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The Don Rosa Library #1

Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Sun

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Great howling crashwagons! The Richest Duck in the World is back and so are noisy nephew Donald, wunderkinder Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and rascally richnik Flintheart Glomgold! Because you asked for it, we re proud to present our first complete, chronological book of Duck adventures by modern fan favorite Don Rosa following in the footsteps of Disney legend Carl Barks with an exciting, lovingly detailed style all his own!

Rosa, among the world s most beloved modern cartoonists, launched his Barksian career in 1987. Famed for his prizewinning Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, 1995: Best Serialized Story), Rosa wrote and drew a whopping twodecades worth of ripping Scrooge and Donald yarns!

Rosa s Duck canon has also won him an additional Eisner Award (1997: Best Artist/Writer, Humor); the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing (2013); and the Frankfurt Book Fair s International Grand Prize (2005), among other major international honors.

Standout stories in our first Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck book include The Son of the Sun, Scrooge s and Flintheart s epic battle for Inca gold; Crocodile Collector, Donald s pursuit of a roguish rare reptile; and Last Sled to Dawson, Rosa s sequel to Barks classic Back to the Klondike featuring the return of Scrooge s old flame, Glittering Goldie O Gilt! Uhoh... Cash Flow brings back the Beagle Boys, too!

Presented with sparkling color and a rich archive of Rosa s cover art and behind-the-scenes factoids, these Duckburg epics are getting a definitive, comprehensive North American edition for the very first time at a bargain price worthy of Scrooge himself!"

208 pages, Hardcover

First published June 20, 2014

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Don Rosa

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Keno Don Hugo Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known best for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Duck Family characters. Many of his stories are built on characters and locations created by Carl Barks.

In 1995 he won the Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story" for his 12-chapter work The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. He received the award again in 1997 for "Best Artist/Writer - Humor Category".

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December 14, 2016
سأحكي لكم اليوم حكاية دون روزا وكارل باركس


أثنان من رسامي الكوميكس ألهما الكثير من الأفلام والروايات
فقد أعترف جورج لوكاس نفسه انه استوحي مشهد بأنديانا جونز من قصة كوميكس لكارل باركس

مبنية بتصرف من قصة لدون روزا عن اختراق الأحلام Inception كما أن رائعة كريستوفر نولان


هما من أضافا عنصر رحلات استكشاف أسرار العالم الحقيقية وتاريخ الحضارات المفقودة والبحث عن الكنوز وغيرها من مغامرات جعلتني أتعلم حقائق غريبة عن العالم ورحلات بشكل جذاب منذ نعومة أظافري
وبهذه القصة داخل قصة .. فصة أثنان من المبدعين ألهبا خيال الملايين ، قد تدركون من خلالها لم شغفي بكوميكس ديزني لهذا الحد
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دون روزا يحكي لنا في المجلد الأول من مجموعة مكتبته الكاملة لقصص مدينة البط التي رسمها من 1987 الي 2006 بدايته العجيبة

دون روزا لم يكن يعمل بالكوميكس بل بشركة مقاولات تابعة لجده بولاية كنتاكي الامريكية ، منذ نعومة اظافرة بدأ قراءاته بكوميكس ديزني وشغف بالأخص بقصص الفنان كارل باركس، الذي تخصص في رسم عائلات البط كدونالد داك 'بطوط' وزيزي والاولاد ، وأساسا هو من ابتكر شخصيات أخري لهذا العالم ليثريه كالعم الثري سكرووج ماك داك 'عم دهب' والساحرة سونيا ومحظوظ وغيرهم الكثير
ممكن تعرف باختصار عن ابتكار كارل باركس لعم دهب من الريفيو ده
ريفيو الظهور الأول لعم سكرووج , دهب في الأربعينات

ليقدم كارل باركس من خلال العم دهب وبطوط والاولاد تطور لنوعية قصصه من مجرد قصص هزلية لمغامرات حول العالم للتنقيب عن الكنوز المفقودة بكل انحاء العالم تقريبا ,وحتي أعماق البحار والفضاء أيضا, بقصص منذ بداية الأربعينات وحتي نهاية الستينات ليقدم اكثر من 600 مغامرة كوميكس ثلثهما تقريبا يزيد عن 10 صفحات ويصل ل32 صفحة
وتظل رسوم كارل باركس بالرغم من جودتها إلا ان الحقائق بها في الأحداث قليلة جدا ، وربما يظل أهم قصصه هي 'الخوذة الذهبية' والتي فتحت ملف أزمة حقيقة حول إكتشاف النرويجيين والفايكنج لأمريكا الشمالية قبل كريستوفر كولومبوس مما يعقد حبكة الأحداث

