Uncle Scrooge #351

Uncle Scrooge

by Carl Barks, John Lustig

Long adventures and short stories featuring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, the Beagle Boys, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and other Disney characters. In "Antidollarosis," the Beagle Boys infest Scrooge's money with a bacterial blight... that creates allergic reactions in Scrooge whenever he comes near it. In "A Job Too Well Done," it's Gyro Gearloose's task to rid the city of excess snow. "The Grouch Kings of Duckburg" matches two fan favorites: writer John Lustig and artist Daniel Branca. The feathers fly when an angrier-than-ever Scrooge matches wits with uber-grump Prunepuss J. Crabapple. In "Pearls of Wisdom," when Scrooge's giant pearl bin vanishes from his treasure room, Scrooge wonders where it's gone... but how could anyone steal it? "Race of the Snails" ties in with the start of Formula One racing this month. With millions at stake, Scrooge and a Texas oilman compete to come in LAST in a very unusual sports car competition. Finally, "White Gold" is a winter's tale in which Scrooge stores huge quantities of Gyro's super ice on top of his money bin... with extremely messy results.

64 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 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.