The Carl Barks Library #5

In "Isle of Golden Geese," Scrooge McDuck sets off on a treasure hunt after discovering a goose egg with gold dust in its yolk, leading him to Featherbrain Island. But his journey is threatened when Magica DeSpell, learning of his plans, intercepts him with the Beagle Boys in tow, determined to claim the island’s riches for herself.

In "Lost Beneath the Sea," Scrooge and Donald dive into the deep with a bathysphere to recover Scrooge's Old Number One Dime from a sunken ocean liner—only to discover a hidden undersea shipyard run by four-armed Martians salvaging iron from sunken ships. With Donald juggling his reporter duties and a hunger for a big scoop, the expedition takes an unexpected turn as the two uncover a secret far beyond the ocean floor.

In "A Helper's Helping Hand," Gyro Gearloose races against the clock to finish painting a massive bridge in Duckburg, relying on his trusty rocket belt and portable paint sprayer to claim a hefty reward. With only minutes left, his progress is stalled by a determined mother seagull guarding her nest on the final tower.

In "The Lemonade Fling," Scrooge McDuck puts his nephews to the test by funding their lemonade stand—only to disguise himself and quietly observe how they manage the business. With a keen eye and a pocket full of coins, he watches to see if their honesty matches their enthusiasm.

In "Fireman Scrooge," Scrooge finds himself in the midst of a dramatic fire at the business school, where every other fireman is rescuing a woman with flair—except him. While others carry their charges to safety, Scrooge chooses to prioritize the school’s safe, leaving one woman to make her own way out.

In "The Thrifty Spendthrift," Donald Duck hatches a scheme to get Scrooge McDuck to spend money by using a hypnotic ray device, hoping to trigger Scrooge’s generosity—only to accidentally project a slide of a dog instead. The result is a whirlwind of holiday excess as Scrooge, under the influence, purchases every gift listed in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" for the dog, leading to a chaotic and unexpectedly extravagant situation.

Magica de Spell concocts a bizarre potion that lets a person mimic the face they last saw—perfect for deception, or revenge. When Scrooge McDuck flees Duckburg with his Old Number One Dime, seeking refuge in a remote jungle valley home to a race of faceless beings, Magica tracks him down and sprays the potion on his face. Now, Scrooge’s features shift with every glance, and his identity becomes a moving target.

In "Jonah Gyro," a young inventor's clever mechanical fish, meant to help him catch salmon, draws the ire of local fishermen—until the device, discarded and forgotten, accidentally summons a massive school of fish and a curious whale straight toward the shore.

In "The Loony Lunar Gold Rush," Scrooge McDuck’s lecture on gold fever takes a wild turn when the first astronauts return with news of lunar gold deposits. The Junior Woodchucks, inspired and eager, build a makeshift rocket and blast off to the Moon, where Scrooge sets up shop selling supplies at outrageous gold rush prices. But when a cunning figure named Dan McShrew lures them away from their ship, the young explorers find themselves stranded—leading to a dramatic showdown that parodies Robert W. Service’s classic poem.

In "How green was my lettuce," the Beagle Boys scheme to steal Scrooge's Money Bin by tunneling beneath it and sliding it into a pit on their land. When their plan is uncovered, Scrooge and Donald go on the move disguised as lettuce farmers, driving a truck brimming with greens that conceal a fortune in paper money.

When Scrooge McDuck crashes his plane while transporting a shipment of European wigs, a scheming pig named Scalpnick seizes the moment—posing as a victim of wig-induced allergies. With a clever lie and a courtroom full of gullible jurors, Scalpnick convinces the world that the crash caused him a rare, crippling reaction, leading to an absurdly inflated compensation claim that defies all reason.

Scrooge McDuck, ever the man of efficiency, takes on a new challenge when his complaints about slow mail lead to him being named postmaster of Duckburg. Determined to prove his promise to deliver any letter to any place, he sets his sights on the stars—building a rocket to send a letter all the way to Venus.

In "Saved by the Bag!", Uncle Scrooge finds himself stranded on a raft in the open sea, his only hope of rescue relying on the chance of a passing ship or plane. With clever ingenuity, he hides inside a large money bag fashioned from his own sail, hoping the sight of it will catch the eye of someone who can save him.

In "The Billion Dollar Safari," Gladstone stumbles into a wild adventure when Scrooge offers a billion dollars for a speckled elephant with a square trunk—just as Gladstone, through his trademark luck, ends up in the exotic land of Jumbostan. Amid a herd of paint-splattered elephants belonging to the elephant girls, he tracks down a real one with the strange shape Scrooge demands, setting off a chain of chaos and chance.

In "McDuck of Arabia," Scrooge McDuck teams up with Sheik Arrabi on a daring quest to uncover the lost mines of the Queen of Sheba, but their plans are compromised when spies intercept their plans. Once in Arabia, the sheik is kidnapped by the desert bandit Hassan Ben Jaild, forcing Scrooge and Donald to search the dunes from Scrooge’s plane—only to crash in the merciless desert. With help from the Arab Junior Woodchucks, the ducks must navigate treacherous sands and outwit a cunning pig villain before the treasure—or the sheik—falls into the wrong hands.

