Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge the Lost Crown of Genghis Khan: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 16

最近、スクルージおじさんのファンになったのですが、グッズがほぼ無しの感じでどうやってこの欲を解消しようかとネットをチェックしてた時に洋書を発見しました。 そうか、洋書という手があったと、初めて洋書を購入しました。 英語はさっぱりわかりませんが、スクルージおじさんがたくさん載ってるし話の内容はキャラの動きでなんとなく察せます。 満足です。

Historias muy graciosas con una calidad en ellas constantes. Vale la pena

Beautifully reprinted old Barks-classics with accompanying commentary, cover art etc.

This collection is a MUST-HAVE for collectors and readers of Carl Barks' great "Uncle Scrooge" stories and one-pagers. It contains the title story, about a fabulously valuable jewelled crown, and a one-dollar watch, complicated by a mysterious and potentially menacing abominable snow man (NOT, as Donald Duck says, "an abdominal snowman"). This is swiftly followed by another classic story, "The Land Beneath the Ground" that smacks of the legend of the Hollow Earth, or Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", but revealing, within vast subterranean caverns that span the whole of the Earth, the Terries, who wear bow ties, and the Fermies who wear four-in-hand neck-scarves. They are the REAL explanation of earthquakes, and an appalling menace to Scrooge's money bin, with its "five billion quintuplatillion umptaplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars". It also includes one of Bark's greatest epics, "The Second-Richest Duck', in which Scrooge, and his "three cubic acres of money, uncountable oil wells, gold mines, railroads, factories, and fish houses (!)", confront his greatest, and most unscrupulous rival, Flintheart Glomgold. Simple book-work quickly establishes that each incredible miser owns exactly the same amount of cash and property. So the ultimate question -- WHO is the first-richest duck? -- will be decided by testing who owns the largest ball of randomly accumulated string. Naturally, the only effective way of deciding whose ball of string is biggest is by unrolling the two balls of string across the centre of savage Africa! It is hilarious! In fact, each of these great stories is very funny, almost frame by frame, and also very wry in the final moments! (Scrooge is a miser, but he is not a totally heartless person. Similarly, Donald Duck, his nephew, is often hopelessly inefficient and scatterbrained, on his own, but as a travel companion for Scrooge, along with his own plucky and almost infinitely resourceful juvenile nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louey, Donald is a very worthy foil for Scrooge at his worst.) And there is more. In "Back to Long Ago", Scrooge, under hypnosis (WHY he agrees to being hypnotised is a funny short story in itself) recalls a fabulous lost treasure, and, yet again, the game is afoot! In "A Cold Bargain', Scrooge finds himself in a Cold War arms-contest with the evil forces of Brutopia, each trying to control the world's scarce resources of a mysterious substance called Bombastium. The second last story is yet another of Barks' absolute best, "Land of the Pygmy Indians". The story begins with Scrooge wanting to flee to a pristine wilderness to escape the smog and noxious fumes of his own Duckburg industries. Naturally he buys a remote North American region with no roads, cities, factories or people, the "Thousand Lakes". This quickly turns into a hilarious encounter with a mysterious local tribe who speak in the verse style of Longfellow's "Hiawatha". Along the way, Scrooge discovers unbelievable mineral wealth in the lands around the Thousand Lakes. Just when Scrooge thinks he has beaten and outwitted the natives, they turn the tables on him, using a pinch of oxide of strombolium. The final full-length story "Fantastic River Race" is a framed story that tells an earlier adventure of Scrooge, in younger days, with his Mississippi sternwheeler paddleboat, first racing against, and then trying to outwit, another stern-wheeler crewed by ancestors of Scrooge's nemesis-villains, the dreaded Beagle Boys, while Scrooge has eccentric assistance from his engineer, Ratchet Gearloose, the grandfather of the famous inventor, Gyro Gearloose, a contemporary of Donald Duck. SEVEN full-length CLASSIC adventures! A Carl Barks "Uncle Scrooge" collection doesn't come much better than this! Very highly recommended! John Gough -- Deakin University (retired) -- [email protected]

A huge thanks to Fantagraphics for reproducing the works of Disney Legend Carl Barks.What can one say on the quality of the contents which takes you back to that tales of nostalgia and magic associated with Disney. You cannot go wrong with this product. A worthwhile gift for both Young and the Old.