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Morequack

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 1 - 2008-01-02 at 22:31:27

Covers are wonderful art. Consider the UNCLE SCROOGE comic book through the decades of DELL, WHITMAN, GOLD KEY, GLADSTONE and GEMSTONE. Which cover is/are YOUR favorite/favorites? Try to keep your choices down to let's say... 5. And let's allow Four Color (One Shots) comics into the fray.
I still need to think about it some to come up with my top choices...

Robb_K

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 2 - 2008-01-02 at 22:57:59

# 13-Nephews building castle with Scrooge's coins
#1-Donald rowing Scrooge in the Money Lake
#11 Scrooge ironing Dollar bills
#23-Nephews sailing paper money airplanes
#27-Scrooge blowing Dollar sign bubbles

Morequack

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 3 - 2008-01-02 at 23:35:11

I almost always prefer a cover that depicts a scene from the feature story within:

1) #357 - Return to Xanadu (reprint from US #262) *Love this cover!*
2) #292 - King of the Klondike (Scrooge holding up the "nugget")
3) #285 - The Last of the Clan McDuck (1st cover of the L&T)
4) Four Color #408 - The Golden Helmet (DD holding up the Golden Helmet)
5) (TIE) Four Color #422 - The Gilded Man (DD and HDL fleeing the wrath of the Gilded Man) and
(TIE) Four Color #328 - Old California (DD and HDL panning for gold)

Olivier

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 4 - 2008-01-03 at 02:20:35

This would require hours of deep thinking, impossible choices between dozens of covers, ..., so I'll just post what springs to my mind right now.

Carl Barks' "Sheriff of Bullet Valley" (Donald Duck Walt Disney One-Shot # 199, Oct '48)
http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2006/03/us_gca_005a_001.png
(I'm using this picture because it's larger than the scan of the original cover)
I love the larger-than-life pose and staging. I prefer the (cover & painting) versions with a red pattern over a yellow shirt.

Keno Don Rosa's "Mouse Removal Project" (Uncle Scrooge # 281, June '83)
http://outducks.org/us/us/281/us_us_0281a_001.jpg
Great gag, nice "camera" angle.

Daan Jippes' "Terror of the River" (Gladstone Comic Album # 2, Dec '87)--
an inked version of Barks' oil painting, inspired by his own story "The Terror of the River" (Donald Duck Walt Disney One-Shot # 108, Jan '46)
http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2005/11/us_gca_002a_001.jpg http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2006/02/dk_aa1999b13a_001.jpg http://outducks.org/renamed/us/dda/0026/us_dda_026b_001.jpg
Great painting & cover! Very dramatic and thrilling.

Barks, Branca and Jippes are wonderful cover artists.

Robb_K

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 5 - 2008-01-03 at 04:42:40

That's UNFAIR! If Covers OTHER THAN for UNCLE SCROOGE comics were allowed, I would have had NO Uncle Scrooge covers on my list.

"Consider the UNCLE SCROOGE comic book through the decades of DELL, WHITMAN, GOLD KEY, GLADSTONE and GEMSTONE. Which cover is/are YOUR favorite/favorites?" Based on the statement above, the Four Colors allowed would be the 3 Uncle Scrooge comics in the Four color series.

I would list the following if Donald Duck covers were allowed:

#1-FC 223 "Lost in The Andes"
#2-FC 199 "Sheriff of Bullet Valley"
#3-FC 408 "The Golden Helmet"
#4-FC 256 "Luck of The North"
#5-FC 263 "Land of the Totem Poles"

Pmspg

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 6 - 2008-01-03 at 09:29:30

Only with US covers (in the order they were published)

US 15 (I like the gag)
http://outducks.org/thumbnails2/us/us/015/us_us_0015_00_001.jpg

US 245 (Nice perspective)
http://outducks.org/thumbnails2/us/us/245/us_us_0245a_001.jpg

US 248 (point of view)
http://outducks.org/thumbnails2/us/us/248/us_us_0248a_001.jpg

US 261 (when I see the cover, I want to know what are seeing the ducks)
http://outducks.org/thumbnails2/us/us/261/us_us_0261a_001.jpg

US 268 (unusual)
http://outducks.org/thumbnails2/us/us/268/us_us_0268a_001.jpg

US 274 (for the suspense)
http://outducks.org/thumbnails2/us/us/274/us_us_0274a_001.jpg

US 327 (for the face to face)
http://outducks.org/thumbnails2/us/us/327/us_us_0327a_001.jpg

Many others could have been chosen....

