Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck is a Scottish-born billionaire duck who built his vast fortune through decades of daring adventure and shrewd enterprise, starting as a young boot-black in Glasgow. Created by Carl Barks, he first appeared in a Donald Duck story before earning his own celebrated series.
Few comic characters have captured the imagination quite like Scrooge McDuck, the magnificently miserly yet endlessly adventurous creation of the legendary Carl Barks, who first strode onto the page in Four Color #300 in 1950. Born at the height of the Golden Age, this iconic figure has proven one of comics' great survivors, with a publishing history stretching an extraordinary 74 years and 157 catalog appearances — a testament to a character who simply refuses to be forgotten. He's most at home in the pages of Uncle Scrooge, where he shares his escapades with Donald, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and the inventive Gyro Gearloose, making for one of the richest ensembles in all of funny-animal comics. With two key collector issues to his name and a legacy now carried by IDW, Scrooge McDuck is the rare Golden Age original who feels just as vital today as the day Barks dreamed him up.
Trivia
- Scrooge McDuck debuted as a one-off plot device and even functioned as a villain before being recast as a recurring protagonist, a transformation later credited with defining the character's modern personality.cbr.com
- He stands among the earliest major Disney characters to have a long-running comic life built on continuity, his stories repeatedly folded into a shared chronology rather than left as disconnected gags.cbr.com
- Carl Barks has written more of Scrooge McDuck's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 26 issues.
Top series
Covers through the years — 1950–2019
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