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Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge Gift Box Set: “Only a Poor Old Man” and “The Seven Cities of Gold”

(Only a Poor Old Man and The Seven Cities of Gold)

Walt Disneys Uncle Scrooge Gift Box Set Only a Poor Old Man and The Seven Cities of Gold volumes 12 and 14 barks.png book cover

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Author(s):Carl Barks
Illustrator(s):Carl Barks
Publisher(s): Fantagraphics
Year Published: 2015
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
American
Comic Strip
Picture Book
Age Range: Ages 0-5: Picture Books
Pages: 484
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
ISBN-10: 1606998757
ISBN-13: 9781606998755
OCLC: 904036745

Description

This full-color two-volume boxed set of Barks stories starts with Uncle Scrooge, Donald and the nephews in one of their first adventures. The second volume includes a classic comedy face-off between Donald and the nephews over Halloween treats. For a preview go to Fantagraphics.

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Other Editions

Only a Poor Old Man Volume 12 (2012)

In the lead story Uncle Scrooge engages in a battle to the last cent with the Beagle Boys and first reveals why he really needs all that money -- so he can “dive into it like a porpoise, burrow through it like a gopher and throw it up and let it hit him on the head.” For a preview go to Fantagraphics.

Publisher: Fantagraphics
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The Seven Cities of Gold Volume 14 (2014)

Scrooge leads Donald and the nephews on a search for the lost cities of Cibola to start off this collection of Barks stories in full color.

Publisher: Fantagraphics
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