A last lord for Eldorado

a last lord for Eldorado is a history in Cartoon of Keno Don Rosa. She puts in scene Balthazar Picsou with her nephews Donald Duck, Riri, Fifi and Loulou. He faces one of his recurring enemies, Gripsou. She is held mainly in Colombia.

Synopsis

Whereas Picsou and its nephews explore the Caribbean Sea to the research of the Spanish vessels shipwrecked men and their treasures, they find the gold plate of the concession of a German bank. Going to Berlin, they discover that this bank would always have an agency, lost some share in South America. Smelling the good deal, Picsou decides to repurchase this bank and discovers that its agency would be located at Eldorado, the gold city lost. Unfortunately for him, the preceding owner of the bank, Gripsou, suspecting well that Picsou would not have repurchased this bank if it did not have any value, launches out to their continuation. Then engage a hunting for the treasure which will lead them to famous Eldorado.

Data sheet

Code of the history: D 96066.
Editor: Egmont.
Title of the first publication: a last lord for Eldorado , then King Eldorado .
Title in English: The Last Lord off Eldorado .
30 boards.
Author and draftsman: Keno Gift Rosa.
First publication: Picsou Magazine n°318, July 1997, France.
First publication in the United States: Uncle Scrooge n°311, July 1998.

In France, the history is appeared in 1997, under the title a last lord for Eldorado although a literal translation of the English title would have been the last lord of Eldorado . For its republication in 2006, a new title is adopted which moves away even more of the original title, King Eldorado .

References to Carl Barks

This history implicitly refers to a history of Carl Barks, stamped stamp (W OS 422-02), in which to find a stamp rare (the 1 hundred of British Guyana), Donald and his nephews launch out to the research of mythical Eldorado. Humor is brought to this reference, like with other treasures required or discovered by Donald and Picsou in preceding stories, using the character of the tourist guide which sells charts with the treasures with the tourists.

This history in the work of Gift Rosa

Shown at the beginning of a last lord for Eldorado , the chart of the cast ships was found by the heroes in another history of Don Rosa, Trésor under bell (D 90227) and, by twice, it is mentioned the treasure which was the objective of Picsou and Gripsou in the first history written and drawn by Don Rosa: the Son of the sun .

Historical and cultural references

This history refers to the myth of the Eldorado (of Spanish el dorado: gilded), which according to the legend would be a mythical region supposed to abound in gold and located in South America.

The bank of which it is made mention, the Welser of Augsburg, existed really and is a possession of a family of merchants and bankers whose members are active since the 13th century until our days.

In the same way, the quoted historical characters really existed: Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada was a Spanish explorer, Nikolaus Federmann was a German explorer with the banking service Welser and Sebastián de Belalcázar was a Spanish conquistador. All the three explored the center of Colombia and their forwardings ended indeed up meeting.

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