Posted by ROBBY REED on May 9, 2008, 19:37:37
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DBB #429 How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones and Raiders! Click here!

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Posted by King Dong on May 9, 2008, 21:20:10, in reply to "DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

That was the 2nd biggest pair of balls I've ever seen!

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Posted by Clark Savage Jr. on May 9, 2008, 22:13:06, in reply to "DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

Robbie--This issue of Dial B for Blog really quacked me up! I'm glad that you revealed the secret inspiration behind Raiders...Now, is it true that Scrooge McDuck's famous nephew is also known as Indiana Duck?

Link: http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=392680&zoom=4

Posted by Freddy Wertham on May 10, 2008, 7:40:45, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

It's no secret, that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are great admirers of Carl Barks. Both grew up reading his comics and bought several duck paintings, that Barks produced in the seventies. Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz even published »Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times« (1981), a hefty collection of Barks tales. Lucas penned a foreword for this tome.

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Posted by eggsfreebnik on May 10, 2008, 11:22:00, in reply to "DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

I respectfully disagree here. It seems far more likely that they were all inspired by the movie serials ( as well as Frank Buck ) that came long before any of them.

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Posted by ROBBY REED on May 10, 2008, 13:42:26, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

But was there a big rolling ball in any of those serials?

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Posted by Comic Reader Man on May 10, 2008, 16:03:17, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

As an Indiana Jones fan, I've heard this story before, and I believe it to be true. Disney of course spun off their own version of the Barks stories with DuckTales. And they still love those Giant Rocks, don't they? A friend also got into the act:

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Posted by Clark Savage Jr. on May 11, 2008, 0:47:21, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

Everyone's wrong! Indiana Jones was inspired by me!

Posted by Brother Power on May 11, 2008, 1:11:58, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

I'll buy it! I'll even believe you if you tell me that Steven Spielberg used the Giant Ball scenes to pay homage to all the Adventure Movies and Cartoons produced by Walt Disney through the years. I believe that Steven Spielberg's movies have more depth than most people give them credit for -- in the sense of paying homage or giving nods to what has come before... Peace Love & We're Tiny, We're Tooney, We're All a Little Looney! Brother Power

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Posted by Boris Badenov on May 11, 2008, 9:12:20, in reply to "Wrong..."

Of course Indy was inspired by Doc. Now remind me of the names of Indy's five assistants.

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Posted by Clark Savage Jr. on May 11, 2008, 11:17:52, in reply to "Re: Wrong...and Still Wrong"

Doc Savage's assistants are Huey, Dewey, Louie...er, wait a minute...sorry, I'm naming Indiana Duck's assistants!...Okay, okay I concede! Doc might have not been the inspiration for Indy. Now that I think about it, I believe that the inspiration could have come from the grandaddy of all adventure heroes...Alan Quartermain!

Posted by Normanghast on May 11, 2008, 13:38:14, in reply to "DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

Waders of the Lost Ark, anyone? Great one again Robby!

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Posted by Anthony Tollin on May 11, 2008, 21:28:08, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

To the person who questioned the Carl Barks influence, it should be noted that George Lucas is/was a big fan of the Duck Man, and even wrote the foreword for UNCLE SCROOGE McDUCK: HIS LIFE AND TIMES, in which he recalls: "I had a subscription to WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES and like the Scrooge character so much I immediately went out and bought all the UNCLE SCROOGE comics I could find on the newsstand." The influence of Barks' story on the RAIDERS opening is well chronicled. And Robby, you really should have titled your blog entry "RAIDERS OF THE LOST bARKs." Obviously, youy must not have read enough issues of Forry Ackerman's FAMOUS MONSTERS when you were growing up.

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Posted by Clark Savage Jr. on May 11, 2008, 23:14:41, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - RAIDERS OF THE LOST bARKs"

"RAIDERS OF THE LOST bARKs" Yes sir, that's a real knee slapper!

Posted by Anthony Tollin on May 12, 2008, 1:02:57, in reply to "Re: Wrong...and Still Wrong"

Allan Quatermain was probably an influence on Indiana Jones. However, it's also widely believed that Indy's major influence was the real-life explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, a friend of both H. Rider Haggard and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who disappeared in South America in 1925 while searching for an ancient lost city he called "Z." Colonel Fawcett (who certainly demonstrated how adventurous a life someone could have with the name "Percy") was also credited by Walter Gibson as the inspiration for The Shadow's true identity of Kent Allard. The first two Kent Allard novels are reprinted in THE SHADOW #15, along with a six-page article on Col. Fawcett by yours truly. It's available at comic shops or from Bud Plant or my own www.shadowsanctum.com website.

Link: The Shadow's sanctum

Posted by Clark Savage Jr. on May 12, 2008, 11:18:41, in reply to "Re: Wrong...and Still Wrong"

Very interresting...and informative too!

Posted by ROBBY REED on May 12, 2008, 12:30:03, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - RAIDERS OF THE LOST bARKs"

Thanks to the joys of the internet, I can go back in time and re-title the article... which I did! Thanks Huey! (Or is it Dewey? Louie?) P.S. I did read FM of course, but did I read it ENOUGH? Can't be done!

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Posted by Doccomix on May 12, 2008, 14:56:29, in reply to "Re: DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

Great post, Robbie! I've long heard about the connection between Barks and Indiana Jones, but never had the chance to compare them side by side. Glad to finally see it! Best wishes, Michael T. http://www.michaeltgilbert.com

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Posted by Klink on May 13, 2008, 7:30:19, in reply to "Re: Wrong...and Still Wrong"

Very interesting... but schtupid! Ducks, explorers, Percys. All wrong! You... you dummkopfs. Ziss Eeendiana Jones doctor vass enspired by me. Dr. "Reichland" Friedensreich Hundertwasser. I haff had many adventures and haff had balls rolled at me many times. I haff kept quiet till now but no more. I am quite respected as I valk the streets of Düsseldorf (State capital of NRW) en my Red Fez, cocked to one side. I am a prestigious international doctor of history for the Bald Head Island Museum. Many many adventures. Some exciting... some dangerous... some enticing... yah. Eeendiana Jones, leff him to be a duck. I am real Mac Coy.

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Posted by Clark Savage Jr. on May 13, 2008, 10:07:32, in reply to "Re: Wrong...and Still Wrong"

I don't believe your story, Dr. Hundertwasser. The only thing you have in common with Indy is that you are a Nazi, and he hates Nazis! I think you are lying, and we all know what happens to lying Nazis, don't we?...

Posted by Mad Hatter on May 13, 2008, 19:52:12, in reply to "DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

Geez, Carl Barks was good, wasn't he? His art was so imaginative and detailed. I think he wrote the things too, but don't quote me. Those duck books were entertaining, amusing, exciting and a real pleasure to read. I didn't buy all that many of them, but the ones I had I read over and over again. I actually had the Seven Cities book featured in this article. Another giant of the field who will always be remembered. Thanks, Robby.

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Posted by Lively on May 14, 2008, 9:08:01, in reply to "DBB #429 - How Walt Disney’s Uncle $crooge Inspired Indiana Jones! "

Here is the true inspiration, with a few changes, for Indiana Jones.

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Posted by Ralf H. on May 14, 2008, 12:19:23, in reply to "Wrong..."

If Scrooge is the daddy of Indiana Jones, this man is his grandfather: Hiram Bingham III. His best-selling book "Lost City of the Incas" (1948) seems to be one of the inspirational sources for Barks "The seven cities of Cibola".