CARL BARKS - HEIRS/SUCCESSORS OF SCROOGE McDUCK
last updated: 24-08-2005
preliminary investigation
be cautious of typos
comics
- Race to the South Seas (1948, December 15) MOC 41
- heirs at end of rainbow (1952, December 24) WDC 155
- wind businesses (1955, April 28) WDC 187
- Bongo on the Congo (1960, September 12) US 33
- Delivery Dilemma (1964, May 25) WDC 291 (art & rewrite)
- The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack (1965, May 12) US 62
paintings
- The Wadfather (1972)
COMICS
Race to the South Seas (1948, December 15) MOC 41
22.7
Scrooge: "I'll leave my fortune to DONALD DUCK, who was kind enough to keep his long-nosed face out of my sight! Now GIT!
heirs at end of rainbow (1952, December 24) WDC 155
1.5
box: "At this moment Donald's uncle, Scrooge McDuck, owner of three cubic acres of money, goes for a walk!"
Scrooge: "Ah, me! It's time I'm picking an heir to enherit my vast fortune!"
1.6
Scrooge: "But I must be CAREFUL in my choice! I must find SOME way to TEST my heir to see how he would handle such a mountain of mazuma!"
1.7
Scrooge: "My only relatives are my nephew, Donald, and his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and my distant nephew, Gladstone Gander!... What a collection!"
2.3
Scrooge: "Aha! That's it!... I'll plant pots of gold at the end of the rainbow and let my heirs find them!"
2.7
Scrooge: "Presto! Soon I shall know WHICH heir is the RIGHT heir!"
5.8
Scrooge: "Ah! Now EACH of my future heirs has found a thousand-dollar "pot of gold"! I'll soon know WHICH is WORTHY to enherit my nine fantasticatillion, four billion-jillion, centrifugalillion dollars, and sixteen cents!"
9.1
Scrooge: "Donald! What did you do with the thousand dollars you found in your pot of gold?"
9.5
Scrooge: "You not only SPENT your thousand, you got yourself another thousand in debt!... Your name goes off the list!"
9.6
Scrooge: "Gladstone, what did you do with YOUR thousand?"
9.7
Scrooge: "You didn't INCREASE the money! But you still have it! Well, I'll leave your name on!"
10.1
Scrooge: "And YOU, boys?"
nephews: "We loaned ours to an old guy to hunt BURIED TREASURE!"
10.2
Scrooge: "BURIED TREASURE! The oldest sucker gag in the world, and you FELL for it!"
10.3
Scrooge: "Such STUPIDITY! Such CHILDISH gullibility! My fortune would dissolve like WATER in your hands!"
10.4
Scrooge: "I guess my heir will HAVE TO be Gladstone Gander!.... What an AWFUL injustice to the world!"
10.5
old guy, to nephews: "Ahoy, mates! I *FOUND* it!"
10.6
old guy, to nephews: "And this is YOUR share! Yours because you had FAITH in an old man and his hopes!"
10.7
box: "And so -"
Donald: "There's another rainbow in the sky, kids! I wonder if it's possible there'd be a SECOND pot of gold there?"
nephews: "YOU go look!"
10.8
nephews: "WE don't NEED to - not since Unca Scrooge named us SOLE HEIRS to his nine fantasticatillion, four billion-jillion, centrifugalillion dollars and sixteen cents!"
wind businesses (1955, April 28) WDC 187
3.1
Scrooge: "I'm old and feeble! It's time I chose a successor to manage my many businesses!"
3.2
Scrooge: "My nearest of kin are Donald and that no-good Gladstone! If one of those two had any BUSINESS ABILITY, I'd give him the job!"
10.3
Scrooge, to Donald: "Well, that's the way it goes! I'd hoped to find WHICH of you boys had the most between the ears! But the wind made a mess of my plans!"
Bongo on the Congo (1960, September 12) US 33
1.1
nephew 1: "There goes Unca Scrooge trying to catch Unca Donald again!"
nephew 2: "He's determined he's going to make Unca Donald the next tycoon of the vast McDuck empire!"
1.2
Scrooge: "You've got to let me teach you the business, Donald! You're the only heir I've got!"
10.6
Scrooge: "You'll find there's really no WORK to being a tycoon! The duties are FUN all the time!"
10.7
Scrooge: "Donald, do you hear me?"
nephew 1: "There goes Unca Scrooge chasing Unca Donald again!"
10.8
nephew 1: "He's determined he's going to make him the next tycoon of the vast McDuck empire!"
nephew 2: "Poor Unca Donald!"
Delivery Dilemma (1964, May 25) WDC 291 (art & rewrite)
[update 22-08-2005]
Scrooge to Donald: "Never mind what YOU want! As my nearest of kin, it's your DUTY to carry on for good old McDuck unlimited!" (2.3)
(Though Barks' records indicate that he did not originate this story, a full "shooting script" in his holograph survives, showing that he reworked the original idea so much as to make it his own.)
The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack (1965, May 12) US 62
3.4
nephew 1: "Did you send for us because of these red ink reports?"
nephew 2: "We don't know where half the countries are that you're in trouble in!"
3.5
Scrooge: "Then it's time you LEARNED!
3.6
Scrooge: "You kith and kin are going to INHERIT my hard-earned fortune someday! You should be learning WHERE and HOW I make that stuff in there!"
3.7
box: "So Donald and Dewey and Huey and Louie are loaded into a plane with Uncle Scrooge to learn the ups and downs of tycoonsmanship! The first stop will be Australia where there's a little wild dog problem to be cleared up!"
PAINTINGS
The Wadfather (1972) painting
This painting shows heirs of Scrooge, or at least the ones Barks has mentioned: Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Gladstone Gander.
The title reminds of Mario Puzo's novel 'The Godfather' (1969), or of Francis Ford Coppola's film (1972) with the same title.
SOURCES:
- comics quotes taken from publications in 'The Carl Barks Library'
- background information on 'Delivery Dilemma' is taken from page 8C-615
Additions, corrections, etc.? Let us know!