Scrooge's quest for a missing merchant vessel begins inauspiciously but
turns to disaster when the ship proves to be "The Flying Dutchman." Carl Barks recollected that "the myth of the Dutchman was something I read references to in pulp magazines' sea stories. I gathered it was a legend with a grain of truth. " This comic album has a title page that departs from the norm in that the art by Barks was relatively contemporary -- not drawn in 1959 at the time of the story, but some twenty seven years later: a pen and ink tracing from "Afoul of the Flying Dutchman," a 1985 oil painting based on the vintage story. An in-depth article by Geoffrey Blum entitled "Stormy Seas" delves into the history of three more "Flying Dutchman" oils Barks did in the early 1970's, reproducing six stages of two of them. The history, as reported by Blum of who bought what and when was mostly correct in 1997, but more is known now (and that is yet another story for another time).
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