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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dingus McDuck
Dingus McDuck, nicknamed "Dirty," is a fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe.
Through his sons he is the paternal grandfather of Rumpus McFowl, Scrooge McDuck, Matilda McDuck, Hortense McDuck and Gideon McDuck, a great-grandfather of Donald Duck and Della Thelma Duck and great-great-grandfather to Huey, Dewey and Louie.
Gideon McDuck is one a fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dingus-McDuck   (710 words)

  
 Who's who in Duckburg - Scrooge McDuck
Barks shows that Scrooge seems to be the rebirth of the 16th century sea captain Matey McDuck.
One might say that if Cornelius Coot was the founder of the 19th century town called Duckburg, Scrooge McDuck was indeed the founder of the 20th century city with the same name.
In 1942 McDuck closed down his empire and retired to a big house totally unlike his previous (and later) style, in Duckburg.
duckman.pettho.com /characters/scrooge.html   (613 words)

  
 Scrooge McDuck - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Scrooge McDuck left Scotland for America in 1956, taking part in the Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin and mining his first fortune (he found a diamond).
When McDuck had acquired his first billion dollars in 1972, he bought a steep hill in Disneyland and built on top of it a gigantic concrete colossus called the Money Bin, in which he stored all of his possessions in small coins.
Scrooge McDuck later became a plutocrat (along with Pluto) and Director of the Disneyland Federal Reserve, a post he achieved mainly because the Disneyland military dictator, Admiral Donald Duck, was his nephew.
www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Scrooge_McDuck   (954 words)

  
  Scrooge McDuck - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Born the 5th of 3 children on May 17, 1933 in Glasgow, Scotland, Scrooge McDuck was to become the last hope of the once mighty, but at that time impoverished McDuck clan.
Scrooge McDuck left Scotland for America in 1956, taking part in the Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin and mining his first fortune.
Scrooge McDuck later became a plutocrat (along with Pluto) and Director of the Disneyland Federal Reserve, a post he achieved mainly because the Disneyland military dictator, Admiral Donald Duck, was his nephew.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Scrooge_McDuck   (823 words)

  
  Scrooge McDuck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scrooge privately admitted to his nephews that he had used an army of "cutthroats" to get the tribe to abandon their lands, in order to establish a diamond-mining colony.
Scrooge first hints that he was not born into wealth, as he remembers buying the Hourglass of the story in Morocco when he was a member of a ship's crew as a cabin boy.
Scrooge is the richest duck in the world, rivaled by Flintheart Glomgold, John D. Rockerduck and, less prominent, the maharaja of the fictional country Howdoyoustan, having worked his way up the financial ladder from humble immigrant roots.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scrooge_McDuck   (3712 words)

  
 Scrooge McDuck universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is a subset of the Donald Duck universe.
Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin is established in Barks' comics as being situated in Duckburg.
Roosevelt and Scrooge would meet each other at least three times: in the Dakotas in 1883, in Duckburg in 1902, and in Panama in 1906.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scrooge_McDuck_universe   (392 words)

  
 Scrooge McDuck universe: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The whiskervilles are a family of fictional characters from the scrooge mcduck universe that are created by carl barks for the walt disney company....
Framemerlock as he appears in donald duck: goin quackers.merlock the magician is a sorcerer and a villain of the scrooge mcduck universe....
The clan mcduck is a fictional family in the style of a scottish clan, from which a great number of walt disney companys comic book characters held their...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scrooge_mcduck_universe1.htm   (1489 words)

  
 The life and times of scrooge mcduck | Don Rosa's greatest story   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1867: Scrooge was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Fergus McDuck and Downy O'Drake.
Scrooge decides to try his luck in the American West and later in the year gets hired as a cowboy by cattle baron Murdo MacKenzie (an actual historical figure, one of the many that Scrooge met).
Scrooge's mother and one of his two uncles, Angus "Pothole" McDuck (deceased in 1901, aged 72), had already died by this point.
www.freewebs.com /loscrooge/aboutthestory.htm   (1038 words)

  
 Carl Barks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scrooge's main difference to Donald, according to Carl, was that he too had faced the same difficulties in his past but through intelligence, determination and hard work, he was able to overcome them.
Or as Scrooge himself would say to Huey, Dewey and Louie: by being "tougher than the toughies and sharper than the sharpies." Even in the present of his stories Scrooge would work to solve his many problems, even though the stories would often point out that his constant efforts seemed futile at the end.
In addition, Scrooge was quite similar to his creator in appearing often to be as melancholic, introspective and secretive as he was.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_Barks   (3676 words)

