Christmas on Bear Mountain

"Christmas on Bear Mountain"
"Christmas on Bear Mountain" comic book cover. Cover art by an unknown artist, probably Dan Gormley.
Story code	W OS 178-02
Story	Carl Barks
Ink	Carl Barks
Date	1947
Hero	Donald Duck
Pages	20
Layout	4 rows per page
Appearances	Donald Duck Huey, Dewey and Louie Scrooge McDuck (debut)
First publication	Four Color Comics #178 December, 1947

"Christmas on Bear Mountain" (1947) is a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in Dell Comics Four Color Comics #178. It was the first appearance of Scrooge McDuck, a character who became a comic-book icon throughout the world.^[1]

Scrooge did not yet have his familiar characteristics in his first comic story. In "Christmas on Bear Mountain", Scrooge was a bearded, bespectacled, reasonably wealthy old man, visibly leaning on his cane. He was living in isolation in a "huge mansion", which is said to be influenced by Xanadu from Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Scrooge has always been a somewhat bitter character, but his misanthropic thoughts in this first story are probably less characteristic of Scrooge than those of his rival Flintheart Glomgold: "Here I sit in this big lonely dump, waiting for Christmas to pass! Bah! That silly season when everybody loves everybody else! A curse on it! Me—I'm different! Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody!"