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<TITLE>RE: Don Rosa Strobl US#50?</TITLE>
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<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Here's Timo:</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">In his introduction to the first episode of The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck Don says:</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">'</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">I regard any $crooge tale not written by Barks to be apocryphal. However in UNCLE $CROOGE #50 there was a story drawn by Tony Strobl which showed a young $crooge earning his first dime by cleaning a ditchdigger's boots.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">'</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">Yet I can not find such story in US 50, as I search the Inducks. Has Don done some typo or other error there?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"</FONT>
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<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Here's Germund:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">"It should be [S 63099], but now I see in Inducks that one page is apparently cut from the US versions... Someone could perhaps check again."</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">
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<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">And here's Harry:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">"Don was mistaken. The story is "The Invisible Intruder" in Uncle Scrooge #44. Written by Vic Lockman."</FONT>
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<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Now here's me:</FONT>
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<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Don was correct. The story is indeed the Strobl-drawn S 63099, "Chairman of the Bored"/"Getting That Healthy Wealthy Feeling," published in the USA in US 50.</FONT></P>
<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On page 3 of both the original S-coded version and the cut USA version, you *do* see young Scrooge shining the ditchdigger's shoes and earning his dime. "When he pressed that dime into my sweaty little palm, I was the happiest young duck in the world!"</FONT></P>
<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The page that was cut out in the USA edition comes from later in the story and has no effect on the dime-earning sequence.</FONT></P>
<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"Invisible Intruder" does show young Scrooge shining shoes as well, but has no bearing on the actual earning of the dime. Don's text was correct.</FONT></P>
<P> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best, D</FONT>
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