The Money Bin is a fictional structure in Disney comic books, first appearing in comic book stories created by Carl Barks. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 &ndash August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and Comic book creator who It was later depicted in animated cartoons such as the theatrical short Scrooge McDuck and Money and the television series DuckTales. An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer Scrooge McDuck and Money is a short Animated cartoon made by Walt Disney Studios in 1967. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U DuckTales is an American Animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is in this building that Scrooge McDuck stores the portions of his money he earned by himself and is the tallest building in the city of Duckburg, Calisota. Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a fictional Duckburg is a Fictional city which appears in Walt Disney 's Comic books and animated projects Duckburg is a Fictional city which appears in Walt Disney 's Comic books and animated projects

The Money Bin was built in 1902, shortly after Scrooge entered the diamond market and could no longer sleep at night because all the money he was storing under his mattress raised his bed too close to the ceiling, necessitating a more suitable storage facility for his money. In Mineralogy, diamond is the allotrope of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in His favorite pastime is to dive off a board into his money and swim through it. Diving off a deck into the Great South Bay of Long Islandjpg|thumb|A man dives into the Great South Bay of Long Island.

Although the Money Bin is a twelve story skyscraper and a vault filled with three cubic acres of money, on various occasions it has been pulled around by a tractor, lifted to the top of a mountain, stolen by aliens from the bottom of the ocean, and blasted open with a cannon. A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable Building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper A bank vault is a secure space where Money, valuables records and documents can be stored A tractor is a Vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high Tractive effort at slow speeds for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used A mountain is a Landform that extends above the surrounding Terrain in a limited area with a peak Extraterrestrial life is Life originating outside of the Earth. An ocean (from Greek, ''Okeanos'' (Oceanus) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the Hydrosphere. | NOTE Throughout this article "cannon" is used as BOTH the || singular and plural The traditional location of the Money Bin is on top of Killmotor Hill. The Money Bin sits atop Futterman's Fault, a fault line which would prove catastrophic in the event of an earthquake. In Geology a fault, or fault line, is a planar rock fracture which shows evidence of relative movement An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer

The Money Bin is the victim of repeated assaults by many of Scrooge's enemies who try to steal his money, such as his archnemesis Flintheart Glomgold, the Beagle Boys, and Magica DeSpell, who is after Scrooge's Number One Dime (the first dime Scrooge ever earned). Flintheart Glomgold is a Fictional character in Disney Comic books, one of Scrooge McDuck 's main rivals who holds the title of The Second The Beagle Boys are a group of Fictional characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe loosely based on the popular image of Ma Barker and the Barker-Karpis Magica De Spell is a Fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe, a Witch created by Carl Barks.

To protect against these attempted break-ins, Scrooge has installed the greatest security system in the world to thwart any thought of even trying to intrude onto the premises.

Flintheart Glomgold has his own Money Bin, somewhere around Limpopo Valley, with a pound sign (£) instead of the dollar sign ($) that appears on Scrooge's as revealed when Scrooge pays him a visit in "The Second-Richest Duck". Limpopo (lɪmˈpoʊpoʊ is the northernmost province of South Africa. See also Pound (currency.The pound sign (" £ " or " ₤ " is the symbol for the Pound sterling —the currency of the Although Glomgold uses some of Scrooge's ideas, like the cannon, he apparently doesn't have booby traps around his Money Bin, as Scrooge enters it without having to handle them although Flintheart didn't know about his visit. | NOTE Throughout this article "cannon" is used as BOTH the || singular and plural A booby trap is a device set up to be triggered by an unsuspecting victim Although it's not so often as Scrooge's, Flintheart's Money Bin is also victim of assaults, as it's revealed in A Little Something Special, by the Beagle Boys, who don't care if the money they steal is Scrooge's or Flintheart's, and Magica De Spell, who was working with the possibility of Flintheart Glomgold being the world's richest duck, meaning she would need his Number One Rand instead of Scrooge's Number One Dime. A Little Something Special is a comic book story created by Don Rosa to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Scrooge McDuck 's first appearance in The Beagle Boys are a group of Fictional characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe loosely based on the popular image of Ma Barker and the Barker-Karpis Magica De Spell is a Fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe, a Witch created by Carl Barks. The Number One Dime is an artifact of the fictional Scrooge McDuck universe, the first Coin that Scrooge McDuck ever earned (or according to some stories

Contents 1 Dimensions 2 Development 3 Influences on Norwegian 4 References in academia 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Dimensions

A frequent topic of speculation among McDuck fans regards the dimensions of the Money Bin. Barks defined the volume of money contained inside as "three cubic acres," but the exact meaning, and therefore the volume, of a "cubic acre" is subject to interpretation by the reader, since an acre is a measure of area, not length. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Length is the long Dimension of any object The length of a thing is the distance between its ends its linear extent as measured from end to end A series of blueprints created for a Scrooge McDuck story by Don Rosa state that the Money Bin is approximately 127 feet (39 m) tall, and 120 feet (37 m) wide. Keno Don Hugo Rosa (often just called Don Rosa) (born June 29, 1951) is a comic book writer and illustrator best known for his stories about Scrooge In the story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Keno D. Rosa, which is Don Rosa's actual name.

Another interpretation is to treat a "cubic acre" as a volume equal to the space that would be created if six squares, each an acre in area, were placed to form a cube. However, this would require the height and width to be 209 feet (64 m).

A third interpretation would be to take 'cubic acre' literally--thus making McDuck's cash holdings extensive enough to require six-dimensional storage. Taken literally, this would be over 66 billion cubic square metres (110 billion cubic square yards). Taken this way, one may consider McDuck's wealth as incalculable.

Development

Carl Barks invented the "money swim" in 1950, while he invented the "money bin" in 1951. ^[1]

Influences on Norwegian

The Norwegian name for the Money Bin is "Pengebingen", and has become regular word in the Norwegian language for a large amount of money or cash. ^[2]

References in academia

Russell W. Belk mentions the money bin in Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth, where he remarks that Scrooge's "childish fascination with money", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the money bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain. ^[3]

Penelope Fritzer in the article Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron considers it possible for the money bin to symbolize the entire Disney empire. ^[4]

See also

• Scrooge McDuck universe

References

External links

• The Money Bin Who's who in Duckburg
• Scale model of the Money Bin

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