"The Son of the Sun" | |
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![]() Gladstone Publishing's US cover for Son of the Sun | |
Story code | AR 102 |
Story | Don Rosa |
Ink | Don Rosa |
Hero | Scrooge McDuck |
Pages | 26 |
Layout | 4 rows per page |
Appearances | Scrooge McDuck Donald Duck Huey, Dewey and Louie Flintheart Glomgold |
First publication | Uncle Scrooge #219 April 7th, 1987 |
"The Son of the Sun" is the first Scrooge McDuck comic by Don Rosa, first published in Uncle Scrooge #219 in July 1987. It is a well-known comic book story that features Disney's Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and his three nephews. This story is most notable for establishing Don Rosa as a major talent in the Disney comic book industry, as well as fulfilling Rosa's childhood dream of becoming a writer/illustrator of stories featuring Scrooge McDuck.
The combination of homages to Carl Barks, clever and intelligent writing, appealing art, and dependence of the resolution of the plot on one of Scrooge's most redeeming character traits were instrumental in the reception of this storyline as a modern classic.