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> The Italian way to the life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

This sounds very, very interesting! I hope you don't mind that I copy this
onwards to other discussion boards to get other people's points of view on
this?

One comment: Grandma Duck is Scrooge's OLDER sister, isn't she?

Per Starb?ck wrote on August 3:

> Today [this mailing list is] 13 years old. (A teenager!)

And now it will have to go through puberty... 8-)
Congratulations, Per!

> I can't find the archives of the second incarnation myself!

I must have all DCML mails in my own archive. But only in the form of plain text files, so that's probably not of use in a web archive.

--Harry.

Thanks Per for working on the archives!

Harry Fluks:
> I must have all DCML mails in my own archive.
> But only in the form of plain text files, so that's
> probably not of use in a web archive.

I have the DCML digests of May 1995 to August 2005.

--- Dani?l

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Lars Jensen wrote:

>> Sounds *very* interesting. Could you post the text here or provide a
>> link to it?

The text was posted in his original message, but obviously your
mailreader has some issues (try upgrading). I'll post it here again, in
case others are having the same problem as Lars:

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The Italian way to the life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

In the Yukon, from the gold-seekeers Scrooge sr. McDuck (called "Daddy
Scrooge") and "Oretta Paporetta", after the 1897 two twins were born:
the little Scrooge McDuck and his brother, the black sheep of the
family, since he's lavish as much his twin is a tightwad.
The first word pronounced by Scrooge is "dollar" and, when six months
old, he begins to show a silly attraction to the gold. In these days, a
strong competition with John Rockerducks starts.
Later, his sibling Papera ["female duck"] and Gedeon will born.
When 12 years old, Scrooge finds his first goldmine.
Nothing is known about the fate of his family: probably, the McDucks
move after the end of the gold rush in Canada.

The poor Scrooge comes back by boat in his native land. The captain pays
him with three coins: the first to touch his hand is the Number One
Dime. Found a job in the north, in the "Dark Forest", he meets an old
witch that puts him through a trial about generosity, successfully, and
that suggests him to save his first gain.
In this period, he meets Glittering Goldie.
When 18 years old, Scrooge receives from his dad a trunk, containing the
coins of their ancerstors. The magical aura showed later by them must
have confused his memories, since he remembers the deeds of his father
and his uncle [= Barks' stories set in XIX century] as he has lived
them. He decides to leave everything and take his chance.

In 1928 [date of the reprint, not original], Scrooge becomes an
university student and meets Brigitta McBrigde. To free himself from her
grasp, he gifts her an expensive hat of balaboo. Soon, he must have left
university.

In the thirties, Scrooge tries his fortune in Duckburg, selling
chestnuts, and meets Molly McGold. They open parallel activities, until
they earn their first million the same day. They decide to build
together their own Money Bins.
Scrooge commissions the construction to the father of John Rockerduck.
Because of an unlucky investment, Molly goes bankrupt and decides to
leave. Scrooge asks her hand in marriage, to make her stay, but she
refuses and breakes his heart.

Still in America, in 1940 Scrooge has earned his first billion, thanks
to a goldmine found in Tucson, Arizona.
In 1948, he reaches the 300 billion dollars target. He buys his hat in
Gold Town, where his sister livea. After more than thirty years, Scrooge
and "Papera" acts like strangers. They begin to go round with each other.
In the night of a 16 September, the two siblings risk to run over a
forsaken duck pup and decide to take him with them. They baptize him
Donald, and rebaptize themselves as "Uncle Scrooge" and "Grandma Duck",
since their age. The child lives with Grandma Duck in Quack Town, near
Duckburg, where Scrooge has his Money Bin.

When Donald is adult, Scrooge makes inquiries about him and discovers
that they're really relatives, even if we don't know how. Meanwhile,
Della sends his children to his cousin Donald, so the very history of
the ducks starts.

Finally, Gedeon McDuck moves to Duckburg and launches a newspaper.
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Best,
- --
Mads Jensen

Dansk Donaldist-Forening - http://ddfr.dk
INDUCKS - http://inducks.org

- Don Rosa -

>>>>> And thanks for all your kind words about that story! (But I still
thought it
>>>>> was sorta on the lame side as regards humor and action

It was good, but the humor is indeed better in "Crown of the Crusader Kings"
for instance (I re-read it before launching into TOCOS/AFH)-- the Voodoo
dolls scene is one of the most hilarious I've read; the action surely is
better in other stories as well.
Overal good, but not among the very best; the characterization, however, is
one of the best such stories. The adventure really is a long setup to that
one final scene, and it sure pays off.

>>> -- the story *I* like is the one I finally sent in last week, "The
Prisoner of White Agony Creek".

I guess I'll be able to read it in 6-12 months...

>>>> But I expect many or most readers will think *that's* the one that's
sorta
>>>> lame.) (And there will be *more* obvious opportunities for
"discretionary
>>>> decisions" in a few scenes in that one. Like when the snow melts off
the
>>>> cabin roof. Ooooh, baby! But I tells 'em like I sees 'em.)

This simple description can already be interpreted several peculiar ways.
Wait and see...

Olivier

Hello!

DD 276 (November 1989) reprinted a Gutenberghus story:
D4006
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/D++4006//

Though no French publication is listed in INDUCKS, I read this story years
and years ago in Le journal de Mickey, and still have it somewhere (though
probably bound together with other stories-- so that I can't possibly index
that LJdM issue, sorry). I liked this story and read it several times, so I
remember the set-up very clearly.

Donald decides to "undertake some wildnerness landscaping" in his gardne; he
digs a "pond", builds a "mountain", rents animas (lie & stuffed), disguises
and whatnots so that the nephews can camp in the wilderness at home.

In this Gladstone reprint, Donald does it because he's tired of the
"envelope labelling job" he's taken (and does at home): "I can't stay copped
u like this all summer! I need a break!" He thus decides to make thes
wilderness-in-a-backyard; the nephews (who were setting up a tent to train
for their Woodchuck Jamboree) would rather he stuck to his stamp-sticking
job.

In my French version (from memory), the papers strewn about Donald's table
at the beginning are really his bank statements, taxes, .... He can't afford
to take his nephews to camp in the woods (what they were training for), and
decides instead to bring the wilderness home.

Could anyone check the original dialogue of the story, please?
The French dialogue & Donald's motivation therein make a lot more sense than
the American reprint-- the dialogue also fits the art better.
It's really a small "problem", and I'm sure the version I've known for years
is the right one, but I'm curious. There might even be yet another version.

Olivier

Regarding Scrooge's in-house accountant: In a lot of Barks' stories Uncle Scrooge had
a worker in his offices called "Clerkly". I assume that he was the in-house accountant
for
McDuck Enterprises. In several stories (including a few one-pagers) there was an
accountant who came to see him. I assume this was McDuck Enterprises' outside
"consulting accounting firm", which prepared the firm's tax statements , quarterly and
annual reports. Unfortunately, I don't believe these accountants were ever given names
by Barks.

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