Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} A Little Something Special by David Gerstein David Gerstein. David Gerstein (born February 6, 1974) is a comics author and editor as well as an animation historian. Gerstein has five books and countless comic book credits to his name. He has written many stories. Past employments include Egmont Creative A/S, a Danish comics studio, and . His current work is with various affiliates of Egmont, and Books. Contents. Book work Comics and magazine work References External links. Book work. As author/editor (or co-editor): : The 90th Anniversary Collection (IDW Publishing, 2019) The Library—Uncle Scrooge and : The Old Castle's Other Secret (Fantagraphics Books, 2018) Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History (with J. B. Kaufman; TASCHEN, 2018) The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Three Caballeros Ride Again! (Fantagraphics Books, 2018) The Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Mysterious Dr. X (Fantagraphics Books, 2018) Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3 (IDW Publishing, 2018) The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Escape from Forbidden Valley (Fantagraphics Books, 2017) Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3 (IDW Publishing, 2017) Donald Duck: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3 (IDW Publishing, 2017) The Don Rosa Library— Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Treasure of the Ten Avatars (Fantagraphics Books, 2017) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Mickey vs. Mickey (Fantagraphics Books, 2017) Donald Duck: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2 (IDW Publishing, 2017) Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2 (IDW Publishing, 2017) Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2 (IDW Publishing, 2016) The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Universal Solvent (Fantagraphics Books, 2016) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Planet of Faceless Foes (Fantagraphics Books, 2016) Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 1 (IDW Publishing, 2016) The Don Rosa Library— Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Richest Duck in the World (Fantagraphics Books, 2016) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Rise of the Rhyming Man (Fantagraphics Books, 2016) Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 1 (IDW Publishing, 2016) The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Last of the Clan McDuck (Fantagraphics Books, 2015) The Floyd Gottfredson Library— Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Tomorrow Wars (Fantagraphics Books, 2015) The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Treasure Under Glass (Fantagraphics Books, 2015) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: March of the Zombies (Fantagraphics Books, 2015) Learn to Draw Mickey Mouse & Friends Through the Decades (Walter Foster Publishing, 2015) The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Return to Plain Awful (Fantagraphics Books, 2014) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Lost in Lands of Long Ago (Fantagraphics Books, 2014) The Don Rosa Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Sun (Fantagraphics Books, 2014) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot (Fantagraphics Books, 2014) Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2013) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays: Robin Hood Rides Again (Fantagraphics Books, 2013) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays: Call of the Wild (Fantagraphics Books, 2013) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: House of the Seven Haunts! (Fantagraphics Books, 2012) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: High Noon at Inferno Gulch (Fantagraphics Books, 2012) The Katzenjammer Kids—100 Years in Norway (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2011) The Floyd Gottfredson Library— Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Trapped on Treasure Island (Fantagraphics Books, 2011) The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Race to Death Valley (Fantagraphics Books, 2011) Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Floyd Gottfredson II (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2010) Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2009) Walt Disney Treasures—Uncle Scrooge: A Little Something Special (Gemstone Publishing, 2008) Walt Disney Treasures—Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation (Gemstone Publishing, 2006) Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse (Gemstone Publishing, 2005) Donald Duck: 70 Years (Egmont Serieforlaget A/S, 2004) The Walt Disney Centennial Book (Egmont Serieforlaget A/S, 2001) 70 Years With Mickey Mouse (Egmont Serieforlaget A/S, 1998) Nine Lives To Live: A Classic Felix Celebration (Fantagraphics, 1996) As contributing author/editor: Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy of the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 (Sunday Press Books, 2013) Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2013) The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons (Insight Editions, 2010) Kalle Anka & Co – Den kompletta årgången 1965-02 (Egmont Kärnan AB, 2010) Mickey Mouse Classics series (Boom! Kids, 2010) Donald Duck & Co-De komplette årgangene 1965 del V (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2009) Animation Art: From Pencil To Pixel (Harper Design International, 2004) Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide (Dorling Kindersley, 2003) Black Images in the Comics (Fantagraphics, 2003) Comics and magazine work. