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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Chapter 24 -- <strong>Underground</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> in the Comics<br />

CHAPTER 24<br />

UNDERGROUND RIVERS IN THE COMICS<br />

And what Boys Club doesn't read comic books?<br />

We'll begin with some familiar anthromorphized critters.<br />

We might anticipate that Mickey Mouse would be involved in subterranean escapades, but the<br />

more adventurous <strong>of</strong> the extended duck family are Uncle Scrooge and the nephews Huey, Dewey<br />

and Louie.<br />

"Speedy Pokington's Secret"<br />

Junior Woodchucks, July 1975<br />

A savvy Woodchuck uses a subterranean river<br />

to win the mountain marathon.<br />

Cowboys<br />

DRAFT 1122//66//22001122<br />

"The Universal Solvent"<br />

Uncle Scrooge # 401, 2011<br />

Scrooge McDuck finds a way to bore to the<br />

planet's core using a solvent that condenses<br />

everything but diamonds. After the boys<br />

explain the potentially catastrophic impact <strong>of</strong><br />

this act -- it will cause the globe's destruction --<br />

all go down the shaft to retrieve the chemical.<br />

We'll look at several comic book cowboys, most <strong>of</strong> them also being Western movie idols.<br />

<strong>Underground</strong> rivers play a role in cowboy yarns, but not the campfire variety.<br />

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