A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe (test)

Inducks: ARC BL 1
CBL: 01-000; 01A-225
Type: cover, illustrating «and the Mummy's Ring» reprint
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1984, July (Inducks publication date: 1988-06)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set I
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: The Mummy's Ring

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CBL 2 - The Carl Barks Library - Set II

Inducks: CBL 2
Publisher:
Publication date: 1986, November
Country: USA
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Donald Duck (FC 308-422 and Donald Duck 26-138)

The Second Edition of set 2 (the only reprinted set?) has slightly different contents. Page 668 of the First Edition of this set shows only one pencil cover sketch of "Pawns of the Loup Garou", and not the one that was eventually drawn for publication. On page 668 of the Second Edition, the missing sketch is added (partly covering the other one). For the owners of the First Edition, set 10 also contains the missing sketch, though much smaller.

New material:

ARC BL 2 angry bull and matador

Articles:

(02A-005) Introduction: by Donald Ault, July 1986.; 1972, September 15. Letter to Donald Ault
(02C-497) Halloween in Duckburg: by Geoffrey Blum; 1971, January 25. Letter to Michael Barrier; 1985, November 10. Interview with Jack Hannah by Geoffrey Blum; 1985, November 10. Interview with Chase Craig by Geoffrey Blum; 1985, November 17. Notes written for The Carl Barks Library
(02C-643) The Later Years: by Geoffrey Blum; 1996, December 30. Letter to Michael Barrier; 1963, Januari 21. Letter to Michael Peak; [1960, April] Letter to John Spicer; [1960, October] Letter to Larry Ivie; 1965, November 4. Letter from Chase Craig to Carl Barks; 1968, January 23. Letter to Michael Barrier; 1971, March 3. Letter to Donald Ault; [1968], November 1. Letter from Chase Craig to Carl Barks; 1968, November 22. Letter to Michael Barrier; 1970, February 20. Letter to Michael Barrier

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ARC BL 2 angry bull and matador

Inducks: ARC BL 2
CBL: 02-000; 02B-251; 02B-252 (new art only)
Type: cover, illustrating «in "Dangerous Disguise"» reprint
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: ?),Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: ?),Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1986, November (Inducks publication date: 1987-12)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Dangerous Disguise

Additional credits: Based on a non-Barks cover for Donald Duck One Shot 308, illustrating «in "Dangerous Disguise"».
The drawings of the bull and Donald are drawn by Barks. The background has been added by the editors of the "Carl Barks Library", reproducing the background of the non-Barks cover, with slight modifications to accommodate Barks's figures.

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CBL 3 - The Carl Barks Library - Set III

Inducks: CBL 3
Publisher:
Publication date: 1984, December
Country: USA
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Uncle Scrooge (FC 386 [No. 1]-20)

New material:

ARC BL 3 six cups [remake]

Articles:

(03B-517) The Expurgated Barks: by Thomas Andrae; [circa late 1942] Undated memo from Dorothy Strebe to Carl Barks; 1983, September 24. Interview with Barks by Bruce Hamilton.; 1975, August 4. Interview with Barks by Thomas Andrae and Donald Ault.; 1983, October 2. Interview with Barks by Bruce Hamilton.; 1970, October 24. Letter to Donald Ault.; 1956, June 4. Note from Alice Cobb to Carl Barks; 1962, October 18. Letter to Don Thompson.; [1956, circa mid-June] Undated draft, to Alice Cobb); 1984, June 4. Interview with Barks by Bruce Hamilton.; 1960, December 13. Letter to Ronald O. Burnett; 1984, July 4. Notes written for the Carl Barks Library; 1962, January 17. Letter to Malcom Willits; 1965, July 9. Letter from Chase Craig to Carl Barks; 1953, December 18. Letter from Carl Buettner to Carl Barks.; [1960, April or May] Letter to John Spicer.

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ARC BL 3 six cups [remake]

Inducks: ARC BL 3
CBL: 03-000; 03C-704
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1984, December (Inducks publication date: 1988-08)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set III
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Six Cups

Additional credits: Based on six cups [cover layout], which is a pencil sketch for "six cups".
Barks has added background details such as vegetation, and the money bin.

Backstage: In mid-1984, Another Rainbow approached Barks with the idea of finishing six cups [cover layout] for the slipcase of The Carl Barks Library - Set III.

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CBL 4 - The Carl Barks Library - Set IV

Inducks: CBL 4
Publisher: Another Rainbow Publishing Inc.
Publication date: 1985, November
Country: USA. Arizona, Scottsdale
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Printed and bound by Walsworth Publishing Co., Inc. (Missouri, Marceline)

Uncle Scrooge 21-43 and The Lemonade King.

