With a story that offers a tip of the top hat to some unexpected sources, Uncle Scrooge: Earth's Mightiest Duck #1 is an ...

Can Scrooge McDuck save Earth from alien treasure hunters in Uncle Scrooge: Earth's Mightiest Duck #1? The world's richest ...

Earth’s Mightiest Duck this coming Wednesday, and you can get yourself a sneak peek at the first issue below… The planet has ...

Scrooge and the 1 percenters who followed him have enriched our lives to the point where our poor live better than medieval kings. In the end, of course, Scrooge turned away from his previous ways ...

Henry Winkler was Scrooge-esque as Benedict Slade in “An American Christmas Carol” – think The Fonz in really bad old-age makeup. George C. Scott played one of the best Scrooges in a rich TV ...

Bugs Bunny, Scrooge McDuck and Bill Murray all did, too. Whether you have seen “A Christmas Carol” in any of those film adaptations or on stage, you have almost certainly been misled.

Scrooge played by society’s scoreboard—the one that amplifies our biological instinct toward hierarchy and leads us to pursue money, status, and power at all costs.

Here’s what I like about Ebenezer Scrooge: His meager lodgings were dark because darkness is cheap, and barely heated because coal is not free. His dinner was gruel, which he prepared himself.

Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit, sit in a freezing office on Christmas Eve. The year is 1843, and Cratchit tries to warm himself with the heat from a single lump of coal.

Scrooge might be the exact hero we need right now. Then again, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Scrooge’s late-in-life evolution has nothing to do with heroism.

Here, though, Scrooge appears to be the same age as Pearce, 52, and more put together than we’re used to seeing the character. Don’t get me wrong — he still is in desperate need of a ...