Gladstone published USA #35 on December 2, 1997, the 50th Anniversary of Uncle Scrooge's first appearance in "Christmas on Bear Mountain" in 1947. It reprints Carl Barks stories from Uncle Scrooge #36 and #37 (September and December 1961). Inside, "Fifty Years of Scrooge McDuck" is a four-page article by Geoffrey Blum that has compiled a fascinating year-by-year must-read for serious Barks collectors. As for the stories, "The Golden Nugget Boat" combines fan-favorite ingredients: a happy return by the ducks to the Klondike, but, unfortunately, also with the insufferable presence of Gladstone Gander! Highlighting the album is the first appearance of Magica de Spell and her home at a small sorcery shop in the village of Sulphuria on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius. Magica's obsession to steal Scrooge's old Number One Dime (the first he ever earned), is thus explained by the sorceress herself: "I believe that if I melt [the coins of rich men] together in the sulphurous fires of Mt. Vesuvius, their mystic powers will fuse into a super amulet! " This is her first story and the beginning of their many duels of wits. $15.00