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gemstone Publishing/Boom! Kids) (As archival editor and contributing writer) Anders And & Co. (Egmont Serieforlaget A/S) (As contributing story editor) Walt Disney's Christmas Jubilee Present (Egmont Serieforlaget Norway) (As editor and contributing writer) Uncle Scrooge (Gemstone Publishing) (As archival editor and contributing writer) Comic Book Marketplace (Gemstone Publishing) (As writer) Related Research Articles. Arthur Floyd Gottfredson was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip , which he worked on from 1930 until his retirement in 1975. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as had on the Donald Duck comics. 17 years after his death, his memory was honored with the Disney Legends award in 2003 and induction into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. Theodore H. "Ted" Osborne was an American writer of comics, radio shows and animated films, remembered for his contributions to the creation and refinement, during the 1930s, of Walt Disney cartoon characters. Uncle Scrooge is a Disney comic book series starring Scrooge McDuck, his nephew Donald Duck, and grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and revolving around their adventures in Duckburg and around the world. It was first published in Four Color Comics #386, as a spin-off of the popular Donald Duck series and is still presently ongoing. It has been produced under the aegis of several different publishers, including Western Publishing, Gladstone Publishing, Disney Comics, Gemstone Publishing, Boom! Studios, and IDW Publishing, and has undergone several hiatuses of varying length. Despite this, it has maintained the same numbering scheme throughout its six decade history, with only IDW adding a secondary numbering that started at #1. Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. The company had its origins as a subsidiary of Another Rainbow Publishing, a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran to publish the Carl Barks Library and produce limited edition lithographs of Carl Barks oil paintings of the Disney ducks. The name references Gladstone Gander. Disney Comics is currently a label of Disney Publishing Worldwide and was a comic book publishing company operated by The Walt Disney Company from 1990 to 1993. It was connected with W. D. Publications, Inc., which was a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company that published "Disney Comics" during that time span. W. D. Publications, Inc. created Disney Comics in 1990 so that The Walt Disney Company would not have to rely on outside publishers such as Gladstone Publishing. In the US, Disney only licensed Disney comic books to other publishers prior to 1990. Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring characters created by the Walt Disney Company, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories , sometimes abbreviated WDC&S , is an American anthology comic book series featuring characters from The Walt Disney Company's films and shorts, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale, Li'l Bad Wolf, , Bucky Bug, Grandma Duck, Brer Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, and others. With more than 700 issues, Walt Disney's Comics & Stories is the longest- running Disney comic book in the United States, making it the flagship title, and is one of the best-selling comic books of all time. Gemstone Publishing is an American company that publishes comic book price guides. The company was formed by Diamond Comic Distributors President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Geppi in 1994 when he bought Overstreet. Donald Duck , also known as Donald Duck and Friends , is an American Disney comic book series starring the character Donald Duck and published by various publishers from October 1942 to June 2017. As with many early Disney comics titles, Donald Duck began as individual issues of ' Four Color one-shots series. It was published as its own regular series in November 1952, starting with issue #26. Mickey Mouse Adventures was a Disney comic book first published by Disney Comics from 1990 to 1991. It featured Mickey Mouse as the main character along with other characters from the Mickey Mouse universe. Somewhat similar in style to the animated series DuckTales , it was based on the continuity of earlier print material starring Mickey, mainly Floyd Gottfredson's stories in the Mickey