A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe (test)

Inducks: W WDC 355-PP
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: illustration
Art: [unknown] (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: ?)
Script: [Carl Barks ?] (Inducks writer: Carl Barks?)
Hero: Gyro Gearloose (Inducks hero: Gyro Gearloose)
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1970, April (Inducks publication date: 1970-04)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 355, Vol. 30, No. 7
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 2)
Intended issue: [Gyro Gearloose One Shot ?]
Intended publication date: [none or unknown]
Inducks description: GY sitting at his desk, drawing with a tired smile, mounted with a head scratching machine

Additional credits: Previously unpublished cover idea pencil. A guess could be that the pencil was made in the late 1950s or early 1960s, and intended to be used as Gyro Gearloose One Shot.

Inked by an unknown artist. Since the arm on the scratching machine reaches up into the corner, this inked version apparently was never meant as a comic book cover, because the arm would have collided with the titles.

Years later, William Van Horn inked a new version.

Surviving material:

CRI 12 head scratching machine [cover idea]: Pencil sketch. Published in b&w in "Comic Book Marketplace" No. V2#34, April 1996.

Other views:

larger picture: Colour. (height=1628 width=1000 size= ±441kB)
Reprint in Danish "Anders And & Co." 1971-06: Colour. (height=1266 width=850 size= ±250kB)

Questions: Who is the artist? Is this the first publication?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

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WDC 384 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 384, Vol. 32, No. 12

Inducks: WDC 384
Barrier: MBAC-191
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1972, September
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

Reprinted material:

W WDC 177-01 skin diving vacation: Splash panel is deepened.

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WDC 400 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 400, Vol. 34, No. 4

Inducks: WDC 400
Barrier: MBAC-192
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1974, January
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

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W WDC 171-03 impervi-wax money case: Splash panel is deepened.

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

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WDC 405 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 405, Vol. 34, No. 9

Inducks: WDC 405
Barrier: MBAC-192
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1974, June
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

New material:

W WDC 405-00 bucking bronco

Reprinted material:

W WDC 259-01 Jungle Bungle

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W WDC 405-00 bucking bronco

Inducks: W WDC 405-00
Barrier: MBAC-192
CBL: 10C-706
Type: cover
Art: one of Western's staff artists [Grote: Garé Barks]
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: [none] (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: Date not available
Publication date: 1974, June (Inducks publication date: 1974-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 405, Vol. 34, No. 9
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Inducks description: Bucking bronco
Painting version: Webfoot Tenderfoot

Additional credits: Idea and pencil rough by Barks. Inked by one of Western's staff artists, working from the pencil layout for one of Barks' paintings, which Barks sold to Western as a cover idea.

According to Johnny A. Grote, the artist of this cover is Garé Barks.

CBL-notes: Blurry reproduction.

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WDC 447 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 447, Vol. 38, No. 3

Inducks: WDC 447
Barrier: MBAC-194
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1977, December
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 52
Cover price:

Reprinted material:

W WDC 212-02 rocket race around world: Splash panel is deepened.

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WDC 448 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 448, Vol. 38, No. 4

Inducks: WDC 448
Barrier: MBAC-194
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1978, January
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

Reprinted material:

W WDC 266-02 Stalwart Ranger

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

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WDC 449 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 449, Vol. 38, No. 5

Inducks: WDC 449
Barrier: MBAC-194
Publisher:
Label: Gold Key
Publication date: 1978, February
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 36
Cover price:

Reprinted material:

W WDC 280-03 Double Masquerade

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WDC 540 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 540

Inducks: WDC 540
Publisher:
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1989, July
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: ... (Inducks pages: 32)
Cover price:

New material:

CR WDC 96 super bubble soap [alternate version]

Reprinted material:

W WDC 91-02 garden party monkeys
W OS 1095-07 His Shining Hour

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CR WDC 96 super bubble soap [alternate version]

Inducks: CR WDC 96
Barrier: MBAC-172
CBL: 08C-736
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: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, July (Inducks publication date: 1983)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 540
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)
Intended issue: [Walt Disney Comics & Stories 96, Vol. 8, No. 12]
Intended publication date: [1948, September]
Inducks description: Floating on soap

Additional credits: Alternate version of the cover published in "Walt Disney Comics & Stories" No. 96, 1948.

Surviving material: Original art, which Barks in 1995(?) hand-coloured with coloured pencils at the request of a collector. This coloured version has been published in "Walt Disney Comics & Stories" No. 627, 1998.

Backstage: In a January 8, 1983 interview with Bruce Hamilton, Barks said: "I drew the cover twice because I didn't get the proportions right the first time. I had the tub too high in the picture and needed more room to show the nephew and what he was doing."

On the published version, Donald's body is the eye-catcher. In the earlier drawing, it is lost in a mass of bubbles and shadow. In the published version there are also fewer bubbles, and a left hand extends outward from the body, so that more of Donald himself is visible. The shadow is gone, and the result is that Donald seems to float higher above the tub. To strengthen this effect, Barks raised the lower edge of his picture to cut off our view of the floor and show only the surface of the bath; he also lowered the window so that its sill is close to the edge of the tub. Now we seem to float with Donald, looking down. Eliminating the shadow and shifting the position of the window also enabled Barks to clarify the nephew's position and action. Now the curtain is visible on both sides of the aperture; and to leave no doubt that it is a window, Barks drew in the upper pane. He also extended the figure of the nephew to show his feathered tail, strengthening our impression that the kid is leaning forward.

Congruences:

W OS 367-00 santa donald rides a toy train: Original art hand-colored with colored pencils by Carl Barks in 1995.

