HEADS UP! Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:18 pm

I am seeing this solicited from Boom! in the August Previews, and for folks who have never checked this out, I cannot recommend in highly enough. The definitive Scrooge story (and this from someone who has read all the Barks stuff.....but Don Rosa is a worthy successor to "the Good Duck Artist").....

There's a big ad for this on p. 225 of the August Previews, it's a $24.99 HC, but DCBS has it on special discount for only $13.74!!!!

I will point out that they are advertising this as "For the First time in Hardcover". This is not true. I'm looking at a HC of this on my shelf right now. This may be the first mass-market HC, though, as the one I have is a signed & #'d edition of 1000.

In any event, if you have ever wondered why people talk about Uncle Scrooge as a "really cool" character, then you should get this book. For $13.74, you can't go wrong......

BadDeacon · Post by **BadDeacon** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:41 am

I'm on this one. I've been wanting to pick this up for a while now, and a hardcover book, at the DCBS price, is too good to pass up.

JC · Post by JC » Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:11 pm

I pre-ordered volumes 1&2 from Amazon.ca based on your recommendation Bob

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:50 pm

JC wrote:I pre-ordered volumes 1&2 from Amazon.ca based on your recommendation Bob

You know, your statement just made me notice that Boom is doing this as a Volume 1 & Volume 2.

When I got the Limited HC years ago from Gemstone it was all in a single volume, so I was just assuming it was a single HC.

dbm · Post by **dbm** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:14 am

I hadn't noticed that either. Might just stick with my SC.

Booster Gold · Post by **Booster Gold** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:04 am

This is a must buy for me. Always loved the character and am glad to see they're putting this together at an affordable price!

Master of the Mystic Arts · Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:27 pm

I'm thinking about buying this for myself and my nephew, but I'm annoyed that they're splitting it up into two volumes. Maybe this is a good time for me to place my first DCBS order to get the big discount.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:16 pm

Master of the Mystic Arts wrote:I'm thinking about buying this for myself and my nephew, but I'm annoyed that they're splitting it up into two volumes. Maybe this is a good time for me to place my first DCBS order to get the big discount.

Yeah.....it would have been nice to have it all in a single volume, but look at it this way, in one volume it would have been $50 (I paid more than that for the one I got many moons ago), so getting it in two $25 packages is not so bad, less individual "sticker shock"

zack kruse · Post by **zack kruse** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:22 pm

I actually don't have this in any form. So I'm excited to get this and read it

Master of the Mystic Arts · Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:45 am

Yeah, keeping the price down is a good thing, especially since I'm probably going to be buying several copies as gifts.