Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked by Ginasius on October 3, 2020
This comic book was published in Spain between 1976 and 1980 and was probably a work of Disney’s Italian studio. Might be a work by Romano Scarpa.
There is a planet where energy has replaced money. People (anthropomorphic ducks, of course) who can’t pay their taxes are forced to generate energy on big wheels. The planetary ducktator owns a "Money Bin" with a huge amount of giant cylindrical batteries similar to AAA pocket batteries.
He learns that there is a duck on Earth as rich as he is and sends a challenge to Uncle Scrooge. Their spaceships meet in space and blast each other with energy. Scrooge has a boiler in his ship that converts money into energy. Eventually, Scrooge wins the battle by adding to the money in the boiler plans for humanitarian aid to underdeveloped nations.
After a couple failed searches [*], I think I found it. It should be "Zio Paperone e il "botto" siderale". It is a story drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano (whose career started inking Romano Scarpa's pencils, so you were not completely wrong!) in 1972, and re-printed in Spain as "Tío Gilito y el "reto" sideral" in 1977.
The description on the inducks page reads:
An extra-terrestial learns that he might not be the richest person in universe, because of Scrooge.
I first tried to search in the stories drawn by Romano Scarpa, founding nothing matching the description.
Then I tried the inducks search for stories between 1975 and 1981 reprinted in Spain.
Finally I realized that if it was reprinted between 1975 and 1981 it could have been first printed some years before, so I searched for stories between 1970 and 1975 reprinted in Spain.
Correct answer by lfurini on October 3, 2020
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