The Empire-Builder from Calisota or The Richest Duck in the World is a 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...

 comic by Don Rosa

Don Rosa

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other characters created by Carl Barks for Disney comics, such as The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.-Early life:Don Rosa's grandfather,...

. It is the eleventh of the original 12 chapters in the series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a comic book story by Don Rosa about Scrooge McDuck. Originally, the story had twelve chapters totalling 212 pages...

. The story takes place from 1909 to 1930.

Plot

Scrooge and his sisters go to Africa where Scrooge, for the only time in his life, acts like a scoundrel as he hires some criminals to attack a native village. In protest, Matilda and Hortense return to Duckburg while Scrooge goes around the world in search of more wealth. The whole time, he is followed by a zombie named Bombie. In the end he returns home as a hardened duck and as a result his family leaves him, but he finds comfort in now being the richest duck on earth. But this comfort is only temporary, the shame and remorse start to torment scrooge, and his guilt and saddness grow up to the point where he loses his interest in money and retires.

External links

• The Empire-Builder from Calisota on Duckman
• The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck - Episode 11