Mouse comic strip . Disney's Comics in 3-D was a two-part comic book series published by Disney Comics in 1992. Donald Duck, a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company, is today the star of dozens of comic-book and comic-strip stories published each month around the world. In many European countries, Donald is considered the lead character in Disney comics, more important and beloved than Mickey Mouse. Tamers of Nonhuman Threats is a continuing storyline in Walt Disney's Donald Duck comic books. Mickey Mouse is a Disney comic book series that has a long-running history, first appearing in 1943 as part of the Four Color one-shot series. It received its own numbering system with issue #28, and after many iterations with various publishers, ended with #330 from IDW Publishing. Andrew Cosby is an American comic book creator, film producer, and screenwriter. He is the co-creator of the hit SyFy TV series Eureka, and the co-founder of Boom! Studios. The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is a series of books collecting all of the comic book Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories written and drawn by Carl Barks, originally published between 1942 and Barks' retirement in June 1966. The series was launched in late 2011, and will comprise 6,000 pages over roughly 30 200- to 240-page volumes when it is finished. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse is a 2011–2018 series of books collecting the span of work by Floyd Gottfredson on the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip in twelve volumes, as well as Gottfredson's Sunday strips of the same title over two separate volumes. The strips are reproduced from Disney proof sheets and artwork from private collections. Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library is a series of books published by Fantagraphics Books, collecting all of the Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck comic book stories written and drawn by Don Rosa, originally published between 1987 and 2006. Following up Fantagraphics' Floyd Gottfredson Library and The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, this series was launched in 2014, and completed with the tenth and last volume in late 2018. Timeless Tales was a 2016-2018 hardcover book collection series, compiling the complete runs of several Disney comics titles from IDW Publishing, including Donald Duck , Mickey Mouse , Uncle Scrooge and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories . The series were released as compiled collector's editions of the single issues of the run of each comic book title, while also in conjunction with the same issues being released in trade paperback collections. The first series to launch was Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales - Vol 1 in May 2016. After a total of ten hardcover volumes the four lines of the Timeless Tales series were cancelled, ending with the Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Vault - Vol. 1 in mid 2018. Mickey Mouse is an American newspaper comic strip by the Walt Disney Company featuring Mickey Mouse, and is the first published example of Disney comics. The strip debuted on January 13, 1930, and ran until July 29, 1995. It was syndicated by King Features Syndicate. A Little Something Special. Uncle Scrooge "A Little Something Special" Written by. Illustrated by. Story code. Published. First publication. Scrooge is informed that next week, Duckburg is celebrating the 50th anniversary of when he first arrived there, and he wonders why anyone would care when he arrived. Donald Duck then tells him that the Golden Jubilee celebration includes a contest to find the best suggestion for the perfect gift for Scrooge for a million dollar prize. Scrooge is not at all keen on the idea, and refuses to admit to Donald or Huey, Dewey, and Louie what his desire would be. Meanwhile, the Beagle Boys visit Gyro Gearloose, claiming to have reformed and offering to pay him to build a giant suction device that they claim they will be using to harvest oranges; in addition to this, they buy a bike-saucer using money supplied in bags baring the initials "F.G." (which they say is a federal grant). Meanwhile, Magica De Spell uses money from the same supplier (she claims she got it from her Fairy Godmother) to purchase a projecto-gem, a transmutation wand, and some global-transport dust. She then uses the last of those to teleport to meet with the Beagle Boys and the money supplier, Flintheart Glomgold; they have all teamed up to take down Scrooge at the celebration and achieve their own goals. At the day of the Golden Jubilee, Scrooge reluctantly takes part, leaving Donald in charge of guarding the Money Bin. Shortly, Donald gets a visit from the Beagle Boys disguised as his family members and grows suspicious of them. Down at the festival, Huey notices that the host is actually Glomgold in disguise (by looking at his shadow) and tells it to Scrooge, who realizes that Magica is in league with him. He and the boys rush back to the Bin and