| INDEX | ART | ANIMATION | [COMICS] | CHARACTERS | QUOTES | DIARY | PHOTOGRAPHS | BIBLIOGRAPHY | LINKS | SOURCES |
| One Shots | Comics and Stories | Our Gang | Giveaways | Donald Duck | Uncle Scrooge | [Junior Woodchucks] | Various | Library |
| 004 - 007 | [008 - 011] | 012 - 017 | 019 - 023 | 025 - 041 |
| COMICS | Junior Woodchucks 008 - 011 |
New material:
Changes: In the story as published, the official Woodchuck hound in Barks' script is changed into Pluto.
Surviving material: Pencil script. Published in b&w in "The Carl Barks Library".
Backstage: In a March 8, 1970 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks said about this story: "I've just finished the script for a 14-page Junior Woodchuck story. It's about the J.W.s discovering the bones of a huge prehistoric beast. Larger than a dinosaur. They vow to dig it out complete and give the 'Colossaurus' to the children of the future. In other words, set up a park around the bones. But Uncle Scrooge's construction crew is building a super highway right through the bones. Uncle Scrooge figures he'll girnd up the bones and use them for road ballast. Then, when the kids dissuad him from that, he re-routes the highway, buys the bone site, and starts readying the bones into a hamburger joint. The situation gives me several chances to poke fun at America's tastes and ideas of culture. Perhaps you will like the story."
Correspondence:
Changes:
Panel 1.3 in Barks' script, in between published panel 1.2 and 1.3,
was deleted. It shows Troop A winning a trail-marking contest.
Scripted panels 1.4 and 1.5; and scripted panel 2.1 are
shifted, resulting in published page 1.
Scripted panel 2.2 is shown as double panel (published panel 2.1).
Maybe this change was made because the editor felt the alarm bell of
scripted panel 2.1 was a better cliffhanger for page 1?
Surviving material: Pencil script. Published in b&w in "The Carl Barks Library".
Reconstructions: H 92002 Bad Day for Troop 'A' [remake]
New material:
"We eat Vitamin Zee in our oats and tea!
To make us STRONG and help us SEE!
Vitamin Zee gives us BONE
and endless, boundless MUSCLE TONE!"
-- Junior Woodchucks
Landmark: In a March 3, 1971 letter to Donald Ault, Barks wrote: "A TV station in Edmonton, Canada, phoned here Monday. The program chief wanted to do a telephone interview with me for their afternoon talk show that day. It seems he had bought a Junior Woodchucks comic book and was greatly impressed by the story of the kids saving the lake from Uncle Scrooge's polluting factory. He had many questions to ask and Garé stood in for me. Evidently the Woodchucks got a nice plug in Edmonton that afternoon."
Changes: In Barks' script, the title of this story was "Saviors of the Lake".
Surviving material: Pencil script. Published in b&w in "The Carl Barks Library".
Backstage: In an August 1, 1970 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks wrote: "I'll give you a resume of what I've done lately. A 13-page script in June for the Junior Woodchucks. It's about the J.W.s going skating at Crystal Lake and finding that a factory is so polluting the water that skating is no longer possible. Uncle Scrooge owns the factory and isn't about to shut it down for the ecology's sake. The J.W.s out-trick him and close the stinking plant for keeps. Then they discover the other side of the coin. The plant was producing a product that was almost the staff of life of the Junior Woodchucks. Probably a Dec. or Jan. release."
Correspondence:
Questions: The television program has never been tracked down. Do you know more about it and / or do you have a recording of it?
New material:
Changes: Panels 6 and 7 on page 3 of Barks's script were deleted. The splash panel is enlarged and the panels on page 1 to 3 are shifted one tier. The cut two panels panels follow after published page 3, showing the nephews stumbling about with buckets over their heads.
Surviving material: Pencil script. Published in b&w in "The Carl Barks Library".
Reconstructions: H 94001 Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [remake]
Backstage: In an August 1, 1970 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks wrote: "Another script in the planning stage is about the J.W.s harvesting maple sap for their charity fund. I plan to have Donald or Uncle Scrooge be the greedy villain who milks the trees of all their sap and generally wreaks havoc with the ecology. I have very little done on this script but believe I can develop enough conflict to fill 13 pages."
In a September 21, 1970 letter to Barrier, Barks told more about this story: "Well, my latest is a 13-page script for the Junior Woodchucks, in which the Chucks try to make some money gathering maple sap to make into maple sugar. Uncle Scrooge, Donald, and a troop of Littlest Chickadees corner all the sugar trees, leaving the 'chucks sapless. But thievery sets in mysteriously, and the big operators suspect each other. There is almost war before an accident reveals Beagle Boys in the tree- tops. The big operators abandon their sap to round up Beagle Boys, and the Woodchucks get all the sugar. No message in the plot. Just sight gags."
Correspondence:
Surviving material: Pencil script. Published in b&w in "The Carl Barks Library".
Remakes: H 94141 Bottled Battlers [remake]
Backstage: In an August 1, 1970 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks wrote: "At present I'm doing a 12-page script for the J.W.s. It's about pollution, too. The J.W.s are cleaning up trash along the roadside. Magica de Spell, flying by, loses a bottle of Formula X from the saddle bags of her hot rod broom. Complications start when she returns to find the bottle and 'glass blows' the nephews into a huge bottle to keep them from beating her to the lost formula bottle. If accepted, this script will be a springtime release."
Correspondence:
New material:
Changes: Panels 3 and 6 on page 10 of Barks's script were reduced in size to single panels so that the story's last panel could be enlarged to a half page. The panels in between are shifted one tier in the published version.
Surviving material: Pencil script. Published in b&w in "The Carl Barks Library".
Reconstructions: H 92085 Traitor in the Ranks [remake]
Changes: Two double panels on the 10th page of Barks's script were reduced in size so that the story's last panel could be enlarged to a half page.
Surviving material: Pencil script. Published in b&w in "The Carl Barks Library".
Reconstructions: H 99044 Eagle Savers [remake]
Sources
| 004 - 007 | [008 - 011] | 012 - 017 | 019 - 023 | 025 - 041 |
| One Shots | Comics and Stories | Our Gang | Giveaways | Donald Duck | Uncle Scrooge | [Junior Woodchucks] | Various | Library |
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