ثم نعود لحكاية عاشق الكوميكس الذي تخطي الثلاثين من عمره في عام 1986 ، كينو دون روزا ، والذي يعمل في شركة جده التي لا يشعر بشغف تجاهها ،يكتشف أن مطبوعات كوميكس ديزني عادت تنشر في أمريكا بعد توقفها في السبعينات، وفوجئ بأن الطبعات الجديدة صارت تكتب إسم الفنان القائم برسوم الكوميكس، وفرح عندما رأي اسم كارل باركس وخاصا ان ديزني تمنع أي إمضاء شخصي للفنان الذي يرسم الكوميكس
وجد ان الطبعات الجديدة تسمح لفنانين جدد تقديم اعمالهم ، وعليه تقدم فورا لصاحب دار النشر ليبدأ في الإتجاه لرسم مغامرات جديدة وليغير مجري حياته تماما من المدار التقليدي إلي حلم كان يحلمه منذ نعومة أظافره ، رسم عائلة البط كمثله الأعلى كارل باركس
ليقدم عمله الأول 1987 ب
The Son of the Sun

ورحلة لحضارات الإنكا بأمريكا الجنوبية متضمنة بعض المعلومات الحقيقية حول أساطيرهم وغزو الأسبان لهم في القرن السادس عشر و إخفاء المحليين لكنوزهم

ليكون العمل الأول له مغامرة كبري في 24 صفحة تضاهي رسوم كارل باركس ، بل وتتفوق عليها بكثير من وجهة نظري من خلال دقة الرسوم والألوان

لتتوالي بعدها مايزيد عن 70 مغامرة واكثر من 1000 صفحة من رسوم تصلح لأعمال فنية متقنة ، بها الكثير من الواقعية التي لا تتناسب مع باقي رسوم كوميكس ديزني
مع أسرار من حضارات قديمة ومعلومات تقنية جغرافية وكونية كمركز الارض والجاذبية والفضاء في اطار شيق

وعن كون تعامل دون روزا مع شخصيات البط كأنها شخصيات حقيقية تذهب لمناطق حقيقية في العالم بل وتروي اجزاء من تاريخ العالم الحقيقي...يقول لنا دون روزا مدافعا عن هذا ان كارل باركس هو من فعل هذا في المقام الأول في مغامرات التي كتبها في الأربعينات, ناهيك أن شخصيات ديزني نفسها تبدو لك كأنها تتصرف كشخصيات بعيدة عن طبيعتها...فميكي فأر لديه كلب "بلوتو" ومع ذلك صديقه "جوفي/بندق" نفسه كلب..
بعكس مثلا باجز باني في الكارتون هو ارنب عادي يعيش في جحر ويطارده رجل يصطاد الأرانب، دافي داك بطة عارية عادية، توم وجيري فأر يعيش بالجحر وقط منزلي يخشي من غضب اصحاب المنزل من البشر.. بعكس بطوط ودهب الذين يعيشون في مدينة في بيوت خاصة بهم ويديرون اعمال وحياة.. لذا لم يري غضاضة في جعلهم كشخصيات حقيقية تستكشف خبايا العالم الحقيقي واسراره وتسافر لمناطق حقيقية
بل ويكره دون روزا ان يضيف بالقصة تعليقات ساخرة عن كونهم بط -
وهذا ما يحدث مثلا في بعض الترجمات الحديثة المصرية بنهضة مصر من استظراف
كما انه قرر ان يجعل كل القصص التي رسمها منذ 1986 الي 2006 تدور فقط احداثها في حقبة الثلاثينات والأربعينات حتي وان كان بشكل غير مباشر وذلك لكي يستكمل قصص مثله الأعلي كارل باركس ،فهو لم يفضل فكرة أن البط يعيش في أرض خياليه تجعلهم لا يموتون أبدا، وإلا لم نتعاطف مع شخصية الرجل ،البطة، العادي دونالد داك 'بطوط' إذا عرفنا انه خالدا لا يموت مثلا؟

