A well of dollars

a well of dollars is a history in Cartoon of Carl Barks. She puts in scene Balthazar Picsou with her nephews Donald Duck, Riri, Fifi and Loulou; he faces Rapetou. She is held with Donaldville and in a meadow in open country.

Synopsis

Rapetou decided to dig a well with horizontal for dévaliser the safe of Picsou. Thanks to a computer-calculator very last thing, the millardaire finds a solution, but its old worn eyeglasses will make him risk its fortune unnecessarily.

Data sheet

History n°WUS 21.
Editor:
Title in English: The Money Well (literally “the money well”).
Title in French: a well of dollars , this title more resembling the original was used for the republication of April 2005. Previously, the history was published in France under the titles the hill of the good deals and the gold mountain.
26 boards.
Author and draftsman: Carl Barks.
First publication in the United States: Uncle Scrooge n° March 21st, th and th 1958.
First publication in France: Newspaper of Mickey n°1362, 1978.

History in the work of Carl Barks

a well of dollars has a traditional intrigue: vis-a-vis a plan of Rapetou, Picsou seems to discover an infallible solution, finally more dangerous for its money than Rapetou.

Eleven years after the creation of Picou, Barks still develops the universe of Donald Duck. The evocations with the trade of Cireur of shoes point out the first trade of the Picsou young person, with Glasgow; Barks drew in 1963 a history of Tony Strobl which tells this career explicitly. Barks details the waste ground around the trunk: it is the old site of Fort Donaldville, hanging up again the fictitious city with the Colonial history of the United States of America.

A scene can pose a problem of continuity: Pardoned Rapetou, grandfather of the shadies, does not recognize Picsou on the 24e board. However, in a history of August 1957, the fantastic race on the river , Picsou tells with Grand-Mère Donald his fight against Gracié and its sons at times of the steamers on the the Mississippi.

If Géo Trouvetou does not invent a solution with the problem of Picsou, this last fact proof of easy way by using a crack between layers of schists to develop a pocket where to hide its money. Nowadays, this method makes it possible to store Natural gas in-depth. Barks could find this idea in a file of the review National Geographic to which he was subscribed.

Its use in work of Gift Rosa

The great number of evocations with passed of Picsou inspired several intrigues with Don Rosa, whose work wants to be in the prolongation of the stories of Carl Barks.

In the Youth of Picsou , the biography of the richest duck of the world:

the career of shoeshiner of shoes is an important intrigue of the first episode (“the Last of the McPicsou clan”),
the purchase of the eyeglasses in Scotland in 1885 is evoked in episode 5 (“the New Master of the McPicsou manor”),
the ground conceded n°26 makes a fast appearance in episode 10 (“the Invader of Strong Donaldville”).

Lastly, the colonial history of Donaldville is told by Don Rosa in Its Majesty Picsou Ier , and the fort rebuilt after an investigation of Riri, Fifi and Loulou at the time of their test of adhesion to the Castors Juniors, in C.E.S.T.D.U.C.H.A.R.A.B.I.A. .

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