money bin

john garvin jgarvin at bendcable.com
Sun Nov 26 17:37:41 CET 2000


I know Don that you've often said you don't consider Barks' paintings as part of the "Barks' Universe" because they were all done after 1967 and are made for collectors rather than readers.

I wish you would reconsider this stance.  There is some spectacular detail in these paintings, much of which is logically extrapolated from splash panels in the Uncle Scrooge stories.  I especially like the idea of a mining tunnel burrowing and winding down through the acres of coins, complete with rusty old track and cars
that Scrooge would have salvaged from one of his shut down operations, and an old rusty steamshovel, from the days when fresh cash was pouring into the vault and need to be moved around.  This tunnel would allow Scrooge to get to the bottom of his bin to examine the two (or more?) cracks that are in the floor: one that leads
to the fissure which claimed his forturne in "Christmas for Shacktown" and one which was caused by a Terry/Fermy earthquake.  You might even be able to see portions of the depth gauge on your way down.  Scrooge would also have used such a tunnel to help with counting and sorting.  I know he often found his older coins buried
at the bottom (pieces of eight, etc.).





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