Horsing Around with History is a 32-page comic book

Comic book

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 story starring Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck is a cartoon character created in 1947 by Carl Barks and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Scrooge is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nez glasses, and spats...

, written by Carl Barks

Carl Barks

Carl Barks was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , The Junior Woodchucks , Gyro Gearloose , Cornelius Coot , Flintheart Glomgold , John D...

 and William Van Horn

William Van Horn

William Van Horn has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988. He draws mostly Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and he has also written and/or illustrated stories based on the animated series DuckTales...

. It was released in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #33 (1995). This was Barks' next-to-last story released in the United States

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It was also later printed in the Carl Barks Library

Carl Barks Library

Carl Barks Library is a series of 30 books with all Disney comics and covers written and/or drawn by Carl Barks. A few stories were modified, sometimes for production reasons and sometimes in an attempt to remedy censorship in the original publication, restoring the published work to Barks'...

of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #56. Carl Barks wrote the script, but the actual story was drawn and lettered by William Van Horn.

Storyline

Scrooge, Donald and the nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie are off to find the legendary Trojan Horse. Little do they know that the Beagle Boys are spying on them. The Ducks encounter an albatross named Alby, who works as a trained pet for the Beagle Boys. It is mentioned twice that the Beagle Boys like prunes. Barks came out of retirement to provide a script for this story and he chose William Van Horn to write this story for him.

This story was originally written to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carl Barks' retirement.

Trivia

It is mentioned that the Beagle Boys like prunes in this story. A reference mentioned in earlier Barks stories such as The Mysterious Unfinished Invention and The Giant Robot Robbers, and in Don Rosa's Cash Flow and other stories.

Scrooge mentions not resisting anything that's free.

Despite the fact that the Beagle Boys are mentioned, they don't appear until the end of the story.