Walt Disney's Giant Comics #641
In "The Strange Shipwrecks," Scrooge McDuck ventures to the treacherous Gloomgurgle Straits in the North Pacific, where his gold-laden ships keep vanishing without a trace. With Carl Barks writing, drawing, inking, and lettering the tale — and his iconic artwork adorning the cover — the mystery unfolds as Scrooge uncovers a clever ruse involving a phantom "ghost ship" and the Beagle Boys posing as lighthouse keepers.
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Scrooge goes to Gloomgurgle Straits in the North Pacific, where ships loaded with gold from his Alaskan mines have been mysteriously sinking. There, he learns too late that the lighthouse keepers at Raider Nick's Reef are actually the Beagle Boys, and that they have have been terrorizing the ships with an inflated rubber "ghost ship" supposed sailed by Raider Nick, a pirate whose ship was wrecked in the straits years before.
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