"the richest duck in the world" as the main character. The series also featured
as supporting characters. The first 70 issues mostly consisted of stories written and drawn by
, the creator of Scrooge McDuck. The 71st issue had a story written by Barks and drawn by
. Subsequent issues often consist of reprints of earlier classic Barks tales. Starting in 1986 when Gladstone took over publishing the title they have also included new stories by American creators
, Pat McGreal, Dave Rawson, Michael T. Gilbert and
. Among the adversaries who made repeat appearances were The Beagle Boys,
" as a curmudgeonly man who decides to test Donald and his nephews to see if they are worthy of inheriting his wealth. Barks found the character and his wealth a useful springboard for stories and re-used him in a number of subsequent Donald Duck one-shot adventures and ten pagers appearing in
. By 1952 the popularity of the character convinced Dell to give Scrooge a try-out as a lead character in the seminal "
After two further one-shot appearances Scrooge was granted his own title starting with issue no.4 (counting the try-out issues as one through five).
| Number | Date | Stories | Notes |
|---|
| 1(Four Color #386) |
1952 |
"Uncle Scrooge (one-pager)", "Only a Poor Old Man Only A Poor Old Man is a comic story written by Carl Barks for the first issue of Uncle Scrooge. It was the first story with Scrooge McDuck as its main character . The story was published in 1952 and is one of the most reprinted Uncle Scrooge comics. Gemstone selected it as the Free Comic Book of...
" |
|
| 2 (Four Color #456) |
1953 |
"Back to the Klondike Back to the Klondike is a Donald Duck comic strip story written by Carl Barks in March 1953. Scrooge McDuck returns to Klondike where he has made his fortune, bringing Donald and the three nephews along, to find back gold he has left there....
" (Carl Barks) |
|
| 3 (Four Color #495) |
1953 |
"The Golden Goose" (Carl Barks) |
|
| 4 |
12/1953 |
"Ballet Evasions", "The Menehune Mystery", "The Cheapest Weigh", "Bum Steer" (all Carl Barks) |
|
| 14 |
3/1956 |
"Lobster" short, "The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan", Gyro Gearloose Wall story, Uncle Scrooge Coffee Bubbles story, "Beach" short, "Firefly" short |
|
| 15 |
4/1956 |
"The Second-Richest DuckThe Second-Richest Duck is an Uncle Scrooge comic book story written and illustrated by Carl Barks in February 1956. It features the first appearance of Flintheart Glomgold.-Plot:...
" |
First Appearance of Flintheart GlomgoldFlintheart Glomgold is a fictional character in Disney comic books. Glomgold is one of Scrooge McDuck's main rivals, and also holds the title of being The Second Richest Duck in the World...
|
| 16 |
1/1957 |
"Minerals" short, "Back to Long Ago", Gyro Gearloose Prediction Machine story, Uncle Scrooge Quiz Show story, "Fuel Oil" short |
|
| 19 |
4/1957 |
"Dollar" short, "The Mines of King Solomon", Gyro Gearloose House story |
|
| 21 |
2/1958 |
"Money Dream" short, "The Money Well - Storyline :Scrooge and his nephews are at his Money Bin where they find out that the Beagle Boys are using oil rigs to steal Scrooge's money. Scrooge and his nephews use a secret escape tunnel built during the time of Fort Duckburg to bury the money on a homestead that he bought...
", Gyro Gearloose Scarecrow story, "Dog" short, "Vault Door" short |
|
| 23 |
4/1958 |
"Hay Wagon" short, "The Strange Shipwrecks", Gyro Gearloose Swimming Pool story, "The Fabulous Tycoon", "Roll" short, "Electric Rates" short |
|
| 24 |
1/1959 |
"The Twenty-four Carat Moon", Gyro Gearloose Tornado story, "The Magic Ink" |
|
| 25 |
2/1959 |
"Taxi Fare" short, "The Flying DutchmanThe Flying Dutchman, according to folklore, is a ghost ship that can never go home, doomed to sail the oceans forever. The Flying Dutchman is usually spotted from afar, sometimes glowing with ghostly light. It is said that if hailed by another ship, its crew will try to send messages to land or to...
