Lo$ part 11: The Empire Builder from Calisota                           (The Richest Duck in the World)
Story code: D 93288 Publisher: Egmont First Published: April 1994 Pages: 24 Versions: Both single-part and serialized versions. Plot and story: Don Rosa Art and ink: Don Rosa Story-type: The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck, Chapter 11 Chronology: This story takes place from 1909 to 1930. Characters: Scrooge McDuck | Matilda McDuck | Hortense McDuck | Quackmore Duck | Miss Quackfaster | Donald Duck | Della Duck | The McVipers (seen in a flashback) | Downy O'Drake (in Scrooges memories) | Fergus McDuck (in Scrooges memories) | The clan McDuck (mentioned) | Foola Zoola (African shief) | Bombie the zombie Locations: The Money Bin | Goldopolis (seen in a flashback) | Congo | The north pole | Russia | On-board Titanic | The Westindies | Guyana | Iraq | The Gobi dessert | The Pacific | New York | Duckburg D.U.C.K.-dedication: The dedication is on a tiny slip of paper sticking out of one of Matilda's scrapbooks. Verdens rikeste mann DD&Co 15-17/1994 Skrue Mc Duck's liv og levnet (hardcover) Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 20 (September 2007) Verdens rigeste and AA&Co 15-17/1994 Joakim von And - Her er dit liv (hardcover) Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 20 (October 2007) Världens rikaste anka KA&Co 15-17/1994 Joakim von Anka, Farbror Joakims Liv (hardcover) Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 20 (September 2007) Comments: Scrooge and his sisters are going to Africa where Scrooge for the only time in his life act like a scoundrel as he hires some criminals to attack a native village. As protest Matilda and Hortense returns to Duckburg while Scrooge goes around the world in search for more wealth. The whole time he is followed by a zombie named Bombie. In the end he returns home as a hard man, as a result the family leave him, but he finds comfort in now being the richest man on earth. Don Rosa's own comments about this story can be read at Dan Shane's great The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck pages. Interesting facts: This story is the first story by Don Rosa where the splash-panels in the serial version is replaced with multiple panels in the single-part version. The Dutch single-part version actually includes art from the serialized version. In the American version the stake with the voodoo mask in the middle was removed from panel 7 on page 7 - even though this mask was Don Rosas's explanation of the faces, which don't look like the faces Barks has drawn. Because they weared this kind of masks!!! Go to AC Sivebæk's The two worlds of Don Rosa to see the difference between the various versions of this story.
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