{"id":274,"date":"2008-12-15T23:24:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T04:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/?p=274"},"modified":"2017-03-04T19:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T00:40:49","slug":"golden-age-of-comic-books-december-15-2008-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/15\/golden-age-of-comic-books-december-15-2008-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Age of Comic Books &#8211; December 15, 2008 &#8211; #60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is our fourth annual Christmas episode of the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Merry Christmas!<\/strong><\/span> &nbsp;I&#8217;ve covered a variety of topics on our past Christmas shows, but I thought I would discuss a Christmas story that introduced a major Golden Age character to the world, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Uncle Scrooge McDuck<\/strong><\/span>. &nbsp;Uncle Scrooge was created by the great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Barks\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Barks<\/a> in his classic, &#8220;A Christmas on Bear Mountain&#8221; in&nbsp;<em>Four Color Comics<\/em> #178 (December 1947). &nbsp;Uncle Scrooge was modeled after Dickens&#8217; Ebeneezer Scrooge from <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, first published in 1843. &nbsp;Uncle Scrooge&#8217;s early personality was very similar to Ebeneezer&#8217;s. &nbsp;Although Barks originally intended Uncle Scrooge to be a throw away character, he became extremely popular and eventually got his own title that is still published today by Gemstone under license from Disney. &nbsp;I also mention <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Rosa\" target=\"_blank\">Don Rosa&#8217;s<\/a> excellent &#8220;The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck&#8221; series, that added a lot of meat to the bones originally crafted by Barks. &nbsp;In Chapter Twelve of &#8220;Life and Times&#8221;, Rosa gives us a sequel to &#8220;A Christmas on Bear Mountain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I also noticed that Chris Marshall at the <a title=\"Collected Comics Library Podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.collectedcomicslibrary.com\" target=\"_blank\">Collected Comics Library Podcast<\/a> is about to publish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectedcomicslibrary.com\/2008\/12\/17\/ccl-podcast-200-frank-millers-daredevil-omnibus-1-and-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">episode #200<\/a>, so I spend a few minutes congratulating him on a job well done in reaching this milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, for Christmas I have another trivia contest. &nbsp;The winner will receive a <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/15\/vintage-dc-comics-super-hero-calendar-for-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">DC Vintage Super Heroes Calendar for 2009<\/a>. &nbsp;Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the show!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_275\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275\" width=\"400\" height=\"542\" title=\"Four Color Comics #178 (December 1947)\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275\" alt=\"Four Color Comics #178 (December 1947)\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fourcolor178.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fourcolor178.jpg 400w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fourcolor178-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four Color Comics #178 (December 1947)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;margin: 1px;\"><br><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6740759833732487\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"468x60_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"\";\ngoogle_ui_features = \"rc:6\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br><\/div><div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-274\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/15\/golden-age-of-comic-books-december-15-2008-60\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-274\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/15\/golden-age-of-comic-books-december-15-2008-60\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/15\/golden-age-of-comic-books-december-15-2008-60\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/15\/golden-age-of-comic-books-december-15-2008-60\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our fourth annual Christmas episode of the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast. 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