"Poster 9 - $crooge McDuck's lost realms"
"Poster 9 - $crooge McDuck's lost realms"
This page is a tribute to all the wondrous lost lands and special places that Carl Barks created for $crooge McDuck's adventures! Don Rosa's favourite place among these is the wonderful valley of peace and harmony, milk and honey - Tralla La.
Clockwise from top-left:
- One of the most important estates in $crooge's life is Castle McDuck on a remote Scottish moor, here as seen in The Old Castle's Secret (DONALD DUCK FOUR COLOR #189)
- The castle of Valhalla that $crooge encountered on an errant asteroid in Mythtic Mystery (UNCLE $CROOGE #34)
- The remote and mist-shrouded city of Colchis where the Harpies guard Jason's Golden Fleece, The Golden Fleecing (UNCLE $CROOGE #12)
- The lost city of Tangkor Wat somewhere in an Indochina jungle in City of Golden Roofs (UNCLE $CROOGE #20)
- Another beautiful lost valley, this one hiding the gold mines of the ancient Incas in The Prize of Pizarro (UNCLE $CROOGE #26)
- Below the ruins of his palace on the Isle of Crete, at the end of the famous Labyrinth maze, was found the treasure-filled secret throne room of King Minos, The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone (UNCLE $CROOGE #10)
- Five of the Seven Cities of Cibola in The Seven Cities of Cibola (UNCLE $CROOGE #7)
- Regiments of Terries and Fermies marching through... Terry Fermy in Land Beneath the Ground! (UNCLE $CROOGE #13)
- The lost city of Atlantis surrounded by its guardian whales - The Sunken City (UNCLE $CROOGE #5)
- With its famous whirlpool seeming to lead down to Atlantis - the wonderful valley of Tralla La (with its mountainous walls severely shortened to fit them into the tiny scene) in Tralla La (UNCLE $CROOGE #6)
Central scene:
The central scene shows one of the Tralla Lalian (?) leaders as he shows $crooge the wonders of his happy land.
D.U.C.K.-SPOILER:
In the Incan valley, look at the nearer of the two walls where the spring-loaded blade awaits unwary invaders.
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