Scrooge made his first appearance in the Donald Duck story " Christmas on Bear Mountain " as a curmudgeonly man who decides to test Donald and his nephews to see if they are worthy of inheriting his wealth.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

Both Scrooge and Matilda thought that was because of Fergus ' disapproval of Scrooge's greedy ways but after finding a letter on the way for the treasure ( hence the other title " A Letter from Home ") they learn Fergus's real motive was the fact he thought Scrooge would feel better building his own fortune instead of simply inheriting one.

Glomgold is one of Scrooge's main rivals along with the Beagle Boys, Magica De Spell, and John D. Rockerduck, and also holds the title of being The Second Richest Duck in the World where Scrooge is the richest.

In this story, Scrooge, who holds the title of the Richest Duck in the World, learns that a businessman from South Africa has also claimed this title.

Since those titles belong to Scrooge and Flintheart respectively, it can be inferred that he owns the title of " The Third Richest Duck in the World ", but this has not been explicitly stated in any major story.

After two further one-shot appearances Scrooge was granted his own title starting with issue no. 4 ( counting the try-out issues as one through three ).

Also in 1951, he gave his most celebrated performance: playing the title role of Scrooge in a film adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Scrooge's nemesis in the show is Flintheart Glomgold, who always tries to devise plans to unseat Scrooge McDuck from his " Richest Duck in the World " title.

Despite the show's title, Brown expanded its scope beyond mysteries to include horror, science fiction, historical drama, westerns and comedy, along with seasonal dramas at Christmas: A Christmas Carol, starring host Marshall as Scrooge, aired every Christmas Eve except 1974 and 1982.

In the fall of 2005, Chamberlain appeared in the title role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Broadway National Tour of Scrooge: The Musical.

Productions included The Citadel ( with Geraldine Fitzgerald ), A Christmas Carol ( broadcast once with Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge, and once with Orson Welles himself in the role ), a non-musical version of Show Boat ( with Margaret Sullavan as Magnolia, Orson Welles as Cap ' n Andy, Helen Morgan as Julie, and author Edna Ferber herself as Parthy ), A Farewell to Arms ( with Katharine Hepburn ), Mutiny on the Bounty, Arrowsmith ( with Helen Hayes ), Les Misérables ( with Walter Huston ), Our Town, Ah, Wilderness, Dodsworth, Lost Horizon ( with Ronald Colman ), Dinner at Eight ( with Hedda Hopper and Lucille Ball ), Liliom ( with Orson Welles in the title role and Helen Hayes as Julie ), and Huckleberry Finn ( with Jackie Cooper ).

Launched with a title for Free Comic Book Day 2003, the line started soon after with Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge, both described by Clark as " monthly 64-page prestige-format books at $ 6. 95, which is the same price they were when last produced, in 1998.

The film was released in Great Britain under its original title, Scrooge.

" In the 1951 film Scrooge, based on Dickens's story and starring Alastair Sim in the title role, the fiddler is shown playing the tune at an energetic tempo during the party scene.

Examples of such stories are Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies, when she travels in time to steal the dime in the very same day Scrooge earns it and gives it back after realizing that by preventing Scrooge from owning the dime, she would turn it into a coin that never belonged to him, or A Little Something Special, when she teams up with Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys in a plan made by Blackheart Beagle.

In one Carl Barks story, The 24 Karat Moon, Scrooge McDuck builds a rocket ship, travels to the asteroid belt and finds an asteroid made of solid gold:

In this game, Scrooge McDuck travels around the world collecting treasures to become the world's richest duck.

Scrooge travels to Niagara Falls, a pirate ship in the Bermuda Triangle, Mu, Egypt and Scotland.

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 ).

The solitary South African re-appeared to challenge Scrooge to a rematch in The Money Champ, first published in September 1959.

The story starts with Scrooge planning to participate in an auction for an old South African gold mine.

While Scrooge is piloting his private plane over South Africa, with Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie as passengers, Flintheart appears piloting his own private plane.