New material:

ARC BL 4 heavy storm and flying ship

Articles:

(04A-007) Introduction: by Donald Ault, August 1985; 1975, August 4. Interview with Barks by Thomas Andrae and Donald Ault.; Personal comment by Carl Barks to Donald Ault. (Described.)
(04A-009) The Source of the Golden River: by Geoffrey Blum; Unidentified Carl Barks comment. ("Enjoy fairy tales? I have read very few, and enjoy them only in the sense that I like to analyze their construction."); 1985, June 5. Notes written for The Carl Barks Library; 1985, July 15. Letter to Geoffrey Blum; 1961, March 24. Letter to Malcom Willits

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ARC BL 4 heavy storm and flying ship

Inducks: ARC BL 4
CBL: 04-000; 04A-154
Type: cover, illustrating «and the Flying Dutchman» reprint
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks) (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1985, November (Inducks publication date: 1988-08)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set IV
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: looking at the Flying Dutchman
Painting version: Afoul of the Flying Dutchman

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CBL 5 - The Carl Barks Library - Set V

Inducks: CBL 5
Publisher:
Publication date: 1989, April
Country: USA
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Uncle Scrooge 44-71 and The Christmas Carol.

New material:

ARC CBL 5B fighting dirty

Articles:

(05A-007) Predendum ("The Cruelest Cuts of All"): by Byron Erickson; 1972, February 17. Letter to Michael Barrier; 1961, March 24. Letter to Malcom Willits; 1989, March 25. Notes written for The Carl Barks Library
(05A-007) Predendum ("The Ruins of Sagbad"): by Geoffrey Blum; 1989, March 25. Notes written for The Carl Barks Library; Interview with Tony Strobl by Klaus Strzyz

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ARC CBL 5B fighting dirty

Inducks: ARC CBL 5B
CBL: 05A-008
Type: story
Art: Ulrich Schröder (Inducks artist: Ulrich Schr�der)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge))
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 0 1/2 (Inducks pages: 0 h)

Additional credits: Based on the violent final confrontation between Khan Khan and Scrooge, as Barks staged it in page 20 of his shooting script for «King Scrooge the First».

picture: Monochrome.

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CBL 6 - The Carl Barks Library - Set VI

Inducks: CBL 6
Publisher:
Publication date: 1990, May
Country: USA
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Donald Duck Family (Giveaways, Annuals, and Misc.)

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New material:

CU 3 "rocket chair"

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CU 3 "rocket chair"

Inducks: CU 3
Barrier: MBAC-202
CBL: 06B-334
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown]
Hero: Gyro Gearloose (Inducks hero: Gyro Gearloose)
Submission: 1961, September 28 (Inducks submission: 1961-09-28)
Publication date: 1990, May (Inducks publication date: 1992)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Intended issue: Gyro Gearloose One Shot
Intended publication date: ...
Inducks description: Rocket chair

Description: Art-only cover for a Gyro Gearloose One Shot, listed as "rocket chair", submitted on September 28, 1961. It shows Gyro Gearloose rising in an electric chair. It's difficult to say in which issue this cover would have appeared. (Any idea on this would be very welcome.)

Surviving material:

Original art?
Pencil drawing.: Unpublished?

Status: Published in "The Carl Barks Library".

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CBL 7 - The Carl Barks Library - Set VII

Inducks: CBL 7
Publisher:
Publication date: 1988, March
Country: USA
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Donald Duck (Walt Disney Comics and Stories 31-94)

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New material:

ARC BL 7 running fireman

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ARC BL 7 running fireman

Inducks: ARC BL 7
CBL: 07-000; 07C-720; 07C-721 (new art only)
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1988, March (Inducks publication date: 1975-10)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VII
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Fireman

Additional credits: Adapted from panel 4.2 of absent-minded fireman. After this panel had been chosen as the most ideally suitable to create a slipcase cover design for The Carl Barks Library - Set IV, Barks first thought to raise Donald's figure above the horizon to better suggest the duck's running speed; then he came up with the firetruck gag. Barks visualized the firetruck in new art, which has been added to the cover.

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CBL 8 - The Carl Barks Library - Set VIII

Inducks: CBL 8
Publisher:
Publication date: 1983, August
Country: USA
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Donald Duck (Walt Disney Comics and Stories 95-166)

Barks' painting "Who's Out There" is published in a bigger format than in "The Fine Art" paintings book, in which it's published as a small plate.

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New material:

ARC BL 8 photo in disneyland
CB OIL 124-B Sailing the Spanish Main [inked version]

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ARC BL 8 photo in disneyland

Inducks: ARC BL 8
Barrier: ---
CBL: 08-000; 08C-734; 08C-735
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: [Carl Barks] (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1983, August (Inducks publication date: 1983)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VIII
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Photograph in Disneyland

Landmark: First original cover created by Carl Barks since 1969.