", Gyro Gearloose Wishing Well story, Uncle Scrooge Pyramid story, "Butterfly" short, "Newspaper" short, "Kittens" short |
|
| 26 |
3/1959 |
"The Prize of Pizarro", Gyro Gearloose "Krankenstein Gyro", Uncle Scrooge Ghost Town story |
|
| 27 |
4/1959 |
"The Money Champ The Money Champ was originally published in Uncle Scrooge #27 in September, 1959 and is the second of three stories of Carl Barks where Flintheart Glomgold appears.-Plot:...
", Gyro Gearloose "The Firefly Tracker", "His Handy Andy", "Crawls for Cash" short |
|
| 28 |
1/1960 |
"The Paul Bunyan Machine", Gyro Gearloose "The Inventors Contest", "The Witching Stick", "Money Hat" short |
|
| 29 |
2/1960 |
"Island in the Sky Island in the Sky may refer to:*Island in the Sky , starring John Wayne*Island in the Sky, the Ernest K. Gann novel from which the film was adapted*Island in the Sky , a 1960 cartoon by Carl Barks...
", Gyro Gearloose "Oodles of Oomph", "Hound of the Whiskervilles" |
|
| 30 |
3/1960 |
"Pipeline to Danger", Gyro Gearloose "War Paint", "Yoicks! The Fox!" |
|
| 31 |
4/1960 |
"All at Sea All at Sea is a naval ruleset for Games Workshop's miniature wargame The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. The official rules were a modified version of the Warhammer Boat rules, adapted by Nick Davis and first presented in Games Workshop's White Dwarf magazine .The game's mechanics centred...
", Gyro Gearloose "Fishy Warden", "Two-way Luck", "The Secret Book" short, "The Balmy Swami" short |
|
| 32 |
1/1961 |
"That's No Fable", Gyro Gearloose "That Small Feeling", "Clothes Make the Duck", "The Homey Touch" short, "A Thrift Gift" short, "Turnabout" short |
|
| 33 |
2/1961 |
"Tree Trick" short, "Billions in the Hole", Gyro Gearloose "You Can't Win", "Bongo on the Congo", "The Big Bobber" short, "Thumbs Up" short |
|
| 34 |
3/1961 |
"Mythic Mystery", Gyro Gearloose "Wily Rival", "Chugwagon Derby" |
|
| 35 |
4/1961 |
"Hurry Birds" short, "The Golden Nugget Boat", Gyro Gearloose "Fast Away Castaway", "Gift Lion", "Bird Bait" short |
|
| 36 |
2/1962 |
"The Midas Touch", "Duckburg's Day of Peril", Gyro Gearloose "Money Bag Goat", "The Bends" short, "Green Stuff" short, "Memory Man" short |
|
| 37 |
3/1962 |
"The Windy Story" (short), "Cave of Ali Baba", Gyro Gearloose "The Great Popup", "Deep Down Doings", "Cash-Cart", "Can't Take It with You", "Night Out", "Over Weight" (shorts) |
|
| 41 |
3/1963 |
Toll Bridge short, "The Status Seeker", Gyro Gearloose "Snow Duster", "Typhoon Tycoon", Rocket Digger short |
|
| 44 |
8/1963 |
"Crown of the Mayas", Gyro Gearloose "The Fizzle That Drizzled", "The Invisible Intruder" |
|
| 51 |
8/1964 |
"How Green was my Lettuce", Ludwig Von Drake "Pigeon Panic", "Let Donald Do It" |
|
| 55 |
2/1965 |
"McDuck of Arabia", Limousine short, Zoo short, Gyro Gearloose "Scientific Sleuth", Parrot short, Fight short |
|
| 60 |
11/1965 |
"The Phantom of Notre Duck", Gyro Gearloose "The Drippy Diamonds", Uncle Scrooge Desert Outing short |
|
| 68 |
3/1967 |
Antique short, "Hall of the Mermaid Queen", Gyro Gearloose "Hypno-Clock" |
|
| 71 |
10/1967 |
