Uncle $crooge: The Black Knight GLORPS again!
Story code: D 2003-235 Publisher: Egmont First Published: June 2004 Pages: 25 Versions: Single-part version + one extra summary page for serialized publications (inserted after page 13). Plot and story: Don Rosa Art and ink: Don Rosa Story-type: Sequel to Don Rosa's own story "The Black Knight". Characters: Scrooge McDuck | Donald Duck | HD&L Duck | Arpin Lusène | Gyro gearloose | Little Helper | Miss Quackfaster Locations: Duckburg | The Money Bin | Duckburg Museum D.U.C.K.-dedication: In the lower moulding on the frame on the painting in the upper right corner. The dedcication is shown upside-down among some Asian looking signs. Den sorte ridder slår til igjen DD&Co 27-28/2004 DD&Co - En kvart årgang [vol.19], Sep. 2005 Den sorte ridder glorper igen AA&Co 27-28/2004 Svarte riddaren glorpar igen KA&Co 27-28/2004 Comments: Arpin Lusène (The Black Knight) returns to Duckburg. First he figures out how to get the Omnisolve suit back from $crooge who has had it sealed inside a massive block of Forbidium. Then he decides to steal (destroy) the contents of the Duckburg Museum where $crooge is showing his trophy collection (the world's most valuable collection of rare items) as he also did in "The Son of the Sun". This story includes references to $crooge's favourite-painter. Don Rosa explains: "A behind-the-scenes aspect of this tale is the European editor nixed my original plan of the paintings that Scrooge displays in his exhibit being images of actual oil paintings by Carl Barks. I figured that if Scrooge were to say these were paintings by his (unnamed) favorite artist, the average reader would accept that at face-value, while the Barks fans would catch this in-joke reference to the paintings Barks did after he retired from comic book work. But the European editor told me that it would be impossible to reproduce those large paintings as such tiny pure-color (no line) images in a comic book panel, so l had to rethink that whole idea after the story was completed and already sent off to Denmark. I later sent in new bits of art that filled the frames with scenes that M. C. Escher might have drawn, and finally a "masterpiece" that looks like a famous Dali painting. However, when I mentioned this to my good pal David Gerstein at Gemstone Comics, he convinced me that he could achieve the original effect using Gemstone's modem computer color techniques. Therefore, this is the first presentation of this story worldwide in its original intended form - readers nowhere else on earth saw Barks' paintings in those frames." Note: Gemstone forgot to shange the painting in page 3, panel 9.
Gemstone-version (left) and Egmont-version (right): Page 1, panel 5. Gemstone-version (above) and Egmont-version (below): Page 2, panels 1-2. Gemstone-version (left) and Egmont-version (right): Page 2, panel 6. Gemstone-version (left) and Egmont-version (right): Page 25, panel 7.
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