After finishing Statuesque Spendthrifts I'm suddenly wondering. Are there any story where Scrooge goes broke/loses his fortune? (I'm not counting The Horseradish Story. IIRC, McSue never got the fortune.)
After finishing Statuesque Spendthrifts I'm suddenly wondering. Are there any story where Scrooge goes broke/loses his fortune? (I'm not counting The Horseradish Story. IIRC, McSue never got the fortune.)
The Lentils of Babylon; IIRC, there's only the hint at the end of the story that Scrooge would regain his fortune.
Perhaps "A Financial Fable" (it is not clear if Scrooge really lost almost all his wealth in the tornado or only some fraction); there is also "Somethin' Fishy Here" where he thinks that he is broke (because he reads a "fake new" saying that the money does not value nothing anymore and the new currency will be fish).
Last Edit: Feb 22, 2019 22:37:33 GMT by crazycatlord
There is NO story of which I know, in which Scrooge loses more than his Money bin contents, and, sometimes, his other liquid assets (bank account holdings). Based on what Carl Barks showed us about Scrooge McDuck, I assume that he's NEVER lost ALL his assets, or even HALF of their value, given that he owns valuable, thriving businesses, located all over The World. Those can't really be liquidated, or their titles transferred, at the drop of a hat. Even if Chisel McSue HAD taken over ALL that Scrooge owned in North America, Scrooge still had thriving businesses, bank accounts, and, possibly, money bins and secret money, jewelry, and other assets, hidden all over the rest of The World. In addition, Scrooge could have transferred or moved some of his North-American assets out of North America, before McSue could even get the final list of what Scrooge had. It didn't matter, anyway, as McSue couldn't take possession. In other stories, it's only his cash (bills and coins) that get taken out of his Money Bin by acts of nature, or robbers, and is outside, where he can fight them to get most of it back (he still has the machines, company staff(thousands around The World), influence to get help from the police, or hire thousands of mercenary soldiers, to get it back. Or, it is hidden safely underground, and Scrooge is the only one who can get to it, one toy trainload full at a time.
So, he never could lose ALL he owned, or enough of it to become "poor", UNLESS he would sign away all his Earthly holdings to someone else, OR, he would commit a crime in some foreign dictatorship or kingdom, in which the regressive laws would make his entire Earthly holdings become forfeit to that state. But, even then, the legitimacy of those claims would not likely be recognised and acted upon in USA, Calisota, Duckburg, Duckstad, Entenhausen, Andeby, or any of his nations of domecile in The Western World.
Perhaps Magica DeSpell used trickery and/or magic to force Scrooge to sign away ALL his worldly assets to her so she could "own" and claim his #1 dime. And, perhaps some descendants of someone who crossed Scrooge's path, when he was young and made a false claim that he wronged them, and he owes them ALL his Worldly belongings, might have come along, and Scrooge FELT like he lost everything. But he never could really lose all his companies in the time frame of those stories. And they ALWAYS would be foiled before the end of the story.
So far, no one on this thread has shown any evidence of Scrooge losing ALL his worldly assets in a story.
In Careful What You Wish For Magica tricks Scrooge into signing over his entire business empire to her. Scrooge takes her to court but she wins.
That is still perhaps only half or less of his total assets (including cash, jewels and bank holdings, and valuable personal items. Did she still own all his businesses at the end of the story?
There is NO story of which I know, in which Scrooge loses more than his Money bin contents, and, sometimes, his other liquid assets (bank account holdings). Based on what Carl Barks showed us about Scrooge McDuck, I assume that he's NEVER lost ALL his assets, or even HALF of their value, given that he owns valuable, thriving businesses, located all over The World. Those can't really be liquidated, or their titles transferred, at the drop of a hat. Even if Chisel McSue HAD taken over ALL that Scrooge owned in North America, Scrooge still had thriving businesses, bank accounts, and, possibly, money bins and secret money, jewelry, and other assets, hidden all over the rest of The World. In addition, Scrooge could have transferred or moved some of his North-American assets out of North America, before McSue could even get the final list of what Scrooge had. It didn't matter, anyway, as McSue couldn't take possession. In other stories, it's only his cash (bills and coins) that get taken out of his Money Bin by acts of nature, or robbers, and is outside, where he can fight them to get most of it back (he still has the machines, company staff(thousands around The World), influence to get help from the police, or hire thousands of mercenary soldiers, to get it back. Or, it is hidden safely underground, and Scrooge is the only one who can get to it, one toy trainload full at a time.
So, he never could lose ALL he owned, or enough of it to become "poor", UNLESS he would sign away all his Earthly holdings to someone else, OR, he would commit a crime in some foreign dictatorship or kingdom, in which the regressive laws would make his entire Earthly holdings become forfeit to that state. But, even then, the legitimacy of those claims would not likely be recognised and acted upon in USA, Calisota, Duckburg, Duckstad, Entenhausen, Andeby, or any of his nations of domecile in The Western World.
Perhaps Magica DeSpell used trickery and/or magic to force Scrooge to sign away ALL his worldly assets to her so she could "own" and claim his #1 dime. And, perhaps some descendants of someone who crossed Scrooge's path, when he was young and made a false claim that he wronged them, and he owes them ALL his Worldly belongings, might have come along, and Scrooge FELT like he lost everything. But he never could really lose all his companies in the time frame of those stories. And they ALWAYS would be foiled before the end of the story.
So far, no one on this thread has shown any evidence of Scrooge losing ALL his worldly assets in a story.
In "The Doony Desert Dilemma", seems explicit that all of his business empire is being shared with the alleged cousin (because in a distant past he sign away half of all his Earthly holdings to him); but having half of Scrooge fortune is indeed much different of being broke.
An additional problem is that the stories "only a running animal has/know the combination of the vault of Scrooge" ("The Pixilated Parrot", "The Lemming with the Locket") have passages that only make sense if almost all of Scrooge wealth is in his vault (this or if we assume that Scrooge is a kind of drama queen that says "I will be poor for the rest of my life" or "I am living of breed and water" only because he lost access to perhaps 0,01% of his wealth, who is indeed not out-of-character at all).
No, Scrooge gets his money back in exchange for Ratface.
Ooooh, I WANT this story! Unfortunately it's only been published so far in the Scandinavian countries, and I can't find any easy way to buy comics from Scandinavia. Drat. But it's brand new, perhaps it will be published in Germany or France soon. I will keep an eye out for it.
(this or if we assume that Scrooge is a kind of drama queen that says "I will be poor for the rest of my life" or "I am living of breed and water" only because he lost access to perhaps 0,01% of his wealth, who is indeed not out-of-character at all).
I believe this is indeed the case. Scrooge (particularly Barks' Scrooge) often indulges in histrionics when he loses the contents of his money bin, which probably constitute a small portion of his assets. He declares himself destitute, starts mooching off relatives, and takes to begging in the streets, even in stories where it's clear he has other holdings and sources of income around the world. Don't get me wrong, I personally find it an endearing quality about the character, but you understand why his nephews roll their eyes at such displays.