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Zio Paperone #53 cover prelim - Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Artist: Andrea Freccero (Penciller)

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Zio Paperone #53 cover prelim - Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie Comic Art

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Title:	Zio Paperone #53 cover prelim - Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie
Artist:	Andrea Freccero (Penciller)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Prelim
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	265
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Added to Site:	12/17/2022
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1947-2022, 75 years anniversary

Scrooge McDuck, a Scottish-American anthropomorphic Pekin duck created by Carl Barks for the Disney comic books, first appeared in the story "Christmas on Bear Mountain", published in December of 1947 (Four Color #178).

Living in Duckburg, Calisota, in his own "Money Bin" placed on Killmule hill, he's Donald Duck's maternal uncle, as well as Huey's, Dewey's, and Louie's grand-uncle.

The richest duck in the world, he was initially characterized as a greedy miser and antihero, but in later appearances he has often been portrayed as a thrifty hero, adventurer and explorer.

He's, without a doubt, my favourite Disney character.
My ideal Scrooge McDuck story would be written by Carl Barks and illustrated by one of the Italian Disney artists I love!

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If you ask me what's my all-time favourite Carl Barks' cover, I would instantly answer the cover of One Shots #386, "Only a Poor Old Man", that in Italy was also the cover of Zio Paperone #1, magazine published by the Mondadori licensee in 1987 that aimed to reprint all of Barks' stories. I was 11 at that time and that magazine (with its all-Barks format) changed forever my view on these characters, I have fallen in love with them and still are, 35 years later.

You can imagine how I felt when I learned that Andrea Freccero, one of my very favourite Disney artists, was working on a "recreation" of that cover. Couldn't believe it.

Just looking at the prelim, I was in love.

Please check the final cover art here.

Huge thanks to Giacomo and Andrea!

Paper size: 25 x 35 cm

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