Uncle Scrooge #375

by Carl Barks, Cesar Ferioli & Terry Laban

Scrooge blasts off for Carl Barks’ “Twenty-Four Carat Moon.” Next, he seeks “The Laurels of Julius Pecunius,” an ancient crown with the power to hypnotize its wearer. Then the Beagle Boys swindle Scrooge with Cesar Ferioli’s “Oracle Turtle” — and Terry Laban (Edge City) pits Scrooge and Magica against each other in “Curses!”

What you won’t find in this listing is that this book is #4 of 12 in our “Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary” series, which features pinups by Don Rosa on each back cover. Here’s a peek at what you’ll find when you flip over this bad boy:

Now like I said, it’s #4. That means if you want the entire set, you’ll want to grab these other issues, too:

• Uncle Scrooge #372
  In honor of Uncle Scrooge’s 60th anniversary, celebrate in high style with several extra-classic McDuck adventures! Carl Barks’ “Christmas on Bear Mountain” marks Scrooge’s 1947 debut…
• Uncle Scrooge #373
  Why did the Scottish tycoon join the French Foreign Legion? Find out what “Special Agent Scrooge” hopes to gain in a feature-length adventure by fan favorites Romano Scarpa and Giorgio Cavazzano…
• Uncle Scrooge #374
  When Scrooge finds “A Gal for Gladstone” on Valentine’s Day, he doesn’t realize he’s fixed his impossibly lucky nephew up with evil sorceress Magica De Spell…

If you want to see all the pinups we’ll be featuring throughout the year, just head on over to the INDUCKS summary. You can use it like those baseball card checklists we used to get in every other pack. Wasn’t that always a bummer, when you’d get ripped off by having a whole card wasted on a card checklist? It was almost worse than getting that 7th “Ricky Baggs” card when you were only 3 shy of a complete set. Nowadays we just put that stuff on the web!

From Scoop:

Uncle Scrooge #347 leads off with Escape from Forbidden Valley, a new Don Rosa sequel to a classic Carl Barks epic. In search of Amazonian nutmegs for Scrooge’s favorite tea, our ducks approach Forbidden Valley, a lost world of live dinosaurs whom Donald once stampeded. The local Stickaree Indians, whose village the saurs savaged, get even by abandoning Don in the valley… alone! It’s up to Scrooge and the boys to save him, and wouldn’t you know it: the big rescue is made a little more difficult by a certain profit-making opportunity Scrooge runs across! This feature-length story is graced by a magnificent Don Rosa front cover. (continue…)

I for one would love to hear from anyone who’s read this issue. What’d you think?

I just got my (complimentary) advance copy of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck This collection is, hands down, the best “classic Disney character” stories I’ve ever read!