I'm interested in the yore of Scrooge Mcduck. Not that of Don Rosa.
There's PLENTY of that around, in stories by many different authors, versions of Scrooge's history that often conflict with each other (as well as with Rosa's L&T). What particularly are you interested in? There are different theories on whether he attended high school or college and for how long--you can find some of this right now on the "Uncle Scrooge in College" thread. There are different family trees, prominently the alternative one where he and Grandma Duck are siblings (see thread "Grandma Duck as Scrooge's sister: where does it come from?")--so there are stories with flashbacks to show them as children together. There are different theories for when he emigrated to the United States from Scotland, if indeed he wasn't born and raised in Duckburg. There are a few different former love interests, which might or might not be compatible with Rosa's history; I'd say that Belle Duck is, but the post-Goldie ones are not. See the thread "Duck character attractiveness," which has a link to a webpage that suggests lots of "women in Scrooge's life"--and then there's discussion of which of those might actually count as love interests. Xanderares' post highlights the four most significant, and links each to a different period in Scrooge's life: Belle, Goldie, Brigitta and Molly. This is based on the backstory for Brigitta that has her meeting Scrooge decades ago in Whitehorse. Xanderares points out that the one whose story is quite impossible to reconcile with Rosa's L&T is Molly: she is supposed to have met Scrooge when he was young and poor in Duckburg, and according to Rosa he never WAS young and poor in Duckburg.
Xanderares points out that the one whose story is quite impossible to reconcile with Rosa's L&T is Molly: she is supposed to have met Scrooge when he was young and poor in Duckburg, and according to Rosa he never WAS young and poor in Duckburg.
Surely it's not impossible to posit that he met Molly while he was young and poor elsewhere, and they both coincidentally happened to move to Duckburg later on?
I know it, but I write it without Rosa-stuff and in a Barks-story Scrooge was a young adult in 1879( 70 years for 1949).
Do you go by the rule of "the story takes place when it was released"? If not, you could just place Voodoo Hoodoo someplace later on the timeline, about 15 years after Barks's story where Scrooge celebrates his 75th birthday.
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Yes. Otherwise is it very complicated. Moreover Voodoo Hoodoo cause problems in my story, because then(1879) he had a billion, but he became rich in the gold rush of the Klondike.
Moreover I go base my story on Carl Barks, Al Taliaferro, Charmin on the Bored, Italian writers who interresant stuff write about Gideon and Marley Mcduck and stories what fits well in between.
I want to write a story where Scrooge tells his nephews about where his money comes from.
It's based on Carl Barks, AL Taliaferro, Tony Strobl and what Italian authors who figured Gideon and Marley Mcduck.
My great problem is that in for example Voodoo Hoodoo, Scrooge had a billion in 1879, but he became rich in the Klondike.
Another great problem you'll encounter is that in Barks' stories, Scrooge worked hard to earn his money, as a miner, prospector, and so forth. This is in contrast to the Taliaferro strips in which Scrooge inherited his money from his father who married rich.
I want to write a story where Scrooge tells his nephews about where his money comes from.
It's based on Carl Barks, AL Taliaferro, Tony Strobl and what Italian authors who figured Gideon and Marley Mcduck.
My great problem is that in for example Voodoo Hoodoo, Scrooge had a billion in 1879, but he became rich in the Klondike.
Another great problem you'll encounter is that in Barks' stories, Scrooge worked hard to earn his money, as a miner, prospector, and so forth. This is in contrast to the Taliaferro strips in which Scrooge inherited his money from his father who married rich.
Maybe first Scrooge had a poor one father, then his father married and became rich and give Scrooge 20 million dollar, then he became rich in Africa and finally he lose his money and need begin again.
Yes. Otherwise is it very complicated. Moreover Voodoo Hoodoo cause problems in my story, because then(1879) he had a billion, but he became rich in the gold rush of the Klondike.
It is also very complicated to have Scrooge as young adult in 1879, but he doesn't turn 75 until 1955. Actually, Scrooge turning 75 in 1955 is problematic to Barks's work in other aspects, too, as Barks also had Scrooge play football at Webfoot Tech (the name Webfoot Tech indicates a college) in the 1880's, as per September Scrimmage. If Scrooge was born in 1880, which he would have had to have been in order to turn 75 in 1955, he played college football at age 9 at the oldest! I believe Barks also had specific references to Scrooge prospecting and cowpunching in the 1880's, yet again making things very complicated.
We could try to fix this issue in a few ways. One of them is to just see the Watt an Occasion story as a canon outlier and ignore it. Another is to assume that some sort of time travel is involved. Perhaps Scrooge was born in 1880 and somehow time-traveled way back to circa 1879, allowing him to be born in 1880 and still be a young adult in 1879 and the following decade. I would assume this time-traveling took place in the 1890's or, possibly, the early 1900's. We could also hypothesize that Scrooge was simply lying about his age in 1955 and is actually much older. This is probably one of the simplest explanations, though I'm not sure why he would lie. Have there been any stories that showed Scrooge to be sensitive about his age? I can't really think of anything at the moment, but it wouldn't surprise if there's something like that out there. The final explanation I can think is to free ourselves of the "it all takes place when it was released" rule and arrange a timeline that would allow Watt an Occasion to come before Voodoo Hoodoo in the timeline.
Another potential problem that arises from the "it all takes place when it was released" rule is Huey, Dewey, and Louie's ages. The thread "Whatever's reviews: Year 2100" attempts to finds solutions to this, but none of them, save for Hector 's "fairy godmother" theory, which, while intriguing, has, as far as I'm aware, no evidence for it, manage to explain why the boys would either be in or out of Kindergarten by Barks's Crazy Quiz Show in 1948, but still be in Kindergarten in Barks's Want to Buy an Island? in 1959, 11 years later. What I'm trying to say is that while there are very good and reasonable explanations for why HDL haven't aged, there's not much there to explain their schooling situation. If you break free of the "it all takes place when it was released" rule, these problems fix themselves, as the timeline is now based on in-story evidence instead of release date, meaning that Want to Buy an Island? and Crazy Quiz Show can now take place in the same year, instead of 11 years apart.
Of course, none of that is too relevant, since you want to know the story of Scrooge not his nephews. My point was to highlight the problems of the "it all takes place when it was released" rule, which complicates the Scrooge timeline, which is relevant to this thread.
