The Terror of the Transvaal
"The Terror of the Transvaal" | |
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Story code | D 92273 |
Story | Don Rosa |
Ink | Don Rosa |
Hero | Scrooge McDuck |
Pages | 12 |
Layout | 4 rows per page |
Appearances | Scrooge McDuck |
"The Terror of the Transvaal" is a Scrooge McDuck comic story by Don Rosa. It is the sixth of the original 12 chapters in the series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. The story takes place from 1887 to 1889.
The story was first published in the Danish
Plot
The
Just as the animals are about to pounce, Scrooge's hurt gives way to fury and he makes a lifetime vow: "Nobody double-crosses Scrooge McDuck!" He tames the animals with his bare hands, then bridles a
The story's closing narration reveals the young Boer to be Flintheart Glomgold, who will grow up to be the world's second richest duck, and Scrooge's nemesis.
References to classic Barks stories
Several of Don Rosa's works featuring Scrooge and Donald Duck are inspired by or contain hidden references to classic comics stories by Carl Barks. In this volume:
- Flintheart Glomgold was first introduced in Barks's story "The Second-Richest Duck", published in 1956; Rosa said that he carefully wrote "The Terror of the Transvaal" to be consistent with that earlier story, noting that, while Scrooge first learns Glomgold's name in "The Second-Richest Duck", there was nothing in that story to indicate that Glomgold did not already know Scrooge;
- In the last panels of the story, Scrooge leaves South Africa after realizing that only conglomerates can finance the large-scale mining operations needed to turn a profit on the region's mineral wealth; one of the mines he sees developing is the Kaffir de Gaffir mine, which is the prize contended between Scrooge and Glomgold in Barks's 1966 story "So Far and No Safari."