Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #23

Dates

Cover date

September-November 1958

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #23 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition

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• "Now" cover variant

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Creators

Stories

• Moola on the Move · 1 pages

  Rajah, in a gravel truck, and Scrooge, in a hay wagon, each discover that the other is not hauling gravel or hay, respectively.

• The Strange Shipwrecks · 21 pages

  Scrooge goes to Gloomgurgle Straits in the North Pacific, where ships loaded with gold from his Alaskan mines have been mysteriously sinking. There, he learns too late that the lighthouse keepers at Raider Nick's Reef are actually the Beagle Boys, and that they have have been terrorizing the ships with an inflated rubber "ghost ship" supposed sailed by Raider Nick, a pirate whose ship was wrecked in the straits years before.

• Gyro Goes for a Dip · 4 pages

  Gyro wants to swim in his new pool, but is ashamed that the neighbors might discover that he cannot swim - so he sets about inventing ways to fool the neighbors into thinking he is able to swim.

• The Big Top Bungle · 1 pages
• The Fabulous Tycoon · 5 pages

  Longhorn Tallgrass receives two visitors, Scrooge and Donald, at his ranch. Longhorn brags about his wealth, and his successful year, not realizing that one of the visitors is Scrooge McDuck, from whom Longhorn borrowed money.

• All Choked Up · 0.63 pages

  Scrooge offers an apple to a horse; unfortunately, due to a mix-up, the horse ends up with a roll of bills.

• Lights Out · 1 pages

  Scrooge reads about the cost of electricity going up, so he finds a cheaper alternative to reading at night.

Reprinted in

The Carl Barks Library (1983), The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (2011), The Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color (1992), Walt Disney's Comics (1946), Walt Disney's Giant Comics (1951), Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge (1963), Walt Disney Comics Digest (1968), Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (1990), Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (1996), Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1962), Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (1986), Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1986), The Carl Barks Library of Gyro Gearloose Comics and Fillers in Color (1993)