The Gilded Man (comics) "The Gilded Man" is based on the centuries-old legend of El Dorado. The main characters in the story are Donald Duck, his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and his cousin Gladstone Gander. Minor characters include Philo T. Ellic, The Old River Man, and The Gilded Man. Barks created the fictional U.S. state of Calisota as the location of Duckburg in this story. The story obviously references the world’s most valuable stamp, the legendary 1856 British Guiana 1c magenta which in 2014 was auctioned for $9,480,000. The stamp is presently on display at the National Postal Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
Guardians of the Lost Library fathers of Gyro Gearloose and Grandma Duck. "Guardians of the Lost Library" was later referenced in Part 10: "The Invader of Fort Duckburg" (1994), of Don Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" where in 1902 the first three Junior Woodchucks are expelled from their former headquarter, the ruins of Fort Duckburg recently bought by Scrooge. As the boyscouts walk down Killmotor Hill, along with some JWC pennants they carry a large, old volume with the Iris Emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library with them. One of the Junior Woodchucks says "Someday we've just got to make