Commentary by former publisher, Bruce Hamilton.

Uncle Scrooge walks around his money bin in a daze as he laments, "After sixteen hours of counting money, I'm beat! We billionaires sure have a hard life!" Little does he realize he's about to embark on a full-length adventure in a story called, "A Spicy Tale" (reprinted from Uncle Scrooge #39, September 1962) that takes him to the Amazon and leads him and his nephews, Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck on a zany adventure dealing with unlikely 1962 topics like the twist craze, bongo music and a singer with a suspicious name: Elfish Pestly. One gem of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #38, however, is Geoffrey Blum's article, "Smoke and Mirrors," in which the Gladstone Associate Editor reveals for the first time Carl Barks quotes from vintage letters in which the Old Duck Man talks candidly about the 1960's: trends, politicians and "a phoniness about so muoh of the progress [of society] that one gradually becomes cynical about all of it." What's frightening is to realize he was talking about the United States as he saw it then , forty years ago! He could have been writing about today! To read these quotes from Barks' letters is worth picking up the album. -- BH --Sold out! --