Questions: As published in WDC 627, the date of Barks' signature at the left bottom corner isn't shown entirely. The signature seems to read "Colored by Carl Barks 1995". As only the top half of "Carl Barks 1995" is visible, it's a principal matter of debate if the date really is 1995. Is there someone who knows the date for sure?

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WDC 550 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 550

Inducks: WDC 550
Publisher:
Label: Dell
Publication date: 1990, August
Country: USA
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Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: ...
Cover price:

New material:

CS WDC '57 "The Milkman"

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CS WDC '57 "The Milkman"

Some mornings it's a wonder I don't forget who takes cottage cheese on alternate Tuesdays!
-- Donald Duck

Inducks: CS WDC '57
Barrier: MBAC-202, 211
CBL: 10C-679
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (Inducks artist: Carl Barks) (Inducks inker: Carl Barks)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)
Hero: Donald Duck (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: 1957, September 19 (Inducks submission: 1957-09-19)
Publication date: 1990, August (Inducks publication date: 1974)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 550
Pages: 10 (Inducks pages: 10)
Intended issue: [Walt Disney Comics & Stories 215, Vol. 18, No. 11] ?
Intended publication date: [1958, August] ?
Inducks description: working as milkman, has to put up with bad costumer who wants his job

Changes: This story was shelved in the 1950s. It would have appeared in or around "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" No. 215. The intended issue number is difficult to guess, because Western was by this time publishing Barks's stories out of order. Barks's comment in his work records is that "this story was shelved because Donald was too mean to the villain." Detailed information

Status: The entire story has survived and was first published in Holland in 1974. It made its debut in the USA in "The Carl Barks Library" (1990).

Backstage: About dairy products, Joseph Cowles wrote in a August 4, 2000 email:

"Along with Carl's legion of allergies, he was lactose intolerant. and unable to properly digest dairy products. He loved milk in his cereal, however, and on the occasion of one of my visits was trying as a substitute, Loma Linda soy milk. I don't think he cared very much for it."

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WDC 551 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 551

Inducks: WDC 551
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Publisher:
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Publication date: 1990, September
Country: USA
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Pages: ...
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Reprinted material:

W OS 29-02 in "The Hard Loser": "Queer" changed into "weird", so that gay readers would not be offended by the word "queer".; Reproduction of the art is superior to the one in "The Carl Barks Library".

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WDC 554 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 554

Inducks: WDC 554
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Publication date: 1990, December
Country: USA
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Pages: ...
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Reprinted material:

W WDC 112-02 rip van winkle: Donald reference to "1990" is changed into "the future" at every point.; Also, any exclamation originally written like (THIS) was altered so it looked like >THIS<.

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WDC 560 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 560

Inducks: WDC 560
Barrier: ---
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Publication date: 1991, June
Country: USA
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W WDC 127-02 april fools' wallets: Title of the book "Mein Kampf" in trash heap is removed.

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WDC 566 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 566

Inducks: WDC 566
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Publication date: 1991, December
Country: USA
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Pages: ...
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W WDC 159-01 fair price for house: Scrooge's top hat has been redrawn in the first panel.; Title "Book of Devious Strategems" has been added to a book on a later page.

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WDC 568 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 568

Inducks: WDC 568
Barrier: ---
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Publication date: 1992, February
Country: USA
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Pages: ...
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W WDC 172-01 submarine christmas eve: Sign is added to shopfront in splash panel.

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WDC 575 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 575

Inducks: WDC 575
Barrier: ---
Publisher:
Label:
Publication date: 1992, September
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: ...
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Reprinted material:

W WDC 188-01 olympic try-outs: Donald's winning cup has been changed to a medal and dialogue is changed appropriately; some of audience's boos are deleted; reference to "unfriendly" countries changed to "other" countries.; The Olympic slogan "it is not to win, but to try that is important" has been changed somewhat (this is indeed an Olympic slogan, but Barks originally had it slightly wrong) and relettered.; Disney's 1992 Olympic comics were licensed Olympic products, so the USA Olympic Committee didn't like the idea that authorized Olympic merchandise made fun of them. They objected to this Olympic tryouts story, but did allow a heavily censored version to be printed- as it was in WDC 575, with medals replacing winners' cups, etc.; In "Donald Duck Adventures" No. 28, the Beatriz Bolster photo finish story (D 6018) was reprinted as a last-minute substitution, because the Committee objected to the originally scheduled Barks story, W WDC 286-01 The Olympian Torch Bearer. The cover still illustrates the Barks story which wasn't inside.; (More recently, these stories have been published in their original form, where of course the comics that used them weren't official Olympic products.)

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WDC 579 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 579

Inducks: WDC 579
Barrier: ---
Publisher:
Label:
Publication date: 1993, January
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: ...
Cover price:

Reprinted material:

W WDC 87-02 wild turkey hunting: In panel 10.7, "an eagle" is changed into "a giant quail".; Pages 3, 5 and 6 are redrawn, which is also the case in "The Carl Barks Library". Possibly this redrawing was done by Egmont, who in this case supplied the story to Gladstone. (In the Netherlands, the original version of at least the art of all pages was used.)

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WDC 597 - Walt Disney Comics & Stories 597

Inducks: WDC 597
Barrier: ---
Publisher:
Label:
Publication date: 1995, June
Country: USA
Cover type:
Height: inch
Width: inch
Pages: 32 (Inducks pages: 32)
Cover price: ...

Reprinted material:

ARC WDC 597 painting towards door

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ARC WDC 597 painting towards door

Inducks: ARC WDC 597
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover
Art: William Van Horn (Inducks artist: William Van Horn)
Script: Carl Barks (Inducks writer: Carl Barks)) (Inducks hero: Donald Duck)
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1995, June (Inducks publication date: 1995-06)
Issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 597
Pages: 1 (Inducks pages: 1)