The Archie-verse of comics is always good from some random Scrooge references as well as spins on "A Christmas Carol!"
The Little Archie story "George to the Rescue" is one such example.
The basic story is that the school wants to buy some bird feeders, but Mr. Weatherbee is too cheap to sign off on the necessary expenditure, so Little Archie refers to him as an "Ol' Scrooge."
It happens that Little Archie brought "George," his new parakeet to school that day for show and tell.
George gets out if hsi cage and flies into Mr. Weatherbee's office, where he repeats the Scrooge reference and also throws in a few cheeps, which sounds like he's calling Mr. W "cheap."
Mr. Weatherbee thinks he's being haunted by the bird, so he has a change of heart and buys a bunch of bird feeders!
Probably more than you need to know, but that's the set-up for these panels from the story that mention Scrooge:
I always thought it was odd that in the Little Archie stories, everyone calls him "Little Archie." Since this is Archie as a younger child, there was no "Big Archie" at that time, so why does everyone go out of their way to make the distinction that this is Little Archie?
All of the characters are younger, but nobody calls the younger Jughead "Little Jughead," for example!
These are important things to think about!
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