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Original Comic Arts & Illustrations

Friday 19 May 2023 e Saturday 20 May 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Don Rosa

The Billionaire of Dismal Downs, 1993

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€ 4.800

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pencil and ink on thin cardboard
34 x 49,5 cm
Original comic art made by Rosa for "The Billionaire of Dismal Downs", page 8 of the ninth chapter of the celebrated saga The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck published for the first time in Denmark in 1993 and subsequently in Italy with the title "Il miliardario di Colle Fosco" in Uncle Scrooge n. 78 in 1996. In 1902 Scrooge McDuck, after a four-year period in Canada, returns to his native Scotland in the village of MacDuich, the idea is to stay to take care of his business, it is therefore necessary to be seen around. Thus he meets the young Piva, and Scrooge appoints him to guide him in the Highland Games: an annual festival of local sports and ancient traditions. Scrooge tries his hand at the various disciplines but the bad test provided will convince him to return to America. On two panels. Signed.