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This wartime cartoon presents Donald Duck in one of several promotional films meant to encourage Americans in diverse ways. Here he is torn between investing in war bonds or spending his excess money on frolics. A responsible, elderly character (looking very much like Scrooge!) appeals to Donald to save money and support the war effort by investing his funds in war bonds, whereas a carefree, happy-go-lucky young character (looking very much like Gladstone Gander!) asks Donald to just have a good time in the bar.

It is very enticing to assume that Barks may well have had inspiration for his two later-to-be primary characters by viewing the cartoon!!! In any case the fact remains that he invented Scrooge in 1947 and Gladstone in 1948.

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Scrooge McDuck and Money

In 1967 Scrooge starred in this double-length pseudo-documentary cartoon, which was an educational walk through about currency and its history, economics, and investing.

Naturally, Scrooge was the obvious choice for such participation. He explains to his three grandnephews the basics of financial transactions, governmental fiscal policy, and the gratifying value of accumulating cash and saving up. And, of course, Scrooge does not forget a consultation fee of 3 cents!

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The events in this half-hour cartoon mostly take place on Christmas Eve 1843, where Scrooge is busying himself with his moneylending (80% compound interest on a daily basis!), while his clerk Mickey only wishes to be with his poor family in order to celebrate Christmas. But Scrooge is not interested in that Humbug, until he is converted during the night, and all ends well.

Of course, Barks' Scrooge was the obvious choice as the grumpy miser, which is based loosely on Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol featuring an old miser by the name of - Scrooge. Besides him the cartoon features several of the well known duck and mouse characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, the nephews, Minnie Mouse, Morty and Ferdy, Goofy, and Black Pete.

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In this cartoon Scrooge is 'soccered' into sponsoring Duckburg's soccer championship, and soon his team The Duckburg Greenbacks are in the final against The Beagle Boys. Several of the well known duck universe characters participate in this film: Scrooge, the nephews, Gyro Gearloose, Donald Duck, and the Beagle Boys. Still, the mouse universe's Goofy plays the role as the soccer coach, for which he is billed as Sport Goofy, a role he held in many earlier cartoons in the famous How To... sports series.

It is interesting to notice that the Beagle Boys not only are without prison tags on their chests, but they are all identified by individual names!

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DuckTales TV shows

Actually, Scrooge entered the world of television in the 1950s, when he popped up very briefly in the Mickey Mouse Club shows during the title sequences. But it was in 1987 that his TV career took off when he landed a starring role in the long-running series titled DuckTales.

100 episodes were broadcast from 1987 to 1990, and a number of them had plotlines based on some of Barks' comic book stories.

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All of the work presented above has very little to do with Barks himself for obvious reasons (he did not work in Walt Disney's animation studios during his comic book career, and when he did, Scrooge was not yet invented).
But in one instant, it was back in 1955, Barks actually tried his hand as a writer of an animated cartoon starring Scrooge. See a very surprising and detailed account of the events HERE.