| rdfs:comment | - "Ah-ah! Beagle Brothers are more stronger!" "Take that, loser!"
- The Beagle Boys are a repugnant group of thugs from the Scrooge McDuck universe. They are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob Scrooge McDuck. Their introduction and first appearance was in Terror of the Beagle Boys, in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #134, although in this story they only appear in the last frame and have no lines. They appear again in the next issue in a similar fashion, in The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill. They first get a more prominent role in the later story Only a Poor Old Man. They also appeared as villains in the Disney animated series Ducktales.
- The Beagle Boys are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob the extremely wealthy Scrooge McDuck. They first appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #134, in the Carl Barks comic Terror of the Beagle Boys. When not serving as the central threats, the Beagle Boys often appear as henchmen for Flintheart Glomgold, Magica De Spell, or Pete.
- In the comics, the Beagle Boys never fought superheroes, rather acting as antagonists for Scrooge McDuck as thieves and ne'er-do-wells.
- The Beagle Boys were originally created by Carl Barks, and made their first appearance in the 10-page story The Terror of the Beagle Boys (WDC #134) that was first published in November 1951. Although the Beagle Boys are only shown very briefly on the last page of this story, it is implied that Scrooge has known about them for a long time. The first story to feature the Beagle Boys in a major role is Only a Poor Old Man from March 1952, which serves as a template for virtually all future Beagle Boys appearances, and establishes them as a serious threat to Scrooge's fortune.
- The Beagle Boys were given names and different personalities. The usual character combination is Bigtime, Burger and Bouncer, and sometimes Baggy or Babyface, Bebop and Bankjob. Other known names are Bomber, Blitzkrieg, Bombshell, Bankroll, and Brainstorm. Their leader is usually Bigtime, Bankjob, or their mother, Ma Beagle. In other words, the letter B is the first initial of all Beagle Boys' handles except Megabyte, the brains of the bunch. An interesting note regarding Ma Beagle is: whenever she is involved, she is often the only Beagle to escape successfully.
- Often the band is led by his mother, Ma Beagle. Beagle Boys has many relatives who are brothers and cousins, and they all devote themselves to the delinquency, except one of the cousins who is honored, and it is considered to be the black sheep of the family. Often they conspire together with other villains like Magica De Spell, Peg Leg Pete, Madam Mim or are contracted for John D. Rockerduck. In the series Duck Tales, as in the tales of cómic, they try to steal the fortune from Scrooge McDuck.
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| abstract | - "Ah-ah! Beagle Brothers are more stronger!" "Take that, loser!"
- Often the band is led by his mother, Ma Beagle. Beagle Boys has many relatives who are brothers and cousins, and they all devote themselves to the delinquency, except one of the cousins who is honored, and it is considered to be the black sheep of the family. Often they conspire together with other villains like Magica De Spell, Peg Leg Pete, Madam Mim or are contracted for John D. Rockerduck. In the series Duck Tales, as in the tales of cómic, they try to steal the fortune from Scrooge McDuck. Also they appear in the mini-movie Sport Goofy in Soccermanía, where they try to gain a party of football (doing trap) to obtain a valuable trophy of a million dollars.