collide with Magica interrupting her magic and breaking her transmutation, which wears off the Beagles Boys' disguises. One of the Beagles then steals the security grid key from Miss Quackfaster, allowing them to use the invention they had Gyro build to tear open the Money Bin and suck out all of Scrooge's money. Immediately following this, the villains all escape into the suction machine themselves, with Scrooge following behind. Down below, Scrooge finds himself in the remains of the original Duckburg, which has since gone underground when the city's new construction went above the original street level. He soon finds the villains celebrating their success in Coot's Emporium along with the mastermind behind the scheme, Blackheart Beagle. Scrooge breaks in and figures out that Blackheart is planning to transport the money out through the abandoned subway tunnels, Blackheart says he's going to make sure nobody bothers to follow them by blowing up Duckburg. The Beagles continue loading the cash onto their train and leave Magica to guard Scrooge. Scrooge finds old telephone lines he had installed 47 years ago, and starts kicking at them in morse code. Back up above at the festival site, Donald rallies the citizens into helping find and rescue Scrooge; when the nephews try to call Junior Woodchuck Headquarters, they pick up Scrooge's morse code message and translate it. Recognizing Coot's Emporium as her father's general store, Grandma Duck leads them there. Back underground, Magica gloats to Scrooge that she now has the Number One Dime, but Scrooge tells her her plan is flawed no that he no longer rich and offers a suggestion in return for his dime. Soon after, as Blackheart starts gloating to Scrooge himself, Donald and the nephews ambush him, allowing Scrooge to switch tracks so that the train plunges off a weak track down into the sewers. Blackheart flees, escaping on the bike saucer that his grandsons bought from Gyro. Leaving Donald and the boys behind to disarm Blackheart's explosives, Scrooge snags onto Blackheart's escape vehicle, making him to crash onto the statue of Cornelius Coot. Blackheart finally pushes the button on his detonator, but by this time, Donald has disarmed the bomb, rendering it useless. Blackheart then attempts to escape on his bike saucer, swearing that he'll return, but Gladstone Gander manages to help by asking the police to put a reward on Blackheart's head; a lucky wind then comes from Gladstone and throws Blackheart off course, getting him snagged in a banner and dropping him at the feet of the police. Elsewhere, the other villains climb out of the sewers. Magica then transports herself and the Beagle Boys to the Valley of the Limpopo, where they get to work robbing Glomgold's Money Bin, much to Glomgold's dismay. A few days later, just as things are returning to normal in Duckburg, Scrooge gets a surprise visit from Glittering Goldie, which Donald and the others had planned for before the contest was even announced. Goldie says she was brought here to give Scrooge "a little something. special" and then promptly gives him a kiss, which he initially doesn't seem to like. 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Sales Rank: #1709585 in Books Published on: 2008-02-26 Ingredients: Example Ingredients Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 10.10" h x .50" w x 6.50" l, .34 pounds Binding: Paperback 160 pages. Most helpful customer reviews. 21 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Highlighting Sixty Years of My Favorite Disney Character! By Monty Moonlight The Walt Disney Treasures collections have expanded into the world of Disney comics, and how great is that. "Walt Disney Treasures: Uncle Scrooge, A Little Something Special" is the second volume of these fine new paperback collections sure to thrill fans of both the Disney Treasures DVDs and Disney comics alike. Here, we have 8 collected tales of my favorite Disney character, Scrooge McDuck, the richest duck in the world, uncle to Donald Duck, and the true face of Disney's comic book legacy, the other world of Disney that many self-proclaimed Disney fanatics aren't even aware of. This 160 page collection opens with an editorial about Scrooge's origin and his portrayal in comics both in the States and abroad, with insight into the stories chosen for inclusion in this collection. Then comes the first story, 1954's "The Seven Cities of Cibola", a true classic tale from the Duck- Man himself, Carl Barks, creator of Scrooge and many of the characters in his world. In this tale, Scrooge, worried that life is becoming stale without a new enterprise to take under his wing, is thrilled to be introduced to arrowhead collecting by Donald and the boys (Huey, Dewey, and Louie). Even with 3 cubic acres of money, 50 cents per arrowhead found is too good a deal for Scrooge to pass up! While searching though, he and his nephews end up on the trail of bigger treasure, that of the legendary Seven Cities. Just their luck, however, that the Beagle Boys would happen to be listening in on their plans to go