لذلك قام دون روزا بمغامرات كثيرة مبنية علي قصص كارل باركس، ويظل عمله الأكثر اتقانا وفنا حقيقيا هو تقديمه تاريخ ممتاز لحياة سكرووج 'عم دهب' في 12 جزء في التسعينات ليقدم فيها تاريخ العالم منذ 1880 الي 1930
وقمت بريفيو مطول عن تلك التجربة
لمعرفة ربط التاريخ الحقيقي مع قصة عم دهب مبينة علي قصص كارل باركس القديمة


وإن كان كارل باركس الهم المخرج العبقري جورج لوكاس في احد اهم مشاهد انديانا جونز كما أعترف المخرج بل وقدم له شكر خاص ,وكتب مقدمة مكتبة مجلدات كارل باركس
ريفيو المجلد الأول لكارل باركس
فأن دون روزا ايضا ألهم بعض المخرجين وهي مفاجأة سأحكي لكم عنها عندما اصل لتلك المغامرة حول رائعة نولان
Inception
بطولة ليوناردو دي كابريو
والتي بها عالم الأحلام بشكل تقني غريب, وصل الاقتباس ان ذروة الأحداث حيث يكون لحبيبة قديمة للبطل "البطل هنا دهب" دور مهم في ظهورها في الحلم بشكل كارثي ولكنه يساعد البطل في ان يصحو من ذلك الكابوس

ولكن لحين الوصول لهذه القصة..لهذا ريفيو اخر
فانا مازلت في مرحلة قراءة تلك المكتبة العجيبة ،بإذن الله ساستكمل ريفيو لاهم المغامرات في كل مجلد

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--المجلد الاول--

غير القصة الاولي لدون روزا في البحث في اثار الإنكا التي قام اهل امريكا الجنوبية بإخفاء هذه الكنوز عقب الاحتلال الإسباني لها ، كمية معلومات حقيقية في اطار ساخر بين صراع اغني "بطتين" في العالم

ربما القصة الرهيبة التي اثبتت دقة دون روزا في البحث هو قصة الحيوانات الخرافية ، ستجد بها ذكر للباسيليك، الثعبان الأسطوري الذي ذكر بعد 10 سنين في هاري بوتر وحجرة الاسرار، قام بطوط بوضع جلد ثعبان علي ديك ، كما قالت الاسطورة في هاري بوتر أن هذا الوحش هو ثعبان ولد من بيضة دجاجة جلس عليها ضفدعة

ومن القصص الظريفة هي حكاية عربية عم بطوط الشهيرة 313، والتي هي تجميعة لعربات مختلفة يتم كشفها لأول مرة علي الكوميكس

ولكن القصة الاكثر تأثيرا هي عندما يعود دهب لداوسون حيث كان ينقب عن الذهب في شبابه، في قصة جميلة درامية ورومانسية ايضا
وربما هي مدخل سلسلة شباب وحياة عم دهب التي قدمها في سنوات لاحقة
ولكن، لهذا مجلدات اخري

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September 24, 2021
Don Rosa is the ultimate Carl Barks fanboy, and his love of Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and the rest of the Disney ducks really shines through in these stories. This volume contains some of Rosa's first duck stories, so the art is not as refine as it will be later in his career. However, it is interesting to read his notes on the stories that he created. The commentary on these comics provided by Rosa is one of the highlights of this collection.
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971 reviews182 followers
December 21, 2018
I wish there was entire series label for this instead of #1, #2 and so on...because I am now going to read entire series shamelessly...

I've already read "Life and Time of Scrooge McDuck" series so I am comparing it with this


It is not as impactful as former one, but still enjoyable...

