| 1877 | 0 | Of Ducks, Dimes and Destinies | .. | none | Uncle Scrooge #297 | Magica De Spell travels back in time to steal Scrooge's Number One Dime before he earns it. She convinces who would be Scrooge's first customer to hand over his dime to her in exchange for 2 shillings, which he uses at a nearby bar. Realizing that the dime would have no worth if Scrooge never earned it, she quickly places it back in his hand before returning to the present. |
| 1877-1880 | 1 | The Last of the Clan McDuck | 15 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #285 | Scrooge McDuck is born to a poor family in Scotland in 1867, where their once royal legacy has been diminished and their old castle, located in Dismal Downs, has been taken over by the Whiskervilles, who used a hound costume to scare them off the property. On his 10th birthday, Scrooge is gifted a shoeshining kit, and gets an American Dime, teaching him to be smart and cunning, and to make his money square. While gathering peat to sell to the wealthy, he gets chased into the castle by the Whiskervilles, where he meets the castle's caretaker. After scaring off the Whiskervilles with a knight filled with burning peat, he heads for the United States on a cattle boat. |
| 1880-1882 | 2 | The Master of the Mississippi | 28 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #286 | Scrooge works for his Uncle Angus "Pothole" McDuck and has his first encounter with Blackheart Beagle and his sons, the Beagle Boys. |
| 1882-1883 | 3 | The Buckaroo of the Badlands | 15 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #287 | Scrooge becomes a cowboy and winds up having to recover a prize bull for his boss Murdo MacKenzie, then meeting future President Theodore Roosevelt while doing so. |
| 1883 | 3B | The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark | 24 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #318 | Scrooge imports cattle to the Dutch East Indies (present Indonesia) aboard the Cutty Sark but encounters a thief and meets his old friend Ratchet Gearloose from his Riverboat days, who helps the Cutty Sark survive the eruption of Krakatoa. |
| 1883-1885 | 4 | The Raider of the Copper Hill | 15 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #288 | Scrooge takes some prospecting lessons from Howard Rockerduck and almost takes over the Anaconda Copper Mine of Butte, Montana from Marcus Daly. |
| 1885 | 5 | The New Laird of Castle McDuck | 15 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #289 | Scrooge returns to Scotland to save Castle McDuck from being bought by the Whiskervilles. |
| 1886-1889 | 6 | The Terror of the Transvaal | 12 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #290 | Scrooge goes to the South African Republic, where he first encounters Flintheart Glomgold. |
| 1890 | 6B | The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff | .. | none | Uncle Scrooge #306 | Scrooge returns to the United States and joins with Phineas Taylor Barnum, his Uncle Pothole, Geronimo, Buffalo Bill, and Annie Oakley on a mission to recover stolen money from the Dalton Gang. |
| 1893-1896 | 7 | The Dreamtime Duck of the Never-Never | 15 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #291 | Scrooge goes to Australia and learns about the Dreamtime. |
| 1896-1897 | 8 | The King of the Klondike | 24 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #292 | Scrooge finally goes to The Yukon, participating in the Klondike Gold Rush, and strikes some gold, but not before being kidnapped by crooked gambler Soapy Slick. |
| 1897 | 8B | The Prisoner of White Agony Creek | 33 | wiki | Companion | Scrooge takes Goldie O'Gilt to his property and makes her dig for gold. This was shown in the uncensored Barks-classic "Back to the Klondike". |
| 1898 | 8C | Hearts of the Yukon | .. | none | Walt Disney Giant #1 | Scrooge is falsely accused to the Mounties of tracking mud in Dawson. He plans to clear his name by any means and thinks that Glittering Goldie O'Gilt is the one that framed him. |
| 1898-1902 | 9 | The Billionaire of Dismal Downs | 15 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #293 | After becoming a billionaire, Scrooge goes back to Scotland only to realize that he doesn't really belong there anymore, and so returns to the United States, accompanied by his sisters Matilda and Hortense. |
| 1902 | 10 | The Invader of Fort Duckburg | 15 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #294 | Scrooge and his sisters move to Duckburg, Calisota, United States and meet the Duck family and the founding three members of The Junior Woodchucks. Scrooge has his first run in with the Beagle Boys since his riverboat days and is reacquainted with President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| 1906 | 10B | The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut | 26 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #332 | Scrooge and his sisters, Matilda and Hortense McDuck, are prospecting for gold in Panama. Their search inadvertently interferes with the construction of the Panama Canal, at the same time President Roosevelt is visiting the country to oversee the project. |
| 1909-1930 | 11 | The Empire-Builder from Calisota | 24 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #295 | Scrooge goes around the world building his financial empire, notably including forcing the Voodoo tribe of sorcerer Foola Zoola off their land. In revenge, the sorcerer curses him to be constantly haunted by Bombie the Zombie. He returns to Duckburg and first meets his ten-year-old nephew and niece, twins Donald and Della Duck. On the same day, he loses contact with his family and becomes the richest duck in the world. |
| 1947 | 12 | The Richest Duck in the World | 16 | wiki | Uncle Scrooge #296 | On Christmas Day of 1947, one year after the events of Christmas on Bear Mountain, Donald and his grandnephews are invited to his mansion for Christmas Dinner. He reveals his money bin to them, running 100 feet deep and containing "3 cubic acres" of gold. A new generation of Beagle Boys disguised as street Santas arrive to steal the money and his Number One Dime, causing the ducks to give chase. Scrooge decides to start adventuring again, jumping into his money bin to relive old memories, while Donald remarks that his money is useless if he never spends it. |