Flintheart Glomgold; and a poll.

[wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz]

> This reminds me of a gag on the back of one of the old Gladstone comics.
> A man walks on the street with a sign, saying "The world could end tomorrow".
> "Nonsense!", says Scrooge, "It's already tomorrow in New Zealand!"

This is a lie !  It's only today, over here !      ;-)

>According to DuckTales, his name is Flinthart McGlomgold.  I don't
>remember seeing him in the comic book, but I'm sure someone will prove me
>wrong.

Indeed so. He has appeared in two comics.  In the first, where he appeared for
the first time, Scrooge met him accidentally as they attempted to wind each
other's string onto their own ball of spare string. After this inauspicious
start, they soon got into a slanging match over who was the richest duck in
the world, and it eventually had to be decided on who had the most spare 
string.

After a hilarious trek across the South African veld, laying out their
string alongside each other's, it came to a dead heat ! But then Scrooge
remembered he had a little extra - the string on his old number one dime !!!
So he won, due to the dime, again.

In the second story, they again had to compare wealth, by converting it all
to coins, and piling it up into two huge piles. There was a lot of carry-on
involving a shrinking chemical; and Glomgold was found cheating by inflating
his pile with a giant ballon inside.

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I greatly enjoyed both stories; indeed I would put the first one on my short
list of 5 favourite Disney comics of all.

Speaking of this, if others don't mind joining in an inane and childish poll,
how about just listing your best 5 comics ?  It would be interesting to
see comparisons.

I'll start the ball rolling with my top 5.....

1. Scrooge in Alantis at the bottom of the sea.
2. The Terries and Firmies.
3. The land of square people and hens.
4. The Magica story where the nephews snap her wand into several bits.
5. The first Glomgold story (with the spare string).
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