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In the story "King Scrooge the First" the antagonist is clearly shown to be going off to his death, aging rapidly before our eyes and shuffling away to "meet his ancestors".

and merlock form the ductales movie die?
his frist wish was be inmortal...

Well, I don't think it's supposed to be the same continuity, but Merlock appeared in a Donald Duck video game years later...besides, I remember a lot of cartoon slapstick i.e. Dijon getting hit by a boulder, so Merlock may not have "died" any more than Wile E. Coyote, and I don't know if the genie turning into a boy changed any prior wishes (though at the risk of going OT I think would be an interesting idea if Disney ever decided to produce a sequel [highly doubtful but not completely impossible - especially if DVD sales do well enough] - how Scrooge's final wish affected the entire history of the Duck universe was changed; they could incorporate a lot of original Barks/Rosa material into that - maybe something happened so that Donald never joined the navy while the Nephews still live with Della/Dumbella, and Scrooge is a lonely, miserable "Christmas on Bear Mountain"-type miser who becomes happy again when by chance he reunites with Goldie in his old age; El Capitan (who we last left in the pilot still digging for gold with his hands) finds a certain Golden Helmet and with the help (and marriage) of Magica (who is actually Italian here) briefly becomes King of North America before being defeated in the end by Scrooge, Donald, the Nephews and the "extended family" (i.e. the boy genie, Launchpad, Webby, Gizmoduck, Bubba) maybe they could even show Donald and Hortense [in the "present."])

Quote from user: Roger NorthYes Lady Quackly I have noticed that Dr Von Strangeduck looks like Ludwig Von Drake. I actually thought they were the same character when I first saw that episode. As for Scottie dying I wouldn't be suprised if his impostor Diamond Dick killed him. Of Course they wouldn't reveal that in the comic book story because it would have been too gruesome for children to handle. I'm suprised they showed Scottie's dead body in the comic book considering it was a Disney Comic. That was the first time I saw a dead body in a Disney Comic not counting the dead crocodiles in The Crocodile Collector.
Of course, Von Strangeduck is a little stockier than Ludwig (and obviously has more hair), but it's likely that he was inspired by Von Drake---who, sadly, popped up in only one episode.

I wouldn't be surprised either if Diamond Dick bumped Scotty off; though probably he just died. That was the impostor lying in that bed though, and you notice he's not there in a later panel. He pretended to be dead (while pretending to be Scotty) to freak people out and try to make them leave the castle.

I just had a look at "Crocodile Collector" and I see what you mean, though I guess Rosa figured showing croc mummies wouldn't be too traumatic. Actually showing one killed might have been a different ball game, though.

Oh well - great minds think alike I guess.

In "L'inferno di Topolino" ("Mickey's Inferno") death is all around. E.g. Zeke didn't look he'd survive that, but somehow he did...
In "Topolino e il doppio segreto di Macchia Nera" ("The Blot's Double Mystery") Mickey would have stabbed Chief O'Hara to death, if he hadn't been fooled with a dummy.
In "Zio Paperone e il trapianto della pituitaria" there's a mention of a strangled dog, if I remember correctly.
I guess there's more in other stuff written by Martina.

Quote from user: Quackdont forget that animal killing actually isnt too uncommon in disney comics:
In "The Mystery of the Swamp" the gneezles hide in crocodile skins
In another barks comic (when donald and the boys are hunting butterflies in africa ) donald actually poisons a crocodile, and in the next panel donald and the boys are using the crocodile skin to go through the river.
there were a few others but i need to dig them out.
An interesting use of "dead animals" is to be found p 18 of "The Gilded Man" (Donald Duck One-Shot # 422, September, 1952), where the ducks face the very real possibility of their own death when they find "stuffed ducks!"-- which is of course funny because the Disney ducks look very different from actual ducks, and is precisely the reason Barks could make this gag.