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Scrooge McDuck has long been one of my favorite of the Disney Duck family. He’s cantankerous, rude, and cheap. But he does have a heart and can be kind at times. Its pains him to be kind and thoughtful but it doesn’t last.
This volume spans 6 eras of Scrooges early life. It was originally written in the mid-nineties by Dan Rosa and it won him the Eisner Award, which is comic worlds equivalent to the Oscars.
The story starts off in Scotland with your Scrooge and his father wandering the moors near the ancestral McDuck family castle. The first story tells of the recovery of the castle and Scrooge’s decision to travel to America to earn his fortune.
Scrooge goes from Scotland to the Mississippi, to South Dakota to Montana, back to Scotland and then off to the South Africa. He meets some interesting characters along the way, has some very Scroogian adventures and slowly learns all he needs to know to make his fortune. He doesn’t actually make his fortune in this volume but that is a story for Volume 2.
The art in this volume is very typical of the Disney style for the Donald Duck/Scrooge McDuck stories that have been published for dozens of years. The pacing is quick and doesn’t lag anywhere, the dialogue is easy to ready.
Is it Right for Kids? Yes, of all ages. Young kids that can’t read yet will enjoy the art and having the story read to them. Older kid will enjoy reading the stories and adults will enjoy the nostalgia of reading something that could easily have come from their childhood.
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