Olivier

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 7 - 2008-01-03 at 10:41:41

Quote from user: Robb_KThat's UNFAIR! If Covers OTHER THAN for UNCLE SCROOGE comics were allowed, I would have had NO Uncle Scrooge covers on my list.
Gawrsh!
My apologies, Robb and Morequack!
I did read "Uncle Scrooge", but while looking for examples and links to them, I forgot about this limitation-- even more easily as I have a picture of "Forbidden Valley" on the wall to my right.

Olivier

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 8 - 2008-01-03 at 11:12:08

Rosa's "Mouse Removal Project" stays (US # 281).
http://outducks.org/us/us/281/us_us_0281a_001.jpg

Daniel Branca's US # 330 (June 2004, art first published in January '90)
http://outducks.org/us/us/330/us_us_0330a_001.jpg
Cute gag.

Romano Scarpa's cover for Uncle Scrooge # 241 ("The McDuck Foundation") (Feb '90)
http://outducks.org/us/us/241/us_us_0241a_001.jpg http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers-stories/arc_us_0241_1.jpg
Very catchy and most intriguing.

Barks' Uncle Scrooge # 28 (Dec '59)
http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2007/02/dk_aa1960_45a_001.jpg

Barks' "Back to the Klondike" (Uncle Scrooge Walt Disney One-Shot # 456, Aug '52)
http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2007/01/es_ad_0009a_001.jpg

Barks' "Only a Poor Old Man" (Uncle Scrooge Walt Disney One-Shot # 456, Aug '52)
http://outducks.org/fi/aa/1954/fi_aa1954b09a.jpg

Scroodude

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 9 - 2008-01-04 at 00:34:16

I always liked the adventurous covers best, i.e.

#65 - Great Barks cover of the Ducks grasping onto to the bell of Notre Duck
#246 - The Ducks (including Glomgold) on a very steep cliff
#269 - Scrooge falling off a cliff and being threatened by a snake
Uncle Scrooge Adventures #22 - Scrooge falling off a cliff (great Rosa recreation of a classic Barks scene)
#290 - Young Scrooge taking on all the wild African animals

Others include #275 (nice painting of Scrooge embracing the giant gold nugget) and #300 (nice revisiting of the classic characters who appeared throughout the sixty-year Scrooge adventure course)

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 10 - 2008-01-08 at 01:27:15

Morequack

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 11 - 2008-01-08 at 17:47:11

So, WB, which ones DON'T you like? Heh...

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 12 - 2008-01-08 at 20:59:13

What can I say man? I'm a sucker for good artwork. :)

Runner

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 13 - 2010-08-17 at 18:27:15

Of Uncle Scrooge maybe US 2 Back to the Klondike (which I have a CGC-graded NM- copy of), partly for the classic comic by Barks.
Overall it must be a Barks cover from 1948 or 1949 when he IMO reached his peak artwise.
I pick The Golden Christmas Tree DD Four Color 203 or Bullet Valley DD FC 199.

Mcduck_Enterprises

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 14 - 2010-08-17 at 20:18:51

Uncle Scrooge #1 (four color 386) - Donald and Scrooge in rowboat.
Uncle scrooge #19 "Mines of King Solomon" - money cobra in basket cover.
Uncle Scrooge #342 "Crown of the Crusader Kings"
Uncle Scrooge #354 "The Black Knight"
and my favorite: Uncle Scrooge #219 "Son of Sun"

GeoX

Favorite UNCLE SCROOGE Cover Message 15 - 2010-08-18 at 02:28:04

I don't know that I'd call it the BEST EVER, but I would draw attention to US377, which features an oil painting by Daniel Branca:
http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2008/08/us_us_0377a_001.jpg
I know Gladstone sometimes used Barks' oils for their covers, but this always strikes me as absolutely unlike any other cover that's ever been published in the US. I think it's pretty cool.
Also, credit where due--regardless of the oft-dubious quality of what's IN their books, Boom! has managed quite a few very nice covers.

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