In Carl Barks' numerous duck stories we have met a broad variety of collectors, who are after many different types of objects and experiences. The objects include Scrooge's eternal coin collecting, and the experiences could be Donald's eternal job collecting! Interesting as these two examples may seem, they are not the topic of this page. Below are shown a number of stories featuring the 'art' of collecting in more or less important degrees of importance for the individual plots. The stories have been loosely divided into main groups, and only the most diverse examples are presented.

 

 

 

MONEY COLLECTORS


U$60 The Phantom of Notre Duck - 1965

Deep down in the cellars of Duckburg's grand cathedral dwells a strange, cloaked man whose only ambition in life is to build a replica of the cathedral from coins. These are all slowly collected from a deep, public wishing well at the ground level of the building.


FC0456 Back to the Klondike - 1953

Scrooge remembers that some 50 years ago, a saloon owner, Glittering Goldie, stole his pouch containing the equivalent of 1,000 dollars. Now he has come to collect: At compound interest for fifty years it would now amount to one billion dollars!, he snarls in anticipation...


WDCS145 'The Hypnotizer Gun' - 1952

After having been hypnotized by a relatively harmless toy gun Donald takes up the job as a gorilla-like collector of Scrooge's outstanding money.


WDCS124 'The Money Collector' - 1951

Being in debt to Scrooge Donald is forced to act as a reluctant money collector for him, but the old miser lives to regret that decision...


WDCS074 'The Bill Collector' - 1946

Donald has landed a great job as a bill collector, and he is very efficient. Then he pays the nephews for taking over the job for a few hours while he rests. Their first client is Donald!


FC0367 Christmas for Shacktown - 1952

After Scrooge has lost all of his money in a pit, he succeeds in locating them again deep inside an inaccessible badger's hole. From now on he uses a toy train to regain his vast fortune...

 

COLLECTING AS TRIGGERS


WDCS130 'The Coin Collector' - 1951

A rare old coin in Donald's possession starts him collecting more of the same valuable coins, and Scrooge benevolently helps him...


U$07 'Cibola' - 1954

Scrooge lacks excitement in his life so he follows Donald and the nephews to the desert in order to collect arrowheads. They also find seven golden cities...


MOC20 Darkest Africa - 1948

Donald is a butterfly hunter and he is hired to travel deep inside the African jungles to collect the world's rarest butterfly. Unfortunately, he is followed by a ruthless villain who stops at nothing in order to find the butterfly first.


FC0291 The Magic Hourglass - 1950

Scrooge once bought an hourglass at a thieves' market and he uses it as a timer to cook his morning eggs. But the hourglass' special sand has to be renewed, so Donald and the nephews are sent to Africa after the right sort of red sand.


FC0422 The Gilded Man - 1952

Donald collects stamps. When he hears of a certain valuable stamp on an undelivered letter he travels to British Guiana in order to track it down.


WDCS050 'The Rare Dime' - 1944

By mistake Donald gives his nephews a rare coin from his coin collection. So he tries to get it back again, but this proves to be a long and difficult task.

 

SEASONAL COLLECTORS


DD26 Trick or Treat - 1952

The nephews are all dressed up in their Halloween costumes, and they scour the neighbourhood to collect the traditional goodies.


FC0367 Christmas for Shacktown - 1952

The Duck family use all available means to collect money for the poor children of Shacktown, who need a good Christmas with food and toys.


WDCS196 'The Statue Contest' - 1957

Donald and the nephews - unaware of each others' plans - try to collect money by winning a snow statue contest in order to help a poor family through Christmas.


FC0203 Golden Christmas Tree - 1948

The nephews wish for a golden Christmas tree, but it is not that easy. In the end, all Duckburgians each decide to give them what they want...


CP2 You Can't Guess - 1950

Neither Donald nor the nephews are collecting during this Christmas present story, but their family members are: Donald winds up with 4 brand new cars, and the nephews receive 15 building sets.


U$47 The Thrifty Spendthrift - 1964

Unwittingly (due to hypnosis) Scrooge sets off to collect a great number of highly unusual Christmas gifts all mentioned in a medieval Catholic song called The Twelve Days of Christmas.

 

COLLECTORS OF SPECIALTIES


WDCS221 'The Secret Mine' - 1959

Every day Sandy disappears into the desert from where he collects endless amounts of gold dust. The nephews - partly in the role of Junior Woodchucks (renowned collectors of elaborate titles and medals) - try to disclose Sandy's secret.


WDCS223 'Kites Galore' - 1959

The nephews have been building and storing kites all winter long and now - on the first spring day - they want to try them out. Unfortunately, Donald's own plans of dedicating his time to fishing quickly destroy the kites one by one...


FC0456 Something Fishy Here - 1953

Donald tricks Scrooge into believing that money is now worthless. Hereafter fish is the currency. What else is there for Scrooge to do other than starting a new fortune all over? Before long he has collected three cubic acres of fish!


U$15 The Second Richest Duck - 1956

Scrooge gets into a contest with Flintheart Glomgold on who is the world's richest duck. In the end it comes down to the lengths of two balls of string, which they have been collecting and adding to for years.


WDCS212 'Scavenger Hunt' - 1958

In a competition Donald flies a rocket ship around the Earth. He has to fill it up with many different, specific collectibles on the way.


WDCS140 'Collector Gladstone' - 1952

Every day Gladstone sets out to collect the goods on his grocery list. And his immense luck means that he never has to pay for any of the listed items...

 

 


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