Time in Don's comics

[Harry Fluks]

Don Rosa:
>... my stories all take place in the early-mid 50s. 

Fredrik Ekman: 
> Yes, I've read about that before. And that has also made me wondering:
> What about those stories (like "When the Duck fell to Earth" (trans-
> lation of the Swedish title) and "The Island at the Edge of Time")
> where modern equipment (satellites in those two examples) play an
> important role? The first satellite wasn't sent up until 1957, and
> satellites equipped for searching for minerals probably didn't arrive
> until several years after that.

Wasn't there a Barks story that stated that "Duckburg is well ahead of time
compared to other cities in the world"? 8-)

Fredrik:
> I also wonder if there is any "internal continuity" in your stories.
> Like: "Son of the Sun" comes before "Mythological Menagerie" which
> comes before "Return to Plain Awful". I realize, of course, that the
> stories can be read in any order, but do they take place in any
> particular order (say, chronologically)?

There are a few things that determine the order of at least some stories.
In "Return to Plain Awful", Scrooge is going to the Andes, and his clerk
says "AGAIN, sir?". He clearly refers to "Son of the Sun", so that story
must have taken place before that.

I'm sure Rosa has references like that in other stories as well (he likes
to make them and I like to read them...).
I can't remember more at the moment, though.

--Harry.