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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The past of Scrooge plays an important part in many
american and italian Scrooge's stories, the unknow past, lived as a black hole,
something unpredictable, which comes back in an unexpected way for haunting
the present, often for the worse; this is such the case in stories like 'oncle
picsou et le mur de la honte - paperino e la vecchia ricevuta - 1967; in 'Donald
et le Tignouf' - Voodoo Hoodoo - 1949, an african sorcerer was seeking for
revenge after a dark story of soils Scrooge had concluded in his young age; in
'Donald roi du cirque Konstanz' - paperino e il grande barunz - 1957, we find
Scrooge at his craftiest behaviour, he doesn't hesitate to leave his
associate while this one is chased by angry indians (we are very far from the
peak of the character innocence of the Tralla La story, but, in general, as i
said before in a previous comment, the Scrooge of Carl Barks is kinder than the
italian Scrooge, and so, that leads to different stories with different
plots due to a different -but not entirely different- characterization); we must
note that in these italian stories the past of Scrooge has not often the same
significance than in Carl Barks; in Barks for example in the 'Magic Hourglass',
the quest for recovering the hourglass is a search for rebuilding the Scrooge's
wealth due to the magic powers of the object, this is not a quest to 'exorcize'
a shady past like in 'Barunz'.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Romano Scarpa's technique (2): In Scarpa too, a lot
of stories find their explanation in the past of the protagonists (for Mickey :
Topolino e la collona Chirikawa, Calidornia, in some proportion 'dimensione
Delta' too (the picture of an early Mickey, reminiscent of the imaginary of
Gottfredson, given by Mirandus to Atomiinus); for Scrooge, The flying Scottman -
Donald et la légende de l'Ecossais volant - paperino e la leggenda dello
Scozzese volante - 1957 where the 'double' of Scrooge is a really impressive
ghost in this story, 'Les lentilles de Babylone' - paperino e le lentiecchie di
Babilonia - 1960, where the most part of the story is a
flashback.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>