Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge

Scrooge made his first appearance in the Donald Duck story "Christmas on Bear Mountain" as a curmudgeonly man who decides to test Donald and his nephews to see if they are worthy of inheriting his wealth. Barks found the character and his wealth a useful springboard for stories and re-used him in a number of subsequent Donald Duck one-shot adventures and ten pagers appearing in <a href="/c/comics/series/32806/walt-disneys-comics-and-stories/">Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</a>. By 1952 the popularity of the character convinced Dell to give Scrooge a try-out as a lead character in the seminal <a href="/c/comics/comic/31951/walt-disneys-uncle-scrooge-in-only-a-poor-old-man/">"Only a Poor Old Man" </a>in #386 of Dell's Four Color anthology series. After two further Four Color appearances Scrooge was granted his own title starting with issue number 4. The three Uncle Scrooge issues of <a href="/c/comics/series/31871/four-color-1942-series/">Four Color (Dell, 1942 series)</a>, #386, 456 and 495, were counted by Dell as the first three issues of this 1953 series. Issues #4 through #39. Numbering continues with Uncle Scrooge (Western, 1963 series) #40 through #209. Numbering continues with Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #210 through #242. Numbering continues with Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #243 through #280. Numbering continues with Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1993 series) #281 through #318. Numbering continues with Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #319 through #383. Numbering continues with Uncle Scrooge (Boom! Studios, 2009 series) #384 through #404.