Uncle Scrooge #371

Uncle Scrooge

by Carl Barks, Lars Jensen, Enrico Faccini (Artist)

In Carl Barks' feature-length "How Green Was My Lettuce," Scrooge tries to evade a Beagle Boy raid by disguising his money as... vegetables! Then Lars Jensen's "Gloves of King Midas" -- an ancient pair of anti-magic mitts -- become Magica De Spell's latest weapon against Scrooge. Gyro Gearloose's "Anti-Stress Mess" comes about when he invents a gadget to absorb angry humanity's bad vibes. And finally Scrooge buys a mythic cliffside "Higher Than Mount Everest," only to accidentally shorten it.

Genres: Comics

64 pages, Paperback

First published February 6, 2007

About the author

Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
Barks worked for the Disney Studio and Western Publishing where he created Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961).
He has been named by animation historian Leonard Maltin as "the most popular and widely read artist-writer in the world". Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books." Beginning especially in the 1980s, Barks' artistic contributions would be a primary source for animated adaptations such as DuckTales and its 2017 remake.