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I have a question pertaining to the Don Rosa story "The Beagle Boys Vs. The Money Bin".
I remember reading somewhere (I can't remember where) recently that there was a joke Don inserted into the comic which for some reason wasn't in the American version of the story in Uncle Scrooge #325, an issue which I myself own. Apparently the joke was that after the Beagle Boys break into the basement of the Money Bin, one of the Beagle Boys looks up in the ceiling and sees something nasty written about Scrooge by an employee. However in the American version the joke wasn't there for some reason. The reason was something along the lines of editing or the wall being obscured, thus the joke no longer being in the comic.
Anyone know anything about this? Anyone have any scans of any of the European versions?

Ah, I know this one! Here's Don Rosa, on the DCML, May 2001:
Finally, in the panel where the Beagles emerge from the well in the basement of the Bin, and they are supposed to be looking at a wall where a disgruntled workman has scrawled nasty graffiti about Mr. McDuck, this being how the Beagles know they are in the Bin. But in the Norwegian version there is no graffiti! The wall is blank! How do they know where they are?
--end quotation--
So, the graffiti was removed from the wall in European editions, and the American edition only perpetuated the omission.
Knowing this, when I went to see Rosa at the Baltimore Comic-Con some years back, I brought an enlarged photocopy of that panel and asked Rosa to write in his graffiti and sign the panel--which he did. The graffiti says "Mr. McDuck is a f--" and the final word runs off the edge of the panel. It's on the right side of the panel, the part of the wall on which one of the Beagles is shining his flashlight.
It seems unlikely to me that the editorial decision was anti-nasty words, because they would have had to translate the graffiti anyway, and could have written some tame complaint about McDuck. It seems more likely to me that this was just a mistake such as sometimes happens with text in the pictures (as opposed to the balloons or narrative boxes). Perhaps they took it out because it had to be translated but then forgot to replace it. If we're lucky, the graffiti will magically reappear in the Fantagraphics edition. Because as Rosa points out, apart from the graffiti there's no way for the Beagles to know they're in the right place.
p.s. The story appears in (French) Picsou 496 (2013), and there's no graffiti in that printing, either. The French dialog of the Beagle shining the flashlight on the wall does not begin with the equivalent of "It is [the Bin]!", so they avoid the illogic of the scene that way. I guess you're supposed to think (from the previous panel) that the Beagles are just trusting their compass.

My guess would be fink.

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[I wanted to avoid linking to this website as it posts (Illegally) Rosa's comics on-line)

Once, in a Comics-Convention, I think it was in Norway, I watched Don reinsert the missing graffiti when he was asked to sign a magazine which included that story. What he drew was no only words, but also a little line man version of $crooge. Thus indicating that the missing (or removed) art includes both text and graphics.

However in the American version the joke wasn't there for some reason. The reason was something along the lines of editing or the wall being obscured, thus the joke no longer being in the comic.

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Quote from user: Camron70However in the American version the joke wasn't there for some reason. The reason was something along the lines of editing or the wall being obscured, thus the joke no longer being in the comic.
As I said above, my guess is that this was not a case of censorship or intentional editing, and it certainly wasn't because the wall was obscured. My guess is that the graffiti got left out of the Scandinavian/European printing by mistake (they took it out because it had to be translated, then forgot to replace it), and that this blank wall simply got reproduced when the story came from Europe to the USA, because no one alerted Gemstone to the omission.