Extollager
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There's a separate thread for outstanding science fiction stories, pre-1975, in comics, etc. Here's a place to tell about all-time favorites, whether sf or not, in the comic art medium. I'd ask that we restrict this to comic books in the sense of magazines, not trade paperbacks and so on, although a story you read in a trade paperback could be considered if it originally appeared in a comic book. Comic books are/were published on cheap paper, etc.
My selection is Carl Barks's Uncle Scrooge story "Tralla La," which takes the "Shangri-La" situation of a hidden kingdom to tell an adventurous, wise, funny, and humane story. Scrooge, Donald, and Donald's nephews seek tranquility and find it in a remote kingdom. Inadvertently they have brought trouble with them, in the form of bottle caps.
However, several of Barks's other stories are worthy to be ranked with this outstanding one, too -- "The Ghost of the Grotto," "The Seven Cities of Cibola," etc. And some of his short stories are virtually perfect of their kind.
My selection is Carl Barks's Uncle Scrooge story "Tralla La," which takes the "Shangri-La" situation of a hidden kingdom to tell an adventurous, wise, funny, and humane story. Scrooge, Donald, and Donald's nephews seek tranquility and find it in a remote kingdom. Inadvertently they have brought trouble with them, in the form of bottle caps.
However, several of Barks's other stories are worthy to be ranked with this outstanding one, too -- "The Ghost of the Grotto," "The Seven Cities of Cibola," etc. And some of his short stories are virtually perfect of their kind.
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