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Issue Details

Issue	#495
Published	September 1953
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Alice Nielson Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Notes	Credits for this issue based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). Continues as Uncle Scrooge (Dell, 1953 series) #4 (December 1953-February 1954).

Cover Details - "Jack-in-the-box"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Reprinted	in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #212 (December 1986)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Barber College"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge
Synopsis	Scrooge trims his own sideburns because barber's prices are "too much."
Genre	funny animals
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Letters	Carl Barks
Notes	Inside front cover. Art submitted February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted	in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Disney, 1990 series) #260 (November 1991); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)

22 page Uncle Scrooge story "Horseradish treasure"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge; Chisel McSue; Swindle McSue (flashback); Captain Seafoam McDuck (flashback); Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey and Louie
Synopsis	Scrooge is faced with the loss of his entire fortune to Chisel McSue because, many years before, an ancestor of Scrooge's failed to deliver a case of horseradish to Jamaica, and then failed to give all his property to McSue's ancestor, as provided in a contract. Scrooge can save his fortune only by fulfilling the terms of the original contract, and the ducks set out in a small sailing ship to find the horseradish, which was on a ship that sank in the Caribbean.
Genre	funny animals; adventure
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	Carl Barks
Notes	Art submitted February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted	in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #105 (June 1973); in Uncle Scrooge, His Life and Times (Celestial Arts, 1981 series) #1; in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #181 (December 1980); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #3 (July 1996) [reprint title: Trouble From Long Ago]; in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #338

10 page Uncle Scrooge story "The Round Money Bin"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey; Louie; Beagle Boys
Synopsis	For safety's sake, Scrooge has his coins changed into greenbacks and stores them in an old water tank, but this fails to stop the Beagle Boys.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Carl Barks
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	Carl Barks
Notes	First appearance of Scrooge's "Old Number One Dime," identified here only as the first dime he ever earned. Art submitted on February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted	in Best of Walt Disney Comics, The (Western Publishing, 1974 series) #96172 (1974); in Uncle Scrooge (Gold Key, 1962 series) #172 (January 1980); in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Disney's DuckTales (Gladstone, 1988 series) #3 (January 1989); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color (Gladstone, 1996 series) #3 (July 1996); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone, 2003 series) #324

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Money bin at rainbow's end"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge; Huey, Dewey; Louie
Synopsis	Scrooge's money bin is at the bottom of a rainbow that the nephews see.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Letters	Carl Barks
Notes	Inside back cover. Art submitted on February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted	in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone, 1986 series) #514 (January 1987); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)

1 page Uncle Scrooge story "Feeds flea circus"

Characters	Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey, Dewey; Louie
Synopsis	Scrooge "treats" the trained fleas to a meal at the circus.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Carl Barks
Inks	Carl Barks
Colors	? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters	Carl Barks
Notes	Back cover. Art submitted on February 26, 1953. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (1982).
Reprinted	in Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 series) #3 (December 1984); in Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone, 1986 series) #241 (February 1990); in Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge One Pagers in Color, The (Gladstone, 1992 series) #1 (July 1992)