(December 1954-February 1955)

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Volume:
?
Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
?
Indicia Publisher:
?
Brand:
?
Editing:
Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Format:
Regular U.S. Comic Size; Color Covers and Interiors, Saddle-Stitched

[Dollar figure skating] (Table of Contents)

Uncle Scrooge / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Carl Barks
Inks:
Carl Barks
Colors:
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Content Information

Genre:
funny animals
Characters:
Uncle Scrooge
Reprinted:
  • in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #111 (April 1974)
  • in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)

Indexer Notes

Art submitted on October 8, 1953.


[Cash on the Brain] (Table of Contents)

Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Carl Barks
Pencils:
Carl Barks
Inks:
Carl Barks
Letters:
Garé Barks

Content Information

Genre:
funny animals
Characters:
Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis:
Scrooge pleads a lack of cash when a clubwoman asks for a donation.
Reprinted:
  • in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #2 (1967)
  • in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
  • in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)
  • in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #272 (November 1992)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).


[Message from Mysterious Island] (Table of Contents)

Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Carl Barks
Pencils:
Carl Barks
Inks:
Carl Barks
Colors:
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters:
Garé Barks

Content Information

Genre:
funny animals; adventure
Characters:
Beagle Boys; Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; ? (cabbage professor)
Synopsis:
Scrooge takes a sea voyage so that the wind can clean out the gold dust that's clogging his pores and making him feel tired, and also to answer a plea for help that turns up in a bottle on the beach. When the ducks arrive at the island from which the message was sent, they find the Beagle Boys and a mysterious ray that turns living things into stone.
Reprinted:
  • in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #111 (April 1974) [reprint title: The Mysterious Unfinished Invention]
  • in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984) [reprint title: [The Mysterious Stone Ray]]
  • in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #8 (November 1996) [reprint title: The Mysterious Stone Ray]
  • in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #222 (October 1987)
  • in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #355
  • in Uncle Scrooge: The Mysterious Stone Ray & Cash Flow (Boom! Studios, 2011 Series) #[nn]

Indexer Notes

Art submitted on May 20, 1954. Three half-pages of finished or penciled art exists from this story that was apparently cut out or re-done by Barks and does not appear in the story as printed here. (Printed in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #222) Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982). Carl Barks named the story with the above title in a letter to a fan in 1962.


[A Campaign of Note] (Table of Contents)

Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Carl Barks
Pencils:
Carl Barks
Inks:
Carl Barks
Colors:
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters:
Garé Barks

Content Information

Genre:
funny animals
Characters:
Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis:
Scrooge faces the necessity of spending money in campaign for treasurer of Duckburg.
Reprinted:
  • in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #2 (1967)
  • in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
  • in Gladstone Comics Album (Gladstone, 1987 series) #4 (April 1988) [reprint title: [McDuck For Treasurer]]
  • in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #8 (November 1996)

Indexer Notes

Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).


[Classy Taxi!] (Table of Contents)

Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Carl Barks
Pencils:
Carl Barks
Inks:
Carl Barks
Letters:
Garé Barks

Content Information

Genre:
funny animals
Characters:
Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis:
Scrooge rents his limousine as a taxi on a rainy day.
Reprinted:
  • in Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, The (Gold Key, 1964 series) #2 (1967)
  • in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
  • in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)
  • in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #279 (June 1993)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).


[Blanket Investment] (Table of Contents)

Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Carl Barks
Pencils:
Carl Barks
Inks:
Carl Barks
Colors:
? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters:
Garé Barks

Content Information

Genre:
funny animals
Characters:
Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis:
Scrooge uses his electric blanket to hatch out chicks.
Reprinted:
  • in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
  • in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)
  • in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures (Gladstone, 1987 series) #21 (May 1990)

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. [Cash on the Brain]
    Uncle Scrooge
  2. 2. [Message from Mysterious Island]
    Uncle Scrooge
  3. 3. [A Campaign of Note]
    Uncle Scrooge
  4. 4. [Classy Taxi!]
    Uncle Scrooge
  5. 5. [Blanket Investment]
    Uncle Scrooge
This issue was most recently modified by:
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Patrick Lemaire
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Bob Hughes
  • Kjell Crone
  • Harry W Fluks
  • I.N.D.U.C.K.S Project and Alberto Becattini