Cousin Sid

This is the only story with Cousin Sid. I created him and thought Western Publishing might give me a bonus. But Editor Chase Craig said the artist had trouble drawing a new character, so I shouldn't create any new characters for comic book stories. Sid was drawn just like I had sketched him, so I didn't think it was a problem. I wrote another story where Daffy visited Sid in Australia, and it was rejected. Anyway, I later drew him in my own comic story titled

"The Boondaburra from Murrumbidgee" where a platypus gets into a beaver pond in America. Renamed Sid as Harry. For Harry Burrell who wrote the first good science book about platypusses.