Uncle Scrooge

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This article is about a comic book. For information on the character, see Scrooge McDuck.

Uncle Scrooge #21 cover. Art by Carl Barks.

Uncle Scrooge is a comic book with the moneygrubber Scrooge McDuck 'the richest duck in the world' as the main character. The series also featured Donald Duck and his nephews as supporting characters. The first 70 issues mostly consisted of stories written and drawn by Carl Barks, the creator of Scrooge McDuck. The 71st issue had a story Barks wrote drawn by Tony Strobl. Subsequent issues often consist of reprints of these classic Barks tales. Starting in 1986 when Gladstone took over publishing the title they have also included new stories by American creators Don Rosa, John Lustig, Pat McGreal, Dave Rawson, Michael T. Gilbert and William Van Horn along with translations of European Disney comics by such creators as Daan Jippes, Fred Milton and Romano Scarpa originally published by Oberon, Egmont and Disney Italy/Mondadori. Among the adversaries who made repeat appearances were The Beagle Boys, Magica De Spell, John D. Rockerduck and Flintheart Glomgold.

1 Publishing History
2 Issues
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Publishing History

Dell Comics: 1952 - 1962 (Four Color Comics #386, 456 and 495; #4-39)
Gold Key Comics: 1962 - 1984 (#40-209, last few under "Whitman" name)
Gladstone Publishing: 1986 - 1990 (#210-242)
Disney Comics: 1990 to 1993 (#243-280)
Gladstone Publishing: 1993 - 1998 (#281-318)
Gemstone Publishing: June 2003 - Present (#319-on)

Scrooge made his first appearance in the Donald Duck story "Christmas on Bear Mountain" as a curmudgeonly man who decides to test Donald and his nephews to see if they are worthy of inheriting his wealth. He appeared in a few more Donald Duck stories before finally meriting his own comic book, "Only a Poor Old Man" in 1952 which featured the Beagle Boys attempting to steal his money.

[edit] Issues

Number	Date	Stories
1(Four Color #386)		"Uncle Scrooge (one-pager)", "Only a Poor Old Man"
4	12/1953	"Ballet Evasions", "The Menehune Mystery", "The Cheapest Weigh", "Bum Steer" (all Carl Barks)
71	10/1967	"King Scrooge the First" (Carl Barks & Tony Strobl), "Outdoor Thinking" (Phil de Lara & Vic Lockman)
172	1/1980	"The Magic Ink" (Carl Barks), "The Round Money Bin" (Carl Barks), "The Bad Bargain" (Kay Wright & Vic Lockman)
276	3/1993	"The Island at the Edge of Time" (Don Rosa), "Skywriting for Scrooge" (Carl Barks)
277	4/1993	"The Great Steamboat Race", "Immovable Miser", "Much Luck McDuck" (all Carl Barks)
278	5/1993	"North of the Yukon" (Carl Barks)
279	6/1993	"Back to Long Ago!", "Moola on the Move", "Long Distance Collision", "Classy Taxi" (all Carl Barks)
357	9/2006	"Return to Xanadu" (Don Rosa), "Comet Get It!" (Kari Korhonen & Tino Santanach), "Dr. Invento" (Janet Gilbert & Marsal Bresco), "Through a Lens Darkly" (Frank Jonker & Bas Heymans)