"King Scrooge the First" (Carl Barks and Tony Strobl), "Outdoor Thinking" (Phil de Lara and Vic Lockman) |
|
| 76 |
8/1968 |
"Bye, Bye Money Bin", Gyro Gearloose "The Hopeless Helper", "The Luck Tycoon" |
|
| 92 |
4/1971 |
"The Magic Ink" (reprint), "Two Way Luck" (reprint), Gyro Gearloose "That Small Feeling", "Tattletale Dime" |
|
| 113 |
8/1974 |
"Crown of the Mayas", Gyro Gearloose Cyclone short |
|
| 161 |
2/1979 |
"The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" , Gyro Gearloose untitled short |
|
| 172 |
1/1980 |
"The Magic Ink" (Carl Barks), "The Round Money Bin" (Carl Barks), "The Bad Bargain" (Kay Wright and Vic Lockman) |
|
| 198 |
1982 |
"The Mini-Bin Vacation", "The Wreck of the Merry Lark", "The Collectibles", "The Educated Cane" |
|
| 199 |
1982 |
"Jillions in Jeopardy", "Return of the Bin-Buster", "Payday Blues", "The Educated Cane" |
|
| 204 |
1982 |
"The Magnetic Curse", "The Fragrant Vagrant", "The Double Diamond", "The Rare Stamp" |
first story with personal computer |
| 214 |
2/1987 |
"A Sticky Situation" (Gutenberghus Group), "The Tuckered Tiger" (Carl Barks), Uncle Scrooge short, "An Alarming Development", Uncle Scrooge short |
|
| 217 |
5/1987 |
"The Seven Cities of Cibola" (Carl Barks) |
|
| 219 |
7/1987 |
"The Son of the Sun" (Don Rosa), "Portrait of the Artist as a Duck Man", short article |
|
| 221 |
9/1987 |
"Green Attack" (Gutenberghus Group), Uncle Scrooge untitled squirrel short, Uncle Scrooge untitled quiz show short |
|
| 228 |
8/1988 |
"Chugwagon Derby" (Barks), Beagle Boys "The Pigeon Plot", "The Generosity Ray", Donald Duck short |
|
| 238 |
10/1989 |
"Ducking the Press" (Netherlands), "A Witch in Crime" (Denmark), "Trouble Indemnity" (Carl Barks) |
|
| 244 |
7/1990 |
"The Adventurers Club Award" (Avenell, Vicar, Foster, Clark, Daigle-Leach), "The Toothless Tiger Auction" (Anderson, Vicar, Foster, Clark, Daigle-Leach) |
|
| 272 |
11/1992 |
"Canute the Brute's Battle Axe" (Anderson, Gabner, Vicar, Davidson, Daigle-Leach), "Fare Delay" short (Barks, Daigle-Leach), "Charity Donation" short (Barks, Daigle-Leach) |
|
| 276 |
3/1993 |
"The Island at the Edge of Time" (Don Rosa), "Skywriting for Scrooge" (Carl Barks) |
|
| 277 |
4/1993 |
"The Great Steamboat Race", "Immovable Miser", "Much Luck McDuck" (all Carl Barks) |
|
| 278 |
5/1993 |
"North of the Yukon" (Carl Barks) |
|
| 279 |
6/1993 |
"Back to Long Ago!", "Moola on the Move", "Long Distance Collision", "Classy Taxi" (all Carl Barks) |
|
| 292 |
6/1995 |
"King of the Klondike", two Donald Duck untitled shorts, untitled Uncle Scrooge short |
|
| 300 |
10/1996 |
"The Sunken Yacht" (Barks), "Coin of the Realm", "Go Slowly, Sands of Time", "Nobody's Business" |
|
| 302 |
2/1997 |
"Monkey Business" (Barks), "Barrel Bargains" (Gorm Transgaard and Torres), "The Telltale Hand" (Tony Strobl), "Beagle Boys meet Abner the Actor" (Tony Strobl), "Too Bee or Not to Bee" (Torres and Per Diemer) |
|
| 357 |
9/2006 |
"Return to Xanadu" (Don Rosa), "Comet Get It!" (Kari Korhonen and Tino Santanach), "Dr. Invento" (Janet Gilbert and Marsal Bresco), "Through a Lens Darkly" (Frank Jonker and Bas Heymans) |
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