The discovery of America was a collective effort... just like the compound microscope, the light bulb, and television. And, like
Philo T. Farnsworth, Christoper Columbus was royally screwed over by the lawyers, and died largely broke and resenting his own success. Oh, and both got a couple of silly little skits like this on a Saturday morning cartoon.
Although scholars disagree on just
how rich Columbus was in his later years--hardly a millionaire, but not exactly a pauper, either--the onetime explorer was beset with health issues and a protracted legal fight with the Spanish crown for his rightful profits and rewards, which wasn't settled 'til decades after his passing.
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