  magica de spell is a fictional character of the scrooge mcduck universe, a sorceress created by carl barks. she constantly steals or attempts to steal scrooge mcduck's number one dime, which she believes will play a vital role in magically obtaining the same fabulous wealth of its owner. ==publication history== the sorceress first appeared in "the midas touch", first published in december, 1961. according to barks, he intended to create her as another recurring antagonist for scrooge, in addition to the beagle boys and flintheart glomgold. but in contrast to witch hazel from trick or treat, first released on october 10, 1952, or mad madam mim she would not be in the image of the old hag usually associated with witches. he wanted to create a youthful and attractive enchantress, so he took inspiration for her look from italian actresses gina lollobrigidablum, geoffrey."the meaning of magica", uncle scrooge adventures in color, no.39, february 3, 1998 and sophia loren. he also wanted her to be seductive, amoral, and somewhat threatening. in a later interview, barks identified a similar figure from the comic strips of charles addams as another source of inspiration for magica, namely morticia addams of the addams family. all in all, barks drew nine stories with magica: the midas touch in 1961; ten-cent valentine, the unsafe safe, and raven mad in 1962; oddball odyssey, for old dime's sake, and isle of golden geese in 1963; the many faces of magica de spell and rug riders in the sky in 1964. in the latter, barks tried to increase the usability of the character by having plots turn on other magic artifacts, here a flying carpet, not always having to repeat the joke about scrooge's first coin. ==character biography== according to barks and his successors, magica lives on the slopes of mount vesuvius, next to naples, italy. her primary motivation is to steal uncle scrooge's number one dime and melt it in the fires of the volcano to turn it into a powerful magical amulet, capable of granting the midas touch. she sometimes teams up with the beagle boys. she also has a raven named ratface in the comics (in the ducktales tv series, ratface has been replaced with a raven named mr. poe, who is said to be magica's bewitched brother). other characters closer to magica include her grandmother, granny de spell, who, although claiming be one of the most po
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