IT ALL STARTED ON THE DAY OF
My [OTH BIRTHOAY BACK HOME IN
GLASGOW! MY FATHER GAVE ME
A SHOESHINE KIT THAT HE'O
MADE HIMSELF!
WHERE DID I GET THE SYMBOL OF my
ENTIRE FORTUNE? I EARNED IT, OF
COURSE! SORRY TO DISAPPOINT YOU, BOYS,
BUT THAT'S A PRETTY BULL STORY!
POPPA WORKED HARD ALL HIS LIFE,
BUT WE WERE PQG@ AS CHURCH MICE!
T WANTED TO HELP HIM SUPPORT MA
ANO My TWO LITTLE SISTERS!
I REMEMBER THAT DAY LIKE
YESTERDAY! MY FIRST SHOESHINE
CUSTOMER WAS A D/TCHOIGGER! TT
TOOK ME HALE AN HOUR TO CHIP THE
ORIED MUD OFF HIS BGOTS!
ey
ZON THE OTHER HAND, COULD
TELL THEM WHAT WOULD MAKE
THAT OME REALLY SPECIAL! IF IT
BELONGED TO MAGICA DE SPELL,
a
YES “NCA SCROOGE”
~_ TELL THEM MORE:ONLY Z KNOW HOW TO MELT
THAT COIN IN_THE SULFUROUS
FIRES OF MT.
IT INTO A MAGIC AMULET!
IVE TRIED FOR YEARS TO STEAL THAT DIME]
BUT SCROOGE IS TOO OLD AND CRAFTY!
#SIGH!< TF ONLY I COULD CHALLENGE
~_HIM SEFAREHE GOT SO SLY!)
> “y
TIME TRAVEL \S A TOUGH SPELL)
BUT I BOUGHT SOMETHING AT A’
NECROMANCERS' RUMMAGE SALE
THAT WILL DO THE JOB!
7 TLL NEVER COME UP WITH A BETTER USE S
FOR IT! ALL INEED ARE SOME ITEMS TO
TELL THE CANDLE WHERE, WHO, AND WHE/
IWISH TO VisIT!
THAT AMULET WOULD GRANT ME THE
POWER OF THE AUDAS TOUCH... BUT
QNLY IFAT CONTAINS THE FIRST COIN |
OWNED BY THE WORLD'S RICHEST, (f
HERE ITIS.....A 7/ME CANDLE! THE
BANKRUPT WARLOCK WHO SOLO IT TO me
SAID IT HAS THE POWER TO SEND ME TO
ANY TIME IN THE PAST FOR ONE WOU?
FOR THE WAU? THAT THIS
CANOLE BURNS, ILL BE LIVING
ON SCROGGE MCDUCK'S
107TH BIRTHORY!300G!s WHAT A STENCH!
MY SORCERY SHOP IS SPINNING
+. . THE WALLS ARE GETTING
BLuRRY .-.
HMMM... IM ATTRACTING
ATTENTION! TO BETTER
DISGUISE MYSELF!
THIS WATCH WILL TELL ME WHEN My
HOUR RUNS OUT! NOW ALL T HAVE TO
IF ONLY I COULD HAVE AFFORDED
WME L1GHTBULE THAT
THE
WAR
VIOLA! NOW I GAN PASS AS A
NATIVE UNTIL My MISSION OF
LARCENY IS COMPLETED!
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CK WAS SELLING! 300F!e 4”2AHEM!s WHUT AH MEAN, U'IL LADY,
AMER
YESM! AH MADE YOU BOASTFUL HICK! T
THET AHA ONE ATHEM AUCH, KNOW A
Is.
GANS, PURT’ NEAR A CERTAIN OUCK
YUH HEAR SO (MUCH ABOUT! MILLION BUCKS IN _\ WHO MAKES YA/LOOK
THE CALIFORNY GOLD LIKE A BUMS
RUSH BACK IN ‘49!ONE OF THESE COINS 1S BQ/ND
TO BE THAT NUMBER-ONE DIME!
NO... THAT'S A QUARTER ... THAT'S
A DOLLAR... A NICKEL... A CABLE
2. A SPAT BUTTON
T.. IVE HAD THIS COIN IN
My HANDS ENOUGH TIMES
TO RECOGNIZE THAT MINT
MARK... THAT DATE ...
IT NICK...
WAIT, LITTLE
GIRL! TLL BUY
L THAT COIN!
HM... AHD BETTER CHANGE MAH
THAT'S A DIMEN!
LEMMEE SEE THAT,
YOU NO-NECK BRAT!
THANK YE, MATILOA! WHAT.
YE GOT HERE... AN AMERICAN
TEN-CENT PIECE, EY?SCROGEE! HOW OID YA/ GET ny CALM YOURSELF, MADAM! MAH NAME'S]
HERE? NEVER MIND! ILL FIGHT FERGUS NCDUCK! TH ONLY SCROOGE:
YOU THROUGH ALL THE AGES! AH KNOW IS ME SON, BUT THE WEE LAO’S|
x ONLY 10 YEARS OLD THIS VURRY DAY!
=7 BOILING BAT WINGS!
SCROOGE'S FATHER!
"AN AMERICAN COIN LIKE THIS .. . IT
MIGHT BE JUST THE INSPIRATION
SCROOGEY NEEDS TAKE SOMETHIN’
‘O' HIMSELF! AYE... JUST THE THING!
