Editing Scrooge McDuck (section)

=== Modern era ===
After Barks's retirement, the character continued under other artists. However, in 1972, Barks was persuaded to write more stories for Disney. He wrote [[Junior Woodchuck]] stories where Scrooge often plays the part of the villain, closer to the role he had before acquiring his own series. Under Barks, Scrooge always was a malleable character who would take on whatever persona was convenient to the plot.

The Italian writer and artist Romano Scarpa made several additions to Scrooge McDuck's lore, including characters such as [[List of Donald Duck universe characters#Brigitta MacBridge|Brigitta MacBridge]], Scrooge's self-styled fiancée, and [[Gideon McDuck]], a newspaper editor who is Scrooge's brother. Those characters have appeared mostly in European comics. This is also the case for Scrooge's rival [[John D. Rockerduck]] (created by Barks for just one story) and Donald's cousin [[Duck family (Disney)#Fethry Duck|Fethry Duck]], who sometimes works as a reporter for Scrooge's newspaper.

Another major development was the arrival of writer and artist Don Rosa in 1986, with his story "[[The Son of the Sun]]"; it released by [[Gladstone Publishing]] and nominated for a [[Harvey Award]], one of the comics industry's highest honors. Rosa has said in interviews that he considers Scrooge to be his favorite Disney character. Unlike most other Disney writers, Don Rosa considered Scrooge as a historical character whose Disney adventures had occurred in the fifties and sixties and ended (in his undepicted death)<ref>{{INDUCKSCode|Type=story|Code=GC+HD++77B|Title=Don Rosa's artwork}}</ref> in 1967 when Barks retired. He considered only Barks's stories as canonical, and fleshed out a timeline and a family tree based on Barks's stories. Eventually he wrote and drew ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', a full history in twelve chapters, which received an [[Eisner Award]] in 1995.

Later editions included additional chapters. Under Rosa, Scrooge became more ethical; while he never cheats, he ruthlessly exploits any loopholes. He owes his fortune to his hard work and his money bin is "full of souvenirs" since every coin reminds him of a specific circumstance.

[[Daan Jippes]], who can mimic Barks's art to a close extent, repenciled all of Barks's 1970s Junior Woodchucks stories, as well as Barks's final Uncle Scrooge stories from the 1990s to the early 2000s. Other notable Disney artists who have worked with the Scrooge character include [[Michael Peraza]], [[Marco Rota]], [[William Van Horn]], and [[Tony Strobl]].

In an interview with the Norwegian "Aftenposten" from 1992, Don Rosa says that "in the beginning Scrooge [owed] his existence to his nephew Donald, but that has changed and today it's Donald that [owes] his existence to Scrooge," and he also says that this is one of the reasons why he is so interested in Scrooge.