Which is kind of ironic, since Scarpa had no problem using both.
He did, but he utterly sidelined Goldie in a way that sounds out of character to me.
Scarpa was literally the only person that DIDN'T sideline, ie complete ignore, her. This is one of those things that seem a bit hard for Americans to realize, but Brigitta had existed as a major part of the duck universe for TWENTY years at the point it was decided to dig Goldie out of her status as "that character that appeared in that one Barks story"... with the exception of that one time Scarpa used her.
Goldie being an actual recurring character is a somewhat recent thing, neither Scarpa or anyone else "sidelined" her more than they "sidelined" Chisel McSue or Bombie or any other memorable non-recurring Barks character.
I blame that on '70s Disney comics fans and the missing scenes from Back to the Klondike, giving Goldie a much more elevated status than she'd normally get. Barks himself was notorious for reusing the Klondike/Old West setting and plot, but nobody makes a big deal out of Katie Mallard.
Until fairly recently, the comics were full of 'Goldie clones', old flames from Scrooge's long-forgotten past, often from the Klondike, but never Glittering Goldie herself. Especially Egmont had a bunch of those stories at the turn of the millennium. It's really only post-Don Rosa that Goldie has received widespread significance among Disney comics editors, who are otherwise reticent to tie down the specifics of a character's backstory or continuity.
He did, but he utterly sidelined Goldie in a way that sounds out of character to me.
Scarpa was literally the only person that DIDN'T sideline, ie complete ignore, her. This is one of those things that seem a bit hard for Americans to realize, but Brigitta had existed as a major part of the duck universe for TWENTY years at the point it was decided to dig Goldie out of her status as "that character that appeared in that one Barks story"... with the exception of that one time Scarpa used her.
Goldie being an actual recurring character is a somewhat recent thing, neither Scarpa or anyone else "sidelined" her more than they "sidelined" Chisel McSue or Bombie or any other memorable non-recurring Barks character.
Perhaps I misspoke. What I meant is that Goldie in "The Miner'sd Granddaughter" is... well, quite unlike herself -- and yes, I do mean her Barks self. Also, the fact that she tells Brigitte: "Yep, I give up, he's all youirs now" is bizarre to say the least.
I blame that on '70s Disney comics fans and the missing scenes from Back to the Klondike, giving Goldie a much more elevated status than she'd normally get. Barks himself was notorious for reusing the Klondike/Old West setting and plot, but nobody makes a big deal out of Katie Mallard.
Until fairly recently, the comics were full of 'Goldie clones', old flames from Scrooge's long-forgotten past, often from the Klondike, but never Glittering Goldie herself. Especially Egmont had a bunch of those stories at the turn of the millennium. It's really only post-Don Rosa that Goldie has received widespread significance among Disney comics editors, who are otherwise reticent to tie down the specifics of a character's backstory or continuity.
I remember one of these stories: The Flowers. , by Jack Sutter and Vicar, featuring a woman called Tilly Billbrook. I never understood this... If you're going to make her SO similar to Goldie, even down to the costume... why not simply use Goldie in the first place?
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Also, the fact that she tells Brigitte: "Yep, I give up, he's all youirs now" is bizarre to say the least.
Is it? Again, this is one of those things you're kind of viewing through a lens of having read that Scarpa story after many many years of modern Goldie stories. In the original Barks story - specifically the cut version of it, which is the one Scarpa would have read - all we really get is some vague references to her having been Scrooge's supposed "sweetheart" (which Scrooge denies) and him going starry-eyed when he thinks of her. It's obvious from the story that the two had a thing back in the Klondike, but it's something Scrooge had entirely forgotten about for 50 years until he took those memory capsules, and the story ends with him "giving" her a bunch of gold so she can live the rest of her life in relative wealth and then has her walk back out of his life again. It's VERY much presented as a thing from Scrooge's past. Brigitta, meanwhile, was a major character who was part of Scrooge's current life and whom he constantly interacts with.
I realize your average American Duck fan had read a whole bunch of modern Rosa Goldie material before they even knew Brigitta existed, but that's just not what the reality was back when this story was written. Goldie was just one of many non-recurring Barks characters and one of many former flames from Scrooge's past, and it would be many many years until she got turned into anything more than that.
Just to make sure we're all on the same page here - THIS is the 100% entirety of all Goldie-related anything that existed at the time. I really don't see how this character saying she's Scrooge's past, not present, is particularly bizarre.