* Disney's Scrooge McDuck is thought to have been inspired by Carnegie.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

According to Barks, this period of his life would later influence his best known fictional characters: Walt Disney's Donald Duck and his own Scrooge McDuck.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.

In 1995 he won the Eisner Award for " Best Serialized Story " for his 12-chapter work " The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck ".

Since early childhood Don Rosa had been fascinated by Carl Barks ' stories about Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck.

He immediately called the editor, Byron Erickson, and told him that he was the only American who was born to write and draw one Scrooge McDuck adventure.

In 1991 he started creating The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, a 12 chapter story about his favorite character.

All of these chapters were compiled as The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion.

As an artist he could not live under the conditions Egmont was offering him, but he did not want to give up making Scrooge McDuck comics either.

* The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

* The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion

In the comics, however, as developed by Al Taliaferro and Carl Barks, the young ducks are more usually portrayed as well-behaved, preferring to assist their uncle Donald Duck and great-uncle Scrooge McDuck in the adventure at hand.

* An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck, Mirage, 1974

Roosevelt was portrayed in several episodes of the comic book story The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: the young Scrooge McDuck first meets Roosevelt in his Badlands years, later in a fictional siege of Fort Duckburg and finally in Panama during the construction of the Panama Canal.

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Collected Edition cover.

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a comic book story by Don Rosa about Scrooge McDuck.

These chapters were later reprinted in a separate book published by Gemstone, titled The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion.

He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book ( issues 6 through 25 ).

His favorite comic books growing up were Uncle Scrooge by Western Publishing and Little Lulu comics from Dell Comics ( Western Publishing ), and his sister's collection of MAD comics and magazines.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

The comic also provides information on the backgrounds and origins of many characters related to Scrooge.

Douglas is a cousin of Scrooge who has appeared in several Danish Disney comic stories.

Gideon McDuck ( Gedeone de ' Paperoni in original Italian ) is presented as Scrooge McDuck's younger brother, and mainly appears in Italian comic stories ; in those stories, Gideon is the editor of the newspaper " The Cricket ", the most credible newspaper in Duckburg.

He is part of the Scrooge McDuck universe, appearing in comic book stories as a friend of Donald Duck, Scrooge and anyone who is associated with them.

Poe is not to be confused with Ratface, Magica's pet raven, who appears in the Uncle Scrooge comic books.

Flintheart Glomgold is a fictional character in Disney comic books-a Scottish-South African white duck usually portrayed as a ruthless villain, a corrupt business tycoon, and an antagonist to Scrooge McDuck.

His appearance is similar to that of Scrooge, and he is sometimes characterized as being of Scottish descent as well ( speaking with a Scottish burr in most animated features, though he is generally accepted as being from South Africa in the continuity of the comic books ).

It can be assumed that he actually is of Scottish descent as it was stated that both he and Scrooge are distantly related to Bogey McDivot in John Lustig and Vicar's comic book story " Family of Fore.

Occasionally, Hook appears in the Scrooge McDuck universe of comic books as the nemesis of Moby Duck, a whaler cousin of Donald Duck.

Mackenzie appears as a character in the fictional Scrooge McDuck comic book, The Buckaroo of the Badlands ( 1992 ), set in 1882, in which the poor, newly-hired Scrooge, helped by Theodore Roosevelt, rescues a championship bull belonging to Mackenzie.

His comic book work was mostly on Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck stories.

Uncle Scrooge Adventures is a comic book published by Gladstone Publishing under license from the Walt Disney Company.

The Walt Disney Company chose not to publish Uncle Scrooge Adventures when they were publishing their own comic books.

Uncle Scrooge ( stylized as Uncle $ crooge ) is a comic book with the stingy Scrooge McDuck " the richest duck in the world " as the main character.

Horsing Around with History is a 32-page comic book story starring Scrooge McDuck, written by Carl Barks and William Van Horn.

The Scrooge McDuck comic book Son of the Sun, written by Don Rosa, features Manco Cápac as the original owner of various lost treasures.

Two of the post-redemption scenes from the book are rewritten and combined, so that Scrooge visits the Cratchits instead of Fred, and threatens Bob ( as a self-mocking prelude to raising his salary ) at home rather than waiting to do so at work the following day.

The book says that Scrooge lives in London, England.

Although afraid at the time of its creation of cramming too many historical details into the story, Rosa himself mentions in Uncle Scrooge # 383 ( November, 2008 ) that in fan mail he receives to this day, Guardians of the Lost Library to his own surprise is often referred to as "' the best Rosa story ' or ' the best Duck story ' or even ' the best comic book story ' (?!!

The nephews stitch the remaining puzzle together: The British didn't find the library when they reoccupied Drakeborough, but Cornelius Coot, the founder of the City of Duckburg, found it during the late 18th century, and left the book to his son Clinton Coot, the founder of the Junior Woodchucks, who in turn used it as a framework for the very first edition of the Junior Woodchuck's Guidebook, the only one book in the world Scrooge can't buy.

A Christmas for Shacktown is a Donald Duck / Uncle Scrooge story written and drawn by Carl Barks and first published in the comic book Donald Duck, # 367 in January, 1952.