  
 The Coin Adventures of Uncle Scrooge - library   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In an early cartoon sequence, Donald Duck visits Uncle Scrooge, who is seated at a sturdy desk and who tells Donald, "I'm just polishing some dimes that got moldy from long disuse!" Donald scans the dimes arrayed on the desk, points to one, and Uncle Scrooge identifies it as the first dime he ever owned.
Scrooge McDuck proceeds happily along the street repeatedly tossing the coin into the air, congratulating himself on his extra wealth.
Scrooge McDuck, as illustrated by Disney animator Carl Barks, was extensively featured in the museum, including on a large painting by Barks showing Scrooge in front of a gold mine, outside of which were heaps of gold coins and, interestingly, some 1795 silver dollars!
www.bowersandmerena.com /articles/article_view.chtml?artid=3713&universeid=494   (1293 words)

  
 Diogenes Lamp » Blog Archive » Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck’s fortune was solidly based on heavy industry: from memory, he had started out as a young gold prospector in the Victorian age, and had made his money in mining, oil and railroads.
Scrooge McDuck was perhaps the last of a dying breed; a colossus amongst pygmies such as the eager-to-be-liked Bill Gates, and the showy, zircon billionaire Donald Trump.
Scrooge may not have given to charity but the majority of his fellow American millionaires, Rockefeller etc, bequeathed enormous amounts to their fellow citizens and the people of the world generally.
www.diogeneslamp.net /?p=373   (1981 words)

  
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Scrooge McDuck!!" She put the picture back onto the windowsill, grabbed her backpack- she never could bring herself to buy a purse- and started off.
Out of the corner of his eye, Scrooge could see that she looked bored, like she was as tired of this as he was.
Scrooge had begun to become irritable, and when the Beagles heads were turned in conference, he gave them the signal for the emergency plan.
www.lambdapsiphi.com /daft/daft/text/duties.txt   (8759 words)

  
 Scrooge McDuck - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Donald Duck's wealthy uncle, Scrooge McDuck, came into being when comic-book cartoonist Carl Barks (a former story man for Disney cartoons) needed a miserly old relative for a story, "Christmas on Bear Mountain" (1947).
By 1950, Scrooge was well established as a Duck Family supporting character, and other writers and artists were beginning to use him.
Scrooge McDuck and Money, directed by Hamilton Luske, was one of several extra-length 1960s cartoons using Disney characters like Donald Duck and Goofy to explain basic but sometimes confusing facts.
www.toonopedia.com /scrooge.htm   (490 words)

  
 TV ACRES: Birds - Ducks - Scrooge McDuck (Disney)
Scrooge McDuck dressed in a top hat, red coat, spectacles and spats and sometimes used a walking cane.
The Uncle Scrooge character later appeared on the animated TV cartoon, Scrooge McDuck and Money (1967) and as the star of the feature film short Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983).
In the 1990s, DUCKTALES, a syndicated animated adventure produced by Walt Disney studios, featured tales of Scrooge McDuck and his grand-nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie inspired by the storylines from Disney licensed comic books drawn by artist Carl Barks from 1942-67.
www.tvacres.com /birds_ducks_scrooge.htm   (235 words)

  
 McDuckCapitalism
Donald and his nephews are hoeing weeds in a vegetable garden on Unka Scrooge’s farm.
Soon the grocery stores are empty and people are wandering the streets with millions of McDuck bucks in their pockets and dazed looks on their faces.
The people of Duckburg go back to work and Scrooge’s money bin is rebuilt, stuffed once again with his obsquamatillion in cash.
www.freecannon.com /McDuckCapitalism.htm   (685 words)

  
 Scrooge McDuck
Even though Scrooge is of Scottish heritage, there are usually no indications in Barks's comics that Scrooge speaks with a Scottish accent.
The next time there were to be a Scrooge one-shot he got his own title instead, and in retrospect those three issues were seen as #1-3 of that title.
The first story where some other artist used Scrooge may be a Grandma duck story drawn by Riley Thompson in WDC 123.
stp.ling.uu.se /~starback/dcml/chars/scrooge.html   (447 words)

  
 Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Scrooge McDuck
I selected an image of Scrooge McDuck sitting on top of a huge pile of money bags, blithely playing his fiddle, with a big grin on his beak.
So I crossed my fingers as he approached Burrell's Apple like a samurai warrior, concentrating for a few seconds before holding his breath and slamming the disk card into the slot with a quick, stacatto thrust.
I could barely make myself look, but amazingly enough Burrell's machine was still running, and the disk booted up so I could load the Scrooge McDuck image and my new conversion routine.
www.folklore.org /StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Scrooge_McDuck.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium   (915 words)

