Commentary by former publisher, Bruce Hamilton.

Four full-fledged 1961 Uncle Scrooge stories populate this interesting comic album: "Billions in the Hole" and "Bongo on the Congo" from Uncle Scrooge #33, plus "Mythtic Mystery" and "Chugwagon Derby" from Uncle Scrooge #34. Each is interesting for its own reasons. A little science, a lot of fiction and the Beagle Boys mix it up in the first story when all the ducks and Scrooge's money bin are shrunk by an Atom Subtractor.
In the African story, though, there's a bit of a question about its political correctness today, but the country is fictional and how upset could anyone be when the main antagonists are Duk Duks and Quak Quaks?
Story number three is an odd one, mixing an earthling astronomer and mythical gods from Valhalla who seem to be living on a small errant planet that may actually be a recreation of Olympus but, then, how do Hercules, Thor and Vulcan fit in? The best advice: don't think about it. Just hop on Carl Barks' ride into outer space!
"Chugwagon Derby" is a fascinating study, too. Dig up a copy of the second Duck story Barks ever wrote, "The Hard Loser," a 1943 ten-pager that followed "The Mummy's Ring" in Donald Duck FC #29. "Chugwagon Derby" is a retelling eighteen years later by Barks of that early effort! -- BH (SOLD OUT)