Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #133

By: Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment » Talking Comics with Tim: Brian Cronin

Mon, 18 May 2009 22:20:40 +0000

[...] Cronin: Among the legends in the book, I would say that the one about George Lucas and the old Uncle Scrooge story would be the hardest, as Lucas is not exactly the easiest fellow to come into contact with, so [...]

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:48:56 +0000

Wow the price is now $179 on Amazon and 308 pounds on Amazon UK for â€œScrooge McDuck: His Life and Timesâ€.

That doesn't mean that the book is worth that much or that anyone would ever pay that much. It just means that the only people who are interested in selling a copy on Amazon at the moment are ones who want to take the piss.

(Damn it - why does it sometimes tell me I can only post once every 15 seconds when I haven't posted in over 12 hours?)

By: Tommy Marx

Tommy Marx — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:25:21 +0000

Thanks for the great answer, Brian! I thought I had read something about Bendis and Spider-Woman at some point, and I guess I assumed when Alias came out that he had, for one reason or another, created a new character because he couldn't use Spider-Woman.

I travel to another state to work (I'm only home on weekends), so as soon as I get home Saturday, I'll have to check out his essay in the Omnibus. I bought it, but haven't read it yet since it was just a short time ago that I reread the four trades.

Thanks again for looking into that!!

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:41:57 +0000

Wow the price is now $179 on Amazon and 308 pounds on Amazon UK for â€œScrooge McDuck: His Life and Timesâ€. I guess a mention on CSBG is good for sales...

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:36:36 +0000

Well if you're looking for â€œScrooge McDuck: His Life and Timesâ€ you might try the public library. Unfortunately while my library has a copy it is kept in the reference section and so can't be checked out...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:12:06 +0000

I'm not sure if I remember if this was asked before or not but is it true that grant morrison's the filth was originally pitch to marvel as a nick fury mini instead of a book for vertigo?

By: Scott MacIver

Scott MacIver — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:36:40 +0000

I finally thought of a rumour I wanted to ask about.

I had heard from a few places a great anecdote about PVP creator Scott Kurtz throwing The Boys artist Darrick Robertson out of a car giving him a lift to a con from the airport, as Kurtz didn't realize who it was.

I heard this for the first time over at Fanboy Radio where Kurtz is a regular guest, but apparently Kurtz doesn't like to talk about it, so it was inconclusive.

Did it really happen?

By: Rod Bennett

Rod Bennett — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:25:23 +0000

The "boulder-rolling" scene has a much greater affinity to an episode in Fox's 1959 "Journey to the Center of the Earth". In that one, a huge rocky sphere dislodges itself during a tremor, chases the explorers down a narrow trench in a very Spielbergian series of shots, and finally misses them by a hair when they leap through a climatic threshold of rock. Check it out (there's a very nice DVD) and see if I'm not right. (Lucas would have been 15 when "Journey" played in theatres -- about my age when the original "Star Wars" opened).

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:47:37 +0000

Yep, that's the paperback cover.

By: Ann Nichols

Ann Nichols — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:44:03 +0000

Interesting information about "Raiders of the Lost Ark" -- thank you! That's the cover to the paperback of UNCLE SCROOGE HIS LIFE AND TIMES, yes? I was given the hardcover as a gift when it came out and that cover isn't the same as on my copy.

By: km

km — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:08:20 +0000

Well, if you gotta borrow, do it from the best...

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:22:12 +0000

I remember watching Ducktales as a kid and in the opening credits it shows Scrooge and his nephews running from a boulder. I remember thinking they borrowed that from Raiders.....but, guess it was the other way around. It's true what they say, everybody borrows from everybody.

By: Floyd The Barber

Floyd The Barber — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:00:41 +0000

I would have SOOOOO bought a Rick Mays Spider-Woman comic!!!
I love that pic. Anyone else got any Mays Spider-woman drawings?

By: Indiana “Barks” | El Blogeo de Diego

Indiana “Barks” | El Blogeo de Diego — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:49:32 +0000

[...] Lo que ahora ha confirmado la web comics should be goodÂ es que incluso el propio Geogre lucas se inspirÃ³ en una aventura del TÃo Gilito para escribir la escena inicial de "En busca del arca perdida". [...]

By: Purity and Pulp « Papers Falling from an Attic Window

Purity and Pulp « Papers Falling from an Attic Window — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:24:17 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Â This isn’t proof by any means, but I’m amused by the possibility that the pulpish cross-continental adventures of cosmic horror and doom might ultimately have their roots in a talking duck. [...]

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:32:46 +0000

Bat2supe, mpight you be thinking of the wagon scene in "Land Beneath the Ground" (U$13)? (It's not a chase, though, but it does take place in a cave)

By: Bat2supe

Bat2supe — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:19:04 +0000

Hey, guys!!

Nice column.

Hmmm, for the Indiana Jones influences, isn't the wagon pursuit in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom also inspired by uncle Scrooge, you know I kind of remember this kind of pursuit from when I was a kid but I realized it when you mentionned it today.

Brian Bendis clearly used the spy thing a lot & I like it & now it becomes alien stuff.
But that's true that at some point, it became common & generic when you had a new Bendis comic coming out of Marvel that it would deal with Shield & super-spies.
I guess every writer has his predilection subject.

Good job Brian!!

By: Frank Rook

Frank Rook — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:50:56 +0000

Since Power Rangers has been owned by Disney since late 2001, if anybody has the comic rights for it, it'd be... well, whatever current company has the Disney rights (probably the one doing the Gargoyles comic), not Marvel.

By: Peter Svensson

Peter Svensson — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:31:29 +0000

Right. The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa is a complete origin of Uncle Scrooge from childhood to his first appearance in comics, using all the classic Carl Barks stories as the basis. It's in print, and has a companion volume. Both are wonderful reads. But it's not the "Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times" by Carl Barks (the Good Duck Artist and creator of Uncle Scrooge) which collected several of his classic stories dealing with Scrooge's past. That one is out of print.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:16:57 +0000

hey joe, different book.

"The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" is by don rosa (which is also fantastic)