Uncle Scrooge Timeless Tales Volume 4

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Scrooge McDuck combs the world for wealth in a bonus-packed collectors' anthology of IDW's Uncle Scrooge issues #19-24! From Egyptian wastes in The Third Nile to the high Himalayas and ancestral Scotland, the McDuck legend marches on--with Magica De Spell and the Beagle Boys in hot pursuit! This amazing hardback also includes more of William Van Horn's Uncle Rumpus and Romano Scarpa's Brigitta MacBridge... right when Scrooge wants to see them the least!Scrooge McDuck combs the world for wealth in a bonus-packed collectors' anthology of IDW's Uncle Scrooge issues #19-24! From Egyptian wastes in The Third Nile to the high Himalayas and ancestral Scotland, the McDuck legend marches on--with Magica De Spell and the Beagle Boys in hot pursuit! This amazing hardback also includes more of William Van Horn's Uncle Rumpus and Romano Scarpa's Brigitta MacBridge... right when Scrooge wants to see them the least!
The classic maestro Romano Scarpa (1927-2005) has historically been the most popular Italian talent with American Disney comics readers. As early as his youth in Venice, Scarpa had a passion for Disney comics and cartoons, with a particular fondness for the work of Floyd Gottfredson, plotter and artist of the classic Mickey Mouse newspaper strip. In 1955, Gottfredson was forced to transform that strip--hitherto a groundbreaking adventure serial--into a gag-a-day series. In 1956, Italian editors asked Scarpa to pick up the adventure serials where Gottfredson left off, and continue the narrative for Disney's European readers. Scarpa crafted legendary Italian Mickey epics like Kali's Nail, The Chirikawa Necklace, and The Delta Dimension, all of which were later reprinted in the USA to great acclaim. Apart from his Mickey work, Scarpa created two beloved thorns for Uncle Scrooge's side- brassy business-gal Brigitta MacBridge and wanna-be tycoon Jubal Pomp! After sustaining a wildly prolific career, Scarpa retired in Spain, leaving behind a grand legacy for younger Disney writers and artists, such as Giorgio Cavazzano.