Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Coal miners, Fictional miners, Scrooge McDuck, Cannonball, Yosemite Sam, Barret Wallace, Darth Bane, Michael Welsh, Ralph Vince, Thomas Hubbard, William Johnson, Juan de Tolosa, Morgan Phillips, William Hackett, Knocker, Robert Woof, Thrain II, Alija Sirotanovi, Ted Needham, Edward Cowey, Mike Caputo, Jozef Kachel, Jozef Gara. Excerpt: Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a Scottish anthropomorphic duck created by Carl Barks that first appeared in Four Color Comics #178, Christmas on Bear Mountain, published by Dell Comics in December 1947. Over the decades, Scrooge has emerged from being a mere supporting character in the Donald Duck oeuvre to a major figure of the Duck universe. In 1952, he was given his own comic book series, Uncle Scrooge, which still runs today. As the character's popularity rose, he appeared in various television specials, films, and video games. Scrooge, along with several other characters of Duckburg, has enjoyed international popularity, particularly in Europe, and books about him are frequently translated into other languages. Captain Marvel co-creator C. C. Beck declared "Uncle Scrooge was my all-time favorite character." Scrooge McDuck is named after the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character from Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. His Scottish heritage plays on the stereotype of Scotsmen being miserly. Although never explicitly confirmed by Barks, it is possible that Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who left his country for America at 13, served as a model for Uncle Scrooge (in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge leaves Scotland for the United States at age 13). Another possible prototype for Scrooge is a character (with no name, actually Donald Duck's "thrifty saver" conscience) who had many of Scrooge's characteristics including sideburns, ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Miners: Coal Miners, Fictional Miners, Scrooge McDuck, Cannonball, Yosemite Sam, Barret Wallace, Darth Bane, Michael Welsh, Ralph Vince. To get started finding Miners: Coal Miners, Fictional Miners, Scrooge McDuck, Cannonball, Yosemite Sam, Barret Wallace, Darth Bane, Michael Welsh, Ralph Vince, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Miners: Coal Miners, Fictional Miners, Scrooge McDuck, Cannonball, Yosemite Sam, Barret Wallace, Darth Bane, Michael Welsh, Ralph Vince
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Coal miners, Fictional miners, Scrooge McDuck, Cannonball, Yosemite Sam, Barret Wallace, Darth Bane, Michael Welsh, Ralph Vince, Thomas Hubbard, William Johnson, Juan de Tolosa, Morgan Phillips, William Hackett, Knocker, Robert Woof, Thrain II, Alija Sirotanovi, Ted Needham, Edward Cowey, Mike Caputo, Jozef Kachel, Jozef Gara. Excerpt: Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a Scottish anthropomorphic duck created by Carl Barks that first appeared in Four Color Comics #178, Christmas on Bear Mountain, published by Dell Comics in December 1947. Over the decades, Scrooge has emerged from being a mere supporting character in the Donald Duck oeuvre to a major figure of the Duck universe. In 1952, he was given his own comic book series, Uncle Scrooge, which still runs today. As the character's popularity rose, he appeared in various television specials, films, and video games. Scrooge, along with several other characters of Duckburg, has enjoyed international popularity, particularly in Europe, and books about him are frequently translated into other languages. Captain Marvel co-creator C. C. Beck declared "Uncle Scrooge was my all-time favorite character." Scrooge McDuck is named after the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character from Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. His Scottish heritage plays on the stereotype of Scotsmen being miserly. Although never explicitly confirmed by Barks, it is possible that Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who left his country for America at 13, served as a model for Uncle Scrooge (in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge leaves Scotland for the United States at age 13). Another possible prototype for Scrooge is a character (with no name, actually Donald Duck's "thrifty saver" conscience) who had many of Scrooge's characteristics including sideburns, ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Miners: Coal Miners, Fictional Miners, Scrooge McDuck, Cannonball, Yosemite Sam, Barret Wallace, Darth Bane, Michael Welsh, Ralph Vince. To get started finding Miners: Coal Miners, Fictional Miners, Scrooge McDuck, Cannonball, Yosemite Sam, Barret Wallace, Darth Bane, Michael Welsh, Ralph Vince, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.