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Front cover
Pages: 1Comments:
Barks had a great reverence for this somewhat odd scenery;
years later he made no less than
8 versions of the motif in oil paint (see more
HERE).
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'Osogood Silver Polish'
Pages: 1
Scrooge is visited by an energetic Osogood Silver Polish salesman who is soon put to
work polishing all the coins in the Money Bin.Comments:
Barks liked to invent humourous and inventive names for products
mentioned in his stories (see more
HERE).
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Only a Poor
Old Man Pages: 32
Scrooge tries to hide his money in a far-away
lake so The Beagle Boys can't find it. But it is
not that easy...
Comments:
Barks always thought of his ducks as
some sort of human beings which in the story's title might have
caused some confusion for his readers. Barks: I later came
to think that the story should have been titled Only a Poor Old
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'The Beggar'
Pages: 1
Scrooge drinks a cup of coffee in a cafe that advertises that the second
cup is for free. Another person, a bum, is the lucky recipient.Comments:
This was Barks' first
running gag, in which Scrooge manages to get cheap cups of
coffee (and lots of it) from an increasingly frustrated
café owner. The gags went on in U$07, 10, and 12...
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'Soupline Eight' Pages: 1
Scrooge investigates how good the new 5,999 dollars Soupline Eight
automobile is. Then he uses 5 cents on a raffle ticket to win a - Soupline
Eight.Comments:
Al Taliaferro’s July 30, 1940 Donald Duck daily strip contains a
similar gag, in which Donald gets a test run in an expensive car
(named Rollolux) only to go on to buy a raffle ticket for same
model.
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