A Financial Fable facts for kids
Quick facts for kids "A Financial Fable" |
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Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #126 (March 1951)
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| Story code | W WDC 126-02 |
| Story | Carl Barks |
| Ink | Carl Barks |
| Date | September 14, 1950 |
| Hero | Donald Duck |
| Pages | 10 |
| Layout | 4 rows per page |
| Appearances | Donald Duck Scrooge McDuck Gladstone Gander Huey, Dewey and Louie |
| First publication | Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #126 March 1951 |
"A Financial Fable" is a Donald Duck comic book story written and illustrated by Carl Barks in September 1950. As with many other Barks stories, it was originally untitled. The story deals with what will happen if everyone in a community becomes a millionaire.
Plot
Scrooge McDuck is running a farm, employing his nephews as farmhands. While Huey, Dewey and Louie enjoy working, Donald Duck is tired of labour and quits the job, joining his lucky cousin Gladstone Gander in searching for luck and money.
Scrooge keeps all his money in a corn crib at the farm. When a cyclone hits the crib, the cash is spread all over the area. Scrooge is not upset, knowing that if he and his young nephews keep working, they will get the money back soon enough.
Meanwhile, Gladstone is demonstrating his unbelievable luck, holding out his hat and asking for some money to land in it. Two million of Scrooge's dollars then fall down from the sky and land in the hat. Meanwhile, the wind rains money on other farms, causing farmhands to exclaim "The heck with work, I am going to see the world"! The two cousins decide to spend the money on traveling, and drive to the local village to buy gas, while Huey, Dewey and Louie elect to stay on the farm out of moral obligation to care for the animals and tend crops. When they arrive, they learn that money has been distributed to the villagers as well, and the village has become a ghost town. They cannot get gas, buy a soda nor a bus ticket as the gas station, drugstore and bus depot all have signs akin to "Closed; Owner Gone to See the World". Gladstone does not know what to do, while Donald suggests walking to a nearby community not hit by the money cyclone. However, he cannot buy a good pair of shoes as the shoe store is now abandoned as well. Donald gives up, and returns to his uncle, where he gets his job back, while Gladstone gives Donald his million and goes fishing. Scrooge informs him that if he wants to eat eggs for breakfast, they cost a million each.
Eventually, all the new millionaires go to Scrooge's farm to buy food and perhaps get a job. Due to Scrooge and the nephews being the only producers of food, the prices having drastically increased — an egg now costs one million dollars, as does a ham, a cabbage costs two million, and a peck of corn costs four million — Scrooge soon gets all of his money back, and everything is back to normal.
See also
- List of Disney comics by Carl Barks