Changes: Because of erroneous dimension measurements originally supplied to Barks, it was drawn at an incorrect widtht-to-height ratio for the slipcase. To correct this ratio, a staff artist moved the coin in to reduce the width of the cover, and up in order to keep it in Scrooge's line of sight. Barks originally drew Scrooge "cranking" his neck to look over the nephews' heads at the coin, but because of the new coin placement this became unnescessary, and Scrooge's neck was shortened for the slipcase version.

Surviving material:

Original version.: Published in an article in "The Carl Barks Library" (page 08C-734).

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CB OIL 124-B Sailing the Spanish Main [inked version]

(Inducks description: Sailing The Spanish Main)

Inducks: CB OIL 124-B
CBL: 08A-256
Type: illustration
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: [unknown] (Inducks submission: 1982)
Publication date: 1983, August (Inducks publication date: 1983)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VIII
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)

Additional credits: To promote the Another Rainbow lithograph of Sailing the Spanish Main [painting] in a tabloid newspaper, Barks drew a pen and ink tracing on vellum, which-greatly reduced-was run in black and white.

Barks provided a color guide which was mechanically intrepreted for use with The Carl Barks Library - Set VIII.
Issue Walt Disney Comics & Stories 601 marks the first appearance of the art on a cover. For this edition, Susan Daigle-Leach has provided new color, based upon Barks's original color guide.

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CBL 9 - The Carl Barks Library - Set IX

Inducks: CBL 9
Publisher:
Publication date: 1985, June
Country: USA
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Donald Duck (Walt Disney Comics and Stories 167-229)

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New material:

ARC BL 9 kids at bat [remake]
cutting tart with harp

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ARC BL 9 kids at bat [remake]

Inducks: ARC BL 9
Barrier: ---
CBL: 09-000; 09A-153
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1985, June (Inducks publication date: 1984-05-16)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set IX
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Kids at bat

Additional credits: Based on kids at bat [layout #2].
Reconstruction of disappeared/unidentified "kids at bat".

Changes: Donald wears a baseball-glove on his left hand. In the pencil version, he has bare hands.

Surviving material:

CR CU 4 kids at bat [layout #1]
CU 4 kids at bat [layout #2]

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cutting tart with harp

Barrier: ---
CBL: 09B-496
Type: cover
Art: Volker Reiche
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1985, June
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set IX
Pages: 1

Additional credits: Based on moose hunter call [cover idea]. Inscription reads, "Idee + Skizze von Carl Barks, getuscht von V. Reiche", meaning "Idea & sketch by Carl Barks, inked by V. Reiche".

Surviving material:

CRI 10 cutting tart with harp [cover design]

Backstage: In 1982, Stephen Eberhart sent Volker Reiche a photocopy of the sketch, and Reiche responded with this inked rendition.

Questions: Has this cover been published in Europe?

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CBL10 - The Carl Barks Library - Set X

Inducks: CBL10
Publisher:
Publication date: 1990, August
Country: USA
Cover type: Hardcover in slipcase (limited?)
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Cover price:

Description: Donald Duck (Walt Disney Comics and Stories 230-405 and Index)

Contains a chronological index of Carl Barks' Disney comics, compiled by Byron Erickson; and an Errata page containing a list of typographical, textual, reproduction or omission errors in The Carl Barks Library.

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New material:

CR WDC 260 scout knot in hose [alternate version]
Qus/CBL10J lions in the poppy patch

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CR WDC 260 scout knot in hose [alternate version]

Inducks: CR WDC 260
CBL: 10-000
Type: cover
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: [unknown] (Inducks writer: ?)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1990, August (Inducks publication date: 1990-08)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set X
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Intended issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 260, Vol. 22, No. 8
Intended publication date: 1962, May
Inducks description: Knot in garden hose

Additional credits: Alternate version of W WDC 260-00 scout knot in hose. Donald's has straight legs, in comparison with his bended legs in the published version. The ground below him is empty, whereas the published version shows a small puddle below the head of the hose.

Questions: What's the story behind this alternate cover? Why has it been rejected? Has Barks ever commented on it?

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Qus/CBL10J lions in the poppy patch

(Inducks: Lions in the poppy patch)

Inducks: Qus/CBL10J
Barrier: ---
CBL: 10A-228
Type: sample layout, penciled
Art: [none] (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: [none]
Publication date: 1990, August (Inducks publication date: 1990-08)
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set X (Inducks pages: 1)
Intended issue: [none]
Intended publication date: [none]

Description: Donald warns the nephews for the lions he discovered in his poppy patch.

Surviving material: Letter / page containing an informal penciled half page story layout and accompanying suggestions, containing the note "Jan 75" (don't know if this is Barks' handwriting). Published in b&w in "The Carl Barks Library", page 10A-228.

Backstage: Harry Gladstone, head of the Character Merchandising Division at Walt Disney's New York office, decided in 1975 to try his hand at writing a comic book. He approached Carl Barks for advice, and Barks responded with a sample layout and suggestions for submitting a sketch script to the editors at Western Publishing. Detailed information

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