  
 What I love about Scrooge. - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine
Instead of digging coal for Scrooge, some would-be miner is now free to perform some other service for himself or someone else.
His less conventional namesake Scrooge McDuck filled a vault with dollar bills to roll around in.
Each Scrooge enriched his neighbors as much as any Lord Mayor who invited the town in for a Christmas meal.
www.slate.com /id/2110817   (836 words)

  
 theseriesus16-27
Scrooge is hypnotized and learns that in a former life he was a Spanish captain who hid a treasure chest.
Scrooge buys all of the rare Bombastium in the world, but no one knows what it can be used for.
Scrooge, Donald and the nephews travel to the Andes in pursuit of gold described in an ancient map.
www.cbarks.dk /theseriesus16-27.htm   (627 words)

  
 Scrooge McDuck - Don Rosa Bulletin Board
More important is what Scrooge and Goldie feel fore each other and if Scrooge will ever marry her.
I 1000% percent agree that Goldie and Scrooge are connected on this amazingly deep level.
Scrooge and Goldie are either together and ready to bite each other's heads off, or alone reminiscing about the bittersweet romance they (occasionally)share.
thunder.prohosting.com /~bulletin/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000029.html   (624 words)

  
 Scrooge Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Simultaneously, Scrooge locks horns with the Maharajah of Howduyustan (WDCandS 138); establishes pioneer Cornelius Coot as the founder of Duckburg.
First Scrooge story by Don Rosa, “The Son of the Sun” (US 219), a sequel to the classic Barks Donald Duck adventure “Lost in the Andes.” “Sport Goofy in Soccermania,” an unreleased theatrical cartoon produced in 1984 and starring a pre-DuckTales Scrooge, finally sees the light of day as a TV special.
Always Another Rainbow, the first limited edition porcelain figurine of Scrooge, and The Scrooge McDuck Midnight Egg, a jeweled Theo Fabergé sculpture inspired by the Barks painting In the Cave of Ali Baba, are released by Another Rainbow.
www.brucehamilton.com /anotherrainbow/scroogelist.html   (1655 words)

  
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In Disney's fictional Scrooge McDuck universe, The Junior Woodchucks are the Boy Scout-like youth organization to which Donald Duck's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, belong.
Scrooge McDuck is the richest living being, with a net worth so high it is incalculable by rational terms.
In The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck it is revealed that he is the father of Grandma Duck.
www.lycos.com /info/scrooge-mcduck.html   (306 words)

  
 BarksBase: Main characters
Scrooge McDuck was partly inspired by rich Uncle Bim from Sydney Smith's comic strip The Gumps and maybe also by a character from the animated cartoon »The Spirit of '43« (7 January 1943, directed by Jack King).
Scrooge's rival for the title of the richest duck in the world appears only 3 times in Barks' stories, first in US 15/2 (September 1956).
Scrooge's secretary debuted in US 36/1 (December 1961), though her name was not mentioned until US 39/2 (September 1962).
www.barksbase.de /english/bbd.htm   (2794 words)

  
 Scrooge McDuck Items   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scrooge McDuck, with his pince nez in place, stares out at us from this fun and festive cotton/velvetten stocking.
Scrooge sitting on a pile of gold coins with a piggy bank on his lap, holding up one gold coin.
Scrooge looking at a treasure map in a small (4 inches high) snow globe with a wooden base.
home.austin.rr.com /jl/history/scrooge   (1222 words)

  
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After Scrooge loses all of his chances, the quest for the Lost Treasure of McDuck will be over.
Each of the strange and mysterious lands Scrooge visits has an ancient and valuable treasure that is guarded by a Treasure Keeper.
If Scrooge is lucky enough to find the Hall of the Treasure Keeper, he can earn the treasure by pogo jumping off his head until he disappears.
www.atarihq.com /tsr/manuals/dtales2.txt   (1381 words)

  
 Teemings - Issue 5 - "Only the Penitent Duck Shall Pass" by Cal Meacham   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In a (very) rare burst of generosity, Scrooge McDuck has bought an authentic Spanish Galleon and donated it to the city of Duckburg as a playground for children.
Scrooge finds the gold mine – a huge vertical fissure that now is mostly filled with water.
Scrooge doesn’t even hear “It should blow with no more than a handful of dynamite!” he says, envisioning easy access to the gold veins within.
www.pursam.org /teemings/issue05/penitent.html   (3866 words)

  
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 COMICON.com: GEMSTONE COLLECTS LIFE & TIMES OF SCROOGE McDUCK
"Scrooge is the embodiment of the hope in all of us that anything is possible if we stand by our ethics and apply ourselves," continued Clark of what he personally finds the best elements of the character.
And because Scrooge is an old 'man,' he must rely on his wits to overcome obstacles.
Along with The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Clark said there's "quite a few things that should be of interest to Disney enthusiasts" coming up from the Publisher.
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