after it. The second story in the collection was written 10 years later by , and is presented in its complete version here for the first time in North America. "Getting that Healthy, Wealthy Feeling" once again depicts Scrooge in a lackluster mood, as he feels his wealth is coming too easy and misses the hard work of earning a dime. This leads him to put Donald in charge of his fortune in the hope that separation and hard work will revitalize him. But Scrooge's plan goes awry when his money-making "luck" seems to dissipate without being able to touch his lucky dime. As editor David Gerstein points out, the story presents both the best and worst aspects of the period. It seems that other writers taking on Scrooge at times would misunderstand the concept of the lucky dime, turning him into a superstitious character in their stories and the dime into a magic talisman. Story three is "Daisy Duck's Diary - Witness Persecution", an Italian story from 1966 by Romano Scarpa. A car crash, a hair growth formula, an expert legal analysis, and most significantly, the romantic pursuit of Scrooge by Brigitta MacBridge, make for a fun tale with fanciful art from overseas. These Italian Disney comics stories are a great treat for the American fans who get to meet completely new and wacky characters when we are presented with translated versions. Story number four is "The Money Ocean", a highly imaginative tale from Italy, 1974. This Marco Rota tale depicts Scrooge as having several money bins and in a fret over their security. Donald prompts Scrooge to create one massive bin, and the result is an ocean of money with plenty of new ways to play with it, thanks to inventor Gyro Gearloose's help. But their's something sinister about the waves. Our fifth story is the Danish "Pipe Dreams", published in 1980 and written by Brian Claxton and Tom Anderson. This two-part story is a charming if simple reunion between Scrooge and his old flame, Glittering Goldie. Story six is a DuckTales adventure from 1989, "Windfall on Mount G'Zoontight", written by John Lustig with art by . I remember when Van Horn first came on the Disney comics scene, and I must admit, I was not a big fan of his whimsical style. I've grown accustomed to it though, and this story is typical of the slightly oddball duck stories his illustrations are usually attached to (perhaps they were all Lustig's? I don't recall). In this one, Scrooge, Launchpad, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie find themselves on an expedition to find the treasure of a mysterious, mountain-dwelling being called the Williwallawa. The seventh, and one of the finest stories in this collection, is Don Rosa's 1997 "A Little Something Special". This special birthday story is not a mere tale of Scrooge's 50th anniversary in Duckburg, but also of a scheme by Scrooge's greatest nemeses banding together in something of a Legion of Doom fashion. Could've made for a great animated feature, like many stories from Rosa, and of course Barks, if only Disney had turned to their comics for the direct-to-video animation market instead of making sequels that could only look poor next to their feature film originals. Anyway, if there's one thing you should notice when reading a book like this, it's that the true masters of the duck comics are Carl Barks (naturally) and Don Rosa (who followed Barks' story style and take on Scrooge and his world more truly than anyone else). Finally, after a brief and touching editorial, comes the story to round out this look at Scrooge and his legacy, the Danish "Whatever Happened to Scrooge McDuck", from 2006, written by Lars Jensen. This well-chosen tale shows the ducks of the future looking back on how Magica De Spell finally got Scrooge's number one dime, how Scrooge disappeared soon after, and the events that followed. But don't worry, it has a happy ending and Scrooge's adventures manage to continue as usual. "Walt Disney Treasures: Uncle Scrooge, A Little Something Special" is both a treat for the longtime Scrooge fan and a great introduction for those new to Mr. McDuck and his legend. If you have any interest in exploring this character beyond the wonderful television series "DuckTales", this is a great place to start. Of course, "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" and its companion are also excellent to give you the full McDuck story, and there are many, many other comic books and collections out there, including a couple of collections specifically featuring the Carl Barks stories that inspired some of the best DuckTales episodes ever. And, of course, there are Scrooge's other animated moments besides the TV series DuckTales and its bigscreen movie. Scrooge can also be seen in Mickey's Once and Twice Upon a Christmas direct-to-video movies, Mickey's Christmas Carol, the still-not-on-DVD-in-North-America "Sport Goofy in Soccermania", and Scrooge's as yet unreleased-to-DVD screen debut, the fantastic short "Scrooge McDuck and Money". Though, even before that he could be seen as part of the animated opening to the original Mickey Mouse Club, and Scrooge also has appeared on Mickey's House of Mouse and in cameos on other Disney animated shows, like "Raw Toonage". So, do yourself a favor and get into the fantastically rich world of one of Disney's finest characters and a true Disney legend in the comic book medium, Scrooge McDuck, the richest duck in the world! 