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DON ROSA:

"For Old Time's Sake" (US 43) shows a room in which the ducks try to
protect themselves against Magica's powers. Scrooge hasn't his safety
helmet on and so he hides in a little room where his ink is stored.

I can't remember any library rooms, which doesn't say much at all,
but maybe Scrooge doesn't really have a library? Except for buying
some ancient books, Scrooge might prefer to go to the Duckburg library,
instead of building a book collection of his own.

In the art-only "The Invisible Intruder" (US 44), Scrooge has a giant
bedroom in the money bin. Maybe Scrooge used it for something else
after removing the giant bed?

In several stories, a hidden trap is shown in front of Scrooge's desk.

In "Back to the Klondike" (OS 456), a giant boxing glove comes from
above Scrooge's head.

In "Clothes make the Duck" (US 32), Scrooge tries to get rid of Daisy's
club, which completely ruins his clothes. Scrooge escapes by climbing
into an air vent, which is shown as being in the money part of the
money bin. In general, this story also shows a lot of backgrounds
which contain the inside of the money bin.

In "The Case of the Sticky Money" (US 42), details are shown of the
roof of the money bin.

In "A Spicy Tale" (US 39), Scrooge drinks nutmeg tea. Maybe he has
a special storage room for it? (Nutmeg tea isn't always easily
available, as the story learns.)

The statue contest story (WDC 138) shows a cellar in the money bin.

The rare coins story (WDC 130) contains references to the money at
the bottom of the money bin.

Best wishes,

--- Daniel

MARCO:

> The drawing in the "Blue Book" is apocryphal... It was "reconstructed" by
> Scarpa at the time of publishing the book, because he couldn't find the
> original sketch.
> Apparently, he found it, now!

Erm, perhaps I have misunderstood something here, but Uncle Scrooge on

http://digilander.iol.it/inducks/Scarpoa/Scarpa04.jpg

still looks more like Scarpa than Barks to me.

S?ren

Here I have listed some things I noticed from some Barks stories. I'm sorry but I can't remember the english names for the stories but I have written the plot so you get the idea of the story...

The money bin:

- has a room with defence mechanisms (for lightning, comets, tornados) and a shelve with ink bottles.
these bits are from "W/US 43" In the story Magica attacks the Money bin with different methods, turns herself to Scrooge, nephews notices this and ruin her plans. The lack of the little ink spot on her head exposes her.

- has a thinking room this came up in the story "US 16" In the story Scrooge enters a gameshow but he must not win it because he has already earned too much this year so he ends up answering the question wrong in purpose but he wins the competition afterall because the host thinks that such a dumb person needs the money.

-has a little cupboard where Scrooge wanted to sleep after he has thrown away the huge bed he had in the story. the storycode is "US 44"

- in several stories he has a bathtub filled with money as in the 1 page gag "come-as-you-are party"

Janne

Quack!
I was wondering.... If the bin is 12 floors high, do they use the stairs
all the time, or is there an elevator? The entrance to the actual bin must
be on the top floor, by obvious reasons (or at least on one the
"toppest" floors), so the ducks must be quite well-trained...

Why is it that it's only on the front of the bin there are "living
quarters"? Couldn't it go all way around the building, with the money in
the middle. Of course, that would make it impossible for the beagle boys
to drill a hole in the wall (but I don't know if they've ever done that in
Barks' universe). But on the other hand, $crooge might not have use for
that kind of space to offices.
But there are windows of some kind on all sides aren't there (at least at
two at the time, since my comic books are 2-dim), at the top.

We do know that there's a pile of diamond dust in a room on the ground (or
cellar?) floor (GLORP!), though...

--
/Theresa

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Don:

I made 3 maps for the Bin. You can take a look at
http://www.geocities.com/komixgreekpage/bin/ and tell me your opinion. Also,
all the DCML members can check them and help me completing those maps.
Best Wishes

Apostolis Trikourakis, Athens
E-mail: komix43 at hotmail.com & komix at compulink.gr
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/komixgreekpage
DCML member

I know Don that you've often said you don't consider Barks' paintings as part of the "Barks' Universe" because they were all done after 1967 and are made for collectors rather than readers.

I wish you would reconsider this stance. There is some spectacular detail in these paintings, much of which is logically extrapolated from splash panels in the Uncle Scrooge stories. I especially like the idea of a mining tunnel burrowing and winding down through the acres of coins, complete with rusty old track and cars
that Scrooge would have salvaged from one of his shut down operations, and an old rusty steamshovel, from the days when fresh cash was pouring into the vault and need to be moved around. This tunnel would allow Scrooge to get to the bottom of his bin to examine the two (or more?) cracks that are in the floor: one that leads
to the fissure which claimed his forturne in "Christmas for Shacktown" and one which was caused by a Terry/Fermy earthquake. You might even be able to see portions of the depth gauge on your way down. Scrooge would also have used such a tunnel to help with counting and sorting. I know he often found his older coins buried
at the bottom (pieces of eight, etc.).

Hi DCML members.
I think i found a library!
In the story "Go Slowly, Sands of Time" which Barks wrote in 1965 and paint
in 1981. In the start of this story we see Donald and his nephews to help
Scrooge to find something. This is not a Duckburg's library because it has
safe and the script write scrooge call his nephews to help him.
Best Wishes!

George Agridiotis, Nicosia - Cyprus
E-mail: agridiot at spidernet.net
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/komixwebsite/
DCML member

Martin wrote to Klaus:

> The printed version of 1937 does indeed contain a page 15,
> but if you look
> at it carefully, you will notice that it is identical to page
> 14 (except, of course, the page number).

The scan that Klaus made is indeed of the missing strips!
(Thanks again Klaus, for scanning it for me.)

> I have a
> reconstructed version of the *real* page 15.

Maybe Klaus has this version too?
On the other hand, on the scan it does not look different from the other
pages in the volume.

--Harry.