Dark Horse Comics has announced that its forthcoming limited-edition statuette of Disney’s Uncle Scrooge character has sold out its edition.
Uncle Scrooge, the first Syroco-like figure in a line of six Disney characters (all related to the world of Scrooge McDuck), is scheduled to be released August 5, 2009. There are six statuettes scheduled for the initial series.
Modeled after products that were popular in the 1930s and 1940s, Dark Horse’s Syroco-like figures have enjoyed success and critical acclaim in a number of other series including Classic Comic Characters (comic strip characters such as Krazy Kat, Dick Tracy, Popeye, and so on), Classic Comic Book Characters (ranging from Magnus Robot Fighter to Elfquest, Classic DC Comics Characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash), Peanuts, Kellogg’s, and mot recently The Simpsons.
Based on stories by Carl Barks, the Uncle Scrooge Comics Characters line, like the other Syroco-like figures from Dark Horse, have been designed and sculpted by Yoe! Studio. The first two pieces are limited to 950 hand-numbered figures each, and the run will be reduced after that, the company said.
Following Uncle Scrooge’s arrival in August, the other five figures will arrive monthly in sequence: Donald Duck (September), Gyro Gearloose (October), Magica De Spell (November), Gladstone Gander, (December) and one of the Beagle Boys will round out the program in January 2010.
“We are delighted with the support from the collector marketplace,” Dark Horse product development head David Scroggy said, “although it comes as no surprise given the worldwide collector base for Uncle Scrooge. Many consider these to be among the best comics ever produced, and we hope to equal that high standard with these pieces.”
As with the other Syroco-like lines Dark Horse has produced, each hand-numbered statuette comes packaged in a custom-tooled, full-color, litho-printed tin box, which also includes a small booklet about each character and a vintage-style pin-back button.
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