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Everyman's Rich Man By Brent R. Swanson If Mickey Mouse embodies the Horatio Alger myth in animated cartoons, then Uncle Scrooge McDuck fulfills something of the same role in comic books, with a slight twist: McDuck is what becomes of the Alger character when he makes his fortune. While Mickey became the trademark, and some would say the "lure," of the Disney empire, Uncle Scrooge became the delight of Disney comic book readers, his ever-growing and troublesome fortune taking readers to all corners of the world and mythology. It helped that McDuck was the creation of Carl Barks, whose stories had already become the favorites in the "Comics & Stories" and "Donald Duck" titles. "Treasures" series editor David Gerstein has wisely chosen a Barks classic, the "Seven Cities of Cibola" story, to lead-off this collection. Barks defined the character and set the standard for both the stories and the artwork. The stories that follow provide an interesting and entertaining cross-section of American and European takes on the McDuck mythos. Readers who have been away from comics for awhile may be surprised that so thoroughly American a character (despite the Dickensian shadings)has taken on such epic popularity abroad. "The Money Ocean" is a beautifully realized story from Italy's Marco Rota, known only to a handful of American fans until a decade or so back. Other worthy artists represented here include (with Carl Fallberg), William Van Horn (with John Lustig), and modern maverick Don Rosa, who wrote and drew "disguised" Uncle Scrooge adventures before breaking into Disney comics in the '80s. One story, "Getting That Healthy, Wealthy Feeling," has been restored to its original length, an extra-mile effort to be expected of editor Gerstein, who has also had a hand in the Disney Treasures DVD series. Having read through this volume, I'm still convinced that nobody has done a better job than Barks with his creation. But Scrooge McDuck has provided a wealth of inspiration for all the storytellers that have followed Barks, and the riches go to the readers. 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A more focused collection than the first Walt Disney Treasures By J. R. Boress Maybe this is an obvious, uh, observation, but this collection is much more focused than the first Walt Disney Treasures volume. That collection, while enjoyable, tried to cover so much ground that its contents would probably seem like a bizarre mishmash to anyone not already familiar with Disney comics. (I am speaking somewhat of myself here.) This volume, with its focus on Uncle Scrooge, allows a reader to get to know each character a little bit better because it doesn't jump around so much. The stories are all fun and the collection includes selections from a variety of creators rather than just Carl Barks or Don Rosa. I enjoyed reading these somewhat different takes on Scrooge. The capstone story of the book, "Whatever Happened to Scrooge McDuck" is a winner. The author found a way to wrap up the lifetime of Scrooge McDuck while still leaving the impression that the old duck's adventures will last forever. After reading two of these Walt Disney Treasures volumes, the feeling that I get is that these stories are meant to whet the appetite rather than to satisfly. Unlike the Treasures DVDs, neither of these volumes are comprehensive or definitive. So, know what you're getting if you purchase it: not a chronological, all encompassing collection of materials but rather a curious and enjoyable grouping of tales by some of the most prominent creators over the last 6 decades. See all 8 customer reviews. 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Comic Book / A Little Something Special. A Little Something Special is a 1997 Disney comic written and drawn by Don Rosa. It is the 50th anniversary of Scrooge McDuck's arrival in Duckburg, the city that he built from scratch with his investments. While a prize is awarded for whoever can give Scrooge his most desired present, a team-up between the primary members of Scrooge's Rogues Gallery threatens to disrupt the celebrations. A Little Something Special provides examples of: Acting Unnatural: One of the Beagle Boy disguised as one of Donald's nephews (thanks to a spell by Magica) attempts to make Donald buy his disguise by talking "how cute lil' ducks talk". Uncle Scrooge: A Little Something Special by David Gerstein. From and To can't be the same language. That page is already in . Something went wrong. Check the webpage URL and try again. Sorry, that page did not respond in a timely manner. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. 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