Editing Don Rosa (section)

===Gladstone===
In 1986, Rosa discovered a [[Gladstone Comics]] comic book. This was the first American comic book that contained [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] characters since Western Publishing's discontinuation of their [[Whitman Comics]] in the 1970s. Since early childhood Don Rosa had been fascinated by Carl Barks' stories about [[Donald Duck]] and [[Scrooge McDuck]]. He immediately called the editor, [[Byron Erickson]], and told him that he was the only American who was born to write and draw one Scrooge McDuck adventure. Erickson agreed to let him send a story, and Don Rosa started drawing his first Duck story, "The Son of the Sun," the very next day.

"The Son of the Sun" was a success and Rosa's very first professional comic story was nominated for a [[Harvey Award]] "Best Story of the Year".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://journal.finfar.org/articles/science-fiction-parody-in-don-rosas-attack-of-the-hideous-space-varmints/|title=Science fiction parody in Don Rosa's "Attack of the Hideous Space-Varmints"|last=Kontturi|first=Katja|date=2016|website=Fafnir|language=en|access-date=April 27, 2020}}</ref> The plot of the story was the same as his earlier story, ''Lost in (an alternative section of) the Andes''. As Don Rosa explained it, he was just "(...) turning that old Pertwillaby Papers adventure back into the story it originally was in my head, starring Scrooge, Donald, [[Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck|the nephews]], and [[Flintheart Glomgold]]."

Rosa created a few more comics for Gladstone until 1989. He then stopped working for them, because the policies of their licensor, Disney, did not allow for the return of original art for a story to its creators.

After making some stories for the Dutch publisher Oberon, the publishers of an American Disney children's magazine called ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'' (based on the animated series of the same name) offered Rosa employment. They even offered him a much higher salary than the one he received at Gladstone. Rosa made just one script (''Back in Time for a Dime''). The publishers never asked him to make more, and due to problems with receiving the payment, he did not care.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}