To avoid connections to South African issues that were then a cause of worldwide attention and concern ( see apartheid ) his origin was changed from South African to Scottish to match that of Scrooge, which led Glomgold to have Scotland-style names in other countries ( see below ).

This is due to Glomgold's heritage which puts him in as a citizen of South Africa with British blood compared to Scrooge who embraced America despite his pure Scottish blood.

In " Race to the South Seas " ( March of Comics # 41, 1949 ), a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, a variant of Shyster appeared as Scrooge McDuck's lawyer, but his appearance differed from that in the Mickey Mouse strip and he was not depicted as a villain in that story.

While the comics originally depicted Glomgold as a native of South Africa, his origin was changed to Scottish descent just like Scrooge.

At first Rumpus had an antagonistic relationship with Donald, his nephews and Scrooge but they began to get along better in later stories.

But at night while Scrooge was sleeping, Flintheart stole his ox-cart along with all his equipment and supplies and left him alone in the wilderness.

Uncle Scrooge Adventures fell victim to The Gladstone Implosion in 1997-98 along with most of the other titles.

Scrooge McDuck returns to Klondike where he has made his fortune, bringing Donald and the three nephews along, to find back gold he has left there.

Don Rosa has stated that this is his favorite story, and has expanded greatly upon it with The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 8 and its sequels, 8B and 8C, along with other stories set in the time period.

Tralla La begins with Uncle Scrooge having a hard day at his office, and it doesn't get better when he attempts to walk along the street to relax.

When collectors Rat and Mole, along with beggars on the streets, kindly ask for a simple donation, Scrooge responds to Rat and Mole that if he does, the poor will no longer be poor and thus they ( the collectors ) will be out of work, " and you ask me to do that, not on Christmas Eve.

Steele is also portrayed, along with Jack London, in Don Rosa's Walt Disney comic book Hearts of the Yukon, episode 8C from The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Scrooge McDuck and Money is a short animated cartoon made by Walt Disney Studios in 1967 along with The Jungle Book.

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.

In Stave V of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens ( 1843 ), Scrooge awakes on Christmas morning "... making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings.

* Brigitta MacBridge, Scrooge McDuck's self-appointed girlfriend with whom she shares a love / hate relationship ;

Some sources state Disney created the MacDuck Final version with Scrooge McDuck in mind.

After the show's money is stolen by the Dalton Brothers, Angus rides out with Bill, Scrooge, P. T.

Scrooge won, only to learn that 85 years of disuse made the mansion so fragile that he accidentally destroyed it with a sneeze.

Gideon also has an antagonistic relationship with his brother Scrooge.

Gideon's existence is inconsistent with Carl Barks's view of Scrooge as presented in " The Old Castle's Secret ".

Scrooge would spend some of his leisure time with his younger sisters, and occasionally repaired their dolls.

A fight with Scrooge in 1930 ended all relationships between Scrooge and his family and she retired.

In 1902 Scrooge returned to Scotland and took both of his sisters with him to go to America.

In 1930, a conflict with Scrooge ended all relationships between him and his family, and his sisters are believed to have left Duckburg.

His exact relationship with the other characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe is unknown.

That year, he was ranked number 7 with an estimated net worth of $ 8. 6 billion whereas Scrooge McDuck was first with $ 44 billion.

It frequently appeared on LP with a companion piece, Decca's 1941 adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge.

A third example showing a different version of metonymy is the fictional character Scrooge McDuck's " money bin " or indeed Scrooge himself, often used in Disney works and parody works as metonymous with wealth-most currency in the modern era is now stored electronically, but the money bin is still drawn in comics and persists as a pop culture metonym for any financial holding of great value.

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.

His outrageous productivity is presented as a factor in the quality of his inventions ; because he always comes up with new ideas, the fact that his inventions often lack an important feature, will often cause trouble for Scrooge or Donald who have bought the invention.

Gyro made his first animated appearance on the Sport Goofy Soccermania television special with only one line of dialogue, voiced by Will Ryan: " Scrooge parting with a million dollars?