Storyline: None Specified
Date: 2007 (2nd printing)
Price: $17.99 US
Writer: Don Rosa
Artist: Don Rosa

Synopsis: Don Rosa created this twelve-part story to delineate exactly how Scrooge McDuck acquired his fortune and became the World’s Richest Duck. The story was originally serialized in the United States in Uncle Scrooge comics. Now it has been collected in one all-encompassing volume.

Opinion: Finally, the answers I’ve been looking for.

I’ve been reading Disney comics for a long time and Uncle Scrooge has always been my favorite. On the surface he’s a cantankerous, miserly, mean old duck but, underneath, he has a heart of gold. Gold probably mined, smelted and shaped by himself to save jeweler’s costs, but gold none the less.

Read my review after the jump.

I loved when Carl Barks, the quintessential duck man himself, would give us glimpses into Scrooge’s past, but he never really gave us a full history. Enter Don Rosa. Don Rosa has, in the past, shown himself to be more than capable to fill Carl Barks’ shoes. More than any other duck artist he has stuck to the facts, treating the characters as if they were real, as if you would actually meet them on the streets during your next visit to Calisota.

Meticulously researched, Don Rosa has pieced together Scrooge’s past from clues and story lines that Carl Barks has left behind. Starting with Scrooge’s childhood, Rosa takes us through his rough-scrabble start as a shoe shine boy where he earned his lucky dime, and the real circumstances behind it, to his days on a river boat, travels through the deep dark jungles of Africa, his mining days in the Yukon, the founding of Duckberg, the first meeting with the Beagle Boys, his thwarted romance with Goldie and more.

Well drawn and wonderfully written, I highly recommend this book to any duck fan out there.

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