"Poster 8 - Monsters"
"Poster 8 - Monsters"
This poster shows the the best giant or supernatural (and a few phony) monsters that $crooge McDuck faced in Barks' stories.
Clockwise from top-left:
- The Wild Girl who lived with dingoes in Australia in Queen of the Wild Dog Pack (UNCLE $CROOGE #62).
- This hotel-bellboy "ghost" in The Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad (UNCLE $CROOGE #56) turned out to be fake. Barks did not like supernatural concepts in his stories, but it makes a nice visual addition to a "MONSTERS!" page.
- Another fake "ghost", supposedly the spirit of Sir Quackly McDuck protecting his jewel box in The Old Castle's Secret (DONALD DUCK FOUR COLOR #189).
- One more fake monster from Castle McDuck, this one a disguised member of the McDucks' ancient rival clan, the lowlander Whiskervilles in The Hound of the Whiskervilles (UNCLE $CROOGE #29).
- The Sleepless Dragon who protected Jason's Golden Fleece in Colchis in The Golden Fleecing (UNCLE $CROOGE #12).
- One of the legendary Rocs that $crooge faced in an adventure that seems to have only been a dream - The Cave of Ali Baba (UNCLE $CROOGE #37).
- A giant jellyfish that attacked $crooge's submarine while he was carrying the Candy-Stripe Ruby in The Status Seeker (UNCLE $CROOGE #41).
- One of the huge robots that were commandeered by the Beagle Boys to loot the McDuck Money Bin in The Giant Robot Robbers (UNCLE $CROOGE #58).
- The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas as shown in The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan (UNCLE $CROOGE #14).
Central scene:
Bombie the Zombie from Voodoo Hoodoo (DONALD DUCK FOUR COLOR #238). $crooge did not actually meet Bombie face-to-face in that story, but $crooge *was* the fellow to whom Bombie was trying to deliver that booby-trapped voodoo doll. And in that early story in $crooge's history, Barks did not yet even draw him as show here. Don Rosa has taken this "artistic liberties" in order to make Bombie the central monster on this poster!
D.U.C.K.-SPOILER:
Look on the Sleepless Dragon's big Jay-Leno chin.
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