Would Scrooge exchange his money??
lgiver@postoffice.pacbell.net
lgiver at postoffice.pacbell.net
Tue Feb 4 09:18:14 CET 2003
People are speculating whether Scrooge would exchange his beloved money.
Based on his record, I expect he would. Despite his sentimental
attachment to
his 3 cubic acres of coins and greenbacks, there are several Barks
stories in
which he exchanged the entire 3 cubic acres for large denomination bills to
have a smaller volume of money to safeguard, and once into silver dollars.
Presumably he had no sentimental attachment to the large bills or the silver
dollars. Here are some of the stories:
US #3 (FC #495) second story, Sept. 1953, "Water Tank Tryout"
aka "The Round Money Bin". It took the bank 3 months to convert
his 3 cubic acres into $10,000 bills, which Scrooge stored
in an old
water tank. His #1 dime was his only coin left; this was
the first
story with the #1 dime.
US #4, Dec. 1953, "Menehune Mystery" aka "Hawaiian Hideaway".
Scrooge changed his 3 cubic acres into $1,000,000 bills
which were
put into cans for the trip to a small island near Hawaii.
US #27, Sept. 1959, "The Money Champ". Challenged by Glomgold,
he and Scrooge convert the money in their bins and all their
business
investments into silver dollars to be piled up and measured
at the
Duckburg airport.
US #39, second story, Sept. 1962, "Tricky Experiment". Again
Scrooge changed all his money into $1,000,000 bills to put
them into
another spherical tank.
US #51, Aug. 1964, "How Green was my Lettuce". Because of
gophers undermining the foundation of his money bin, Scrooge has
to lighten the load, and exchanges all his coins for bales
of large
denomination greenbacks. On page 6, panel 5, there is a
stack of
about 32 bales. The 2 bales in the foreground of panel 3 on
page 6
are each labeled $9,000,000,000,000,000. If all 32 bales
have this
same amount, he has $288,000,000,000,000,000 in his bin.
Any other stories to add to this list, by Barks or others?
Best wishes,
Larry Giver
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