Just wondering which color you prefer on Scrooge's coat and perhaps disscus the diffirent color patterns.
- The all in red one (This one is the one we see most at the time in Sweden).
- The one in red and black (I think I have seen this one mostly in Italian Comics).
- The one in red and grey. (I could be wrong but I think this one is mostly seen in the US).
- The one in Blue and red (DuckTales).
- The red and green one (It's seems this combination is mostly used in the Neatherlands).
- or perhaps someone I havent listed...
I prefer the red and grey one (with white spats) mostly because I have seen it the most in the original comics made by Carl Barks so it feels more like the "genuine" one, to me at least. But in Barks paintings he painted Scrooge's jacket with different colors but I think he used the red and grey one the most.
But do someone know why they chose to put the color blue as the primary color on Scrooge's coat in DuckTales? It kinda bugs me a little actually.
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Topic: Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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Quackberg
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-05 at 03:38:26
Robb_K
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-05 at 03:52:05
I like the red and green one best, but also the red and grey. Having a blue coat is not good when Scrooge is out in the open air during daytime, with the sky as background.
VoBo
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-05 at 08:21:32
I like the red and grey/black most. I think that works best colourwise.
But I don't like the spats and cane in blue.....
But I don't like the spats and cane in blue.....
McDuck Menu
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-05 at 09:59:23
Ik like the red and green one best, but maybe that's just because that's how he's printed her in the Netherlands. I wonder why there are so many different color schemes for Scrooge.. Does it have something to do with how they were printed when they first appeared in those countries?
Roger North
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-05 at 15:32:17
I like the red and grey one the best too although I can tolerate the blue and red one as well. Scrooge's coat used to be interchangable until 1990 when The Walt Disney Company started publishing their own comic books. In the First Series Gladstone issues some stories had Scrooge with a blue coat some had him with a green coat, and some with a purple coat but since the Disney Comics Inc Era Scrooge's coat was red all the time. What's up with that?
Fritz Baugh
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-05 at 16:25:21
Quote from user: Roger NorthIn the First Series Gladstone issues some stories had Scrooge with a blue coat some had him with a green coat, and some with a purple coat but since the Disney Comics Inc Era Scrooge's coat was red all the time. What's up with that?
From what I recall gathering from the letter pages, for Barks reprints they tried to match the original printing's colors most of the time. I even recall a refence to "tearing up the original comics to send down to the color seperators" or somesuch (which is why GCA 4's printing of "Back to The Klondike" actually more closely matches the reprint in US 142, as they just didn't have the copies of OS 456 to spare!)
Note that in the stories they commissioned themselves, or purchased from Egmont, they used the red and grey--which, to be on topic, is definitely my preferred color scheme.
From what I recall gathering from the letter pages, for Barks reprints they tried to match the original printing's colors most of the time. I even recall a refence to "tearing up the original comics to send down to the color seperators" or somesuch (which is why GCA 4's printing of "Back to The Klondike" actually more closely matches the reprint in US 142, as they just didn't have the copies of OS 456 to spare!)
Note that in the stories they commissioned themselves, or purchased from Egmont, they used the red and grey--which, to be on topic, is definitely my preferred color scheme.
Ramapith
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-05 at 23:04:33
Quote from user: QuackbergBut do someone know why they chose to put the color blue as the primary color on Scrooge's coat in DuckTales? It kinda bugs me a little actually.
The "DuckTales" color scheme for Scrooge??blue coat, red collar, cuffs, and spats??was in fact the standard color scheme for Scrooge in Italian comics at the time DuckTales went into production (mid-1980s, though Scrooge had worn those colors in Italy as far back as the late 1950s).
I'm not sure about the rationale for why DuckTales should have imitated Italy; I'm only guessing here, but maybe Disney looked at the global market and perceived that Italian stories had the widest circulation over the largest territory at that time; so it made sense for DuckTales' Scrooge to mimic that color scheme.
There could also be the point that up to the mid-1980s, Scrooge had never been very consistent in the American comics, so there wasn't a stable color scheme happening domestically at the time.
