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Front cover
Pages: 1Comments:
Years later Barks made an oil painting of the motif but he had a
major problem as to what to title the artwork (see more
HERE).
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'Taxi Trick'
Pages: 1
Scrooge is about to take a taxi ride, but he makes sure that he is only
charged when the cab starts. So he waits for the traffic light to turn to
green.Comments:
Observe the placement of the traffic light's colour. Barks was
not responsable for the actual colouring (it was Western's
domain), but he did happen to place the 'GO' on the top...
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Back to the Klondike
Pages: 27 (Initially,
Barks drew 32 pages but some were not published.)
Scrooge is having trouble with his bad memory but
after a visit to the doctor he recalls a huge
gold nugget he once left behind in Alaska.
Comments:
Barks: I started the story when I was still living in San
Jacinto. I had just been divorced from my second wife at the
time (Clara Balken - Editor's
remark), and I was kind of at loose ends. I thought I
would like to go up to Seattle and spend the summer up there
away from the heat. So I took my drawings and drawing board and
drove north. I drew most of the story in motels; some in Grants
Pass, Oregon, and some in Seattle. I was working on the story
for at least a month, but not steadily.
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Something Fishy Here
Pages: 5
Donald tricks Scrooge into believing that money
is now worthless. Hereafter fish is the currency.
Who says that money don't smell?
Comments:
Barks' third wife (they married in 1954) Garé did the inking.
She also did U$07
'Seven Cities of Cibola' (28 pages) and WDCS182 'Grandma's Bull'
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'Money Ladder'
Pages: 1
Scrooge is unwilling to pay for an expensive ladder in order to fix the
broken ceiling bulb in his Money Bin, so he stacks a few bales of money to
be able to reach.Comments:
Barks later reused the basic idea in other works using sacks of money and gold
bars.
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'High Stakes'
Pages: 1
Scrooge plays a hefty game of checkers with a stake of 1 billion dollars,
but as it turns out he is merely playing against himself as seen in a
mirror.Comments:
Scrooge's mirrored image is not quite correct.
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