Uncle $crooge: The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark
Story code: D 98045 Publisher: Egmont First Published: December 1998 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 3b. Chronology: This story takes place in August 1883. Characters: Scrooge McDuck | HD&L Duck | Donald Duck | Ratchet Gearloose | Hortense (Scrooge's horse) | E. More (Captain of the Cutty Sark) Locations: Cutty Sark | Batavia [=Jakarta] (Indonesia) | Sunda Strait (Indonesia) D.U.C.K.-dedication: Made out of the bolts on the lid of the chest. Skipper'n på Cutty Sark DD&Co 52-53/1998 Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 27 (February 2009) Cowboy-kaptajnen på Cutty Sark AA&Co 52-53/1998 Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 24 (January 2009) En Cowboy på Cutty Sark KA&Co 51+52/1998 - 53/1998+1/1999 Walt Disney's Hall of Fame, vol 25 (March 2009) Comments: Scrooge goes to Indonesia onboard the famous ship Cutty Sark in order to sell some of his best bulls to a sultan who needs the animals in a competition. However Scrooge's bulls are stolen by an evil opponent sultan before they could be sold. Scrooge thus has to hunt down the thieves in order to get his bulls back. In Indonesia Scrooge meets his old friend Ratchet Gearloose who provides him with important assistance. The final chase of the thieves takes place in the Sunda Strait on August 27th 1883, the same day as the explosion of Krakatoa... Interesting facts: This was the last of Don Rosa's stories to be published in the USA before Gladstone went out of business. 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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