Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews rent a horse-drawn sleigh to visit Grandma over Christmas. But the trip is not a simple one...

Comments:
It is quite obvious that Barks had no prior knowledge of Grandma as a character, when he first used her. In the story she is portrayed as a very youthful, shoeless girl wearing a bell-shaped hat.

Synopsis:
The nephews are forced by Donald to learn to be great musicians but they are not that interested...

Comments:
Two years later Barks managed to draw a more genuine Grandma even though a few features are not entirely correct; her hairdo looks more like a frustum (a truncated cone) than a cone, and her booties are much too wide at the top.

Synopsis:
The nephews visit Grandma and help with chores, but they have a hard time falling to sleep at night; they are accustomed to the city's noises - not the countryside's tranquility.

Comments:
Barks continued to have slight trouble with Grandma's hairdo; it has a tendency to 'ride' a bit too high on her head instead of sitting more down in the back of her neck. Seemingly, this was how Barks preferred her, because this is the way he would normally continue to draw her.

Synopsis:
Donald's family tries to discover what he wants for Christmas, because that is the only way for the nephews to get what they want...

Comments:
Grandma is the prototype of a housewife from a bygone age, and it is not especially surprising to see that she, as a guest in Donald's home, has taken charge of the kitchen chores.

Synopsis:
Daisy comes to visit Grandma, but she is also visited by a very special vacuum cleaner salesman...

Comments:
This is the only of Barks' own stories in which Grandma received a credit in the logo. It is also one of the very few stories, in which Black Pete (from the Disney mouse universe) appeared (see more HERE (bottom section)). Furthermore, the mice Jaq and Gus* (from the Disney animation universe) played an important role in the plot.

* The chubby mouse in the duo actually has another name that was given to him in the comic book Cinderella from 1950. The young Cinderella addressed him: We'll name you Octavius ... but for short, we'll call you Gus! Barks only drew the duo in this story, where he called the mouse Gus-Gus, probably in order not to confuse him with Gus Goose who was also participating in the story.

Synopsis:
Donald wants to participate in the Farmers' Fair and he borrows Grandma's gentle bull for the purpose. Eh, gentle???

Comments:
As it turns out the otherwise calm and collected Johnny the Bull has strong feelings against anything blue - as Donald soon finds out! Seems very odd that Grandma never told Donald about this crucial characteristic, which she must have known about, surely...

Synopsis:
Gyro is flying kites in order to catch lightning for electricity. Morty and Ferdie are helping him.

Comments:
Grandma is just passing by to have Gyro charge her car batteries. The strange fact that Barks included the mouse brothers in his story instead of the nephews is explained HERE (bottom section).

Synopsis:
Gyro is visiting Grandma at her farm in order to relax far away from his inventions. But it is not that easy...

Comments:
This is the first Gyro story, in which Grandma participates. What it comes down to is that we are witnessing a very rare plot; a sort of calm clash of the Titans; Grandma's nursing of old values versus Gyro's reckless modern thinking.

Synopsis:
Scrooge and Captain Beagle own paddlerwheelers on the Mississippi River. A contest decides who gets a certain job.

Comments:
Grandma merely serves as a figure-head (literally, look at the panel!) onboard the paddlewheeler in this story, which is told as one big flashback by Scrooge. She has next to no role at all.

Synopsis:
Donald longs to win a prize for his apples at the county fair and he tries nursing them the best he can all summer long. But his neighbour is Gladstone!

Comments:
Grandma only participates in order to contrast and enhance the look of Donald's harvest of prize apples; she briefly displays her prize corn (and Daisy her prize peppers).

Synopsis:
Donald trains a bullfrog for a big jumping contest. It really could be a winner, if it weren't for the fact that it hates the cold!

Comments:
Grandma was given a rather strange appearance in this story; in the last page, when Donald is in trouble far away, she calmly sits in his living room doing nothing! Barks does not even explain when she got there or the purpose of her presence...

Synopsis:
When Grandma captures a coyote puppy that is stealing her chickens, Donald tries to tame it to be a pet...

Comments:
Barks recycled some of his stories letting them reappear in new clothes at later dates (see more HERE). This story is an example, in which the 'original' story was published in WDCS059 'Colt Taming' with a colt as the wild animal on a ranch. In this one Grandma plays a part.

Synopsis:
Gyro is asked to invent some sort of musical device that may perk up the cows at Grandma's farm. He does but it has a side effect...

Comments:
Barks only made two Grandma stories of his own for the FC series. This is the first one...

Synopsis:
Gyro undertakes to build a dam in order to prevent a flood at Grandma's farm. He uses a cement mixer and his own special cement.

Comments:
...and this is the second one. The story is somewhat remindful of CP8 Grandma's Present apart from the fact that Grandma actually ends up using Gyro's invention.

Synopsis:
Scrooge takes Donald and the nephews to Florida to buy some cheap land. He soon realizes that he has bought the Fountain of Youth as well!!!

Comments:
Many are puzzled by Grandma's brief attendance in the story's start, but Barks used her as a catalyst. He once explained: I padded the Poncey de Loon story by having Uncle Scrooge tell it to Grandma. I was trying to get a little variety in the opening. It seemed to me from the business involved that the reader needed to be aware that Scrooge would find the Fountain of Youth. That fountain would have seemed awfully phony if it was dragged into the story along about page 8. Grandma was the gimmick that helped plant the fountain early.

Synopsis:
Grandma phones Scrooge to remind him that he has promised her a night out at the opera (!!!). Now he desperately needs a corsage for her...

Comments:
This was Barks' only 1-pager of his own with Grandma. It also featured professor Ludwig von Drake, a somewhat peripheral primary character from the Disney duck universe, whom Barks never drew again.