SCROOGE McDUCK

 

 

 

Scrooge McDuck topped this year’s Forbes’ list of the richest imaginary characters; his wealth, mostly gold in coins, soared 30 percent this year to an imaginary $44.1 billion. Of the fifteen listed, five are comics characters: in addition to Uncle Scrooge, Richie Rich is in fourth place; Tony Stark, sixth; Bruce Wayne, eighth; and C. Montgomery Burns from “The Simpsons,” twelfth.

Scanning a recent issue of the Previews catalogue of comics productions, we see that Don Rosa’s magnum opus, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, is being offered again, and Classic Comics has arrived at yet another of its sumptuous reprint series, John Culllen Murphy’s Big Ben Bolt Dailies, 1950-1952, the story of a gentlemanly prize fighter limned by one of the medium’s superlative illustrators.