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Gallery

The Money Lake paintings

FC 386 was the first comic book with Scrooge as the title hero; its main story »Only a Poor Old Man« (FC 386/2) was crucial in fleshing out Scrooge's personality. Small wonder, then, that Barks rendered the corresponding cover in oil 8 times.

Cover of FC 386

(March 1952)

Barks submitted this cover on 27 September 1951.

»Money Lake«

(14-71)

»Money Lake«

(19-71)

»Money Lake«

(23-71)

»Money Lake«

(26-71)

»Money Lake«

(18-72)

»Another Long Day's Work«

(8-73)

»Only a Poor Old Duck«

(6-74)

»Lake of Gold«

(22-75)

»Money Lake«

(mid-1980's)

In the 1980's Barks used the motif once again for Another Rainbow's lithograph series, but he shelved the project after he had made a small preliminary painting.