Four Color
#495 - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge
(September 1953)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1953
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Issue Notes
Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Continues as Uncle Scrooge (Dell, 1953 series) #4 (December 1953-February 1954).
[Jack-in-the-Box]
Uncle Scrooge / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge McDuck; Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Reprints
-
in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #13 ([1984]) [art work only] -
in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984) - in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #32 ([1985])
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #212 [Direct] (December 1986)
-
in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #5 (Outubro 2004) -
in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #11 ([august] 2005) - in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[12] - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge- Only a Poor Old Man (2012)
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in Дъкбург - Карл Баркс (Егмонт България [Egmont Bulgaria], 2022 series) #[1] - Завръщане в Клондайк и други истории, 1952-1953 (2022)
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- Keywords
- jack-in-the-boxes; pirates; treasure chests
[Barber College]
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The price for trimming your sideburns will be a dollar, Mr. McDuck!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge McDuck
- Synopsis
- Scrooge trims his own sideburns because barber's prices are "too much."
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #3/1955 (mars 1955) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #7/1995 ([juli] 1995)
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[13] - 1955 del 1 (2002)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #11 ([august] 2005)
- in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #2/1970 (uke 5 1970) [2nd translation]
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #13 ([1984])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
- in Walt Disney's Beste Historier om Donald Duck & Co [Disney-Album] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1978 series) #25 - Villeslene ([september ?] 1985) [3. translation]
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #260 (November 1991)
- in The Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #5 (Outubro 2004)
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #31/2008 ([28. juli] 2008) [4th translation]
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[12] - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge- Only a Poor Old Man (2012) which is reprinted
-
in Andrés Önd (Edda, 2000 series) #9/2020 (29. febrúar 2020)
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in Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Art submitted February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
[Horseradish Treasure]
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In 1753, the "Golden Goose", (sic) bound from Glasgow to Jamaica, sank without warning off the southern tip of Haiti!
- Genre
- adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge McDuck; Chisel McSue; Swindle McSue (flashback); Captain Seafoam McDuck (flashback); Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Scrooge is faced with the loss of his entire fortune to Chisel McSue because, many years before, an ancestor of Scrooge's failed to deliver a case of horseradish to Jamaica, and then failed to give all his property to McSue's ancestor, as provided in a contract. Scrooge can save his fortune only by fulfilling the terms of the original contract, and the ducks set out in a small sailing ship to find the horseradish, which was on a ship that sank in the Caribbean.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #3/1955 (mars 1955) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #7/1995 ([juli] 1995)
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[13] - 1955 del 1 (2002)
- in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #2/1970 (uke 5 1970) [2nd translation, 3 pages removed]
- in Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 series) #105 (June 1973)
- in Uncle Scrooge, His Life and Times (Celestial Arts, 1981 series) #1 (1981)
- in Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 series) #181 (December 1980)
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #13 ([1984])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
- in Donald Duck bøker [Gullbøker] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1984 series) #[1986] - Stjerneskudd ([september] 1986) [version 3] which is reprinted
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #11 ([august] 2005) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #3 (9 April 1996) [reprint title: The Horse-Radish Story]
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in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (VNU Tijdschriften, 1998 series) #104 (2000) [oorspronkelijke titel: "[Horseradish Treasure] - in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #5 (Outubro 2004)
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #338 (February 2005)
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in Die tollkühnen Abenteuer der Ducks auf hoher See (Mareverlag, 2006 series) (2006) - in Disney Presents Carl Barks' Greatest DuckTales Stories (Gemstone, 2006 series) #2 (2006)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[12] - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge- Only a Poor Old Man (2012) which is reprinted
- in Дъкбург - Карл Баркс (Егмонт България [Egmont Bulgaria], 2022 series) #[1] - Завръщане в Клондайк и други истории, 1952-1953 (2022)
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- Keywords
- diving; Haiti; horseradish
Indexer Notes
Art submitted February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
[The Round Money Bin]
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Carl Barks
- Pencils
- Carl Barks
- Inks
- Carl Barks
- Colors
- Western Publishing Production Shop
- Letters
- Carl Barks
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh me! Oh my! What'll I do?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge McDuck; Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck; Beagle Boys
- Synopsis
- For safety's sake, Scrooge has his coins changed into greenbacks and stores them in an old water tank, but this fails to stop the Beagle Boys.
