Uncle Scrooge #8 Values

Publisher: Dell, 1954

About Uncle Scrooge #8

Carl Barks story, cover, and art. Donald Duck, the Beagle Boys, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie appearances.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Dollar Figure Skating

Characters: Uncle Scrooge

Pencils: Carl Barks

Inks: Carl Barks

Colors: ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)

Notes: Art submitted on October 8, 1953.

Reprints: Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 series) #111 (April 1974)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Cash on the Brain

Characters: Uncle Scrooge; Mrs. McMooch

Synopsis: Scrooge pleads a lack of cash when a clubwoman asks for a donation.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Carl Barks

Pencils: Carl Barks

Inks: Carl Barks

Letters: Garé Barks

Reprints: Walt Disney The Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1964 series) #2 (September 1967)

Notes: Inside front cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

Title: Message from Mysterious Island

Characters: Beagle Boys; Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; ? (cabbage professor)

Synopsis: Scrooge takes a sea voyage so that the wind can clean out the gold dust that's clogging his pores and making him feel tired, and also to answer a plea for help that turns up in a bottle on the beach. When the ducks arrive at the island from which the message was sent, they find the Beagle Boys and a mysterious ray that turns living things into stone.

Pages: 28.000

Script: Carl Barks

Pencils: Carl Barks

Inks: Carl Barks

Letters: Garé Barks

Reprints: Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 series) #111 (April 1974)

Notes: Art submitted on May 20, 1954. Three half-pages of finished or penciled art exists from this story that was apparently cut out or re-done by Barks and does not appear in the story as printed here. (Printed in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #222) Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982). Carl Barks named the story with the above title in a letter to a fan in 1962.

Title: A Campaign of Note

Characters: Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge; Fogmore

Synopsis: Scrooge faces the necessity of spending money in campaign for treasurer of Duckburg.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Barks

Pencils: Carl Barks

Inks: Carl Barks

Letters: Garé Barks

Reprints: Walt Disney The Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1964 series) #2 (September 1967)

Notes: Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

Title: Classy Taxi!

Characters: Uncle Scrooge

Synopsis: Scrooge rents his limousine as a taxi on a rainy day.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Carl Barks

Pencils: Carl Barks

Inks: Carl Barks

Letters: Garé Barks

Reprints: Walt Disney The Best of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1964 series) #2 (September 1967)

Notes: Inside back cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

Title: Blanket Investment

Characters: Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie; Uncle Scrooge

Synopsis: Scrooge uses his electric blanket to hatch out chicks.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Carl Barks

Pencils: Carl Barks

Inks: Carl Barks

Letters: Garé Barks

Notes: Back cover. Art submitted on June 10, 1954. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	3	2	3	3	6	5	5	5	8	11	12	12	13	4	1	0	0	97
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	3	2	3	3	6	5	5	5	8	11	12	12	13	4	1	0	0	98

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