In "Snake Take," Uncle Scrooge finds himself unexpectedly charmed—literally—when a street artist’s cobra mesmerizes him during a performance, leading to an unusual demand for a larger cash reward. The moment turns into a tense standoff where the artist’s snake keeps Scrooge under its spell, testing his resolve and wallet in the most unorthodox way.

In "Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad," Scrooge McDuck’s latest business venture takes a twist when his rival Lackheed sets off for a forgotten mining town to claim a long-lost stock certificate tied to an old railroad—only to find the town’s secrets are as tangled as its rusted tracks. With a mysterious thief on the loose, stealing shares left and right, Scrooge teams up with a few unlikely locals to uncover the truth before the prize slips through their fingers.

In "The Swamp of No Return," a brilliant physicist's revolutionary teaching machine falls into the hands of a greedy Pig villain, who uses it to force Scrooge, the scientist, and Donald into the treacherous Dismal Swamp. With the nephews' help, they're flown to the swamp in the Junior Woodchuck's helicopter—only to find the craft swallowed by quicksand, trapping them all in the unforgiving mire.

In "North of the Yukon," Scrooge McDuck finds himself back in the Alaskan wilderness, drawn there by a long-buried debt that’s come roaring back to life. Soapy Slick, a grizzled money lender from 1898, has tracked him down with a lawsuit over an I. O. U. that’s been compounding at 100 percent interest every month—forever. With the receipt in hand and a tense flight to the remote courtroom, the two old rivals are thrown together again, the fate of the debt hanging in the balance as a sudden mishap sends Scrooge’s flight bag tumbling through a window and into a rushing river below.

In "The Phantom of Notre Duck," Scrooge McDuck ventures to the Cathedral of Notre Duck to test his new vault's security by lowering a fife into the wishing fountain—only to find it stolen mid-ritual, replaced by the eerie tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean." As a mysterious black-clad figure eludes capture through the cathedral's shadowed halls, Scrooge and his Junior Woodchucks hound must navigate the labyrinthine stone corridors, pursued by unseen echoes and a growing sense of the uncanny.

In "The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack," Scrooge takes Donald and the nephews to his Australian sheep station, where mysterious wild dogs are wreaking havoc on his property. When the nephews uncover that the pack is led by a young girl living among them, the ducks devise a clever trap—using the catchy tunes of pop sensation Tweedy Teentwirp to lure her into the open.

In "House of Haunts," Uncle Scrooge hides his fortune in the haunted castle of the Mad Duke of Duckburg to keep it safe from the Beagle Boys. When the Beagles trick Scrooge into leading them to the castle, they leave him with amnesia—only to find themselves trapped in its deadly maze of booby traps, with no one left to remember they were ever there.

In "Treasure of Marco Polo," Scrooge McDuck sets off on a quest after acquiring a mysterious jade elephant—only part of it, at that—along with a refugee boy named Soy Bheen. A cryptic note from Marco Polo hidden in the elephant’s tail hints at a long-lost treasure map buried within its trunk, leading the trio to the war-torn kingdom of Unsteadystan, where the elephant has become a symbol of resistance under rebel leader Wahn Beeg Rhat.

When a billion-dollar prize is offered by the Skeptics Club for proof of alien life, a tiny flying saucer mysteriously appears in Scrooge's window—bringing with it a pair of microscopic spacemen who need a few grains of wheat and corn to power their craft. With their help, Scrooge sets out to pull off the impossible, but trouble looms in the form of a pig villain with a grudge and a taste for sabotage.

In "The Heedless Horseman," Scrooge McDuck enters the Crystal Orb Derby with high hopes of claiming the title of Duckburg's king for the year, unaware that his prized horse, Fireball, is a cunning robot designed to dominate the race—just like the other competitors. As the track roars with mechanical speed, the Beagle Boys plot to strike while the city's attention is fixed on the race, aiming to raid Scrooge's Money Bin in the chaos.

In "Hall of the Mermaid Queen," the floor of Scrooge's Money Bin gives way, sending a fortune in cash plunging into a hidden sea cavern and vanishing beneath the waves. Donald and Scrooge dive in after it, only to discover a mysterious underwater realm ruled by a mermaid queen and inhabited by duck mermen. When Daisy worries Donald might be enchanted, she follows them down—unaware of the strange wonders and dangers that await beneath the ocean's surface.

In "The Cattle King," Scrooge takes Donald and the nephews to his ranch during roundup season to teach them the ropes of the cattle business. With Scrooge’s cowboys fleeing from Snake McViper’s rustlers, the ducks step in to handle the chores—only to be outmaneuvered until two of the nephews pull off a clever ruse, disguising themselves as a girl to trick McViper’s men into eating their terrible cooking.

In "The Doom Diamond," Scrooge McDuck sets out with $10 million in gold to secure the world’s largest diamond in Southern Miserystan, guarding it aboard a heavily fortified pirate-proof ship. When the Beagle Boys launch a daring attack, Scrooge outsmarts them—only to find that the moment he acquires the diamond, misfortune begins to follow him. As the Beagles steal the gem, the curse shifts with it, turning their own luck as dark as the stone’s shadow.