A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe (test)

Inducks: W US 68-00
Barrier: MBAC-153
CBL: 05C-643
Type: cover, illustrating «Hall of the Mermaid Queen»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: 1966, July 20 (Inducks submission: 1966-07-20)
Publication date: 1967, March (Inducks publication date: 1967-03)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge 68
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Ducks dive in underwater cave and find mermaid queen with pet shark; The ducks meet the mermaid queen

Layout:

Contains a promotional text.
Right-side top half logo.

Surviving material:

CR US 68 ducks fighting merman

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W US 68-02 Hall of the Mermaid Queen

(Inducks: Hall of the Mermaid Queen)

Inducks: W US 68-02
Barrier: MBAC-153
CBL: 05C-645
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: 1966, April 13 (Inducks submission: 1966-04-13)
Publication date: 1967, March (Inducks publication date: 1967-03)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge 68
Pages: 24 (Inducks pages: 24)
Inducks description: Money sinks to the bottom of ocean, Ducks find mermaid's underwater kingdom

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US 69 - Uncle Scrooge 69

Inducks: US 69
Barrier: MBAC-153
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1967, May
Country: USA
Cover type:
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price: 12c

New material:

W US 69-00 helicopter and longhorn steer
W US 69-02 The Cattle King

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

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W US 69-00 helicopter and longhorn steer

(Inducks: The Cattle King)

YIPPY-KY-YI! Scrooge and
his cowducks ride high in
THE CATTLE KING

Inducks: W US 69-00
Barrier: MBAC-153
CBL: 05C-644
Type: cover, illustrating «The Cattle King»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: September 30, 1966 (Inducks submission: 1966-09-30)
Publication date: 1967, May (Inducks publication date: 1967-05)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge 69
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Marking a bull hung by helicopter

Additional credits: Front cover.

Layout:

Contains a promotional text.: Right side top half logo.

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W US 69-02 The Cattle King

(Inducks: The Cattle King)

Yoo, hoo! Hoo! Hoo! I'm a cheating teen from Abilene!
-- nephew (disguised as a siren of the purple sage)

Inducks: W US 69-02
Barrier: MBAC-153
CBL: 05C-669
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: 1966, May 27 (Inducks submission: 1966-05-27)
Publication date: 1967, May (Inducks publication date: 1967-05)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge 69
Pages: 24 (Inducks pages: 24)
Inducks description: Conducting US's cattle to the railroad

Landmark: Last story written and drawn by Barks.

Congruences:

W OS 199-02 in "Sheriff of Bullet Valley": Looks of horses are changed.
W WDC 102-02 pize spring dude ranch: Looks of horses are changed.

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US 70 - Uncle Scrooge 70

Inducks: US 70
Barrier: MBAC-153
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1967, July
Country: USA
Cover type:
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W US 70-00 sinking life raft
W US 70-02 The Doom Diamond

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W US 70-00 sinking life raft

(Inducks: The Doom Diamond)

It's bad luck in big bunches when
Scrooge buys THE DOOM DIAMOND!

Inducks: W US 70-00
Barrier: MBAC-153
CBL: 05C-693
Type: cover, illustrating «The Doom Diamond»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: 1966, May 21 (Inducks submission: 1966-05-21)
Publication date: 1967, July (Inducks publication date: 1967-07)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge 70
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)

Additional credits: Front cover.

Layout:

Contains a promotional text.
Right-side top half logo.

Surviving material:

CR US 70 diamond and scared people
radio and diamond on ship

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W US 70-02 The Doom Diamond

(Inducks: The Doom Diamond)

Keep after those thieving jays while I'm gone, clerky! And don't give them a minute's rest!
-- Scrooge McDuck

Inducks: W US 70-02
Barrier: MBAC-153
CBL: 05C-695
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: 1966, May 19 (Inducks submission: 1966-03-19)
Publication date: 1967, July (Inducks publication date: 1967-07)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge 70
Pages: 24 (Inducks pages: 24)
Inducks description: builds special ship to transport doom diamond by sea

Congruences: W US 28-01 and the "Paul Bunyan" Machine

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US 71 - Uncle Scrooge 71

Inducks: US 71
Barrier: MBAC-154
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1967, October
Country: USA
Cover type:
ISBN:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W US 71-00 ancient civilization
W US 71-01 King Scrooge the First

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W US 71-00 ancient civilization

(Inducks: King Scrooge the First)

Scrooge has
a battle royal
in the royal palace
of Ancient Sagbad...
KING SCROOGE THE FIRST!

