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Issue: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #8
Publication Date: December 1954
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Issues: #8 of 36 Issues (41 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
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Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In42
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Dollar Figure Skating

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uncle Scrooge
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Uncle Scrooge #111 [Gold Key] published April 1974
as Dollar Figure Skating [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #3 published December 1984
as Dollar figure skating [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #6 published November 2004
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art submitted on October 8, 1953.
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Cash on the Brain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Mrs. McMooch
First Line: Uh, oh! Here comes Mrs. McMooch!
Synopsis: Scrooge pleads a lack of cash when a clubwoman asks for a donation.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[14] published December 2014
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's serier #10/1955 published October 1955
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney The Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge #2 published September 1967
as Cash on the Brain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #3 published December 1984
as Cash on the Brain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color #1 published July 1992
as [Cash on the Brain ] (Danish title) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #272 [Direct Sales] published November 1992
as Charity Donation [Cash on the Brain] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #6 published November 2004
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
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Message from Mysterious Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Character(s): Beagle Boys; Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; ? (cabbage professor)
First Line: Five billion quadruplatillion umtuplatillion multuplatillion fantasticatillion centrifugalillion dollars and sixteen cents!
Synopsis: Scrooge takes a sea voyage so that the wind can clean out the gold dust that's clogging his pores and making him feel tired, and also to answer a plea for help that turns up in a bottle on the beach. When the ducks arrive at the island from which the message was sent, they find the Beagle Boys and a mysterious ray that turns living things into stone.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #3 published December 1984reprint title: [The Mysterious Stone Ray
In Issue: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #355 published July 2006
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[14] published December 2014
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's serier #10/1955 published October 1955
as Onkel Skrue og den gale professoren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Uncle Scrooge #111 [Gold Key] published April 1974
as The Mysterious Unfinished Invention [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint title: The Mysterious Unfinished Invention
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #3 published December 1984
as The Mysterious Stone Ray [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #222 [Direct Sales] published October 1987
as Message from Mysterious Island [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #8 published August 1996
as The Mysterious Stone Ray [Story on Interior Page(s)]reprint title: The Mysterious Stone Ray
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #6 published November 2004
as O Ouro e o Repolho [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncle Scrooge: The Mysterious Stone Ray & Cash Flow #[nn] published May 2011
as The Mysterious Stone Ray [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 28
Job Number: U.S. #8 - 5412
Disclose Notes: Art submitted on May 20, 1954. Three half-pages of finished or penciled art exists from this story that was apparently cut out or re-done by Barks and does not appear in the story as printed here. (Printed in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #222) Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982). Carl Barks named the story with the above title in a letter to a fan in 1962.
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A Campaign of Note

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Fogmore
First Line: Oh, me! Oh, my! That big billboard ad must have cost candidate Enzyme many hundreds of dollars!
Synopsis: Scrooge faces the necessity of spending money in campaign for treasurer of Duckburg.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[14] published December 2014
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's serier #10/1955 published October 1955
as Valgkampanje [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney The Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge #2 published September 1967
as A Campaign of Note [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #3 published December 1984
as A Campaign of Note [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGladstone Comic Album #4 published April 1988
as A Campaign of Note [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #8 published August 1996
as A Campaign of Note [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #6 published November 2004
as Patinhas é Candidato [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
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Classy Taxi!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uncle Scrooge
First Line: Bah! Business is bad!
Synopsis: Scrooge rents his limousine as a taxi on a rainy day.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[14] published December 2014
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's serier #10/1955 published October 1955
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney The Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge #2 published September 1967
as Classy Taxi! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #3 published December 1984
as Classy Taxi! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color #1 published July 1992
as [Classy Taxi! ] (Danish title) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #279 [Direct Sales] published June 1993
as Classy Taxi [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #7 published November 2004
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
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Blanket Investment

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge
First Line: Look! Unca Scrooge is sleeping under an electric blanket!
Synopsis: Scrooge uses his electric blanket to hatch out chicks.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #[14] published December 2014
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co #12/1957 published June 1957
as Elektrisk varmeteppe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Beste Historier fra Donald Duck & Co [Disney-Album] #2 [unnamed variant] published January 1975
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library #3 published December 1984
as Blanket Investment [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDonald Duck & Co Ekstra [Bilag til Donald Duck & Co] #påske 1988 published January 1988
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]3. translation
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures #21 published May 1990
as Blanket Investment [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color #1 published July 1992
as [Blanket Investment ] (Danish title) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagO Melhor da Disney: As Obras Completas de Carl Barks #8 published December 2004
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

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