- This article is about the comic book. For the character, see Scrooge McDuck.
Uncle Scrooge is a long-running comic book starring Scrooge McDuck.
Overview[]
Uncle Scrooge began publication in March of 1952, when then-current Disney comic publisher Dell Comics decided to give the character a try-out as a lead character in their Four Color Comics anthology series. After three Four Color issues labeled with the Uncle Scrooge title, Scrooge was granted his own title starting with issue number #4 (counting the try-out issues as one through three). The first 70 issues mostly consisted of stories written and drawn by Scrooge's creator, Carl Barks. Uncle Scrooge continued to be published by Dell's successor, Gold Key Comics, and later under Gladstone Publishing (twice), Disney Comics, Gemstone Publishing, Boom! Studios, and currently, IDW Publishing.
Several of the stories Carl Barks wrote for Uncle Scrooge in the 1950s and 1960s would be adapted into animation as episodes of DuckTales. In turn, after the cancellation of the Disney Comics DuckTales title, several issues of Uncle Scrooge ran DuckTales stories, some of which were reprints from the Gladstone title, DuckTales Magazine, and Disney Adventures, but there were also DuckTales stories previously unpublished in the United States.
Uncle Scrooge stories that became DuckTales episodes[]
The 12 stories were collected in two paperback volumes by Gemstone in 2006: "Carl Barks' Greatest DuckTales Stories" Vol 1 & 2
Original story | Originally published in | DuckTales episode | Collection |
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"Back to the Klondike" | Uncle Scrooge #2 (Four Color #456) |
"Back to the Klondike" | Vol 1 |
"The Horseradish Story" | Uncle Scrooge #3 | "Down & Out in Duckburg" | Vol 2 |
"Tralla La" | Uncle Scrooge #6 | "The Land of Trala La" | Vol 2 |
"The Lemming with the Locket" | Uncle Scrooge #9 | "Scrooge's Pet" | Vol 1 |
"The Golden Fleecing" | Uncle Scrooge #12 | "The Golden Fleecing" | Vol 2 |
"Land Beneath the Ground" | Uncle Scrooge #13 | "Earth Quack" | Vol 1 |
"The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" | Uncle Scrooge #14 | "Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" | Vol 1 |
"Hound of Whiskervilles" | Uncle Scrooge #29 | "The Curse of Castle McDuck" | Vol 1 |
"The Unsafe Safe" | Uncle Scrooge #38 | "The Unbreakable Bin" | Vol 2 |
"The Status Seeker" | Uncle Scrooge #41 | "The Status Seekers" | Vol 2 |
"The Giant Robot Robbers" | Uncle Scrooge #58 | "Robot Robbers" | Vol 2 |
"Micro-Ducks from Outer Space" | Uncle Scrooge #65 | "Micro Ducks from Outer Space" | Vol 1 |
Uncle Scrooge issues with DuckTales stories[]
The stories from #392–399 were collected in two paperback volumes by Boom! Studios in 2011: "DuckTales - Like a Hurricane" (#392-395) and "DuckTales - Messes Become Successes" (#396–399).
Issue # | Story | Source |
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266 | "Puzzle of the Lost Pyramid" | reprinted from DuckTales Magazine #1 |
270 | "The Hex" | originally published internationally 1990 |
300 | "Coin of the Realm" | reprinted from DuckTales #6 |
326 | "The Whistling Ghost" | reprinted from DuckTales #10 |
328 | "The Bedeviled Dime" | reprinted from DuckTales #8 |
340 | "The Hardware Hardener" | originally published in Denmark 1994 |
349 | "New Years Daze" | originally published in Denmark 1994 |
352 | "Shake" | originally published in Denmark 1993 |
363 | "Quacko-Quacko Island" | originally published in Denmark 1994 |
369 | "Back in Time for a Dime" | reprinted from DuckTales Magazine #6 |
373 | "Fool for Fuel" | originally published in Denmark 1998 |
379 | "I of the Storm" | originally published in Denmark 1997 |
392 | "The Everlasting Coal" "The Littlest Gizmoduck" |
originally published in Denmark 1991 reprinted from Disney Adventures Vol. 1, #2 |
393 | "The Pyramid of Prak-Ti-Kal" "A Switch in Time" |
originally published in France 1990 reprinted from Disney Adventures Vol. 3, #1 |
394-395 | "The Curse of Flabbergé" | originally published in France 1992 |
396 | "Lovelorn Launchpad" "Double Indemnity" |
originally published in Denmark 1996 originally published in Denmark 1995 |
397 | "The Last Auction Hero" "A Dolt from the Blue" "Big Blimp in Little Trouble" |
originally published in Denmark 1989 originally published in Denmark 1996 originally published in Denmark 1996 |
398 | "The Belt of Time" | originally published in Brazil 1993 |
399 | "The Arcadian Urn" "Scrooge's Nose Knows Gold" |
originally published in Denmark 1994 reprinted from DuckTales Magazine #8 |