They are the female counterparts of Huey, Dewey, and Louie. One can recognize the girls in their modern look: April Lizzy in Dutch comics has one ponytail in her hair and wears purple, May Juultje in Dutch comics wears a headband, and dresses in pink, and June Babetje in Dutch comics has the two pigtails, and wears yellow.
In DuckTales , the three wear identical clothes in the form of a long-sleeved shirt, a darker vest, a large bow on their heads, and a skirt. The first appearance of the trio was in the comic story Flip Decision by Carl Barks, in which they can be seen when Daisy is visiting her sister, the nieces' mother, who remained unseen.
In the final panel, they appear with Huey, Dewey, and Louie as their escorts. After Barks introduced the girls in Flip Decision , they continued to make rare appearances in Barks's stories, but there were some they did play important roles.
Their first appearance after their introduction was in Barks' The Double Date , six years after their debut. The story The Beauty Business , in which the nieces help Donald with his failing beauty salon, marked their final appearance in Barks' comics.
In , the editors of the Dutch 'Donald Duck' weekly magazine decided the three girls should be modernized, and they got permission from the Disney Company to do so.
