The Invisible Intruder

The Invisible Intruder is a comic story written by Vic Lockman and drawn by Carl Barks. It features Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, Clerkie and Sir Surelock.

PlotEdit

When he was a young boy, Scrooge McDuck slept in the lower drawer of a cupboard. As his fortune grew, so did his beds' sizes. Taken to its logical extreme, this means that the bed Scrooge sleeps in now is as large as a ballroom (and made of the best springs around). And one night, his bed begins to quiver and shake, and Scrooge draws the conclusion that an intruder (a thief?) is walking on the other end of the acre-wide mattress. He calls "the world's greatest detective", Sir Surelock, to guard him. Surelock is fast to find out the answer, and it is far from what Scrooge expected…

Behind the scenesEdit

First published in August of 1963, this story was first printed in Uncle Scrooge #44 and was later reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest #27, Uncle Scrooge #153, DuckTales #7, The Carl Barks Library #5 and The Adventures of Uncle Scrooge McDuck in Color #41.

The Invisible Intruder was the first story to introduce the idea of young Scrooge McDuck having been a shoeshiner in Glasgow. This idea was picked up the next year for Chairman of the Bored, which added the detail that it was then that Scrooge earned his 'Lucky #1 Dime'. Both stories inspired Don Rosa for The Last of the Clan McDuck, and, though he adjusted the appearance of Young Scrooge to fit his own style, he copied panels from both stories (a good exemple is pictured on the left).

List of episodes of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

By Don Rosa Side-Steps and Precursors • Of Ducks, Dimes and Destinies • Last Sled to Dawson • The Dream of a Lifetime • The Original Saga • I: The Last of the Clan McDuck • II: The Master of the Mississippi • III: The Buckaroo of the Badlands • IV: The King of the Copper Hill • • V: The New Laird of Castle McDuck • VI: The Terror of the Transvaal • VII: Dreamtime Duck of the Never Never • VIII: King of the Klondike • • IX: The Billionaire of Dismal Downs • X: The Invader of Fort Duckburg • XI: The Empire-Builder from Calisota • XII: The Richest Duck in the World • Bonus Chapters • III-B: The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark • VI-B: The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff • • VIII-B: The Prisoner Of White Agony Creek • VIII-C: Hearts of the Yukon • Deleted Scenes & Other Bonus Content • 0: The History of the Clan McDuck • III: Cattle Wars • VIII: The Phoenix of White Agony Creek • X: Teddy's Campaign • XI: The Girls Can't Help It • By Others Bonus Chapters • I-XB: The Orphan's Christmas • VIII-XB: Dime Novels • VIII-XC: Clues of the Klondike • VIII-XD: Christmas on Wheels • Side-Steps & Homages • The Time Vortex • Scrooge vs. Scrooge • Precursors & Inspirations • Christmas on Bear Mountain • The Old Castle's Secret • Only a Poor Old Man • Back to the Klondike • The Fantastic River Race • Mush! • • Black Wednesday • North of the Yukon • The Invisible Intruder • The Secret of the Glacier • Chairman of the Bored • • An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck • Mark Worden's Duck Family Tree • Once Upon a Dime • Adaptations Music • The Life ands Times of Scrooge McDuck: The Official Score • DuckTales 2017 • The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains • The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck • The Richest Duck in the World