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mygif

You know… I read just about all the classic Scrooge/Donald/etc. comics in the mid-to-late eighties and the early nineties, when they were being re-published in pamphlet form by Gladstone and I could cajole my mom into paying a buck for them from a supermarket rack.

(This also means that, when they started publishing new stuff by Don Rosa, I ended up with all of his stuff in its initial run. I have a pamphlet first-run copy of ‘His Majesty McDuck’ that is in absolutly shitty condition, but has immense sentimental value and gets me crazy McDuck cred.)

Anyway! My point, and I do have one, is that I had no clue, no clue AT ALL, that they weren’t current, that they were re-prints of stories that were thirty-plus years old stories. YES, that includes the one with the Peeweegahs, which I look at these days and wince. I totally thought that was being written at the time and didn’t find it and the other stuff that today I find cringe-worthy incongruous at ALL.

My question is, does that reflect badly on me and my upbringing, or incredibly well on the stories?

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mygif

I can’t help but hear all of Scrooge’s lines in Rusty Venture’s voice.

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mygif

You had to learn point 35 and 36?

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mygif

I can’t be too mad at the Peeweegah story just because their dialogue all scans PERFECTLY.

Nobody cares about proper scansion nowadays.

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mygif

Little did Donald know as he stood on the stilts staring at his mean uncle that a semi-truck with its brakes out was barrelling down the street straight for him….

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mygif

But I love to gloat villainously! 🙁

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mygif

Would it be possible to have a tag for the Scrooge McDuck comics just like Rex has one? Thanks. 🙂

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