Uncle Scrooge Vs. Flintheart Glomgold : The Second Richest Duck (Gladstone Giant Album Comic Series, No. 4) (Gladstone Giant Comic Album Ser. : No. 4) [Paperback]

Carl Barks (Author), Don Rosa (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Gladstone Pub Ltd (December 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944599281
• ISBN-13: 978-0944599280
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #963,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST OF THE BEST !, July 9, 2002

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This review is from: Uncle Scrooge Vs. Flintheart Glomgold : The Second Richest Duck (Gladstone Giant Album Comic Series, No. 4) (Gladstone Giant Comic Album Ser. : No. 4) (Paperback)

This huge comic album is great and is loaded with good long stories. The theme of the album is Uncle Scrooge versus his nemesis Flintheart Glomgold, the second richest duck in the world. It has four long and really good stories in it. In the first story Scrooge and his nephews go to Africa to see if Glomgold is richer than Scrooge is. Then they become involved in a fierce contest to see who is the richest duck. In the second story Scrooge and Glomgold get in another contest to see who is richer when they change all there money into silver dollars and measure the piles. But the cheating Glomgold is up to no good. The third story is safari/adventure themed with Scrooge and his nephews in the wilds of Africa trying to beat Glomgold to an important auction. And in the fourth story Scrooge and his nephews race towards the Inca gold high in the Andes so they can try to get to it before the pursuing Flintheart Glomgold can. These were very good high quality stories with better color on the pages compared to other comic albums.

15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good!, November 4, 1999

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This review is from: Uncle Scrooge Vs. Flintheart Glomgold : The Second Richest Duck (Gladstone Giant Album Comic Series, No. 4) (Gladstone Giant Comic Album Ser. : No. 4) (Paperback)

What can I say.... it's Don Rosa. The best drawer Disney have had since Carl Barks. A must have for all Disney fans. Allso the more adult crowd

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More wacky McDuck brilliance, November 17, 2008

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This review is from: Uncle Scrooge Vs. Flintheart Glomgold : The Second Richest Duck (Gladstone Giant Album Comic Series, No. 4) (Gladstone Giant Comic Album Ser. : No. 4) (Paperback)

This giant-sized volume of Gladstone Publishing's Disney series highlights the rivalry between the world's richest duck, Uncle Scrooge, and his nemesis, South African tycoon Flintheart Glomgold. Flintheart first appears in the 1956 Carl Barks saga, "The Second Richest Duck," in which the two misers are so evenly matched they resort to comparing the size of two balls of string that they've saved over the years... It's a pretty funny premise, and the story whizzes along at a brisk pace. Two more Barks gems are included, "The Money Champ" from 1958 and "So Far No Safari," from 1965. The fourth story, 1987's "The Son Of The Sun," is by Carl Barks acolyte Don Rosa -- in it, Scrooge and Glomgold race to discover a hidden Inca treasure, affording Rosa the chance to show his skill as a draftsman.

Although the first story is pretty innocuous, the later stories get a bit dark -- Glomgold cheats wildly and tries to kill the other ducks in a variety of ways, including a lot of pointed (and fired) guns. Still, this is basically about as wholesome and high-class of family entertainment as you can find these days -- great stories from two master cartoonists! (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain children's book reviews)