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Buck-gammon

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge

Synopsis: Uncle Scrooge adds his personal touch to a game of backgammon.

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Uncle Scrooge

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First Line: This issue features another nice double-dose of late vintage Carl Barks for you Barks aficionados.

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Notes: Creator and editorial credits. Black and white on inside front cover.

House of Haunts

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; The Beagle Boys; professorial warden of Studious Hours Prison; Scrooge's psychologist; bank teller; bank guard; judge (owl)

First Line: For months Uncle Scrooge has spent his nights in his Money Bin!

Synopsis: To keep his money safe from the Beagle Boys, Uncle Scrooge surreptitiously hides the cash in the eerie old castle of The Mad Duke of Duckburg. The Beagles get Scrooge to inadvertently lead them to the cash-filled castle, and then give Scrooge a case of amnesia. When the Beagles find themselves imprisoned by the Mad Duke's gauntlet of booby traps, there's no one to remember that they were ever there.

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Pages: 24

Notes: Barks' social commentary on criminal rehabilitation. The Beagle Boys are educated in many useful trades while in "Studious Hours Prison" but, upon release, immediately put that knowledge to work to rob Uncle Scrooge. At the end, a judge sentences the Beagle Boys to be "re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-rehabilitated again!"

Gemstone Publishing Presents Your Favorite Disney Comics

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Gemstone Publishing

Character(s): Mickey Mouse

First Line: Delivered right to your door!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Gemstone house ad offering mail subscriptions to its Disney comic book titles.

Gemstone Publishing Presents More Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Gemstone Publishing; The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge

First Line: You asked for them, and here they are... the prequels, the sequels, and the in-between-quels to Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck!

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Notes: Gemstone house ad for its new "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion" and its earlier collection of "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck".

Let Sleeping Bones Lie

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Huey; Dewey; Louie; General Snozzie (the Official Woodchuck Hound); various other Junior Woodchucks; Uncle Scrooge; The Great J.A.W.B.O.N.E. (Woodchuck leader); members of Uncle Scrooge's construction crew; land office clerk; interior decorators; Colossosaurus (fossilized dinosaur skeleton)

First Line: The Junior Woodchucks and General Snozzie, their official hound, are searching the Duckburg badlands for ways to earn merit badges in Paleontology!

Synopsis: The Junior Woodchucks uncover the skeleton of Colossosaurus, "...the largest creature ever to live". Uncle Scrooge has plans to build a new super highway directly through the site of this historic find. He later has a change of plan, and decides to convert the massive skeleton into a gaudy dinosaur-themed restaurant attraction - complete with crass curtains and a rock band to play in the skull's sinus cavities. Can the Woodchucks and their Official Hound save the fabled fossil from such a fate?

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Pages: 14

Job Number: D/D 2003-003

Notes: This story was originally published in Huey, Dewey, and Louie Junior Woodchucks #8 (1971) with story by Carl Barks and art by John Carey. Years later it was redrawn in a more "Barksian style" by Daan Jippes.

Hive Been Better

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): The Beagle Boys; TV nature show host; queen bee; swarm of worker bees; various bank employees and customers; two police officers

First Line: The bee is among Earth's most industrious creatures...

Synopsis: The Beagle Boys use a queen bee and her swarm of worker bees to pull off a bank robbery.

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Gemstone Publishing Presents More DuckTales Before They Were DuckTales by Carl Barks

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Gemstone Publishing; DuckTales

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

First Line: We knew how much you would enjoy the works of Carl Barks in our first presentation of his "duck tales before they were DuckTales" so we've assembled a second volume...

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Notes: Gemstone house ad for a second volume of collected Carl Barks stories that were loosely adapted for the animated TV series DuckTales.

The cover of this volume is an unpublished cover that Carl Barks intended for Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 Series) #58 (July 1965).

Dance of the Cuckoos

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Fethry Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Hard Haid Moe (hands and rifle only); Blaire Witch; Edsel (Blaire Witch's ogre servant); innkeeper

First Line: Fethry's new courier job brings him to Uncle Scrooge's clock factory!

Synopsis: Efficiency expert Fethry delivers a cargo of cuckoo clocks for Uncle Scrooge, running afoul of a witch along the way. ...Poor witch.

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Pages: 6

The Terror of Outer Space

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Tachyon Farflung (alien thief); Myron (Tachyon Farflung's "trusted partner"); parasite of the living planet; members of Melbarian Space Police

First Line: I have a whale of a time diving through my money like a porpoise!

Synopsis: Renowned interstellar criminal and thief, Tachyon Farflung of the planet Melbar, sets his sights on "the single hugest fortune in the universe" - Uncle Scrooge's money.

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Pages: 14

Job Number: D93507

Notes: Story is listed as "The Terror from Outer Space" on the credits page.

First appearance of Tachyon Farflung, who would reappear in Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 Series) #360 (December 2006) and #370 (October 2007).

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside back cover.

It Will Give You X-Ray Vision

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Feature(s): Gemstone Publishing; Scoop e-newsletter

First Line: Jeepers, creepers, where'd you get those peepers?

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Notes: Gemstone house ad for Scoop "...the free weekly e-newsletter from Gemstone Publishing and Diamond International Galleries that will give you the vision to toast your competition with your keen insider knowledge and product savvy". Color ad on back cover.