Scrooge is on a fairly traditional treasure hunt in the Andes, and he manages to find lots of gold. But all of it gets washed away in the end to the joy of the Incas, and Scrooge is left with nothing at all.

Things get totally out of hand, when Scrooge is hypnotized to buy numerous expensive gifts - to a dog that he does not even know! Do you think he is amused when he is finally out of the spell...?

U$14 A Square Inch of Land

Scrooge wins one square inch of land in oil rich Texas!!! In order to explore its potential he buys up millions of other adjacent lots in the hope of finding oil. But the - still - tiny piece of land contains nothing of value.

Scrooge has been on many treasure hunts, but not all of them have been successful in the end. In this one Scrooge and Donald seek old Conquistador gold, but they never find any; they only wind up with a treasure chest filled with rotting potatoes...

Scrooge comes up with a plan to haul huge gold nuggets by painting them to look like regular rocks that are going to be used to pave Quack Street in Duckburg. But the job is badly botched and the street is paved with Scrooge's gold instead...

Scrooge just tags along when Donald and the nephews take to the desert in order to collect arrowheads. They wind up finding nothing less than 7 cities of gold! However, in the end they just leave the great wealth because of loss of memory.

Scrooge has found the legendary stone that can change every metal it touches to gold. But, alas, he has to hand over the moneymaker in order to stay alive.

Scrooge buys a small Pacific island, which turns out to be drifting, causing it to slowly self-destruct. In the end Scrooge winds up with a piece of land the size of a barrel...

Scrooge stumbles over the incredibly rich, fabled mines of mythical King Solomon, but due to rough villains and wild animals he has to flee from it all.

Scrooge's multiple run-ins with the Beagle Boys have always cost large sums of money and numerous hours of aggravation, but in the end Scrooge won the bouts. Except in the first two 10-pagers (this one and WDCS135 'Frozen Assets'), in which the Boys managed to run off with buckets of money thanks to Scrooge's dubious actions.

Gyro has coated Scrooge's Money Bin in Forbidium, the toughest substance on Earth. Now, in order to open the Bin they have to scour the asteroids for an even harder metal that can cut the Forbidium. They successfully return with a large chunk of such a substance but it slips from the space ship and smashes the Bin. Its contents are spread all over Duckburg...

Things start out so well: Scrooge gets an option for 40 acres of marshland for 40 dollars and it even includes the fabled Fountain of Youth!!! But when he does not report back in time he forfeits his claim, and the deal - as well as the priceless water - vanishes into thin air. The world's greatest medical breakthrough of extending life was not to be...