‘SORRY, MADAM! TIS
A GOO PRICE, BUT
MAH LAOS FUTURETHAT'S SCROOGE'S FATHER, i HOWDY, TOOTS! AH ONE
ALL RIGHT! GUESS TO HAVE BEEN ATHEM RICH AMURICANS
DISAPPOINTED HE'D GIVEN Y HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT! J 1
> UP THIS COIN SO EASILY? HOWZABOUT WE... e
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ow th U een, Fa
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7
Perth et 8 bod
THAT LASSIE SHOULD HAVE
IOWN BETTER THAN TO FOOL
ITH A MEMBER OF THE CLAN’
TACDUCK,HERE COMES SCROOGE...I MEAN, \_
HIS FATHER? THIS IS LIKE ALL THE
TIMES IN THE PAST THAT SCROOGE
HIMSELF HAS CHASED ME IN THE
IT'S THET WOMAN AGIN! SHE'S
TOO MUCH! THE GALS BACK Home \ |
COULD RASSLE. S7ES@S TO THE
GROUND, BUT THEY WERE
DEMURE RBOUT IT!
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BACK OFF, BUSTER!
YOU WOULON'T G7
TO LAY YOUR HANDS,
ONAMADAM, PENCE MAKE SHILLINGS AND
SHILLINGS MAKE POUNDS! Y" OBVIOUSLY
KNOW ANY McOUCKS OR ¥
FLAMING FUNGUS! IT'S ONLY.
TEN LOUSY CENTS! WHATS
THE BIG OEAL?
NO, WE MUST GET SOMEONE T PAY THIS.
COIN T’ SCROOGEY FOR CLEANING HIS
BOOTS! THEY MUST BE POWERFUL
BOOTS, TOO, SO THE LAD WILL REALLY
EARVHIS PAY!
AH, [HAVE IT! ME THIS 1S SCARY! HERE I HAVE THE
OLO PAL, BURT, THE CHANCE TO GET THAT DIME EVEN
CITCHOISGER! fs ‘SCROOGE, BUT ICANT SEEM
TO CHANGE HISTORY! I CAN ONLY
HELEN HAPPEN!
THAT'S WHY I WISH TO REWARD
YOU... AND SCROOGEY!| REWARD ) SEE HERE... A SHILLING IS WORTH
ME, MUM?Y/MORE THAN A DIME, AND TLL TRADE’
How? YOU TWO SHILLINGS FOR THAT.
COIN... ONE FOR SCROOGE AND.
HERE Ye BE, MUM! TLL BE THE... THE DIME 1S ANE?.
OFF TO FIND SCROOGEY THEARO HIM SAy IT! THOSE WERE
NOW, BUT THE DIME IS OS! “THE Is yours?
ME!
OOGE McDUCK'S LEGENDARY numBeR-
IME IS MINE? LEGALLY? NOBODY
TAKE IT AWAYIZZ'S MUNE!!?
=#F_NO!NO! MY DIME!
5/ THAT GRATE! THIS
INT BE HAPPENING:THAT WAS CLOSE, BUT HERE'S:
YOUR COIN, MA’AM! YOU SHOULD BE
MORE CAREFUL WITH YOUR MONEY!
EVEN ONE COIN |S AVALUABLEY
THING IN THIS LIFE! THOPE TO
HEE! OF COURSE, YOU 00! HEE HEE HEE!
YOU JUST RETURNED THIS O/METO ME!
SCROOGE McOUCK GAVE JIE HIS NUMBER
ONE DIME! HIMSELF! TO ME! HEE HEE HEE!
WHY, YESm! OO
1ANOW
THIS |S PRICELESS! NOTHING CAN
GO WRONG FOR ME NOW! IN JUST A
HALF-HOUR, TLL BE WHISKED BACK;
TO THE FUTURE, OIME AND ALL!WHAT BETTER WAY TO SPEND TIME >
THAN TO SIT HERE AND WATCH SCROOGE)
WORK HIS TAIL FEATHERS OFF!
THERE! 2GASP!
TMFINISHED!
pops WONDER WHAT THE
OOPE'S WAITING FOR?,
MY TIME IS ALMOST UP!TLL JusT BE, Yoo]
yo ABLE TO SEE THE OITCHOIGGER ay Sam
NCE f\(SCROOGE, AND THENTLL BE GONE! _gR
wo
M/ 5
Ls &
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als
Fay SAY, LOOK AT THAT! PEACHY IS HAVING ‘el
LY “ASALE AND Mewinaxaczey TWO J
EA, “SHILLINGS TO ME NAME! WHAT LUCK! £4
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4 AHL PAY SCROOGE LATER! GOOD THING
AH TRADED OFF THAT AMERICAN COIN...
Y PEACHY WOULDN'T TAKE THAT!
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eeeHA! THE DITCHOIGGER S77-FED. WHAT HAVE I DOME?! T |
SCR ! MEANS THE INTERCEPTED SCROOGE'S FIRST
LITTLE JERK WILL Hat DIME BEFORE HE OWNED IT! BUT
LATER TO EARN HIS FURST COIN! ER MY MAGIC «
WUE A) “Ze
...IT £5 THE FIRST COIN HE EVER
OWNED! WHICH MEANS THAT IF THI
DIME WILL EVER BE OF ANY
USETO ME...
Itchy
MY FAY?! THE FIRST COIN
EARNED FROMMY
OWN LABOR!THIS SHOULD BE A LESSON! LIFE IS
FILLED WITH TOUGH JOBS, AND THERE'LL
ALWAYS BE SHAR PIES TO CHEAT ME!
WATT? THIS IS AN AMERICAN COIN!
aC AGL
(ME! THAT SHARPIE TRICKED ME!
ANO AFTER THAT 7A/GH JOB, TOO!
J WELL, TLL BE TOUGHER
THAN THE TOUGHIES, AND.
SHARPER THAN THE SHARPIES
DOLLARS AND:
SIKTEEN CENTS!"
I JUST WISH THAT 1COULD.
THANK THE PEt