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Dollar Bill Blanket

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge

Synopsis: Uncle Scrooge sleeps beneath a patchwork quilt, with dollar bills as patches.

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Pages: 1

Good Old S.U.

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck

First Line: You mean people actually pay money to watch that silly game?

Synopsis: Uncle Scrooge founds a university to take advantage of the profits involved in college football.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.

Table of Contents Uncle Scrooge Digest

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First Line: Number 3 April 1987

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Pages: 2

Notes: Contents, credits, and indicia for the issue.

Tralla La

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Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Hop Sing; various Tralla La-ians

First Line: Everyone sometimes dreams of getting away from the cares of life, of finding a place where he can be at ease!

Synopsis: Uncle Scrooge needs a little rest and relaxation from managing his wealth, so on his doctor's advice, Scrooge travels to Asia to a place called Tralla La where it is rumored that no money or wealth exists.

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Pages: 22

Notes: "Tralla La" is a parody/tribute to Shangri-La, the lost land of the 1937 film "Lost Horizon".

GOOD BIT:

Among the many folks soliciting money that are behind Scrooge's case of bad nerves is one with a particularly memorable cause:

MAN: "I demand that you give a BILLION DOLLARS to the L.T.A.B.!
SCROOGE: "The L.T.A.B.? What's that?
MAN: "The League To Abolish Billionaires! DOWN WITH THE RICH!"

Looter of the Lake

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; other Junior Woodchucks; The Great C.O.O.L.H.E.A.D.; Uncle Scrooge

First Line: What gives the Junior Woodchucks the boundless vigor to do their mighty good deeds? One answer is -- Vitamin Zee!

Synopsis: Uncle Scrooge is polluting the Woodchucks' favorite ice-skating lake. The 'Chucks stop him, but at an unexpected cost to themselves.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Art incorrectly credited to Kay Wright in issue credits.

The Case of the Gold Bars

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): The Beagle Boys; Gyro Gearloose; Mr. Snodgrass (bank president); Louie (shady helicopter salesman); police officer

First Line: Hey, isn't the guy talking to Gyro Gearloose the president of the bank?

Synopsis: When it appears that Gyro has found a way to "invent" gold bars, The Beagle Boys ineptly move in on this bonanza.

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Pages: 10

The New Buck-Mobile

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; The Beagle Boys; Edison Beagle

First Line: Look, there's one of Scrooge's buck-mobiles!

Synopsis: Thanks to inventor Edison Beagle, The Beagle Boys take remote control of Scrooge's tank-line armored money transport vehicle.

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Pages: 6

The Rescue Robot

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; lifeguard; lifeguard captain; imperiled swimmer; family of four on roller coaster; lady caught in kitchen fire; two firefighters; husband and wife watching TV; pedestrian couple

First Line: There we are! My automatic mechanical beach lifeguard!

Synopsis: Gyro invents an Automatic Mechanical Beach Lifeguard ("Otto" for short) that initially works as promised but soon reveals its design flaws.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Writer Don R. Christensen, being something of an inventor in real life, may have had an additional layer of fun writing Gyro Gearloose.

As with the Gyro stories by Carl Barks, Gyro's Helper further livens this already fast-paced story by capering around the panel edges. Christensen submitted his scripts in storyboard form, so it's more likely that he was responsible for these fun bits rather than artist Paul Murry.

Christensen's original title for this story, per his notes, was "Ottomatic Mix-Up".

The Summer Camp Caper

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): The Beagle Boys; The Beagle Brats; bear; two rangers; kids camp counselor

First Line: What's this? Our own flesh and blood, crying?

Synopsis: The Beagle Brats are upset because all the other kids in town have gone off to summer camp, but not them. The Beagles resolve to give their nephews a summer camp experience of their own. They decide to crash an abandoned campground, and soon learn the reason it was abandoned.

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Pages: 7

The Cash Register Mystery

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; The Beagle Boys; Jives (Scrooge's butler) two delivery men

First Line: It is 176-671's turn to be watching Scrooge's house...

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Pages: 5

Notes: Art incorrectly credited to Pete Alvarado in issue credits.

The two delivery men are drawn in stature (though not in faces) to resemble Laurel and Hardy. The face of the skinny one strongly resembles that of Hanna-Barbera's Hong Kong Phooey.

Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; other Junior Woodchucks; The Great S.L.A.P.P.Y. P.A.P.P.Y.; Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Littlest Chickadees; Auntie Chickadee (Chickadee leader); The Beagle Boys

First Line: Need I ask you Junior Woodchucks again to suggest ways we can raise money for our charity fund?

Synopsis: Everyone's out to get maple sap... from maple trees, or one another's sap buckets.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Junior Woodchuck Leader Acronym: The Great S.L.A.P.P.Y. P.A.P.P.Y. (Stern Advocator of Peanut-Picking Yard-masterism and Peerless Abecedarian Producer of Prideworthy Youth!).

The parenthetical portion of the title, (How Sweet It Is!), is a line made famous by comedian Jackie Gleason on his television variety show (1962-1966) and (1966-1970).

Carl Barks borrows his own opening-page gag from "Micro-Ducks from Outer Space" Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 Series) #65 (September 1966), where he piles money bags high enough (almost) to seal a broken window rather than buy a new pane of glass. https://www.comics.org/issue/20376/#149321

Later redrawn by Daan Jippes - Code Number: H 94001.

The Big Nest Egg

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Uncle Scrooge

First Line: Wow! You did it again, Unca Donald!

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Pages: 8

Memory Man

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Quacker Gander

First Line: Here's your change Mister!

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Pages: 1

Big Trouble

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gyro Gearloose; boy; grasshopper

First Line: What are you doing?

Synopsis: Gyro drops a vitamin pill for super fast growth in the grass and a grasshopper finds it.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside back cover. In accordance with the “Early Gold Key Style”, this story has borderless panels with rectangular dialogue balloons.