To all Scrooge fans, I'd surely recommend 'Life and Time of Scrooge McDuck' series.
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July 5, 2017
I am very, very selective about which books I give five stars. It's not just books that I find amazing (those I give four) but books that completely changed my life. And that is what the Don Rosa Donald Duck stories did for me. They might have been the first stories to do so. I read these things obsessively when I was a child. There are panels from these stories that I could redraw from memory if I wanted. Reading them now, as a sort of adult, I am struck by just how much my experience with these stories mirrors Don Rosa's with Carl Barks: I was aware that there was one artist who I loved above all, but I had to collect his stories from all sort of seperate "albums" and "Donald Duck Extras". This was a thrilling experience, although hugely frustrating for my young mind. It's indescribably wonderful to have all these amazing stories collected, with tons of background information, and in a beautiful book for the first time. Consider this five-star rating to apply to the whole series.
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May 11, 2017
Anyone who read comics in the 1950s remembers the great Uncle Scrooge/Donald Duck stories like "Lost in the Andes" and "Only a Poor Old Man". But back then, nobody outside the Dell Comics offices knew who "the good artist" was who wrote and drew all the best stories. By the 1960s, all those in the world of comics fandom knew who it was: Carl Barks. Barks is now a revered name in comics, both for his art style, and his writing, which combined high adventure, slapstick comedy, and historical detail. Kids in the 90s, whether they knew it or not, experienced a watered-down version of Barks' genius if they watched "Duck Tales", and Pixar's movie "Up" was a loving homage to all those old Uncle Scrooge adventures.

By the mid-eighties, Dell Comics was defunct, but the publisher Another Rainbow was putting out black and white, slip-cased versions of Barks' complete works. And they decided to create a related company, Gladstone, to publish standard comics starring the Disney characters. They not only reprinted Barks and others, but also commissioned new work.

Enter Keno Don Rosa, a fan of the "Duckburg Universe" created by Barks, who began a series of stories for Gladstone revisiting and expanding that universe. Rosa continued to created Duck stories for Gladstone and for the Scandinavian market for twenty years, including the mammoth story cycle "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", tales of the rugged early years of our skinflint hero.

Rosa's style is distinguishable from Barks's by the amount of detail he puts into his drawings, and the sheer density of sight gags that rival what Will Elder used to do in the early Mad. But like Barks, his stories are masterpieces of great adventure ad comedy. It's high time that his work is collected in a hardcover, full color, oversize format such as this. There will be a total of eight volumes of the Rosa library, I believe, and I think six have been published as of this writing by Fantagraphics. They contain not only comics, but biographical and historical articles by Rosa that explain his life and work.

Fantagraphics also currently publishes the Carl Barks Library, which is in full color now, and I'll probably have to buy them for my own collection, even though I own some of the earlier black and white volumes published by Another Rainbow.

Highest recommendation!!
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March 24, 2019
Like the Carl Barks Library before it, also published by Fantagraphics, this first volume of the Don Rosa Library is fantastic. The book itself is beautifully bound and composed. The introduction in the beginning and extra info in the end of the volume, all written by Don Rosa himself, is all fantastic. There’s enough trivia and never-before-published material to satisfy any fan of these Scrooge and Donald stories. And speaking of the stories themselves, they are gems. Classic comedy-adventures that anyone will enjoy.
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April 5, 2017
When I was a kid I got serialised Donald Duck comics for about 10 years sent to my home. They weren't much in terms of quality but I remember fondly that everyone always waited for a new Don Rosa story. They stood out in every way: The art was better, the story was full of adventure and there was a rich history and backstory to the world it portrayed. Duckburg and Scrooge really came alive. It was like the difference between watching a pretty bad 80's kids movie and watching Indiana Jones.

I picked this up mostly because of nostalgia and curiosity in how these would hold up for a 39 year old me. In short they are even better than I remembered and even this collection of his early stuff is miles better than I expected. It truly is an awesome book and the extras are really first class with Don Rosa giving a sort of "directors commentary" for every story. His love for the material really shines through, being a huge Barks fan himself and wanting to continue his legacy. In my opinion Rosa didn't just do that but he made the world of Duckburg richer and better. I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation. It's fantastic and I'll be collecting the rest of these.
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126 reviews99 followers
September 25, 2018
আমেরিকান কমিকস শিল্পী কার্ল বার্কসের লেখা এবং আঁকা ডাকবার্গ শহরের আঙ্কল স্ক্রুজ, ডোনাল্ড ডাক, তাদের তিন ভাগিনা - হিউয়ি ডিউয়ি লিউয়ির পূর্নজন্ম দিয়েছিলেন কিনো ডন রোজা। বার্কসের মিথোলজির প্রতি বিশ্বস্ত থেকে - বার্কসের গল্পগুলোর উপর ভিত্তি করে আরো চমকপ্রদ গল্প সৃষ্টি করে দেখাতে পেরেছিলেন তিনি ডাকবার্গের চরিত্রগুলো ব্যবহার করে কমিকস সৃষ্টিতে কার্ল বার্কসের চেয়ে খুব কম যান না।

