Uncle $crooge: The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff
Story code: D 96089 Publisher: Egmont First Published: December 1996 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 6b. Partly inspired by the Barks classic "The Ghost of Pizen Bluff". Chronology: This story takes place in 1890. Characters: Scrooge McDuck | HD&L Duck | Angus "Pothole" McDuck | Hortense McDuck (mentioned) | Hortense (Scrooge's horse) | Jakob Walz (gold digger) | Buffalo Bill | Geronimo | P.T.Barnum | Annie Oakley | The Daltons | Locations: The Money Bin | Phoenix (Arizona) | Pizen Bluff (Arizona) D.U.C.K.-dedication: On one of pictures in the lower right corner in Scrooge's book. Oppgjør i Bløff DD&Co 52/1996 - 2/1997 Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 25 (October 2008) Opgør i spøgelsesbyen AA&Co 52/1996 - 2/1997 Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 23 (October 2008) Hämnaren i Bluff City KA&Co 51+52/1996 - 2/1997 Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 24 (November 2008) Comments: The Daltons are robbing Buffalo Bill's famous Wild West show. Scrooge joins force with his uncle Angus "Pothole" McDuck, Buffalo Bill and some other western legends in order to stop the bandits and get the money back. The final "battle" takes place in Pizen Bluff. Interesting facts: "Pizen" is an old slang spelling Barks used for "poison" or "poisoned". "Bluff" is a geology term meaning a high riverbank or a cliff. The Barks story "The Ghost of Pizen Bluff", where the name Pizen Bluff was first used, is a story about an old mining ghost (abandoned) town. Thus, in this context "Pizen Bluff" would mean "Poisoned riverbank", presumably because there is a poisoned river nearby--not a very hospitable place! 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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