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| In
U$20 City of Golden Roofs Scrooge
remembers that he once sold concertinas
to the Czar's cavalry. AA43/1959 |
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| In U$12 The Golden
Fleecing we learn that Scrooge
bought his broadcloth at a rummage sale
in Scotland in 1902. GB02 |
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In U$49 The Loony Lunar Gold Rush
Scrooge remembers an awful winter on the
Yukon when he froze into a veritable
glazier, and he was first thawed out of
it the next spring. He also recalls an
awful summer in the Transvaal, where the
sun heated the rocks so hot that molten
gold oozed out like taffy candy. But it
did him no good, because he had to run to
Capetown to get asbestos gloves to be
able to pick up the hissing stuff. AA18/1965 |
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When digging for gold in the Klondike
area Scrooge buried a hoard of nuggets at
his claim on White Agony Creek (FC0456
Back to the Klondike). He also
got rubbed of a goose egg gold nugget by
Glittering Goldie. AA52/1959 |
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| In U$11 Riches,
Riches Everywhere! Scrooge brags
to the nephews that he got rich by
digging gold and silver and tin and
copper out of the mountains of the world,
and by being the cleverest prospector
that ever peeked under a pebble. AA08/1958 |
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In WDCS155
'The Rainbow Heir Story' Scrooge
enumerates the relatives that can inherit
him: 'My only relatives are my nephew,
Donald, and his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and
Louie, and my distant nephew, Gladstone
Gander!... What a collection!' AA05/1954
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| During
a battle with a crocodile in U$57
The Swamp of no Return Scrooge
remembers that he fought forty-foot crocs
as rubber hunter in Guiana. AA15/1966 |
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In FC0238 Voodoo Hoodoo
Scrooge tells that he 70 years earlier
wanted some land in Africa for a rubber
plantation, but the owners, a tribe of
ferocious savages, wouldn't sell. So he
hired a mob of thugs and chased the tribe
into the jungle. GB05 |
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In U$56 Mystery of the Ghost Town
Railroad Scrooge recalls that he
bought shares in The Goldopolis And Boom
City Railroad in 1898. In the city of
Goldopolis he also got acquainted with
the owner of the Gold Cup Café, Katie
Mallard AKA Hashknife Kate. In the story
Scrooge also gets his top hat shot full
of holes by the McViper gang just as he
did in 1898, when he had to have it
patched. AA38/1967 |
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| In FC0291 The Magic
Hourglass we are presented to
Scrooge's old hourglass which he bought
in a thieves' market in Morocco years ago.
GB02 |
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In U$10 The Heirloom Watch Scrooge
tells Donald about his watch that has
been with the McDuck family for two
hundred years. He is also named sole heir
to his great uncle Quagmire McDuck's
estate in Scotland. AA02/1957 |
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In WDCS134 'The Cannonball Story'
Donald learns that Scrooge bought his
cannon right after the Boer War. AA06/1952 |
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| In
U$19 The Mines of King Solomon
Scrooge informs Donald and the nephews
that he learned the Arabic language when
he once sold lawn mowers in the Sahara
desert. AA01/1959 |
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According to Scrooge himself he used to
manage a thriving salt business in Egypt
in U$25 'The Pyramid Story'.
AA49/1959 |
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| In U$29 Hound of the
Whiskervilles Donald wants to
know if Scrooge's ancestors also wore
silk hats. Scrooge responds: 'My
grandfather wore a miner's cap! But back
before him, my ancestors - I've forgotten!'
AA06/1961 |
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In FC0386 Only a Poor Old Man
we learn several things from Scrooge's
past: In 1898 he dug gold nuggets out of
the creeks at Klondike, and in 1882 he
punched cows in Montana. Here he filed on
a claim that contained one third of the
world's known resources of copper. He
also fooled the brigands of Mongolia, and
gummed up the James boys and outfoxed the
Daltons. Furthermore, he salvaged
treasure on the Spanish Main, and he
learned the cormorant language by
training thousands of them when in the
pearl trade in Asia. And then he learned
some tricks in Bagdad... SH08 |
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| In MMA September
Scrimmage Scrooge reveals that
he used to play old-time football at
Webfoot Tech. back in the 1880s. BH08 |
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In FC0189 The Old Castle's Secret
we are presented to several of Scrooge's
ancestors from the McDuck clan in
Scotland: Sir Eider McDuck who was killed
by the Saxons during a siege in 946, Sir
Quackly McDuck who buried a treasure
along with himself(!) in the walls of his
castle in 1057, Sir Roast McDuck who died
in 1205 from over-eating after robbing
the King's pantry, Sir Swamphole McDuck
who had the castle's dungeon door sealed
in 1220, and Sir Stuft McDuck of whom we
just know his name from a tombstone. SO |
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