CATALOG RECORD
Four Color #178
first appearance of Scrooge McDuck
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Scrooge McDuck (Disney) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- December 1947
- On sale
- November 14, 1947
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Fashion in Flight · 1 pages
Donald buys a huge visor for his tiny car.
- Christmas on Bear Mountain · 20 pages
Donald's stingy old Uncle Scrooge McDuck lets the ducks use his mountain cabin for the Christmas holidays, planning to test Donald's bravery by coming to the cabin disguised as a bear. However, two real bears--a mother and her cub--turn up at the cabin soon after the ducks' arrival.
- Santa Claus Land · 12 pages
Mickey and Goofy are working at Santa's Workshop at the North Pole. Doc and Grumpy of the Seven Dwarfs and Dumbo are also working there. Goofy is made custodian of Santa's reindeer, where he discovers that Prancer has been stolen by Willie the Giant.
- Turn for the Worse · 1 pages
Donald plays a joke by giving some misleading directions.
- Machine Mix-Up · 1 pages
Donald tries out his new modern kitchen, with unhappy results.
Characters
Reprinted in
Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (1962), The Carl Barks Library (1983), Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures in Color (1994), The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library (2011), Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (2003), The Best of Walt Disney Comics (1974), Gladstone Comic Album (1988), Gladstone Comic Album Special (1989), Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures (1990), Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (1993), Walt Disney's Christmas Classics (2009), Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime (2024)