so I didn't give a damn if the other guys thought superhero comics were cooler. Let's face it, the cliched ideas that were being expressed in the superhero comics couldn't even come close to the kind of witty social satire that Carl Barks was doing in his duck stories.

All my comics were lost around college age too. I think my father gave them away to the neighborhood kids. Too bad.