One of the most informative and exciting read since the great works of Carl Barks! Now this book is available to the masses. The original hardcover editions are almost impossible to locate, and if you do.. expect to pay between $100 to $1000 depending on the printed version (there are TEN unique variations to choose from). This edition is just chock full of Scrooge history with amazingly researched detail illustrations by Don Rosa. Much of the locale history is accurate due to Mr. Rosa's own research.
Also... Go on a duckhunt and try and find the hidden "D.U.C.K." spoilers in his artwork (Dedicated to Unca Carl from Keno), also hidden Mickeys are waiting for you to discover!! A must have for any Scrooge collection!!! ( )

One of the most informative and exciting read since the great works of Carl Barks! Now this book is available to the masses. The original hardcover editions are almost impossible to locate, and if you do.. expect to pay between $100 to $1000 depending on the printed version (there was TEN unique variations to choose from). This reprinted soft-cover edition is just chock full of Scrooge history with amazingly researched detail illustrations by Don Rosa. Much of the locale history is accurate due to Mr. Rosa's own research.
Also... Go on a duckhunt and try and find the hidden "D.U.C.K." spoilers in his artwork (Dedicated to Unca Carl from Keno), also hidden Mickeys are waiting for you to discover!! A must have for any Scrooge collection ( )

I am a Scrooge historian, I've spent the last 27 years studying and writing about my #1 duck, my comic colletion includes all but the very rarest of issues (currently I have several thousand Uncle Scrooge stories, from nearly countless issues from over 24 differant comic book titles) and believe me when I say I can't say enough good things about my #1 hero Scrooge McDuck. EEK! I'm known for boring people with my loooong 20-30 page lectures on all the intricate details of his life, and I'm sorely tempted to write one of my yapping lectures right now, but I won't, I'll just tell you that, I've been waiting for this moment for over 10 years now! This book is the ultimate best of the best from the greatest of the greatest!! YES! For all you duck fans out there who just fainted dead away at what I just said---YES! I said it---Don Rosa has done it---he's surpassed even the great Duck-Man Carl Barks himself!!! Keno Don Rosa is the King of Scrooge and when it comes to a great story it don't get any better than this!

Last year when I was told this greatest of all Uncle Scrooge stories was about to be re-realesed for the first time ever in America as a single bound volume---I went out and advanced ordered a copy for me, and one each for every one I know! Than I've spent the past 12 months pacing the floor, biting my nails, and pulling my hair out waiting for the day of it's release. A year of sheer agony!

But YIPPIE!! HIP, HIP, HORAAAAAY!!! WHHHEEEE!!! IT"S HERE!!! IT"S FINALLY HERE AT LAST!!! Now I'm bouncing off the walls and dancing on the roof!! I'm so happy, happy, happy, that finally at long last I've got my copy, here in my hands! I've read it and re-read it over and over---WOW! I'm gonna have to get me another copy, cause I'm gonna have this one worn out before it's even a month old! I loves it soooooo much!

ALL 12 books of the Life & Times saga are here...even all the original cover art! And Double Yippie!! extra bonus...they got the colors right this time---the ducks have got white hair like they are supposed to! (There was a ton of mistakes in the original Gladstone editions!) The "Kick/Sock" mistake from "King of the Klondike" has been corrected, and the painting with the edited out bullet hole, has got the bullet hole in his head again! The incorrect dino's name has been corrected....DANG! The opal is still the wrong color, it was supposed to be pink and blue, not orange and yellow...oh well, can't win them all. Also included are Keno's personal comments on these stunning stories and his amazing art. He even tells you where to find D.U.C.K (if you hadn't found them on your own that is----in all these years the only one I hadn't found was the one under Bombie's foot!) Keno's art is great, and for those of you not familar with his art---you'd better whip out your magnifying glass and go over the fine details of his art, cause it's better than "Where's Waldo" and "I Spy" combined!...Look for hidden gags, teeny tiny Mickey Mouses, and of course his famous signature D.U.C.K. (Dedicated to Uncle Carl from Keno).

All I can say is...LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!---5 stars just aren't enough---I give it a full 10! ( )

This is the definitive Don Rosa collection. He gathers all the tidbits of knowledge that Carl Barks left about Scrooge's past in his stories, and incorporates them into one huge, 12 chapter saga.

Rosa is the best Duck comic artist alive. His stories incorporate so much different kinds of humour that they appeal to all generations. ( )