- The Beagle Boys were originally created by Carl Barks, and made their first appearance in the 10-page story The Terror of the Beagle Boys (WDC #134) that was first published in November 1951. Although the Beagle Boys are only shown very briefly on the last page of this story, it is implied that Scrooge has known about them for a long time. The first story to feature the Beagle Boys in a major role is Only a Poor Old Man from March 1952, which serves as a template for virtually all future Beagle Boys appearances, and establishes them as a serious threat to Scrooge's fortune. The Beagle Boys are usually depicted as a gang of about six to ten members, who are similar in appearance and personality, and without an established leader. However, sometimes the Beagle Boys are led by their grandfather, Blackheart Beagle (prison number 186-802). The Blackheart character originates from two characters created by Carl Barks: Blackheart Beagle, a riverboat pirate from The Fantastic River Race and Grandpa Beagle, who appeared in The Money Well. Don Rosa later combined the character into one in chapters 10 and 11 of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. According to Rosa, Blackheart Beagle semi-retired in 1947, following a failed attempt at robbing Scrooge's money bin. According to Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge first met The Beagle Boys in his Mississippi riverboat days, circa 1880. Those Beagle Boys included Blackheart Beagle and his three sons. Scrooge first met the modern Beagle Boys during Christmas 1947, which was when he first met his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and met his nephew Donald for the second time. Since then the Beagle Boys have been a constant threat to Scrooge's huge money bin. The three most common numbers on Beagle Boys prison tags are 176-167, 176-671, and 176-176. In fact, no digits other than one, six, or seven appeared on their prison ID tags. Carl Barks used to include the words "Beagle Boys Inc" on their shirts under their numbers, which was later deleted. Some of Don Rosa's stories feature seven Beagle Boys, but the prison tag of the seventh Beagle Boy is always obscured by something. The reason for this is simply that it is only possible to make six different permutations of the digits one, six, and seven. According to one of Don Rosa's stories, the Beagle Boys have been known by their prison numbers since their childhood, and they don't even know their real names themselves. (Their parents do know their real names, but demand a bribe from their sons to let them know.) Also according to that story, Blackheart Beagle doesn't remember his sons' names. In the Barks/Rosa universe, the Beagle Boys have almost identical personalities, but one of the members (176-167) is known to be very fond of prunes, a weakness that proves to be the Beagle Boys' downfall in some stories. The Beagle Boys usually operate on their own, but collaborated with Magica De Spell in the 1963 Barks story Isle of the Golden Geese, and again in the 1997 Don Rosa story A Little Something Special where they also teamed up with Flintheart Glomgold.
- The Beagle Boys are a repugnant group of thugs from the Scrooge McDuck universe. They are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob Scrooge McDuck. Their introduction and first appearance was in Terror of the Beagle Boys, in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #134, although in this story they only appear in the last frame and have no lines. They appear again in the next issue in a similar fashion, in The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill. They first get a more prominent role in the later story Only a Poor Old Man. They also appeared as villains in the Disney animated series Ducktales.
- The Beagle Boys are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob the extremely wealthy Scrooge McDuck. They first appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #134, in the Carl Barks comic Terror of the Beagle Boys. When not serving as the central threats, the Beagle Boys often appear as henchmen for Flintheart Glomgold, Magica De Spell, or Pete.
- The Beagle Boys were given names and different personalities. The usual character combination is Bigtime, Burger and Bouncer, and sometimes Baggy or Babyface, Bebop and Bankjob. Other known names are Bomber, Blitzkrieg, Bombshell, Bankroll, and Brainstorm. Their leader is usually Bigtime, Bankjob, or their mother, Ma Beagle. In other words, the letter B is the first initial of all Beagle Boys' handles except Megabyte, the brains of the bunch. An interesting note regarding Ma Beagle is: whenever she is involved, she is often the only Beagle to escape successfully. Ma Beagle has a previous generation of sons that appear in Once Upon A Dime. Their names are Butch (Chuck McCann) and Wild Bill (William Callaway), and the third one is unnamed (Michael Rye). These are the first Beagle Boys Scrooge McDuck meets on his adventures. In the episode The Status Seekers, there are three Blueblood Beagle Boys named Bonaparte, Bicep, and Bearnaise, staying at the posh Club Fed Penitentiary. Interestingly, the three have striking resemblances to Bigtime, Bouncer, and Burger. They assist Charles Upstart III in seeking out the Mask of Kufululu. The Beagle Boys also have three female cousins, the Beagle Babes, and several young nephews called the Beagle Brats.
- In the comics, the Beagle Boys never fought superheroes, rather acting as antagonists for Scrooge McDuck as thieves and ne'er-do-wells.
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