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Out this week: Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow (Fantagraphics, $19.99):

While most of Fantagraphics’ Disney projects have been reprints, this is a new graphic novel set in the world of Don Rosa’s Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck featuring a young Scrooge working in the coal mines of Scotland. It’s by Joris Chamberlain and Fabrizio Petrossi.

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[okaystoptellingmetomakeanaccount]

Scrog Timeline based on Life and times here we go. Part one lil kid scrog livin in Scotland.

The extended life and times of Scrooge McDuck. Part 1 - Glasgow 1867

First. There are a bunch of stories which show snippets of Scrooge’s life as a child (usually around Christmas). These snippets can vary from a single panel to multiple pages, but they are never the main plot. Among these are:

W DD 70-01, The Search for Cyril

W DD 72-01, Secret Of The Sargasso Sea

S 63099, Chairman of the Bored

D 9044, Wait For Me

D 99078, The Quest For Kalevala

I PM 187-2, The Brotherly News. - Note: Scrooge, Gideon and Grandma are shown as kids together in Scotland.

D 92305, The Lost Birthday. - Note: Partially time travel/suggested dream sequence, partially flashback.

I TL 2442-5, The Ghost’s Treasure… Or The Other Way Around

D 2012-058, Donald's Homemade Christmas

I TL 3063-2, The Numismatic Process

I TL 3239-1, A New Christmas Carol

I TL 3369-1, The Comfortable Temptation

D 2019-039, The New Year that Wasn't. - Note: This story contains a scene in which Scrooge travels to the past to give himself the number one dime. This is not reverted.

I TL 3368-1P, A Tournament of 100 Doors

D 2020-210, In Time For Christmas. - Note: This is a time travel story, and so the snippet is actually not a flashback. The snippet takes place during the night before Scrooge leaves for America.

I TL 3448-2, A Mysterious Anniversary

H 2022-002, The Treasure of Captain Seabass

I TL 3499-1, Fame

I TL 3501-3, Clear Coin Cleaning

I TL 3536-1P, The Test of Scottishness

I TL 3550-1P, The Leap Lamp. - Note: This story interestingly contains a retcon of D 91308. This retcon consists of Scrooge getting his shoeshine box on Christmas, as Fergus couldn’t finish it in time for his birthday. No known story contradicts this.

From here we can continue onto full stories that depict Scrooge’s time as a wee lad, whether they are flashbacks or not. Stories are placed in timeline order. If not sure (so for most of them) they are placed in release order. Among these are:

W US 44-04, The Invisible Intruder. - Note: Life And Times’ depiction of this time of Scrooge’s days is largely based on this story.

B 790164, A Taste and Three Cruzeiros

B 820168, A Christmas From the Past. - While the narrative is primarily about this past adventure, Scrooge only plays a secondary role.

B 830113, The First Bin. - Note: History told by LVD. Story does not necessarily seem to take place in 1860s Glasgow.

I TL 2865-03, The Mistake. - Note: Rare one pager showing Scrooge at school. Is in conflict with I TL 2695-1 in showing something that shouldn’t yet have happened according to Scrooge’s accounts in that story.

D 2013-026, The Orphan's Christmas

F DBG 16, The Dragon of Glasgow

H 2023-183, The First Christmas Ornament. - Note: After interference of Grandma Duck by the end, this story is revealed to be a fiction made up by Scrooge.

D 2020-145, The First Adventure. - Note: This story is a direct lead-in to Rosa’s story. As such, it’s probably the only one that can be surely placed.

D 91308, The Last of the Clan McDuck. - Note: it is very well possible for any of the above mentioned stories to take place during this story, as it contains time skips.

Honorable mentions:

I TL 756-A, Klondike’s Gold. - Note: This story famously portrays Scrooge’s youth as taking place in the Klondike, going as far as having him be born here.

W DAD 29-02, The Last Laugh. - Note: Scrooge mentions shining shoes and delivering papers when he was HDL’s age.

W DD 48-02, A Bucket of Scones. - Note: Scrooge mentions having left Scotland 60 years ago.

W JW 29-03, The Good Deed. - Note: Scrooge mentions growing up in Scotland in a boys’ home. Together with HDL they also visit his hometown: Pinchpenny.

I TL 697-B, The Unfortunate Dream. - Note: Dream sequence where Magica sees Scrooge earning his first dime as a child.

S 81095, The Search For Viking Treasure. - Note: Scrooge earns his first money by plowing fields.

I am 99% certain I have forgot and/or missed stories, so please feel free to comment or whatever to add to this. This post will keep being updated.

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It's new comic week! (07/2023)

Batman #357 Facsimile Edition

Blue Beetle: Special Edition #1

Disney Villains: Maleficent #3

Disney Villains: Scar #4

Gargoyles #7

Gargoyles: Dark Ages #1

Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea #1 (backordered)

Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea #3

My Greatest Adventure #80

My Little Pony #14

My Little Pony 40th Anniversary Special

My Little Pony: Camp Bighoof #1

Panya: The Mummy's Curse #1

Rivers of London: Here Be Dragons #1

Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow

Wonder Woman: War of the Gods: Special Edition #1

Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death

Young Justice: Targets

Also some non-comics included in the orders:

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar: The Legacy of Yangchen

Star Wars: The High Republic: Starlight Stories

I've started getting back into Star Wars stuff after enjoying Star Wars Jedi: Survivor so much, first trying a couple of comic miniseries, then dipping into novels and now I figured I'd try and give The High Republic a go.

Also I only now learned Dark Horse released the Rebels magazine comics in a trade collection, so I HAVE to get that!

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I love the idea that an Unca Scrooge adventure is being specifically described as being set in Don Rosa’s continuity.

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Wait I just watched that ‘facts about scrooge’ video and 

He was a shoe-shiner in Glasgow??

Damn... No wonder he came off being beaten up by a gold eating dragon with barely a scratch I’m surprised the buildings didn’t say ‘Ow’ to be hit with McDuck himself

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What do we think of extra Scrooge’s youth chapters? Because i really really really like em. Surely someone has made like a whole list and timeline. Like something like this.

Does this order make sense? Because like First adventure is a direct prelude to Last of Clan McDuck, and i havent read Dragon of Glasgow but i assume it’s either this or it takes place during Last of Clan McDuck. If no one knows of something like this existing I’d like to try. It will sadly enough be based on Rosa at first though… After that we will do the rest of the multiverse i promise.

And please tell what you think of extra Life and times chapters not made by Rosa. Like the Midthun/Løkling/Nærum Christmas stories or heck, even Fantomius references. All opinions are welcome