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Tag Archives: don rosa
Duck and Cover
Today, I’m looking at two more Carl Barks comic collections. Uncle Scrooge: The Twenty-Four Carat Moon – The title story here has a rather wacky plot, Astronomers discover another moon behind the regular one that’s made entirely out of gold. … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, carl barks, Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Fairy Tales, Families, Food, Holidays, Humor, Technology, Television
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Tagged amusement parks, beagle boys, bears, black wednesday, chickens, clara cluck, clarabelle cow, cornelius coot, daisy duck, disney, disneyland, don rosa, donald auf dem bauernhof, donald duck, donald duck and the one bear, donald duck and the witch next door, ducks, ducktales, flintheart glomgold, flying dutchman, goldilocks and the three bears, grandma duck, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, instant millionaire, little golden books, madam mim, mastering the matterhorn, pizza, riding the pony express, robots, scrooge mcduck, the christmas cha cha, the forbidium money bin, the twenty-four carat moon, the wax museum, uncle scrooge and his handy andy, uncle scrooge and the flying dutchman, uncle scrooge and the money champ, uncle scrooge and the twenty-four carat moon, under the polar ice, want to buy an island?, witches
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Life’s Good for the Multiplujillionaires
Uncle Scrooge: The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan, by Carl Barks – The library system now has another volume in Fantagraphics’ series of reprints that I hadn’t yet read. I’m not totally sure whether I should keep the ones I … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Humor, Television, Video Games
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Tagged a cold bargain, abominable snowman, back to long ago, beagle boys, blackheart beagle, bombastium, brutopia, carl barks, don rosa, donald duck, ducktales, fantastic river race, faulty fortune, flintheart glomgold, gyro gearloose, huey dewey and louie, hypnosis, land beneath the ground, land of the pygmy indians, ratchet gearloose, scrooge mcduck, terries and firmies, the lost crown of genghis khan, the second-richest duck
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Martian Magic, Monoliths, and Mallards
Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Elf, by L.G. Estrella – This author has written quite a bit of self-published material, much of it in the humorous fantasy and science fiction vein, but this is the first one I’ve read. … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Humor, Magic
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Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, a wizard of mars, arthur c. clarke, carl barks, chariots of the gods, diane duane, don rosa, donald duck, elves, erich von daniken, flintheart glomgold, gladstone gander, l.g. estrella, mars, scrooge mcduck, the son of the sun, two necromancers a bureaucrat and an elf, young wizards series
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Mice, Ducks, and Aliens
The Song of Wirrun, by Patricia Wrightson – Paul Dana recommended this trilogy of books based on Australian mythology: The Ice Is Coming, The Dark Bright Water, and Behind the Wind. I have a passion for mythology, but I haven’t … Continue reading →
Posted in Australian, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Diana Wynne Jones, Humor, Mythology, Prejudice, Religion
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Tagged aliens, behind the wind, bruno sarda, cart and cwidder, don rosa, donald duck, drowned ammet, duck avenger, fethry duck, franco valussi, gladstone gander, goofy, grandma duck, gus goose, huey dewey and louie, jesus, john wilkes booth, judas iscariot, l. ron hubbard, massimo de vita, mickey mouse, minnie mouse, paperinik, paperino, parke godwin, pluto, scrooge mcduck, st. augustine of hippo, the crown of dalemark, the dalemark quartet, the dark bright water, the ice is coming, the search for the zodiac stone, the snake oil wars, the song of wirrun, the spellcoats, topolino, waiting for the galactic bus
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Throwing the Books at You
The Last Adventure of Constance Verity, by A. Lee Martinez – I haven’t read all of Martinez’ books, but I believe each one takes place in a different universe, at least as far as we know. He definitely has a … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Prejudice, Urban Legends
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Tagged arthur rackham, ayn rand, carl barks, castle waiting, cats, demons, don rosa, donald duck, donald trump, fantagraphics, flintheart glomgold, giants, gyro gearloose, howard hughes, huey dewey and louie, j. edgar hoover, kurt vonnegut, l. frank baum and the perfect murder, linda medley, lloyd alexander, magica de spell, matt ruff, mystery, racism, return to plain awful, robin hess, roy cohn, scrooge mcduck, sewer gas and electric, simple simon, sleeping beauty, the last adventure of constance verity, the life and times of scrooge mcduck, time cat, walt disney
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The Taming of the Scrooge
The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck, Volume 2, by Don Rosa – You may remember I read the first volume almost two years ago, but the collection is out of print and the library didn’t have the second. Now … Continue reading →
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Tagged beagle boys, carl barks, christmas on bear mountain, don rosa, donald duck, duckburg, ducktales, golden fleece, harpies, huey dewey and louie, indiana jones, lost ship of the desert, philosopher's stone, raiders of the lost ark, robert peary, scrooge mcduck, the fabulous philosopher's stone, the life and times of scrooge mcduck, the seven cities of cibola, the seven cities of gold, voodoo hoodoo, zombies
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Barks’s Ducks, Dahl’s Chickens
Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain, by Carl Barks – The Fantagraphics collections of Barks’s comics go back a bit for this one, which features the first appearance of Scrooge McDuck. Scrooge softened over time, despite always remaining a money-obsessed … Continue reading →
Scrooge’s Early Years
The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck, Volume One, by Don Rosa – I would like to have reviewed both volumes of this together, but it looks like the library system only has the first one, so I don’t know … Continue reading →
The Dead Duck Dilemma
I’ve come across several references on the Internet to Scrooge McDuck having died in 1967, and it turns out this is the idea of Don Rosa, the author of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and in many ways … Continue reading →
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Tagged carl barks, daisy duck, darkwing duck, disney, don rosa, donald duck, ducktales, launchpad mcquack, mickey mouse, scrooge mcduck
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Calisota, Here We Come
As I just read some of Carl Barks’s Duck comics and I have an interest in locating fictional places, let’s take a look at Donald Duck’s hometown. While Barks originally claimed his hometown was Burbank, where the Disney Studios are … Continue reading →
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Tagged calisota, carl barks, darkwing duck, disney, don rosa, donald duck, duckburg, ducktales, scrooge mcduck
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