Editing Scrooge McDuck (section)

=== First appearance ===
{{further|Christmas on Bear Mountain}}
[[File:ScroogeFirst.jpg|right|frame|One of Scrooge's first panels in "Christmas on Bear Mountain"]]

Scrooge McDuck, maternal uncle of previously established character [[Donald Duck]], made his first named appearance in the story ''[[Christmas on Bear Mountain]];'' it was published in Dell's ''Four Color Comics'' #178 on October 22, 1947, and written and drawn by artist [[Carl Barks]]. His appearance may have been based on a similar-looking Scottish "thrifty saver" Donald Duck character from the 1943 propaganda short ''[[The Spirit of '43]]''.<ref>[[David Gerstein|Gerstein, David]], "[http://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/2003-April/016580.html 1st Scrooge McDuck in 1943??]", Retrieved on October 9, 2008.</ref>

In ''Christmas on Bear Mountain'',<ref>{{INDUCKSCode|Type=story|Code=W+OS++178-02|Title= Christmas on Bear Mountain}}</ref> Scrooge was a bearded, bespectacled, reasonably wealthy old duck, visibly leaning on his cane and living in isolation in a "huge mansion".<ref name="bearmountain">[[Carl Barks|Barks, Carl]] (writer and illustrator). "[[Christmas on Bear Mountain]]". ''[[Four Color Comics]]'' #178 (December 1947).</ref> Scrooge's [[misanthropy|misanthropic]] thoughts in this first story are quite pronounced: "Here I sit in this big lonely dump, waiting for Christmas to pass! Bah! That silly season when everybody loves everybody else! A curse on it! Me—I'm different! Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody!"<ref name="bearmountain" />

Barks later reflected on the portrayal, saying "Scrooge in 'Christmas on Bear Mountain' was only my first idea of a rich, old uncle. I had made him too old and too weak. I discovered later on that I had to make him more active. I could not make an old guy like that do the things I wanted him to do."<ref>Ortman, Steve (trans.); Laqua, Charsten, "[http://moneybin.at.infoseek.co.jp/author.html Carl Barks – the Author] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612064402/http://moneybin.at.infoseek.co.jp/author.html |date=June 12, 2007 }}", Carl Barks His Work and His Life (site). Retrieved on September 5, 2007.</ref>