Miss Penny Wise appears in a Donald Duck ten-pager (
WDC 164) where Donald is a peddler demonstrating McDuck flour for uncle Scrooge.
The name Penny Wise appears earlier in Barks work, on Scrooge's boat on the cover for the Uncle Scrooge money lake story. And on paintings of this cover. (
OS 386)
The term or phrase "Penny Wise" comes from "Penny wise and pound foolish". See the topic '
Expressions in Barks stories'.
Mr.McD wrote:I tried to google her, but didn't find much, however I found this on Wikipedia: "However, Rosa left out important factors like Miss Penny Wise, the old lady which, according to Scrooge, is the only one who could ruïn him, because he is in debt with her."
Miss Penny Wise owns an old note that could ruin Scrooge. I don't see information what the note exactly contains, whether or not it's necessarily a debt.
Could the note contain some secret about Scrooge, for example?
Here's the dialogue of Scrooge's meeting with Miss Penny Wise, taken from the story:
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10.1
Scrooge: Old Miss Penny Wise owns an old note of mine that could RUIN me!
10.2
Scrooge: She's the ONE person in the world that I FEAR! ... UH, OH!
10.4
Scrooge: Oh (Sob! Sob! Sniff!) This is the END! Miss Penny will foreclose on my ENTIRE fortune!
10.5
Miss Penny Wise: Why would I do THAT, Scrooge? I already have the MONEY I need!
10.6
Miss Penny Wise: And now I've got the only OTHER thing I ever wanted -
10.7
Miss Penny Wise: A genuine, old-fashioned GINGERBREAD house!
10.8
box: Later!
nephew1: Why does unca Donald look so SICK?
nephew2: He said he and unca Scrooge ate out a parlor and two bedrooms for some old maid! I don't get it!
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