I literally (ha!) learned to read from Carl Barks’ Uncle Scrooge comics (my brother always bought me one when he did his comic book run in the early 70s). I also remember being really really mad at him for throwing one of my favorites across the room so violently it ripped apart in mid-air (brothers!). At the time I remember it being worth “a lot” of money (to 7-8yr old me); but in hindsight I was never going to sell it anyway.
Years later my Dad bought me a huge white hardback Smithsonian Collection of Carl Barks stories. I think it was the first time that teenage me realized my Dad had ever actually paid attention to my interests.
Decades later my wife surprised with with a 3-volume collection of Carl Bark’s Uncle Scrooge works. And then later surprised me again with Don Rosa’s “Complete Life and Times of Uncle Scrooge.”
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