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9 unusual facts about Scrooge McDuck


2730 Barks

In 1983, Peter Thomas, an assistant of Cornell University, proposed the idea of naming an asteroid after the creator of Scrooge McDuck.

Another Rainbow Publishing

Its name references Barks's saying that there would be "always another rainbow" for his character Scrooge McDuck, which also became the title of one of Barks's oil paintings of the richest duck in the world.

Comic Book Confidential

Due to running time constraints, Mann couldn't include footage with musician Frank Zappa, Scrooge McDuck creator Carl Barks, All American Comics editor Julius "Julie" Schwartz

Dian Alberts

To top it all, Dian was fooled into believing that Frits had faked his own death; she found out after taking a picture of his bottom which did not have the Scrooge McDuck-tattoo that Frits had.

Jorge Tuero

Rico McRico: Parody of Scrooge McDuck, a poor man who had the fictitious idea that was very rich and makes constant comparisons between rich and poor as a joke but also as of reflection.

Manco Cápac

The Scrooge McDuck comic book Son of the Sun, written by Don Rosa, features Manco Cápac as the original owner of various lost treasures.

Murdo MacKenzie

Mackenzie appears as a character in the fictional Scrooge McDuck comic book, The Buckaroo of the Badlands (1992), set in 1882, in which the poor, newly hired Scrooge, helped by Theodore Roosevelt, rescues a championship bull belonging to Mackenzie.

Stefan Printz-Påhlson

Tachyon Farflung's main interest is to steal Scrooge McDuck's money bin, thereby making him the greatest criminal in the known Universe.

The Kentucky Kernel

The Pertwillaby Papers were first printed in the Kernel, which inspired many of Rosa's later creations, including the Scrooge McDuck tales The Son of the Sun, Cash Flow, and The Last Lord of Eldorado.


Rotating locomotion in living systems

A 1956 Scrooge McDuck comic by Carl Barks, Land Beneath the Ground!, introduced "Terries" and "Fermies", creatures who move from place to place by rolling like a bowling ball.

Searching for a Successor

They both hit the wall but Gladstone's side was padded and the hat turns out to be Scrooge McDuck's who thinks that it's time to choose a successor so he decides to give a Business both to Donald and Gladstone.

The Dutchman's Secret

The story begins approximately fifteen minutes after the end of The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff, where Scrooge McDuck is in his Money Bin together with Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie, having just finished telling a story about his encounter with famous American Old West legends such as the Dalton Gang, Phineas T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and Geronimo.

This Dollar Saved My Life at Whitehorse

The album shares its title with a 1973 oil painting by Carl Barks which depicts Scrooge McDuck in his money bin telling a story to Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Donald Duck.


see also

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion

Characters confirmed to appear in the game are the DuckTales interpretation of Scrooge McDuck from the Duck universe, Ariel, Ursula and Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Rapunzel from 2010's Tangled, Jafar from Aladdin, the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, and Timon, Pumbaa, and Zazu from The Lion King.

Life and Times

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, a comic book series about the life of Scrooge McDuck written by Don Rosa

Scrooge's Quest

Scrooge McDuck is led in a quest around the world by Magica De Spell.