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by: Don Rosa, Carl Barks, Romano Scarpa, John Lustig, Carl Fallberg, Marco Rota, Brian Claxton, Tom Anderson, Lars Jensen, William Van Horn, Tony Strobl, Giorgio Cavazzano, Victor Arriagada Rios, Maximino Tortajada Aguilar  List Price: $16.99 Amazon.com's Price: $11.55 You Save: $5.44 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9781888472882 ISBN: 188847288X Label: Gemstone Publishing Manufacturer: Gemstone Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: February 13, 2008 Publisher: Gemstone Publishing Studio: Gemstone Publishing Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This print companion series to Disney's famous DVDs celebrates milestones in Disney comics history. In honor of Uncle Scrooge McDuck's 60th anniversary, this volume traces his comics career from 1947 to the present! Average Rating:
 Rating: - Highlighting Sixty Years of My Favorite Disney Character!The Walt Disney Treasures collections have expanded into the world of Disney comics, and how great is that?!!! "Walt Disney Treasures: Uncle Scrooge, A Little Something Special" is the second volume of these fine new paperback collections sure to thrill fans of both the Disney Treasures DVDs and Disney comics alike. Here, we have 8 collected tales of my favorite Disney character, Scrooge McDuck, the richest duck in the world, uncle to Donald Duck, and the true face of Disney's comic book legacy, ... Read More Rating: - Uncle Scrooge at His BestDo not be misled by the appearance of Don Rosa's name as a author. This wonderful compendium actually has stories by Barks, Scarpa, Rota, Van Horn and others, in addition to Rosa. Admirers of the warm hearted, money loving, webbed foot, duck will need no encouragement to purchase. The presentation is attractive, the paper good, and the humor and satire unmissable. Rating: - A more focused collection than the first Walt Disney TreasuresMaybe this is an obvious, uh, observation, but this collection is much more focused than the first Walt Disney Treasures volume. That collection, while enjoyable, tried to cover so much ground that its contents would probably seem like a bizarre mishmash to anyone not already familiar with Disney comics. (I am speaking somewhat of myself here.) This volume, with its focus on Uncle Scrooge, allows a reader to get to know each character a little bit better because it doesn't jump around ... Read More Rating: - Everyman's Rich ManIf Mickey Mouse embodies the Horatio Alger myth in animated cartoons, then Uncle Scrooge McDuck fulfills something of the same role in comic books, with a slight twist: McDuck is what becomes of the Alger character when he makes his fortune. While Mickey became the trademark, and some would say the "lure," of the Disney empire, Uncle Scrooge became the delight of Disney comic book readers, his ever-growing and troublesome fortune taking readers to all corners of the world and mythology. ... Read More 
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