Norwegian "Life of Scrooge"

[Wilmer Rivers]

Comics Buyer's Guide # 1030, dated 13 August 1993, contains the con-
densed version of the Don Rosa interview which R.C. Harvey conducted
for Cartoonist PROfiles # 99.  (Last month Mr. Rosa told us that this
interview took place over a year and a half ago.)  The CBG article is
illustrated with 2 photos of Don Rosa and a cover of a Norwegian comic
book from 1992.  I can't make out what the title of the comic is, but
it prints the first part of Rosa's "Life of Scrooge" series.  At the
top is a banner line reading "SKRUES LYKKELAND" (Scrooge's Fortune),
and it shows the mature Scrooge staring at what looks like a factory,
with 2 multi-story towers rising from a broad building, but since each
tower carries a giant "KR" emblem, is this in fact a money bin?  Below
this we see that this scene is actually an imaginary one, since it
appears in a "thought balloon" rising above a very young duck in a
tattered sweater operating a shoe-shine stand on a sidewalk.  The young
duck (Scrooge?) is holding a shiney coin (the number-one dime?) in one
hand, and in the other hand he holds a copy of the "Afternoon Post"
newspaper, which bears the headline "Norge - mulighetenes land!" (Nor-
way - land of opportunities).  [I'm sure the Norwegians in this group
will correct my probably wildly incorrect translation!]  Did this comic
adapt the Life of Scrooge so that it takes place in Norway, or is that
really where part 1 of the story takes place?  Or would that be telling?
Those of us in the USA are losing patience, waiting for the series to
appear over here!

Wilmer Rivers
rivers at seismo.css.gov