The Second-Richest Duck
| "The Second-Richest Duck" | |
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| Story code | W US 15-02 |
| Story | Carl Barks |
| Ink | Carl Barks |
| Date | February 2, 1956 |
| Hero | Uncle Scrooge |
| Pages | 20 |
| Layout | 4 rows per page |
| Appearances |
Scrooge McDuck Donald Duck Huey, Dewey and Louie Flintheart Glomgold (1st) |
| First publication |
Uncle Scrooge #15 September 1956 |
"The Second-Richest Duck" is an Uncle Scrooge comic book story written and illustrated by Carl Barks in February 1956. It features the first appearance of Flintheart Glomgold.
The story starts when Scrooge McDuck tries to know where was his nephew going. Donald says he's going to buy an ice cream soda, much for the dismay of Scrooge, who tries to convince Donald to invest the money rather than spending it. Scrooge shows Donald the Number One Dime and the nephew notices a string attaching it to one of Scrooge's pockets. Scrooge says he also saves string and takes Donald to the Money Bin to show him the benefits of saving money. Donald still prefers a soda, so Scrooge gives up and goes to the park to find a newspaper (he's too stingy to buy one).
A two-day-old issue points a South African mine owner named Flintheart Glomgold as the new richest duck in the world and describes his net worth as over one multiplujillion and nine obsquatumatillion. Scrooge can't accept the idea of someone being richer than him, so he checks his fortune and learns his net worth also surpasses one multiplujillion and nine obsquatumatillion. It's one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents.
Upon learning he's still not a second-class zillionaire, he goes to South Africa to meet Glomgold and check who's the world's richest duck and takes Donald and his nephews stating that, if he loses, he'll need them to carry him. With a list of all of his possessions and his string ball, Scrooge and co. take one of his ships to Africa. In the ship, Scrooge finds a piece of string and tries to put it on his ball, but it already belongs to another ball, whose owner gets very angry.
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