We must comment on this issue’s Mail Bin page first. Four months back, in #252, an incalculably complex letter with diagrams was submitted and printed in full by Flash Kellam. Brian K. Schmidt of Chelsford, Massachusetts responds here with an equally awesome recalculation of Kellam’s numbers. Compounding things, next month, in US #257, Bob Foster runs still another letter, this from Doug Hooley of Boulder, Colorado, who says he’s now calculated from Kellam’s numbers how much money Scrooge McDuck is worth: rounding it off, how about 96 trillion dollars? Two comments. First, never let it be said comic books are only for kids or adults who can’t read. Second, thank you, Mr. Foster, for running these three letters in your comics and thank you, too, for your thoughtful responses, especially the one to Frank Balkin of Los Angeles in issue #257. You were, you know, one of the better editors in Disney comics history. (Give us a call again, someday.)
This is an all Carl Barks issue, with the first story, “The Status Seeker,” finding Scrooge McDuck in attendance at a party overrun with snooty status seekers, so he leaves determined to acquire the ultimate status symbol. In story #2 Scrooge buys ink that makes people want to pay their bills, so he tries it out on Donald. (These two illustrated narratives first appeared, respectively, in Uncle Scrooge #41, March 1963 and #24, December-February 1959.)
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