যদিও রোজার গল্পে নাটকীয়তা বেশি, তার কমিকসে আঙ্কল স্ক্রুজ আর ডোনাল্ড ডাকের স্লাপস্টিক কমেডির পরিমানও বার্কসের চেয়ে বেশি। সোজাকথায়, রোজার ভাঁড়ামির পরিমান কার্ল বার্কসের চেয়ে বেশি, আবার রোজার গল্পের গভীরতাও কার্ল বার্কসের চেয়ে অনেক বেশি। বার্কসের তুলনা একমাত্র বার্কস নিজে, তারপরেও বার্কসের পর স্ক্রুজ, ডোনাল্ডদের সার্থক চরিত্রায়ন একমাত্র ডন রোজাই করতে পেরেছেন।

এই ভলিউমে রোজার প্রথম দিকে আঁকা ডাক-কমিকসগুলো আছে। স্ক্রুজ আর ডোনাল্ডকে নিয়ে রোজার করা পরবর্তি মহাকীর্তিগুলোর আগমনী বার্তা এ ভলিউমে সুস্পষ্ট।
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829 reviews41 followers
August 20, 2015
Disney Ducks" comics have had innumerable artists work on these characters over the years. But if there's one "Ducks" artist that even comes close to the legendary Carl Barks (The "Good Duck Artist"), it's Don Rosa.

THis series compiles all the Ducks comics that Rosa wrote over the years into gorgeous oversized volumes that really showcase the insane details that goes into each issue.

And the annotations and tibits are also quite interesting, adding a level of complexity to the already rich stories.

With all things Disney (and Ducks) receiving a resurgence of late, this is a great companion series to the Carl Barks library (also currently being re-published by Fantagraphics.)

Both this series (and the Carl Barks library) get my highest recommendation.

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March 25, 2020
Those earliest Rosa stories showcase him, on one hand, still learning the tools of his trade as an artist but, on the other hand, proving that he was an accomplished storyteller from the get-go. Even if you, like me, might not look favourably to some of Rosa's peculiar rules he set for himself -- such as placing the stories in a specific timeframe in the past (which goes against the Disney comic tradition) and only acknowledging Barks stories (which, if you're not kind to Rosa, you might even consider to be a testament to his self-aggrandising view of himself as being the only worthy successor to "Unca Carl", though I personally don't believe that's the case), you have to admit those stories overpour with love to those characters which has seldom been found in any other Disney comics. I've always particularly enjoyed when Rosa dared to explore more sentimental territories, thus showing a more sentimental side of Scrooge himself. Such is the case of "Last Sled to Dawson", which I still considered to be one of his very best. When I first read in my early teens, it did for me what Barks's "Only a Poor Old Man" had apparently done for Rosa -- namely, it showed aspects of Scrooge's personality that, for most part, had remained unexplored within the duck lore and portrayed him as a much more complex character. For any Scrooge afficionado, Rosa's arrival at the Disney comic book stage in 1987 must have felt like a Second Coming.
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306 reviews6 followers
February 10, 2019
The first volume, featuring the earliest duck stories by Don Rosa. He is good from the get go, but this collection features mostly short gag stories, and only two really great adventures. This also affects his own commentary, because it's obvious he hasn't really a lot to say about the shorter stories. That said, it's a beautiful book, and worth it just for "The Son of the Sun" and "The Last Sled to Dawson".
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280 reviews2 followers
January 31, 2023
Zio Paperone e il figlio del Sole ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Zio Paperone - Due nipoti, nessun profitto ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Paperino e il serraglio mitologico ⭐⭐⭐
Paperino e l'auto a pezzi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Zio Paperone e un fiume di soldi ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Paperino ed i pasticci... di zucca ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Paperino e l'albero di Natale ⭐⭐⭐
Paperino e la fortuna sott'olio ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Zio Paperone a caccia del giornale ⭐⭐
Zio Paperone e l'ultima slitta per Dawson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Paperino ed il sogno spaziale ⭐⭐
Zio Paperone in forma per il fisco ⭐⭐
Paperino e la punizione con stile ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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1,243 reviews69 followers
July 31, 2019
Don Rosa truly was a worthy successor to the great Carl Barks. His stories carry on the legacy of the wildly imaginative and surprisingly human approach that Barks had such mastery over. As with Barks, his best stories are the adventure oriented yarns, with some of the gag-oriented stories being less good. For example, Recalled Wreck essentially punishes Donald for being responsible and thorough in his car maintenance, rather than for excessive hubris, which would have been the standard for a Barks story. Cash Flow was one of my favorites, with the return of the unnamed professor who initially appeared in a Barks story about the ray to remove cabbage fumes. This story has the professor creating rays that alter various physical properties, and Rosa uses them to create a story that has lots of absurdly funny situations, with money flowing like water, and Donald zipping through Duckburg in an inertia-less car. Another standout story is The Son Of The Sun with its exotic locations, rivalry between Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold, and a briefly flying Incan temple.

