"Poster 5 - $crooge McDuck's Money Bin"
"Poster 5 - $crooge McDuck's Money Bin"
The truth is that Carl Barks never tried to decide on one single version of the Money Bin. He would always change its appearance slightly by need or impulse. But he did seem to decide on a general appearance along about 1956. This posters shows the early versions of the McDuck Money Bin.
Clockwise from top-left:
- The first time that it was suggested that $crooge had all his money in cash and kept it in one "bin", literally a grain bin on a farm, was in A Financial Fable (WALT DISNEY'S COMICS & STORIES #126)
- The first appearance of a giant megalithic "McDuck Money Bin" on a hill in downtown Duckburg was in this story from 1952. The joke is that it's supposed to resemble a safe (with a huge combination dial) while surrounded by a moat of acid and many other booby-traps, The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill (WALT DISNEY'S COMICS & STORIES #135)
- Later that same year of 1952, in the very first issue of UNCLE $CROOGE comics, the Money Bin was moved to a downtown street so that the plot could involve the Beagle Boys buying the adjacent lot and digging right into the Bin wall from their own building in Only a Poor Old Man (UNCLE $CROOGE FOUR COLOR #386 / UNCLE $CROOGE #1)
- This round (and easily rolled away!) Bin from 1953 was never intended to be a permanent Money Bin, but just another one-shot idea for another Beagle Boy heist in The Round Money Bin (UNCLE $CROOGE FOUR COLOR #495 / UNCLE $CROOGE #3)
- This logical designed Bin with a very efficient idea of the McDuck offices attached to the actual 3-cubic-acre Bin of money was used only once in 1955 in The Lemming with the Locket (UNCLE $CROOGE #9)
- This is how Don Rosa sees the classic Money Bin. The McDuck offices must be contained inside a narrow facade in front of the actual Bin in the rear, which doesn't seem very efficient or convenient for the employees - first seen in Land Beneath the Ground! (UNCLE $CROOGE #13)
Central scene:
$crooge typically enjoying himself in his cash inside the Money Bin.
D.U.C.K.-SPOILER:
Look in the stones in the wall near $crooge's left hand (to your right).
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