Hi Ant,
I'm back Flintheart Glomgold pictus found....will get to Rockerduck in a minute...
Flinty is introduced in "Second Richest Duck" 1956 by Carl Barks.
In this story, Scrooge hears that he is no longer the
wolrd's richest man, and sets out to Africa, to
challenge the new holder of that title. Once there he
finds a duck equal to him in every way...right down to
the Money Bin and the #1 rand (African dime). The 2 of them battle it out comparing everything they own, and
everything is equal...same amount of money in the bin,
same amount of jewels in the vaults, same amount of oil
wells, same amount of gold and diamond mines, every business Scrooge owns--Flinty owns one just like it.
Finally it comes down to a string collection, and 2
enormous balls of string are brought out, which they unroll across Africa for days and miles...and in the end, even that comes out the same, however, Scrooge has
his #1 dime tied to him by a string, and unties the dime adds the string to the end of his string, and wins as
the world's richest man, by 5" of string.
In every story since than when Flinty appears, he and Scrooge are at war for the title of world's richest tycoon, and both have spies watching the other, when one
buys something, the other buys the same thing only
better. The only real differance between them is that
Scrooge tries to live by honesty (not always easy for
him...he'd like to forget he's an honest man), while Flinty will stop at nothing and often steals, cheats,
and lies to gain his wealth.
These 2 pictures comes form Flinty's first story...the
coloring is differant here, because this is from a rare
book and not a comic book...Flinty does not normaly have red hair. One shows his money bin, the other shows them
at the end of the race with their string. On first
appearances it would seem that this is the first time the 2 ever met....however, it must also be remembered that 85 year old Scrooge suffers from "Blinkus of the Thinkus" (alzhimers) and remembers very little of his past or even the past few days...
...and as we see here, the 2 ducks had meet many years earlier, in their mid-twenties, and were fighting even back then...you'll notice that Flinty only gets away
because Scrooge ran out of bullets, and is picking up
the used bullets to reload his gun with---Scrooge always
carries a gun and Bowie knife, (young Scrooge and old Scrooge), but he will never shoot at a person or animal,
because bullets cost money so he only shoots at things
he can pull the bullets out of, so he can reuse them...
This picture shows them once again fighting over the
string...and the rights to own the only poultry farm
that has square eggs., land by square chickens...
(note...this panel was edited for use in an article I wrote, so you can't read it straight though as several
panels are missing)