The ducks buck bad luck when they seek treasures lying buried beneath the sands of what was once ancient Persia (today's Iran). After yelling "Open Sesame" and rolling back a boulder fronting the "Cave of Ali Baba," Scrooge, Donald, and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie find the jewels guarded by rocs of another kind! As explained in the opening panel caption, "Uncle Scrooge is on a tour of his faraway oil pipe lines!" -- and the subsequent by-products of a treasure hunt were mere chance. A story that came from a forever-gone era, Carl Barks wrote and drew this mini-epic forty years ago, originally published March 1962. An innocent plot device then, the location, the motivations, the exploitation would be, under any pretext, unimaginable fiction today, post September 11, 2001. Barks was spared witnessing the changes, having passed away in 2000. As a decades long friend, I know he felt he came into this world at a perfect time but he may have left it at the perfect time, too. -- BH
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