General questions about Barks

creator of Duckburg and Scrooge McDuck

Postby Daniel73 » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:50 pm

From an email sent to "A Guidebook"-site:

Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: Horsing Around With History

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I am mailing you because I hope you can help me with a question about the Carl Barks/William Van Horn story "Horsing Around With History".

Unfortunately, the Donald Duck-magazines I got with this story is in my cottege, and now I need the answer to this question:
How did Uncle Scrooge see through the Beagle Boys when they tried to get into the Money Bin i a "Trojan horse"?

I hope you can help me with this question!

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Postby Ridder ter Geit » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:51 pm

He smelled the smell of prumes, I believe.
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Postby Juppen » Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:17 pm

I got a new question, and I hope someone knows the answer:

In an old Carl Barks comics, Donald falls threw a skylight an ends up with many pairs of shoes on at the same time. How many pairs of shoes?
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Postby Robb_K » Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:39 am

Juppen wrote:I got a new question, and I hope someone knows the answer:

In an old Carl Barks comics, Donald falls threw a skylight an ends up with many pairs of shoes on at the same time. How many pairs of shoes?

Hoi Juppen! That story was from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Nr. 225 (untitled in USA original). He fell into a shoe factory, and bounced consecutively into FIVE pairs of shoes/boots. Do I get a prize for answering?
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Postby Shoe Giant » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:25 pm

Yeah, you've just won a pair of left shoes size 15 1/2
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Postby Robb_K » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:20 am

Well, I've been told by several female dancing partners that I have two left feet, so I guess I'll accept them (size 43, please!)
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Postby Dancing queen » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:35 pm

Abba, a man with 2 left feet.
Do you also got a hunchback?
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Postby Daniel73 » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:58 pm

From an email sent to "A Guidebook"-site:

Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:29 PM
Subject: Uncle Scrooge comics

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I wonder if you could help me identify which Uncle Scrooge titles
contained these two things. One was hard tack, a kind of cracker
which sailors eat and this food stuff featured in one of the comics.
Another was a recipe for scones. I know that, as a child in
California in the 1950s, I'd never heard of either of these goodies.
Can you possibly tell me which two comics had them in it?
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Postby Robb_K » Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:14 am

There was a Donald Duck (US bi-monthly comic book) story in 1955, in which Uncle Scrooge returned to Scotland, because he missed eating scones. He got the recipe for baking them. The Beagle Boys were after it. I believe that they stole it from him, if i remember it correctly. I think it was in Donald Duck #48, but not sure. I'll look it up on COA.
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Postby Egg » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:27 pm

I wonder if you could help me identify which Uncle Scrooge titles contained these two things. One was hard tack, a kind of cracker which sailors eat and this food stuff featured in one of the comics. Another was a recipe for scones. I know that, as a child in California in the 1950s, I'd never heard of either of these goodies. Can you possibly tell me which two comics had them in it?
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Is this question about Barks stories? Or is it about Scrooge stories by other creators?
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Postby Robb_K » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:18 pm

The scones story was drawn by Tony Strobl. The story referring to hardtack was a Barks story.
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Postby Robb_K » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:25 pm

The scones story was titled "A Bucket of Scones", and was printed in US Donald Duck, Number 48, in July, 1956. It was drawn by Tony Strobl and inked by Steve Steere.
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Postby Daniel73 » Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:05 pm

From an email sent to "A Guidebook"-site:

Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: McDuck questions

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Thanks for posting my query on that website. I've learned that the
SCONES story was Donald Duck no. 48 but I can't find any info on
that. I've also learned that the HARDTACK saga was a Barks story but,
again, no more than that.

Is there anybody else you could put me in touch with on this?
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Postby Robb_K » Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:27 pm

Let us put our heads together and try to figure out which Barks stories (at least 2) mentioned hardtack. It shouldn't be difficult, as he drew several sea voyage stories. Could one of them have been "Race To the South Seas"? I remember Donald's provisions in the galley of the sailboat being swamped with seawater and made unedible. Also, the "Atlantis story" or "Land Beneath TheSea" story from US 5 had The Ducks on a ship. The "Horseradish story" had them sailing on a ship. The Ducks were complaining about Uncle Scrooge's frugality in that story. Maybe their only food was hardtack and water? They were on a ship in"Back To Long Ago" (Donald and Scrooge hypnotised into "previous lives"), as well as the US story in which The Ducks hid Scrooge's gold in the corn cribs on their ship. The Ducks also sailed on a ship in "The Isle of Golden Geese".

Personally, I think it was the "Horseradish story". I'll check on that tonight, if I remember.
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Postby johnson » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:51 pm

Hi Robb,

Have you had a chance to see which Scrooge comic had the hard tack in it?
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