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#1 Dime and More

Okay–

Time to answer questions… (I get them via email, im pm, and comments of several forums, I answer them there and here…)

first, a question I was asked weeks ago and never got back to…

How do the ducks get their feet in those tiny Disney heels?

I’ve solved the problem of how the girls get their feet into those horrid tiny Disney shoes. A real duck has feet like any other bird, with seperate toes, the differance is, a delicate and easily damaged webbing that connects each toe. It helps to keep the duck afloat when swimming. While walking or swimming the toes are spread out and the webbing lays flat, but when resting (our if you pick a duck up) their toes come together and the webbing is no longer seen. Now this fact translated into Disney ducks, actually makes the tiny shoes a required thing, as a duck’s feet are actually quite small, much smaller than the webbing make them appear.

And so one mystery solved…

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Next—

At the request of another collector, I’ve undertaken an ongoing project, which has taken longer than expected… I am hunting down stories featureing “cross-dressing” ducks. So far, I’ve found stories of Scrooge, Donald, Gladstone, Von Drake, and the Beagle Boys. I will over the next week or so, be posting pictures and info on these stories.

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Third…

A second ongoing project, is coming up with a list of all the girl ducks, esp. those who’ve won the heart of my fave duck Scrooge, at one time or another. So, pictures and info on these will be showing up as well.

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And finally, starting with this post here, I will also be tracing down the history of the #1 dime and the many troubles it has caused for poor old Scrooge over the years.

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but first, here is an odd picture…not like anything I’ve ever seen in a Scrooge story before…

I once said that one of the things I liked about Disney comics was the continuum of it—you know the characters, you know what they’ll do and say, how they act and think…it’s not like super-hero comics where today your hero breathes fire and than in the next story he never did, or in one story he is from earth and the next he’s from Mars…I came right out and said...”At least you can be sure your hero ain’t gonna sprout wings and fly in the next story…”…OH MY stars and little commets! I stand corrected…today I just came across a story in which one of the Beagle Boys does just that…he sprouts wings and flies away! All I can say is…there ain’t nothing like the French Scrooge stories…I can’t get enough of them!

(this picture didn’t scan clear due to the fact that the comic is 300 pages long and I didn’t want to damage the spine)

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Alright…John Rockerduck and the history of Scrooge’s #1 dime, I’m gonna kill two birds with one stone on this, cause the two go hand in hand…

Now, here’s a guy that Scrooge has no idea, is in any way connected to his beloved #1 dime. And also a character you don’t see in America often…he was created by Carl Barks, and he was only been used once in America….however, in Europe, esp. Italy and France, John Rockerduck is Scrooge’s #1 enemy, and he is used in more stories than the Beagle Boys are. In America he is thought of as the world’s third richest duck, an oil tycoon that inherited all of his wealth, from his rich father Howard Rockerduck (only ever used once). Unknown to both Scrooge and John Rockerduck, the #1 dime was once part of the Rockerduck estate…(to be continued…)

Here we see a typical scene of Scrooge and (John) Rockerduck fighting it out.

 

#1 Dime and Third Richest Duck

from ant on eBay:

I found the string part very interesting, as of course
you’d have to explain #1 dime more…do you remember
that old movie used cars where they said they had
to have a mile of used cars and they only won when
the license plate popped out there…its just neat
when you find an older source of that idea, ya know?
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im assuming #1 dime is his 1st saved dime?

my answer:

oh boy! one of my fave topics—the #1 dime! I’ll write up a sermon on that and post it, prob’ly tommrow, but real quickly, at age 10, Scrooge set out to working to raise money for his very poor family, the first job he had was a shoe-shine boy, and his first customer paid him with a 1875 American dime, which in Scotland was usuless too him—his first time being swindled and he never forgot it. The dime later inspired him to leave home at age 13 and go to America…Scrooge suffers from mental illness and over the years his mind slowly gets worse, to the extent that he begins to see the #1 dime has the secret of his success, and goes into hysterics when ever the dime is stolen.

finding Rockerduck, may take a day or two–there aren’t as many stories about him, but I’ll get him on this thread either later today or the next few days.

Richest Duck

ant of eBay asked:

is scrooge the richest duck of all? I mean does he
have competition to his fortune? and if so who?

my answer:

Hi Ant,

I’m back Flintheart Glomgold pictus found….will get to Rockerduck in a minute…

Flinty is introduced in “Second Richest Duck” 1956 by Carl Barks.

In this story, Scrooge hears that he is no longer the
wolrd’s richest man, and sets out to Africa, to
challenge the new holder of that title. Once there he
finds a duck equal to him in every way…right down to
the Money Bin and the #1 rand (African dime). The 2 of them battle it out comparing everything they own, and
everything is equal…same amount of money in the bin,
same amount of jewels in the vaults, same amount of oil
wells, same amount of gold and diamond mines, every business Scrooge owns–Flinty owns one just like it.
Finally it comes down to a string collection, and 2
enormous balls of string are brought out, which they unroll across Africa for days and miles…and in the end, even that comes out the same, however, Scrooge has
his #1 dime tied to him by a string, and unties the dime adds the string to the end of his string, and wins as
the world’s richest man, by 5″ of string.

In every story since than when Flinty appears, he and Scrooge are at war for the title of world’s richest tycoon, and both have spies watching the other, when one
buys something, the other buys the same thing only
better. The only real differance between them is that
Scrooge tries to live by honesty (not always easy for
him…he’d like to forget he’s an honest man), while Flinty will stop at nothing and often steals, cheats,
and lies to gain his wealth.

These 2 pictures comes form Flinty’s first story…the
coloring is differant here, because this is from a rare
book and not a comic book…Flinty does not normaly have red hair. One shows his money bin, the other shows them
at the end of the race with their string. On first
appearances it would seem that this is the first time the 2 ever met….however, it must also be remembered that 85 year old Scrooge suffers from “Blinkus of the Thinkus” (alzhimers) and remembers very little of his past or even the past few days…

…and as we see here, the 2 ducks had meet many years earlier, in their mid-twenties, and were fighting even back then…you’ll notice that Flinty only gets away
because Scrooge ran out of bullets, and is picking up
the used bullets to reload his gun with—Scrooge always
carries a gun and Bowie knife, (young Scrooge and old Scrooge), but he will never shoot at a person or animal,
because bullets cost money so he only shoots at things
he can pull the bullets out of, so he can reuse them…

This picture shows them once again fighting over the
string…and the rights to own the only poultry farm
that has square eggs., land by square chickens…
(note…this panel was edited for use in an article I wrote, so you can’t read it straight though as several
panels are missing)