In the notes, Rosa denigrates his own artwork repeatedly, calling it excessively busy, but I personally really like all the fiddly details. maybe I've got no true artistic taste, but I don't care. I like what I like, and Rosa's style appeals to me. His layouts are simple and effective, and I really like the occasional big splash panel. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of these volumes.
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Author 20 books34 followers
November 18, 2017
The stories are fun. They are totally for fun. The drawings are great, filled with detail, bright and a story of themselves.
The title story takes Scrooge to the Andes in a race against his nemesis Flintheart Glomgold. Of course Donald and the nephews go too.
Gladstone Gander makes appearances. Donald's car stars in another. The Beagle Boys manage to rob the money vault with fun consequences. Scrooge makes a return to the Klondike in a story that will keep the reader guessing to the last frame.
Don Rosa, who wrote and drew the various stores, has commentary about the stories as well as numerous covers used for them.
As always, Scrooge and Donald are a fun read. The stories go fast unless you stop to admire the drawing. The commentary at the end goes slowly, but has interesting details.
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58 reviews
October 13, 2016
As usual Fantagraphics did great job. Hardcover, nice paper, nice colors. But what is inside? First Rosa's introduction. Then, as it is obvious for first volume, great stories from beggining of Don's career (1987-88) included marvelous Son of the Sun, Last sled to Dawson, and few very funny ten-pagers. After that we have Rosa's comments about each stories: background, fun facts, its history, D.U.C.K. spotters guide or hidden Mickeys. It's funny that in almost every story Don stated that as it is one of his first comics drawing is very bad, and they are still one of the best comics in Duck universum! After that we have first part of Rosa's autobiography with many interesting facts from his live. Anyway - great edition, wonderful stories, great comments. I totally recommend!
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907 reviews14 followers
December 10, 2023
Knocked off two stars because, for crying out loud, what’s with the goddam re-coloring??? I’d be proud to see these books on my shelf if they stuck closer to the original artwork. As it is, I’m not paying for re-colored books. I never will. The airbrushed, computery effect for the backgrounds is especially fugly and ironically it still dates the comic: it just moves that date up a few decades to a time when digital colorists knew no such thing as restraint.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a purist. I’m glad these were remastered in other ways. I like that there are no ads, of course, breaking up the pages (although I like facsimile editions, so...) And I like how the colors are uniform (to a degree, because I honestly get a kick out of seeing our favorite ducks wearing “out-of-character” colors.) But that coloring!

Comics must be the only medium that routinely gets “fixed” like this. (Excepting literature, these days, vis a vis the soaring popularity of censorship!) Did we learn nothing from colorizing (aka bastardizing) classic movies? Sure, this ain’t as bad as Neal Adam’s hideous Batman re-coloring but it’s still shitty looking and distracting the eye from all the other wonderful elements on the page.

Who is this even done for? I wish comics publishers would finally learn to stop chasing these ever illusive new audiences. For the past three decades Big Comics has been running away from people who actually buy comics, and like a fat kid after an ice cream truck they’ve been desperately chasing their hypothetical new readers who barely even know comic books exist. It’s like watching a friend starve themselves to death because they’d rather eat a Thanksgiving feast for one instead of the good serving of meat and potatoes already on their plate. And look where that’s got us! American comics barely make any money these days. It’s embarrassing. The companies continually rely on and exploit their back catalogues and weaponize nostalgia while putting out (backwards-looking but PC) new crap. Meanwhile, everyone in the world is obsessed with manga. Hmm…
206 reviews7 followers
December 27, 2023
Jag är en stor fan av Don Rosa och det är jag inte ensam om att vara. Ank-tecknaren brukar ofta dra storpublik vid signeringar. Så här kan det exempelvis se ut:

"OBS! Don Rosa brukar dra storpublik när han kommer till Sverige. Kom därför i god tid till arrangemangen och köp biljetter i förväg till Bergrummet och Kulturhuset/Folkoperan."