Outside Italy, it seems not to be common knowledge today that the blue coat didn't start with DuckTales.
The "DuckTales" color scheme for Scrooge??blue coat, red collar, cuffs, and spats??was in fact the standard color scheme for Scrooge in Italian comics at the time DuckTales went into production (mid-1980s, though Scrooge had worn those colors in Italy as far back as the late 1950s).
I'm not sure about the rationale for why DuckTales should have imitated Italy; I'm only guessing here, but maybe Disney looked at the global market and perceived that Italian stories had the widest circulation over the largest territory at that time; so it made sense for DuckTales' Scrooge to mimic that color scheme.
There could also be the point that up to the mid-1980s, Scrooge had never been very consistent in the American comics, so there wasn't a stable color scheme happening domestically at the time.
Outside Italy, it seems not to be common knowledge today that the blue coat didn't start with DuckTales.
Quackberg
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-05 at 23:14:59
Quote from user: ramapithThe "DuckTales" color scheme for Scrooge??blue coat, red collar, cuffs, and spats??was in fact the standard color scheme for Scrooge in Italian comics at the time DuckTales went into production (mid-1980s, though Scrooge had worn those colors in Italy as far back as the late 1950s).
I'm not sure about the rationale for why DuckTales should have imitated Italy; I'm only guessing here, but maybe Disney looked at the global market and perceived that Italian stories had the widest circulation over the largest territory at that time; so it made sense for DuckTales' Scrooge to mimic that color scheme.
There could also be the point that up to the mid-1980s, Scrooge had never been very consistent in the American comics, so there wasn't a stable color scheme happening domestically at the time.
Outside Italy, it seems not to be common knowledge today that the blue coat didn't start with DuckTales.
Interesting, I didn't know that this color scheme existed before the show and I think this is probably the best explanation why it was used in DuckTales.
I'm not sure about the rationale for why DuckTales should have imitated Italy; I'm only guessing here, but maybe Disney looked at the global market and perceived that Italian stories had the widest circulation over the largest territory at that time; so it made sense for DuckTales' Scrooge to mimic that color scheme.
There could also be the point that up to the mid-1980s, Scrooge had never been very consistent in the American comics, so there wasn't a stable color scheme happening domestically at the time.
Outside Italy, it seems not to be common knowledge today that the blue coat didn't start with DuckTales.
Interesting, I didn't know that this color scheme existed before the show and I think this is probably the best explanation why it was used in DuckTales.
Roger North
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-06 at 13:00:06
Thanks Fritz I figured that was happened but I wasn't too sure about it until now.
Argonaut
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-06 at 19:37:16
I definitely prefer the red w/ grey trim and grey spats.
However, oddly, I don't like it when DuckTales comics don't use the blue w/ red trim coat (since that's how DuckTales Scrooge is supposed to look)... and more bizarre still, I love that the Ducktales video game uses the RED coat!
Go figure. :)
However, oddly, I don't like it when DuckTales comics don't use the blue w/ red trim coat (since that's how DuckTales Scrooge is supposed to look)... and more bizarre still, I love that the Ducktales video game uses the RED coat!
Go figure. :)
Kneon
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-07 at 13:37:42
Red and gray all the way!
(I always cringe when I see the Smurf blue cane in foreign stories, and the technicolor money bin is an eyesore IMHO)
(I always cringe when I see the Smurf blue cane in foreign stories, and the technicolor money bin is an eyesore IMHO)
Dutch Duckfan Down Under
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-10 at 16:41:20
The Dutch and French are a darker shade of red, I like that one. Or something completely different, like the Italian blue and red.
Anemo
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-29 at 23:11:42
The one in Blue and red (DuckTales)!
Mcduck_Enterprises
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2010-06-30 at 03:03:39
red and darker gray for me.....
Groovemachine
Which colors do you prefer on Scrooge's coat?
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2013-05-31 at 01:17:19
I've always liked the all-purple and all-green coats that were used in much of the early Dell comics.
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