Commentary by former publisher, Bruce Hamilton.

Carl Barks introduced a villainess by the name of Magica de Spell fifteen years into his Uncle Scrooge saga. He explained, "Magica was another menace that I developed because I couldn't be using the Beagle Boys all the time." Curiously, the Beagle Boys do a two-page cameo here in "The Unsafe Safe," and it was Magica's second appearance (from Uncle Scrooge #38, June 1962). Geoffrey Blum penned notes accompanying three pages of Magica drawings in a featurette, "Models for a Sorceress." (Publisher's note: I never mentioned this to Blum because I saw no point, but he made a slight goof in a caption where he said, "The [three] sketches below were done for practice and never made it into a story." Oops! See page 11, panel 4.) -- BH
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