Media release — because Fantagraphics’ first release in this series focused on Donald Duck, it is only best that the second focus on Carl Barks’s other terrific protagonist, and his greatest creation: The miserly, excessively rich Scrooge McDuck, whose huge money bin, lucky dime, and constant wrangles with his nemeses the Beagle young boys are well-known to, and beloved by, young and old.This volume starts off with “Only a poor Old Man,” the defining Scrooge yarn (in fact his first big starring story) in which Scrooge’s plan to hide his money in a lake goes awfully wrong. two other long-form classics in this volume include “Tralla La La” (also known as “the bottlecap story,” in which Scrooge’s intrusion has awful consequences for a money-less eden) and “Back to the Klondike” (Barks disciple Don Rosa’s favorite story, a important addition to Scrooge’s early history, and well-known for a censored bar brawl that was restored in later editions). Each of these three stories is well-known enough to have its own lengthy Wikipedia page.
Also in this volume are the full-length “The secret of Atlantis,” and over two dozen much more shorter stories and one-page gags.
Newly recolored in a version that combines the warm, friendly, slightly muted feeling of the beloved classic original comic books with state-of-the-art crispness and reproduction quality, the stories are joined by another volume’s worth of comprehensive “Liner Notes,” featuring fascinating behind-the-panels essays about the creation of the stories and analyses of their content from a world’s worth of Disney and Barks experts.
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Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: only a poor Old Man
by Carl Barks
248-page full-color 7.5″ x 10.25″ hardcover • $28.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-535-8
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