Uncle Scrooge classics for all ages!Since Fantagraphics� first release in this series focused on Donald Duck, it is only right that the second focus on Carl Barks�s other great protagonist, and his greatest creation: The miserly, excessively wealthy Scrooge McDuck, whose giant money bin, lucky dime, and constant wrangles with his nemeses the Beagle Boys are well-known to, and beloved by, young and old.This volume starts off with �Only a Poor Old Man,� the defining Scrooge yarn (in fact his first big starring story) in which Scrooge�s plan to hide his money in a lake goes terribly wrong. Two other long-form classics in this volume include �Tralla La La� (also known as �the bottlecap story,� in which Scrooge�s intrusion has terrible consequences for a money-less eden) and �Back to the Klondike� (Barks disciple Don Rosa�s favorite story, a crucial addition to Scrooge�s early history, and famous for a censored bar brawl that was restored in later editions). Each of these three stories is famous enough to have its own lengthy Wikipedia page.Also in this volume are the full-length �The Secret of Atlantis,� and over two dozen more shorter stories and one-page gags.Newly recolored in a version that combines the warm, friendly, slightly muted feeling of the beloved classic original comic books with state-of-the-art crispness and reproduction quality, the stories are joined by another volume�s worth of extensive �Liner Notes,� featuring fascinating behind-the-panels essays about the creation of the stories and analyses of their content from a world�s worth of Disney and Barks experts. Full color throughout