By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 12/29/2015
It's December 29th and most of you are on holiday or traveling around or sitting at your desk counting the minutes until you can leave. I'm in the middle group—traveling— and for those of you in the latter group, today were just posting some fine reading. The provenance of some of these is, um, hazy, but no judgements. Just entertainment!
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 10/31/2015
Background here.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 5/7/2012
Matt Powers at The Billfold has used Barksian economics to calculatejust how much money you would need in order to be able to dive into your money bin like a porpoise:
Looking at some of the best pictorial evidence of the McDuck vault, it is evident that this large pile of gold on the left appears to be five feet tall. This is deduced under the assumption that the average duck 14 inches tall, which is then used comparatively to quantify the pile (5 ft = 4.3 duck heights). With a little calculus and graph-work, the rough integral can pinpointed to y=-x2-1x+5. This equation puts every “x” and every “y” value at exactly one inch, as seen below.
This is a fine place to point out that the second effort in Fantagraphics’ Carl Barks Library will soon be out and it contains the seminal “Only a Poor Old Man” story in which the money-bin diving is introduced.
[via Andrew Sullivan]
By: John,
on 12/27/2011
Greeting card sent to famed Donald Duck illustrator Carl Barks by Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka :: year unknown :: via comicartfans.com
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 7/23/2009
An interesting comparison between the Stanley Universe and that of Carl Barks. And at drawn and quarterly a terrific pdf of Melvin the Monster.
By: Darth Corder,
on 2/26/2009
Well all it appears the sacred shelf of "Boys Reading" has been assaulted. As a Librarian and a Sith Lord, I must seek out and provide justice to the vile villain who would perform such an act. An act so incredibly evvvviiilll not even a Sith would perpetrate it (unless it was a female Sith, hummm.......). First I, the great Darth Bill, must present my short list of suspects who just so happen to be ImaginOn employees (convenient isn't it) and are very shady characters indeed.
Suspect Number One - The Evil Ellen
She looks innocent, but behind that smile; pure EVIL!!!!!!!!!
She was my number 1 suspect from the start. As I trailed her she was very careful to not show her face. Look:
Why so shy Ellen???????
Surely you are not guilty of anything??????
My next suspect may surprise you all, but evil has many faces. Some that we even come to trust.
Suspect Number Two - The Carlman!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Dunt, don, dunnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!)
When investigating this incident I noticed Carl acting awfully suspicious. When I questioned him as you see in this picture he claimed he was as innocent as an angel. Hummmmmm...is he really?
Soon after this questioning I found on my desk, along with my super cool Spider-Man Comic and the latest Star Wars book I'm reading, this Princess Book!!!!!!! Who would dare!!!!!!! Then I realized this was probably the Carlman, putting this book on my desk to make me a suspect. Don't worry intrigued readers, I will get to the bottom of this mystery!!!!!!!
Well as I continue in my Sherlock Holmes mode, I also have some cool reads to present. So check it out:
Walt Disney Treasures: Uncle Scrooge - A Little Something Special by various - This is an awesome collection of some of the best Uncle Scrooge Stories ever told. The time period of stories that this Graphic Novel (GN) covers goes all the back to 1954 up till 2006. These stories are filled with high adventure, terrific comedy and are just plain fun reading. Uncle Scrooge with his every faithful relatives Donald, Huey, Louie and Dewey cover the globe and their hometown of Duckberg in this GN with a whoping 8 full length stories. My two favorite stories in this collection are " The Seven Cities of Cibola" by Carl Barks and "A Little Something Special" by Don Rosa. In the first story by Carl Barks, Scrooge, who is down in the dumps, is thrilled to be introduced to arrowhead collecting by Donald and the boys (Huey, Dewey, and Louie). Even with all the money he has, he finds collecting arrowheads worth 50 cents each is too good to pass up! While searching though, the ducks end up on the trail of bigger treasure, that of the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola. Unfortunately the Beagle Boys happen to find out what the ducks are up to. The second story by Don Rosa finds everyone trying to find a gift for the duck who has everything (that being of course Uncle Scrooge) with the person who finds out what he wants most winning a million dollars. This turns out to be an evil plot to bring down scrooge by some of his nastiest enemies (The Beagle Boys, Magica DeSpell, Flintheart Blomgold and Blackheart Beagle). Scrooge, Donald and the boys are in it deep in this story. Find out what happens; check out this GN!!!!!
