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Gladstone Giant Album Comic Series #2

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck: The Sunken City

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Scrooge buys up all the 1916 quarters ever minted and sinks all but one deep in the Atlantic, with the aim of making that one coin the most valuable in the world. But the last quarter is flattened by a steamroller and so Scrooge must dive into the Atlantic to get another. There, the ducks find Atlantis, a sunken city populated by fish-men who breathe under water.

72 pages, Paperback

First published October 1,1989
Series
Gladstone Giant Album Comic Series

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Format
72 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 1989 by Gladstone Pub Ltd
ISBN
9780944599273
ASIN
0944599273
Language
English

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Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
Barks worked for the Disney Studio and Western Publishing where he created Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961).
He has been named by animation historian Leonard Maltin as "the most popular and widely read artist-writer in the world". Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books." Beginning especially in the 1980s, Barks' artistic contributions would be a primary source for animated adaptations such as DuckTales and its 2017 remake.

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nmbqborges
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April 17,2025
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"The Sunken City" (34 page adventure)
One-pagers: 2 Scrooge + 1 Donald
"Luck of the North" (32 page Donald/trio vs. G. Gander adventure)
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chlorain
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April 17,2025
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A couple of longer stories are the focus of this volume. The first, the cover-featured “The Sunken City”, sends Uncle Scrooge, Donald, and the boys deep sea diving in a quest for the world's rarest coin. But they never expected to find Atlantis …

The second tale, “Luck of the North,” has Donald and his nephews racing off to the Arctic Circle to rescue cousin Gladstone … after Donald, jealous of his luck, sends him there on a wild goose chase.

Of the two, I think I like the second better. The pacing seems better, and the ending more satisfying. And the sequence where Donald’s conscience begins to nag at him is excellently done. Gladstone comes off as much more of a jerk than normal in this story, but it's his arrogance that allows Donald and the boys to have the final word.

“The Sunken City” isn't bad, just kind of middle of the road by Carl Barks standards, possibly because Atlantis was a location he couldn't really research as he did for his other adventure tales. The idea of Uncle Scrooge intentionally boosting the rarity of a coin is a good one, and it plays well. I just wish the second half of the story was as strong as the first.

I’m kind of curious if this was originally intended as two seperate shorter volumes? I note that “Luck of the North” has its own introductory essay and cover art. Anyway, as always with Carl Barks, highly recommended!
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