Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Aug 1, 2017 18:32:19 GMT
Barks's notorious one-shot villain Chisel McSue, of The Horseradish Story, is popularly known to have first been picked up in 1980 in Canute the Brute's Battle Axe. However, reading through old American non-Barks comics, I came across this, in the 1964 story The Whatzit Bird:
The story, at that point, already explained that a shady fellow, whom Donald was sure was a crook, sold Scrooge a map to an island where these big ol' golden eggs can be found. This man is that crook. And if it's not Chisel, then, by Jove, it's got to be his long-lost twin brother. Look at him.
So what do you think? Is this a conscious re-use of a Barks character? (Not as improbable as it sounds, with how we unearthed a Western story featuring Rockerduck, with no apparent Italian influence.) Did Strobl just lift a Barks design with no continuity intended? Is it just an astounding coincidence? To the credit of influence one way or another from Horseradish Story, note raft shenanigans occur later on.
The story, at that point, already explained that a shady fellow, whom Donald was sure was a crook, sold Scrooge a map to an island where these big ol' golden eggs can be found. This man is that crook. And if it's not Chisel, then, by Jove, it's got to be his long-lost twin brother. Look at him.
So what do you think? Is this a conscious re-use of a Barks character? (Not as improbable as it sounds, with how we unearthed a Western story featuring Rockerduck, with no apparent Italian influence.) Did Strobl just lift a Barks design with no continuity intended? Is it just an astounding coincidence? To the credit of influence one way or another from Horseradish Story, note raft shenanigans occur later on.
