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| year = 2009
| chapter = [[The Last of the Clan McDuck]]
| title = [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]
| volume = 1
| location = Los Angeles
| publisher = [[Boom! Studios|BOOM Kids!]]
| page = 53
| isbn = 978-1-60886-538-3
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| year = 2010
| chapter = [[The Billionaire of Dismal Downs]]
| title = [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]
| volume = 2
| location = Los Angeles
| publisher = [[Boom! Studios|BOOM Kids!]]
| page = 53
| isbn = 978-1-60886-542-0
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| year = 2010
| chapter = Hearts of the Yukon
| title = [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion]]
| location = Los Angeles
| publisher = [[Boom! Studios|BOOM Kids!]]
| page = 141
| isbn = 978-1-60886-653-3
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| year = 2005
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| volume = No. 342
| location = Los Angeles
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| year = 2006
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"What is Mickey anyway but an abstract idea in the process of becoming?"