Scandinavian Story Indeks


   Uncle $crooge: The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad

Story code: D 94202

Publisher: Egmont

First Published: September 1995

Pages: 24/25

Versions: Both single-part and serialized versions. An additional page was done for the US-edition.

Plot and story: Don Rosa

Art and ink: Don Rosa

Story-type: Adventure, Refers to the old Barks-classic "Billions in the Hole".

Characters: Scrooge McDuck | Donald Duck | HD&L Duck | Miss Quackfaster | The Beagle Boys

Locations: The Money Bin | Duckburg (Downdown)

D.U.C.K.-dedication: In many European versions the D.U.C.K. is deleted. But in the American edition it is on the sign nearest to the money bin.




Norway
 Mindre og Mindre
  • DD&Co 39-41/1995
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 22 (March 2008)
  • Donald Ekstra 1/2011 (c)
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    Denmark
    		 Fantasillionær på skrump
  • AA&Co 39-41/1995
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 21 (March 2008)
  • Anders And Ekstra 1/2011 (c)
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    Sweden
    		 Den krympande miljonären
  • KA&Co 39-41/1995
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 22 (March 2008)
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    Comments:

         		By accident Donald activates a machine once designed to shrink Scrooge's satellites. The beam hits both himself and Uncle Scrooge. After a while both start to shrink. HD&L goes for help, but meanwhile The Beagle Boys arrive the scene and uses the beam in order to steal the enire Money Bin...

    Interesting facts:

         		This story is based upon the sci-fi movie "The Incredible Shrinking Man" from 1957.

    Disney refused to allow this story to appear in the US without several dozen panels being deleted (totalling 2-3 pages of the story). These panels deal with:
    A) a flea on a Beagle Boy.
    B) a prune in a Beagle Boys pocket.
    C) a Beagle Boy sneezing.
    D) a Beagle Boy scratching his head because of the before-mentioned flea.
    The reason for this is that these panels deal with *personal hygiene* and that's considered *politically incorrect* by Disney in the US.

    Don Rosa added an extra page for the US-edition (placed in between panels 4 and 5 on page 20 in the original version). Go to AC Sivebæk's The two worlds of Don Rosa to see the extra page of panels Don Rosa did for the US-edition.
    The complete 25-page single-part version was first published in the German album series "Onkel Dagobert von Don Rosa" in 1998, though with a poor print-quality on the extra panels for page 20 and 21. In November 2006 the complete version was also finally published in USA by Gemstone.

    Go to AC Sivebæk's The two worlds of Don Rosa to see the difference between the two versions of this story.
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