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"Though uncredited for much of his career and known only to contemporary fans as “the good Duck artist,” Barks’s importance to both Disney and comics as a medium is hard to overstate. His work inspired not just two separate DuckTales shows, but creators across a range of media. You know the giant stone ball deathtrap in Raiders of the Lost Arc? Yeah, Spielberg and Lucas — both Barks fans — lifted that from an Uncle Scrooge comic.

Scrooge debuted in 1947’s “Christmas on Bear Mountain” as a fairly one-note skinflint, but over the next few years, Barks refined his creation, adding in his adventurous spirit as well as the occasional grudging glimpse at his softer side. And 1953’s “Back to the Klondike” is a shining example of both."

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