Uncle Scrooge #355

Uncle Scrooge

by Carl Barks, Kari Korhonen, Tomasz Kolodziejczak

In the much-requested 1954 classic "The Mysterious Stone Ray," Scrooge takes an ocean voyage for his health... only to end up with more than he bargained for Sailing off the beaten path to rescue a castaway scientist, Scrooge finds the scientist's island festooned with stone Beagle Boys - and the scientist himself, a spindly geek with a love of cabbage, might just be the fellow who turned them that way In "Sudden Impulses," Gyro Gearloose unsuccessfully tries to control his urge to invent. "Bottled Battlers" is a Barks-written Junior Woodchuck epic drawn by Daan Jippes: the 'Chuckers end up imprisoned in a giant bottle by Magica De Spell Finally, in "Something Out of Nothing," Scrooge splits the atom to create matter out of anti-matter.

64 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2006

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.