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#41
Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge , #40

Published: January 1963

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Santa Scrooge

Story Featuring Uncle Scrooge

Storyline

Ringing a bell, Uncle Scrooge plays Santa Claus.

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Story Notes

Art submitted on May 21, 1962. Barks only did the art on the cover, the idea came from someone else.

Good Old S.U.

Story Featuring Uncle Scrooge

"You mean people actually pay money to watch that silly game?"

Storyline

Uncle Scrooge founds a university to take advantage of the profits involved in college football.

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Story Notes

Conventional rounded dialogue balloons. Black and white on inside front cover.

Oddball Odyssey

Story Featuring Uncle Scrooge

"Donald, Dewey, Huey, Louie! I want you to sail with me to Italy right away! I've heard about an ancient treasure there!"

Storyline

Scrooge has received a strangely-scented letter that purports to be from a descendent of Circe. The writer says she will sell the treasure of Ulysses to Scrooge if he will bring his Old Number One Dime to prove who he is. The nephews smell a plot by Magica de Spell.

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Story Notes

In accordance with the “Early Gold Key Style”, this story has borderless panels with rectangular dialogue balloons.

The Tricky Hero

Story Featuring Mickey Mouse

""Here we are," Mickey Mouse called gaily, as he stopped the car in the driveway of the Roundup Dude Ranch."

Storyline

Mysterious pilfering from the guests plagues Mr. Grady's dude ranch until Pluto reveals the culprit.

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Posthasty Postman

Story Featuring Gyro Gearloose

"Gyro has grown tired of inventing, and seeks a new career!"

Storyline

Ostensibly eschewing inventing, Gyro starts off on his first day as a postman by pausing between each delivery to invent something to make the life of a letter carrier that much easier - a practice that does not sit well with the Postmaster.

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Story Notes

Atypically, Gyro's Helper does not appear. This story exhibits the unusual graphic sensibilities of the “Early Gold Key Style” - including non-inked panel borders done in various pastel colors that reduce the size of the art, wider symmetrical panel gutters with no variation, and rectangular dialogue balloons. Greater detail on this graphic style departure, and the overall transition from Dell to Gold Key for the Uncle Scrooge title, is found in the Story Notes entry for "Posthasty Postman" by Joe Torcivia in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (Fantagraphics, 2011 Series) #28 - Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Cave of Ali Baba. https://www.comics.org/issue/2539015/#4101342 (June 2023).

Kingpin for a Day

Story Featuring Uncle Scrooge

"From time to time, Uncle Scrooge must leave his headquarters in the plush McDuck Building, and only at such times is he willing to let another sit in his stead..."

Storyline

While Scrooge is on a business trip, he leaves a Scrooge robot to act in his place... with Donald on hand only to maintain the robot's functioning. When he inadvertently disables the robot, Donald steps in as the duck-in-charge... to disastrous results.

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Story Notes

This story exhibits the unusual graphic sensibilities of the “Early Gold Key Style” - including non-inked panel borders backgrounds and props covered in only one color, wider symmetrical panel gutters with no variation, and rectangular dialogue balloons. The notion of "someone having a robot (or robots) stand in for them when they are occupied elsewhere" seems to have taken a cue from the concurrent Superman comics stories. Jim Fletcher's art style, alongside that of Carl Barks in this issue, makes for a huge comparison of extremes.

Expensive Water

Story Featuring Uncle Scrooge

"Wak! Stop that, James!"

Storyline

Scrooge looks to save money by filling his limousine's radiator with free water from the corner gas station.

Credits
Story Notes

Rectangular dialogue balloons.

A Tip or Two

Story Featuring Uncle Scrooge

"Good morning, Daisy!"

Storyline

Ever the gentleman, Scrooge tips his top hat to Daisy twice... with good reason.

Credits
Story Notes

Conventional rounded dialogue balloons. Black and white on inside back cover.

Uncle Scrooge Pin-Up No. 1

Story Featuring Uncle Scrooge

Storyline

Ringing a bell, Uncle Scrooge plays Santa Claus.

Credits
Story Notes

Color on back cover. The front cover image is repeated on the back cover, sans logo and all cover copy. A blue-green border is added on all four sides.

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