Marvel Adventures Sider-Man #48 by Todd Dezago and Jonboy Meyers - I just got finished reading ImaginOn's latest issue of this comic and I have to say it was most excellent. Spidey gets both The Scorpion and Electro on his case in a serious way when he thwarts robberies each attempts separately. They both decide to hunt him down and dish out some serious pain in his direction. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place, check this issue out to see how everyone's favorite web slinger solves this "shocking" and "stinging" situation!!!!!! Good Stuff!!!!!!!!!!!
Until next time all.....Peace,
Bill
Why in the world would a cartoon duck be restricted to “average duck height?”
Ah, but the money in the Money Bin is not all gold…. it’s Scrooge McDuck’s personal money collection! Every coin in that bin relates to a particular adventure (W OS 386-02). It is not his entire net worth. He also can tell the personal history of each coin, and its exact location in the bin. (KD 0190)
Any Scrooge scholar knows that his net worth is “nine fantasticatillion, four billion-jillion, centrifugalillion dollars and sixteen cents”. (W WDC 155-01)
(http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+155-01)
And that he was “smarter than the smarties and tougher than the toughies, and [he] made it square!” which most 1%ers can’t claim.
Since it contains a variety of coins and bills, the actual worth is much more, as some of the coins are quite rare in circulation. (Well, not really… Scrooge has numerous copies and could flood the market. But that’s the plot for “Money Pit” mentioned above, recycled/reworked from “The Trouble With Dimes”.)
For more on the money bin, Keno Don Rosa, civil engineer, drew up blueprints for the Money Bin on Killmotor Hill, and wrote an excellent story involving the Money Bin as a character vs. the Beagle Boys.
donrosa.wikispaces.com/Moneybin+Blueprints
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+17005
There’s also this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matsgull/s … 185120037/
And…The Forbes Fictional Fifteen!
http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/fictional-15-12/fictional-15.html
(The Beatrix will enjoy #1!)
In 2011, Scrooge had a net worth of $44.1 Billion.
Are we going to get monthly sales analysis articles anymore? They are super late.
yes two are in
look tomorrow!
The top graphic that accompanies this Beat posting shows Scrooge diving into the cash, next to a depth sign that measures 90 ft.
It’s too late in the day for me to tackle all that math, (sure, sure) but that is one HUGE pile of coins in the vault!
IMHO the final word on anything moneybin related is this awesome flickr set documenting the construction of a perfect scale model thereof. http://www.flickr.com/photos/matsgull/sets/72157602185120037/
120 x 120 x 90 = 144 x 9 x 1000 = 1 296 000 cubic feet. Or about 36 700 cubic meters.
3.66986332 × 10^10 cubic centimeters
The density of gold at room temperature:
19.30 g·cm−3 (grams per cubic centimeter)
So… about 70.8 x 10^10 grams,
about 2.27718472 x 10^10 troy ounces,
would fit in that volume.
Spot price is about $1600 per troy ounce ($51.60 per gram).
So… $3 643.49555 x 10^10 means…
$36,435,000,000,000
$36.435 Trillion
That is, of course, if the vault was a solid mass of gold.
Wikipedia states that ALL the gold mined up to 2009 would create a cube 20.4 meters on each side. Scrooge’s money bin is 37 meters wide. Of course, I have no idea how thick the walls are.
A penny is 360 cubic mm (3.6 × 10^-7 cubic meters) in volume, which makes division easy…
100 000 000 000 pennies. Drop two zeros and you get $1,000,000,000, One Billion Dollars.
Of course, there are greenbacks in the vault (most likely worthless as legal tender) as well as coins of various denominations, currencies, and alloys. Some are rare, and since there are micro-environments in the depths, many coins and dollars are in near-perfect condition.
Scrooge (or his heirs Huey, Dewey, and Louie) would most likely sell off the rarer coins and bills to collectors. If the market is glutted, melting of coins might be more valuable, since the volume of precious metals produced would not spoil the commodity markets. Of course, there would be a strong souvenir market… “Own a coin from Uncle Scrooge’s World Famous Money Vault!”
The 1875 Seated Liberty dime which Scrooge refers to as “#1″ is worth about $10 in good condition.
Oh, and just so you know, the vault is not Scrooge’s net worth. The vault contains money which has sentimental value to him, money he earned by his own hard work. I believe that he stopped adding to the vault once he returned to Duckberg, was declared the richest person on the planet, and his family disowned him.