Since Fantagraphics first release in this series focused on Donald Duck, it is only right that the second focus on Carl Barks s other great protagonist, and his greatest creation: The miserly, excessively wealthy Scrooge McDuck, whose giant money bin, lucky dime, and constant wrangles with his nemeses the Beagle Boys are well-known to, and beloved by, young and old.

This volume starts off with Only a Poor Old Man, the defining Scrooge yarn (in fact his first big starring story) in which Scrooge s plan to hide his money in a lake goes terribly wrong. Two other long-form classics in...