Favorite Scrooge stories not by Barks/Rosa/Scarpa

[marco996]

Scrooge is now 70!!

So for the occasion, I wanna know what are your favorite Scrooge stories other than Carl Barks, Don Rosa and Romano Scarpa, because of course these are the top and I already know much of their stories and read them many times (because they are excellent of course! ) , so I wanna know some new stories to read.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

I always liked Lustig/Van Horn Sr.'s "No Room for Human Error".

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Rota's The Money Ocean is an obvious choice. There are many other stories by obscure authors that I like, but oddly enough, nothing comes to mind right now. i'll get back to you. 

[Minotaur]

The first things came into my mind is a 10-pager: Underwaterspell and a literature parody That Missing Candelabra.

[Matilda]

Doing this made me realize what a high percentage of my personal favorite stories are *not* Scrooge-centered. (We're talking stories by someone other than Barks or Rosa. Most of my favorite Barks and Rosa stories are Scrooge-centered.) Even a couple of favorites in which he appears--Geradts' Last Voyage of Ringtail Van Dukke and Cimino's Perfect Calm--are actually Donald stories. But, here goes--

Ten without Magica:
Rota's The Incredible Shrinking Duck
Lustig & Wm Van Horn's No Room for Human Error
Chendi & Bottaro's The Lake Mess Monster (because I like lake monsters!)
Martina & Cavazzano's ZP e il vascello fantasma
the Dutch committee & Mau Heymans' Healers of the Andes
Nærum, Løkling & Midthun's The Orphan's Christmas aka The Substitute Santa...
Jensen's Zantaf stories, All in a Daze Work (Ferioli) and Home to Roost (Vicar)
Claxton, Anderson & Vicar's Pipe Dreams
Pihl & Andersen's Arctic Antics (titled in USA Antarctic Antics, because that's where it takes place, but for some reason that title didn't make it into Inducks)

Since this is just after Halloween, I could make this a Halloween-appropriate 13 by adding these Halloween re-reads:
Kruse's Shiver Me Timbers! (Bas Heymans), Trapped in Castle Rollingstein (Verhagen), The Diamond of Duncan McDuck (Verhagen) --Kruse is really good at spooky stories!

Ten with Magica:
Rota's The Money Ocean
Korhonen's Like a Bad Penny (Vicar), Which Is Witch?
Solstrand's When Magica Won (Noel Van Horn), Double or Nothing (Rota)
Wejp-Olsen, Kenner & Branca's The Green Attack aka The Mysterious Garden
Pandini & Martusciello's Amelia e le due numero 1
Astrup & Gattino's So Dear to His Heart
Hansegård & Rodrigues' Himalayan Hideout
Gentina & Ziche's ZP e la meravigliosa vecchia ciabatta

[Zantaf]

The first thing that I instinctively thought of is (naturally) Marco Rota's The Money Ocean. Interestingly, the second story that my brain came up with while still applying the "non Barks/Rosa/Scarpa filter" is the Secret Of The Incas by Byron Erickson & Giorgio Cavazzano.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Nov 7, 2017 14:33:53 GMT Matilda said:

Ten without Magica:
Rota's The Money Ocean

…Eh? Magica is the freaking main antagonist in The Money Ocean!

[Matilda]

Nov 7, 2017 19:26:17 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Nov 7, 2017 14:33:53 GMT Matilda said:

Ten without Magica:
Rota's The Money Ocean

…Eh? Magica is the freaking main antagonist in The Money Ocean!

Yup, I just realized I had mislabeled the Rota stories while I was out walking. She's also in The Golden Throne, of course, though her presence there comes to nothing, so when I think of that one I do just think of it as a Scrooge treasure hunt with a cool underlying story for the Aussies.

[Minotaur]

I was about to add Secret Of The Incas, especially because I like such kind of stories with a theme. However, that stalking Brigitta part got me quite uncomfortable and also made this story unnecessary long. That few pages are more playing for fun and feel a bit detached from the other part of the story.