Inducks: W US 71-00
Barrier: MBAC-154
CBL: 05C-694
Type: cover, illustrating «King Scrooge the First»
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: 1967, January 18 (Inducks submission: 1967-01-18)
Publication date: 1967, October (Inducks publication date: 1967-10)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge 71
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Running away from Mongol invaders with a treasure

Layout:

Contains a promotional text.
Right-side top half logo.

Surviving material:

CR US 71a lance and treasure room
CR US 71b treasure room and angry witness

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W US 71-01 King Scrooge the First

(Inducks: King Scrooge the First)

Come inside! Let the mystic wisdom of old Sagbad X-ray your futures!
-- Swami Khan Khan

Inducks: W US 71-01
Barrier: MBAC-154
CBL: 05C-721
Type: story
Pencil: Tony Strobl (Inducks artist: Tony Strobl)
Ink: Steve Steere (Inducks inker: Steve Steere)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Uncle Scrooge (Inducks hero: Uncle Scrooge)
Submission: 1966, June 22 (Inducks submission: 1966-06-22)
Publication date: 1967, October (Inducks publication date: 1967-10)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge 71
Pages: 21 (Inducks pages: 21)
Inducks description: 4-thousand year old swami hypnotizes Ducks to go back in time to find treasure

Landmark: Barks' first Duck story for which he didn't do the art.

Surviving material: Shooting script (panel-by-panel breakdown of the dialogue), containing an alternate scene and a slightly different ending. Partly quoted in "The Carl Barks Library".

Status: The pencil script for this script-only story is lost.

Michael Barrier mentions having investigated "the story's dialogue in his pencil script" (page 154). In an interview published in "The Duckburg Times" No.16 (January 1, 1983) Tony Strobl recalled the script "had a fantastic layout and I hardly needed to do any preliminary sketches, just trace."

Remakes: In the late 1980s(?), Ulrich Schröder has worked on a redrawn version of the story, using Barks' style while following Strobl's inked art. Of this project, only an inked half page ARC CBL 5B) has been published. It visualizes the alternate final confrontation between Khan Khan and Scrooge, as Barks staged it in his shooting script.
The 3 or 4 original pages Schröder drew for the story got destroyed by a big fire in his home in Aachen, Germany. No copies of this art exist, but fortunately Schröder seems to have said in September 1997 that he had restarted working on the story and that he now intends to complete it (he draws comics only in his spare time).
In a December 19, 2000 email to the Disney Comics Mailing List, Luca Boschi answered the question if Daan Jippes has redrawn the story: "NO. He shall not do it. Ulrich Schroder begun to do it, some years ago, but when his job was quite on, a big fire in his house, in Aachen, destroyed these and othe original artworks. Now he started to draw it again from the beginning, but he has a lot of work to do in Disney France and stopped it again his project (I don't know at which stage)..."

Trivia: Reference to death. The 4000-year-old Swami Khan Khan takes antidote to immortality powder. (page 21)

Backstage: In June 1966, Carl Barks retired while leaving his last Uncle Scrooge story "King Scrooge the First" unfinished. "I didn't want the long grind of drawing 'King Scrooge' to run me into overtime," he explained in March 25, 1989 notes written for "The Carl Barks Library". Barks got no further than laying out the pages in rough pencil sketches and the finished art was drawn by another Disney veteran, Tony Strobl. Detailed information

Congruences:

W US 16-02 in "Back to Long Ago!": Ducks imagining themselves being in another, earlier time. In "Back to Long Ago!" they "levitate persons back in mind" (panel 2.4), though during the story they start to believe they actually have been these persons (panels 6.8 and 8.5). In "King Scrooge the First" they are the "near-reincarnation" of their ancestors in the sense that they carry their genes (panels 2.4, 2.5, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3).

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