- Reprints
-
in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #117 (22 août 1954) - in Donald Duck (Geïllustreerde Pers, 1952 series) #4/1955 (22 januari 1955) which is reprinted
- in De beste verhalen van Donald Duck (Geïllustreerde Pers, 1985 series) #69 - Als astronaut
- in Donald Duck (Oberon, 1972 series) #8/1990
- in Donald Duck Alle klassieke verhalen (Geïllustreerde Pers, 1992 series) #7
- in De Zware Jongens Vakantieboek (DPG Media Magazines, 2020 series) #[2020] (2020)
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #3/1955 (mars 1955) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #7/1995 ([juli] 1995)
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[13] - 1955 del 1 (2002)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #11 ([august] 2005) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #45/2011 (uke 45 november 2011)
- in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #2/1970 (uke 5 1970) [2nd translation] which is reprinted
- in Walt Disney's Beste Historier om Donald Duck & Co [Disney-Album] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1978 series) #40 - Den flygende hollender og andre historier ([september] 1990) which is reprinted
-
in Walt Disney's Comics (W. G. Publications; Wogan Publications, 1946 series) #326 (1973) - in The Best of Walt Disney Comics (Western, 1974 series) #96172 (1974)
- in Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 series) #172 (January 1980)
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #13 ([1984])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
- in Disney's DuckTales (Gladstone, 1988 series) #3 (January 1989)
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #3 (9 April 1996)
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #324 (December 2003) [aka Uncle Scrooge #3]
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #5 (Outubro 2004)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Family Comics (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (March 2012)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[12] - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge- Only a Poor Old Man (2012) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
First appearance of Scrooge's "Old Number One Dime," identified here only as the first dime he ever earned. Art submitted on February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
[Money Bin at Rainbow's End]
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, look, Unca Scrooge! A rainbow!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge McDuck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Scrooge's money bin is at the bottom of a rainbow that the nephews see.
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney's serier (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1950 series) #3/1955 (mars 1955) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1985 series) #7/1995 ([juli] 1995)
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #[13] - 1955 del 1 (2002)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #11 ([august] 2005) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck Junior (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2018 series) #1/2020 ([januar] 2020) [ny layout, bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #2/1970 (uke 5 1970) [2nd translation]
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #13 ([1984])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
- in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 series) #514 (January 1987)
- in The Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #6 (Novembro 2004)
- in Walt Disney's Donald Duck Family Comics (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (March 2012)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[12] - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge- Only a Poor Old Man (2012) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Art submitted on February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
[Feeds Flea Circus]
Uncle Scrooge / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll buy some peanuts for the elephants!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Uncle Scrooge McDuck; Donald Duck; Huey Duck; Dewey Duck; Louie Duck
- Synopsis
- Scrooge "treats" the trained fleas to a meal at the circus.
- Reprints
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #15/1957 (17.juli 1957) which is reprinted
- in Donald Duck & Co De komplette årgangene (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1998 series) #22 - 1957 del 3 ([august] 2003)
- in Carl Barks samlede verk (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) #11 ([august] 2005) [bearbeidet oversettelse]
- in Donald Duck & Co (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1948 series) #19/2012 ([11. mai] 2012)
- in The Complete Carl Barks (Luigi Olmeda, 1981 series) #13 ([1984])
- in The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984)
- in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #241 (February 1990)
- in The Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)
- in O Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (Editora Abril, 2004 series) #6 (Novembro 2004)
- in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #[12] - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge- Only a Poor Old Man (2012) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Art submitted on February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Jack-in-the-Box]
Uncle Scrooge -
1.
[Barber College]
Uncle Scrooge -
2.
[Horseradish Treasure]
Uncle Scrooge -
3.
[The Round Money Bin]
Uncle Scrooge -
4.
[Money Bin at Rainbow's End]
Uncle Scrooge -
5.
[Feeds Flea Circus]
Uncle Scrooge
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Alan Hutchinson
- Darrel McCann
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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