Keno Don Hugo Rosa är egentligen en amerikansk Disneytecknare,  född 29 juni 1951 i Louisville, Kentucky.

Han är speciellt älskad för sina Joakim von Anka serier och av någon anledning särskilt uppmärksammad i de nordiska länderna.
(Särskilt i Finland efter att han 1999 ritade han ett speciellt äventyr baserat på det finska nationaleposet Kalevala.)

Don Rosas serier är ofta fortsättningar på den legendariske Kalle Anka tecknaren Carl Barks serier och han har en otroligt känsla för karaktärerna. Jag tycker att kärleken skiner igenom serierna och att han både har förstått figurerna och vad som gör dem så omtyckta samtidigt som han utvecklar dem.

Den här samlingen innehåller bland annat hans första ank-äventyr (baserat på en av hans tidigare serier) Solens son (i original The Son of the Sun). En typsik Don Rosa äventyrshistoria som nästan mer känns som Tintin eller i alla fall DuckTales. Kanske inte hans bästa serie men en föraning om vad som skulle komma. Skriven och tecknad 1987.

Vidare är det några av hans mer humoristiska serier som undertecknad faktiskt tycker är underskattade. Särskilt gillar jag kortisen "Ett mytologiskt menegeri". Läs den utan att dra på smilbanden om du kan.

Jag tycker att han är en underbar tecknare och har en särskilt snyggt förhållande till fart och action. Det är serier som är riktade mot barn men lyckas ändå rymma både genuin kärlek till Carl Barks orginalserier, en universell känsla för berättade och humor för alla åldrar.

I princip alla samlingarna av Don Rosa kommer att få solklara 5:or av mig och den hör "recensionen" är lite av ett förtäckt tips till biblioteken.

Det här är både en mästerlig serie, på gränsen till en del av svenskt kulturarv och ett måste att ha på bibblan.
830 reviews2 followers
October 11, 2017
This one has Rosa's earliest stories set in the Duck universe, with a rougher art style than what he'd later use, but still a lot of background details and references back to Carl Barks stories. Rosa saw his work as Barks-consistent, so even though the character of Donald Duck was presumably created to be a non-aging cartoon character, Rosa prefers to stick to the time period in which Barks wrote, as otherwise Scrooge would have been well over one hundred years old. I can respect the adherence to continuity; I like plenty of media that operate on a sliding time scale where the characters either don't age or age irregularly, but they do lose a certain amount of verisimilitude. Rosa also paid close attention to such details as what kind of car Donald drives (it's actually assembled from parts of several different makes). And for all the continuity obsession, Rosa's stories are still clever and funny. These stories have Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold competing for lost Incan treasure, Donald's nephews figuring out a way to make Gladstone Gander's luck work against him (although it still doesn't completely work out), the Beagle Boys trying to steal Scrooge's money with ray guns that nullify friction and inertia, and Scrooge returns to the Klondike to retrieve his glacier-bound sled.
30 reviews
December 29, 2023
Fantagraphics deserves 5 stars for their eye towards archival quality scanning and behind-the-scenes extras. This collects the first 13 of Don Rosa's Duck comics with an additional chapters devoted to Rosa's memoires and cover art.

It's a 5-star work based solely on the package. As for stories, The Son of the Sun is a classic Indiana Jones style adventure as Scrooge races against Flintheart to plunder a temple in the Andes. Last Sled to Dawson establishes Scrooge and Goldie's relationship but it's a bit too dry and overly long. Mythological Menagerie is a personal highlight, a Looney Tunes escapade where Donald creates mythological creatures in an elaborate prank against his nephews that backfires as each creature is a real cryptid.

Other highlights are Fit to Be Pied, another slapstick adventure where Donald and his neighbor sabotage each others' pumpkins for a contest, and Metaphorically Spanking where Donald secretly tries to prank the nephews for playing hooky which blows up in his face in predictably outrageous ways.

Don Rosa excels at the comedy, less so the storytelling at this early stage in his works. Thankfully there's plenty of goofy fun to balance out the longer, dryer stories.
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202 reviews2 followers
June 5, 2024
What a great book! The Scrooge stories were all fantastic. My favorite might be last sled to Dawson.

