"Poster 4 - $crooge's early life"
"Poster 4 - $crooge's early life"
This poster focus on $crooge's youth and young years. Barks gave very few visual flashbacks to $crooge's youth so this one is partly based on Don Rosa's own adaptation of that period of $crooge's life. Read more here.
Clockwise from top-left:
- $crooge digging for copper ore in 1882 Montana in a flashback in Only a Poor Old Man (UNCLE $CROOGE FOUR COLOR #386 / UNCLE $CROOGE #1)
- Don Rosas own image of the young $crooge gathering firewood to sell, something mentioned by $crooge in The Golden River (UNCLE $CROOGE #22)
- $crooge in the copper fields of 1882 Montana, as seen in a flashback in Only a Poor Old Man (UNCLE $CROOGE FOUR COLOR #386 / UNCLE $CROOGE #1)
- $crooge's as a prospector in Arizona. Here he is with spectacles as Barks showed him in a flashback to those years in Return to Pizen Bluff / Ghosts of Pizen Bluff (UNCLE $CROOGE #26)
- $crooge's in his years on a Mississippi Riverboat. Here he is drawn just as in an untitled 1957 adventure Fantastic River Race which was Barks' only $crooge story set entirely in his youth (UNCLE $CROOGE GOES TO DISNEYLAND #1)
- $crooge proudly displays the find that at long last made him rich, the Goose Egg Nugget, which is catching the eye of one Glittering Goldie in Back to the Klondike (UNCLE $CROOGE FOUR COLOR #456 / UNCLE $CROOGE #2)
- $crooge in the days he was salvaging sunken treasure on the Spanish Main as seen in Only a Poor Old Man (UNCLE $CROOGE FOUR COLOR #386 / UNCLE $CROOGE #1)
- $crooge on the streets of Dawson City during the Yukon Gold Rush as seen in Only a Poor Old Man (UNCLE $CROOGE FOUR COLOR #386 / UNCLE $CROOGE #1)
Central scene:
Don Rosa's own version of $crooge as a young shoeshine lad in Glasgow. Barks showed him at that age only once, drawing him already with glasses *and whiskers*; but since Barks did not write that story, Don Rosa ignores such an odd rendition.
D.U.C.K.-SPOILER:
Look at the tunnel wall next to the central shoeshine boy's shoulder.
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