It seemns there is no Entry for The Second-Richest Duck, therefore I choose this Collectors Edition to talk about it.

Saw it, and borrowed it from my local Library.
As a Kid I read a lot of LTB Comic Books, and I can tell you, the Art, and Storytelling of this Book has a much better Structure.
Scrooges closest Rival starts out to be a actual treath, of course only to an relative worthless Title.
One of the rare things Scrooge cares about, besides his Money.
This Book was actually a bit of a turningpoint for the Charakter, beeing one of the early Works where Scrooge is characterized in a more sympatetic light. Scrooge as an Antagonist, and evil Version of him obviously inherited all of his previous Flaws, making it a shift in Mac Ducks Charakter.
By beating Flintheart, he beat his old selfe.

The Story itselfe is pretty short, and not in a bad way. We establish the Mystery, and Conflict, a small introduction to Flintheart, before he got introduced as himselfe, Scrooge arguing whit him for a bit, and then the final Contest who owns more.
It doesnt wast time, and despite having little to tell, it tells its Story in an entertaining way.
The Art has a nice classic Charme to it, not unlike the old Tintin, and Lucky Luke Comics.

Flintheart Glomgold has always had a special place among Scrooge’s antagonists. Unless I’m forgetting someone, only Magica DeSpell--and of course the Beagle Boys--has faced him more often. That's probably because he's nearly Scrooge’s doppelganger, a little less compassionate, a little less ethical, a little more willing to bend the rules to get what he wants. And what he wants is Scrooge’s title of the World's Richest Duck. He’s the Moriarty to Scrooge’s Holmes, the Reggie Mantle to his Archie, the Reginald Van Dough to his Richie Rich.

This volume collects all of Flinty’s original appearances, as well as Don Rosa’s very first Scrooge story, “The Son of the Sun.”

In “The Second-Richest Duck”, Scrooge first learns of the reclusive South African mine owner, and travels to his home to determine which of the two is truly the World's Richest Duck. Everything hinges on a ball of string …

In “The Money Champ”, Glomgold travels to Duckburg with a unique proposal: both ducks will convert their entire fortunes into silver dollars--and just think what liquidating all of those mines and oil fields and farms and businesses would do to the world economy!--and then measure the piles to determine whose is greater. Naturally cheating occurs …

“So Far and No Safari” is more of a minor tale. Glomgold is more of a one note villain in this one. Carl Barks needed an antagonist to try and prevent the ducks from getting Scrooge to an auction in Africa, and Glomgold was who he came up with. But the story doesn't revolve around their incessant wrangling over who’s richer. Scrooge wants to bid on a mine. Glomgold wants to stop him by any means necessary.

“The Son of the Sun” is probably my favorite. Don Rosa hit Carl Barks fandom like an explosion with this tale when it was originally published. An accident with a clay pot at an exhibit of treasures from Scrooge’s various expeditions over the years reveals a golden disc baked into the bottom. The disc is inscribed with a map to the treasure of Manco Capac. And so the ducks are off to Peru, but so is Glomgold. There are some magnificent action set pieces as well as homages to various of Barks’ classic stories, most notably “Lost In the Andes.” The story seemed vaguely familiar when I first read it, but that's because I’d happened to stumble across a magazine reprint of comics stories from some early fan publications, one of them being an early Don Rosa strip, “The Pertwillaby Papers.” For his first Scrooge story, he adapted one of his “Pertwillaby” storylines. Familiar or not, it's a cracking good read.

Highly, highly recommended, particularly “The Son of the Sun”!

its good

These Giants are like omnibuses but with a low page so they’re really light. Love this format.

A reference in this type of comics...read in French and enjoyed the history behind the family ties...

A very long book, many hours to read but it is worth it.