The art is so good and fits the series perfectly. The writing is sharp and witty. There are fun Easter eggs in some of the panels that are hilarious such a washing machine in the back of the room that says “laundered money” on it.

The only downside to me are some of the Donald Duck stories. Hes just not nearly as deep or interesting a character as Scrooge. His stories are much more silly and to be taken at face value for easy laughs. They are still ok though.

Definitely recommend this to anyone who has even a slight interest
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1,687 reviews2 followers
August 20, 2019
Favoloso excursus (rigorosamente in ordine cronologico di pubblicazione) dell'opera omnia di Keno Don Rosa, cioè il fan Numero Uno (pun intended) di Carl Barks e quindi di Zio Paperone.
Ho già letto molte delle storie di Don Rosa, ma è sempre un piacere rileggerle e notare ogni volta la maniacalità e la cura dei dettagli.
Il fatto che poi ci siano anche i riferimenti precisi delle citazioni contenute nelle storie è un ulteriore motivo per apprezzare a pieno la produzione del cartoonist americano.
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1,408 reviews15 followers
September 27, 2020
Just what I needed—the comics of my youth with all their cleverness and charm intact, returned to me in my hour of need, stuck in the hospital. I love Don Rosa’s art and his crazy background details and gags and his love of puns and literary humor, and thus collections pulls together his earliest duck stories, including some of my favorite gag stories. Plus lots and lots of behind the scenes information and photos—so much it’s kind of overwhelming.

But it just feels so good to read these again now when I’m in a very unfortunate situation. I’m grateful.
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59 reviews
June 5, 2023
Don Rosa is the best Donald Duck comic artist in my opinion. I obviously love what Carl Barks made too because without him this whole universe pretty much wouldn’t exist - it was him who created some of the most beloved characters but Rosa put so many details into his comics that you can just see the love with which they were drawn.
I grew up reading Donald Duck comics but I read my first ones by both of these artists when I was 15 (I think I mostly read the Italian comics as a child). I’m kind of glad it took me so long because I was really able to appreciate them.
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342 reviews8 followers
October 7, 2017
4 stelle solo perchè altrimenti dovrei darne almeno 8 ai volumi con le storie della Saga di Paperon de' Paperoni. Edizione fantastica sotto tutti i punti di vista. / 4 stars only because otherwise I should rate at least 8 stars the upcoming volumes with the Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck saga. Fantastic edition in all respects.
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743 reviews19 followers
March 26, 2018
Rosa's first Duck stories are wonderfully entertaining, but there are some annoying fanfic tendencies, as Rosa attempts to shoehorn in as many references to the Carl Barks Duck comics as he can. Rosa's sentimental streak also undercuts some of the satire of Capitalism and greed found in the Barks classics he is otherwise keen to imitate.
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1,550 reviews16 followers
September 27, 2018
A throw back to the Scrooge comics that I used to read as a kid/my love for Duck Tales. I enjoyed the stories here. Some nice longer adventure ones and some fun short ones. My kids loved it and I'll be looking for subsequent volumes to read with them as they're obsessed. Some nice supplementary material is included too in the collection.
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110 reviews3 followers
March 3, 2019
Just den här volymen innehåller kanske inte Don Rosas allra bästa historier och hans tecknande blev betydligt bättre senare men förutom själva serierna så får man Rosas egna kommentarer om varenda serie och dessutom första delen av historien om hans liv. Av alla böcker som samlat Don Rosas serier så är Fantagraphics de bästa jag sett. Ett måste för alla fans!
100 reviews3 followers
January 5, 2021
I’m pretty sure that all the volumes in this series are going to get five stars from me. Don Rosa is my favorite of the Duck cartoonists, narrowly beating out Carl Barks, so the stories themselves are great... but I absolutely loved reading the behind the scenes appendices with background info and “insane details” on all the strips. What a joy to read.
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282 reviews5 followers
June 19, 2023
Re reading these with my son. Rosa’s story’s are packed with lots of little jokes making them an even better entry way to Duck books than Rosa. Not sure what he’ll think of the Life and times stuff though.

This volume is great. Incredible how good Risa was so soon. Son of the Sun is great and so is the ray gun one (can’t recall it’s title). Both classics imo.

My son loved it.
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