Jumpin’ jacksnipes! The first six issues of IDW’s epic Uncle Scrooge come together in a giant collectors’ hardback edition—with all the excitement all the variant covers & even a Beagle-busting extra or two! Enjoy international tightwad tales by fan favorites Romano Scarpa Mau & Bas Heymans Giorgio Cavazzano Freddy Milton Marco Rota & more brought into canon “ Duck English” by Jonathan Gray & other prized Carl Barks pundits What Scrooge Mc Duck fan could resist a bargain like this? ...

The adventures of Uncle Scrooge return in these kid-friendly-sized collections

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Scrooge Donald & the nephews are off on more adventures in these tales from around the world Get set for a wild Mc Duck tale as only Romano Scarpa can tell it! When Brigitta Mac Bridge & Huey Dewey & Louie find a centuries-old insect with a built-in Columbus-era treasure map how can Scrooge Mc Duck not try to cash in? Then it&s Scrooge & John D Rockerduck vs the Beagle Boys in " The Villainous Vase Case!" Collects issues 26-28 About the Author The classic "maestro" Romano Scarpa (1927-2005) has historically been the most popular Italian talent with American Disney comics readers As early as his youth in Venice Scarpa had a passion for Disney comics & cartoons with a particular fondness for the work of Floyd Gottfredson plotter & artist of the classic Mickey Mouse newspaper strip In 1955 Gottfredson was forced to transform that strip--hitherto a groundbreaking adventure serial--into a gag-a-day series In 1956 Italian editors asked Scarpa to pick up the adventure serials where Gottfredson left off & continue the narrative for Disney&s European readers Scarpa crafted legendary Italian Mickey epics like " Kali&s Nail" " The Chirikawa Necklace" & " The Delta Dimension" all of which were later reprinted in the USA to great acclaim Apart from his Mickey work Scarpa created two beloved thorns for Uncle Scrooge&s side brassy business-gal Brigitta Mac Bridge & wanna-be tycoon Jubal Pomp! After sustaining a wildly prolific career Scarpa retired in Spain leaving behind a grand legacy for younger Disney writers & artists such as Giorgio Cavazzano ...

Bad deals come back to haunt Scrooge Mc Duck! When our miserly mallard isn’t buying screwy outer space real estate he’s betting fellow gold miners that he’ll never get married—then falling for a spendthrift spouse! Add a winter wager with Santa’s grouchy grandpa & you’ve hit the tightwad trifecta for thrills! Collects issues No 10–12 ...

Scrooge Donald & the nephews are off on more adventures in these tales from around the world OK Quack may look like a normal Duckburgian to Scrooge Mc Duck—but he&s really a spaceman whose shrunken ship is lost in Scrooge&s Money Bin! Then in " Crisis at Sorcery Summit" Magica De Spell sics her fellow magic-makers on Scrooge & in " The Great Cackle Caper" a golden egg has turned up at the Mc Duck Chicken Farm & the Beagle Boys are ruling the roost! Collects issues 29-31 of IDW&s Uncle Scrooge comic series About the Author Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italian artist that started his career at the age of 14 inking for Romano Scarpa producing stories for Disney with the characters Micke Mouse Donald Duck Scrooge Mc Duck & others He is known for combining the traditional appearance of Disney characters with realistic illustration of technological gadgets & machinery ...

Published in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America Describing the many trials & eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering good-hearted slave Uncle Tom it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty Uncle Tom's Cabin has remained controversial to this day seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronising stereotype of African-Americans yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery & remains one of the most important American novels ever written ...

Editedand with an Introduction & Notes by Dr Keith Carabine University of Kent at Canterbury Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular influential & controversial book written by an American Stowe's rich panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in & responsible for the sin of slavery & resoundingly concludes that only repentance justice & mercy' will prevent the onset of the wrath of Almighty God!' The novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that President Lincoln half-jokingly greeted Stowe asthe little lady' who started the great Civil War As Keith Carabine argues in his lively & provocative Introduction the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing & contradictory responses among Northern & Southern readers moderate & radical abolitionist groups blacks & women with regard to issues of form genre politics religion race & gender that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex & divide modern readers & critical constituencies ...

Murder Love Corruption DI Angus Mc Guire & the team are back & have their work cut out Murdered prostitutes & a turf war between local gangsters takes the investigation into Bradford's Immigrant communities where tensions run high To make matters worse Mc Guire is juggling an illicit relationship with his boss's daughter & has fraught family relations Who is The Old Man? What is the link between three dead prostitutes & a long forgotten murder? Will Mc Guire & his team get the answers they want or is the uncomfortable truth much closer to home? ...

As heard on Radcliffe & Maconie Danny Baker & Simon Mayo Fascinating from start to finish' Simon Mayo Radio 2 The age of the rock star like the age of the cowboy has passed Like the cowboy the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations What did we see in them? Swagger Recklessness Sexual charisma Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief A certain way of carrying themselves Good hair Interesting shoes Talent we wished we had What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us To live out their songs To stay young forever No wonder many didn't stay the course In Uncommon People David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments & turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995 taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths & create a hundred more As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies they also shaped us our real lives & our fantasies Uncommon People isn't just their story It's ours as well ...

The age of the rock star like the age of the cowboy has passed Like the cowboy the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations What did we see in them? Swagger Recklessness Sexual charisma Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief A certain way of carrying themselves Good hair Interesting shoes Talent we wished we had What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us To live out their songs To stay young forever No wonder many didn't stay the course In Uncommon People David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments & turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995 taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths & create a hundred more As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies they also shaped us our real lives & our fantasies Uncommon People isn't just their story It's ours as well ...