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 Reprints
4 See also
5 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	Notes
1(Four Color #386)	1952	"Uncle Scrooge (one-pager)", "Only a Poor Old Man"
2 (Four Color #456)	1953	"Back to the Klondike" (Carl Barks)
3 (Four Color #495)	1953	"The Golden Goose" (Carl Barks)
4	12/1953	"Ballet Evasions", "The Menehune Mystery", "The Cheapest Weigh", "Bum Steer" (all Carl Barks)
14	3/1956	"Lobster" short, "The Mines of King Solomon",Gyro Gearloose House story, Beach short, "Firefly" short
15	1956	"The Second-Richest Duck"	First Appearance of Flintheart Glomgold
33	3/1961	"Tree Trick" short,"Billions in the Hole",Gyro Gearloose "You Can't Win","Bongo on the Congo","The Big Bobber" short,"Thumbs Up" short
36	2/1962	"The Midas Touch", "Duckburg's Day of Peril",Gyro Gearloose "Money Bag Goat","The Bends" short, "Green Stuff" short,"Memory Man" short
37	3/1962	"The Windy Story" (short), "Cave of Ali Baba",Gyro Gearloose "The Great Popup","Deep Down Doings","Cash-Cart","Can't Take It with You", "Night Out","Over Weight"(shorts)
41	3/1963	Toll Bridge short, "The Status Seeker", "Snow Duster" Gyro Gearloose, "Typhoon Tycoon", Rocket Digger short
51	8/1964	"How Green was my Lettuce", Ludwig Von Drake "Pigeon Panic", "Let Donald Do It"
55	2/1965	"McDuck of Arabia", Limousine short, Zoo short, Gyro Gearloose "Scientific Sleuth", Parrot short, Fight short
60	11/1965	"The Phantom of Notre Duck", Gyro Gearloose "The Drippy Diamonds", Uncle Scrooge Desert Outing short
68	3/1967	Antique short, "Hall of the Mermaid Queen", Gyro Gearloose "Hypno-Clock"
71	10/1967	"King Scrooge the First" (Carl Barks & Tony Strobl), "Outdoor Thinking" (Phil de Lara & Vic Lockman)
76	8/1968	"Bye,Bye Money Bin", Gyro Gearloose "The Hopeless Helper","The Luck Tycoon"
92	4/1971	"The Magic Ink" (reprint), "Two Way Luck" (reprint),Gyro Gearloose "That Small Feeling","Tattletale Dime"
113	8/1974	"Crown of the Mayas" , Gyro Gearloose Cyclone short
161	2/1979	"The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" , Gyro Gearloose untitled short
172	1/1980	"The Magic Ink" (Carl Barks), "The Round Money Bin" (Carl Barks), "The Bad Bargain" (Kay Wright & Vic Lockman)
198	1982	"The Mini-Bin Vacation", "The Wreck of the Merry Lark", "The Collectibles", "The Educated Cane"
199	1982	"Jillions in Jeopardy", "Return of the Bin-Buster", "Payday Blues", "The Educated Cane"
204	1982	"The Magnetic Curse", "The Fragrant Vagrant","The Double Diamond","The Rare Stamp"	first story with personal computer
214	2/1987	"A Sticky Situation" (Gutenberghus Group), "The Tuckered Tiger" (Carl Barks), Uncle Scrooge short,"An Alarming Development", Uncle Scrooge short
217	5/1987	"The Seven Cities of Cibola" (Carl Barks)
219	7/1987	"The Son of the Sun" (Don Rosa), "Portrait of the Artist as a Duck Man", short article
221	9/1987	"Green Attack" (Gutenberghus Group), Uncle Scrooge untitled squirrel short, Uncle Scrooge untitled quiz show short
228	8/1988	"Chugwagon Derby" (Barks), Beagle Boys "The Pigeon Plot", "The Generosity Ray", Donald Duck short
238	10/1989	"Ducking the Press" (Netherlands), "A Witch in Crime" (Denmark), "Trouble Indemnity" (Carl Barks)
244	7/1990	"The Adventurers Club Award" (Avenell,Vicar,Foster,Clark,Daigle-Leach), "The oothless Tiger Auction" (Anderson,Vicar,Foster,Clark,Daigle-Leach)
272	11/1992	"Canute the Brute's Battle Axe" (Anderson,Gabner,Vicar,Davidson,Daigle-Leach), "Fare Delay" short (Barks,Daigle-Leach),"Charity Donation" short(Barks,Daigle-Leach)
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)
292	6/1995	"King of the Klondike", "2 Donald Duck untitled shorts", "untitled Uncle Scrooge short"
300	10/1996	"The Sunken Yacht" (Barks), "Coin of the Realm", "Go Slowly, Sands of Time", "Nobody's Business"
302	2/1997	"Monkey Business" (Barks),"Barrel Bargains" (Gorm Transgaard & Torres), "The Telltale Hand" (Tony Strobl), "Beagle Boys meet Abner the Actor" (Tony Strobl), "Too Bee or Not to Bee" (Torres & Per Diemer)
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)