Bob Foster’s layouts for some complex covers were positively inspired, as is this one: surprising, perfectly balanced, well thought out, instantly communicative, dramatic, and … funny! It would be difficult to fault this Scrooge-crocodile cover as having been worthy to have accompanied Carl Barks’ “The Swamp of No Return” when it was first published in 1965 (Uncle Scrooge #57). In the story, a physicist invents a “teaching machine” box that, as Carl described it, “spurts knowledge from an ionized core into the student’s mental muscles.” By nefarious means the locale shifts to Dismal Swamp where the ducks encounter the duplicitous Brutopian consul, who has stolen the machine.
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