Uncle Scrooge

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Uncle Scrooge
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Uncle Scrooge (stylized as Uncle $crooge) is a

Duckburg and around the world. It was first published in Four Color Comics #386 (March 1952), as a spin-off of the popular Donald Duck series and is still presently ongoing. It has been produced under the aegis of several different publishers, including Western Publishing (initially in association with Dell Comics and later under its own subsidiary, Gold Key Comics and their Whitman imprint), Gladstone Publishing, Disney Comics, Gemstone Publishing, Boom! Studios, and IDW Publishing, and has undergone several hiatuses of varying length. Despite this, it has maintained the same numbering scheme throughout its six decade history, with only IDW adding a secondary numbering that started at #1.[1]

Besides Scrooge and his family, recurring characters include

Duck universe
".

Its early issues by famed writer/artist (and creator of Scrooge McDuck) Carl Barks formed the inspiration for the syndicated television cartoon DuckTales in the late 1980s. Several stories written by Barks and published in Uncle Scrooge were adapted as episodes of DuckTales.

Writers and artists

The first 70 issues mostly consisted of stories written and drawn by Carl Barks. The 71st issue had a story written by Barks and drawn by Tony Strobl. Subsequent Gold Key Comics issues combined reprints of earlier Barks tales with new material by creators such as Strobl, Vic Lockman, Phil DeLara, Jack Manning, and Pete Alvarado.

When Gladstone Publishing relaunched the title in 1986, a new generation of American creators began contributing to the title, including

Egmont (originally Gutenberghus) and Disney Italy/Mondadori
.

U.S. publication history

Main article: List of Uncle Scrooge comics

Scrooge made his first appearance in the Donald Duck story "

Michael Barrier
has termed a masterpiece. After two further Four Color appearances Scrooge was granted his own title starting with issue number 4 (counting the try-out issues as one through three).

The series continued uninterrupted (though not always on a monthly schedule) until 1984, when

Another Rainbow
, who had been publishing hardbound compilations of Carl Barks's work for several years, acquired it and launched Gladstone Publishing, resuming the title where Whitman had left off.

Gladstone continued publishing Uncle Scrooge until their license expired in 1990. At that point, the series shifted over to Disney Comics with little change in editorial direction. It was one of only three monthly titles to survive the "Disney implosion" of 1991 (the others being Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Donald Duck Adventures), and continued to be published by Disney Comics until 1993, when Disney Comics folded and the license was reacquired by Gladstone Publishing. Gladstone went through their own implosion in 1998, and Uncle Scrooge was briefly converted into a double-sized (64 page), "prestige" format series, before Gladstone ended publication entirely later that year.

No further issues were published until 2003, when Gemstone Publishing (whose editorial staff included several former employees of Gladstone) acquired the license and resumed publication of Uncle Scrooge. Gemstone maintained the prestige format previously adopted by Gladstone, and continued to publish the series until November 2008. Financial difficulties at Gemstone ended its run then, and the license was acquired by Boom! Studios, who reverted to the standard 32 page format when they began publication in late 2009. Boom's run ended in 2011, when the Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Marvel Entertainment lead to the consolidation of all Disney comics licenses under Marvel Comics.

In January 2015, IDW Publishing announced that they would be publishing the title, starting in April 2015.[1] Apart from the single issues of the comic book, IDW Publishing also publishes the run in trade paperback collections compiling three issues each, but did also at one point collect the issues in hardcover collections under the title Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales.[2] However the hardcover compilations ceased to come out after the third volume. The Trade paperbacks soon followed, and the last regular issue printed was 460 (IDW 56), leaving the series ending on a cliffhanger as the story was to be continued in the next issue.

Other titles and spinoffs

Over the years, Scrooge McDuck has proven popular enough to appear as the main character in a number of other comic book series. Many of these series include republications of stories originally written for the "main" Uncle Scrooge title in the United States or various European countries.

Scrooge often appeared in

The Beagle Boys alongside his frequent adversaries, published irregularly by Gold Key from 1963 to 1979.[3] When that title ended, it was relaunched as The Beagle Boys Versus Uncle Scrooge in March 1979 and lasted for twelve issues, until February 1980.[4]

In 1987, Gladstone Publishing began publication of Uncle Scrooge Adventures, which they would continue to publish until 1998, excluding the period from 1990 through 1993, when Disney Comics held the license to publish Disney comics.

Scrooge was also a major character in three different comic book titles tied in with the

Boom! Kids in 2011.[7] Several DuckTales comics starring Scrooge would also appear in the pages of Disney Adventures in the early 1990s.[8]

Finally, The Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck, published by Gladstone, ran for two issues in 1998. A third issue was planned but cancelled along with the rest of Gladstone's output other than Uncle Scrooge and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories following a collapse in comics sales.[9]

Reprints

Carl Bark's Greatest DuckTales Stories (printed in the order of adaptation into Ducktales episodes).
Volume 1 Four Color #456
Uncle Scrooge #13, 65, 9, 14 & 29
Volume 2 Uncle Scrooge #58, 12, 3, 41, 38 & 6
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library.
Volume 1 (Volume 12 overall) "Only a Poor Old Man" Four Color #386, 456, 495
Uncle Scrooge #4–6
Volume 2 (Volume 14 overall) “The Seven Cities of Gold” TBA
Volume 3 (Volume 16 overall) “The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan” TBA
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Fantagraphics)
The Diamond Jubilee Collection[10] TBA

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Stephen Gerding (21 January 2015). "IDW KICKS OFF NEW MONTHLY DISNEY LINE IN APRIL WITH "UNCLE SCROOGE" #1". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Traded up: 'Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales #3' (Review)". www.forcesofgeek.com. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  3. ^ "The Beagle Boys". DCW: Disney Comics Worldwide. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  4. ^ "USA: The Beagle Boys Versus Uncle Scrooge". I.N.D.U.C.K.S. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  5. ^ "USA: Ducktales". I.N.D.U.C.K.S. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  6. ^ "USA: Ducktales (Disney Comics)". I.N.D.U.C.K.S. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  7. ^ "USA: DuckTales (Boom)". I.N.D.U.C.K.S. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  8. ^ "USA: Disney Adventures". I.N.D.U.C.K.S. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  9. ^ "The Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck". DCW: Disney Comics Worldwide. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  10. ^ "CARL BARKS: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Diamond Jubilee Collection". Fantagraphics.com. Fantagraphics. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

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