A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Additional credits: Sketched half page example of how a script should be submitted to Western Publishing. The three panels tell a funny nonsense story, evidentlly not intended for finishing.

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

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

Correspondence:

January, 1975 letter from Carl Barks to Harry Gladstone

Other views:

larger picture: monochrome

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

XUC USCA 1B Back to the Klondike [new blue pencil half page]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 03A-084
Type: Penciled story segment. Blue pencil.
Creation date: 1981
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: [1981?]
Publication date: 1981 (or 1982?)
Issue: Uncle Scrooge His Life & Times
Pages: 0 1/2
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W OS 456-02 in "Back to the Klondike" reconstruction
Finished version, by others: ARC GCA 4B Back to the Klondike [inked blue pencil half page]

Additional credits: Half page drawn in blue pencil for Uncle Scrooge His Life & Times, to replace a lost part of »in "Back to the Klondike"«.

Publications:

Uncle Scrooge His Life & Times (USA): colour
The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): monochrome

Other views:

large picture

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Pawns of the Loup Garou [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-115
CBL: 02C-647
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1967]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1967, March 21
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 21
Finished version, by others: W DD 117-01 Pawns of the Loup Garou [Western's version]; H 98135 Pawns of the Loup Garou [remake]

Additional credits: Michael Barrier, a fan writer who had recently begun corresponding with Barks, provided the werewolf idea. Detailed information

Landmark: First product of Barks' arrangement with Western to write script-only stories in his retirement.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): monochrome

Correspondence:

Sources

Officer For a Day [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-116
CBL: 02C-675
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1968]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1968, November 6
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 14
Finished version, by others: W DD 126-01 Officer For a Day [Western's version]; H 95145 Officer For a Day [remake]

Backstage: Barks: "I did a 14-page Donald Duck script for Chase [Craig] a few weeks ago. He now wants me to do more scripts. I am too tired of ducks to get excited." (November 22, 1968 letter to Michael Barrier)

Barks: "My 'Officer for a Day' was a sight-gag story with poor Donald playing the helplessness of a modern police-man to his best ability. The Beagle Boys, a motorcycle gang, and a flying saucer all present unsolvable problems." (January 15, 1969 letter to Michael Barrier).

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

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A Day in a Duck's Life [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-116
CBL: 02C-683
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1970]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1970, February 16
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 14
Finished version, by others: W DD 138-01 A Day in a Duck's Life [Western's version]; H 98085 A Day in a Duck's Life [remake]

Backstage: In a February 20, 1970 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks said about this story: "I've just turned in a 14-page Donald script to Chase [Craig]. It's about Donald building himself a hotrod car. The kids comment that he wastes his life in such useless projects. He'll never get ahead. The car takes everything Don can earn by a series of flukes of luck, proving the kids are right. It's about the poorest story I ever did, but then, I'm burned out on D.D. ideas."

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

February 20, 1970 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

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Horsing Around With History [text-only script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: script; type-written; text-only
Creation date: [1993? 1994?]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Uncle Scrooge
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 24
Finished version, by others: D 94003 Horsing Around With History [story]

Additional credits: Panel-by-panel text-only script, contains dialogue and brief directions.

Publications:

Apparently, the entire script has been (informally?) published. At least, it's known to circulate. Carl Barks�- Background Material and Current Events incomplete; only page 6; monochrome; xerox-quality on pink-coloured page

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xeroxes: 25 pages; the 7th page is unnumbered and contains a penciled version of panel 6.7, drawn by William Van Horn; all other pages are numbered from 1 to 24, following the story's page layout; page 1 and 2 seem to be typewritten with a wordprocessor; pages 3 to 24 seem to be typewritten with an old-fashioned type-writer; page 6 contains Barks's signature; page 19 is numbered in Barks's handwriting; page 1, 2, and 6, contain a "Carl Barks Studio" header.

Questions: Has this material really been published?

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Peril of the Black Forest [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-121
CBL: 06A-175
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1969]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: 1969, October 3
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 14
Finished version, by others: W JW 6-01 Peril of the Black Forest

Landmark:

For the first time since the 1940s/1950s, Uncle Scrooge is the villain of the story. In a December 11, 1969 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks said about this: "Analyzing all the things you fans have written and said I've included that you all liked him best when he was the menace in the duck stories. When he became the hero, with his own book, I had to be careful how bad I made him."
Possibly the first re-appearance of the Black Forest since lost in black forest. That story was reprinted in Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks 4. Barks submitted "Peril of the Black Forest" on October 3, 1969, so there may only be a connection between the two stories if Carl Barks was told about the reprint in advance.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Congruences:

W WDC 227-01 lost in black forest: The Black Forest
... Hang Gliders Be Hanged [story outline]: The Black Forest

Questions:

When did the Black Forest appear for the first time?
Is this the first Barks story in which the Junior Woodchucks are concerned about the environment?
Hasn't this story been redrawn by Daan Jippes?

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Life Savers [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-121
CBL: ---
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1969]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [unknown]
Submission: 1969, October 10
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 5
Finished version, by others: W JW 6-03 Life Savers

Status: Unknown. (Andreas Platthaus states in his 1998 book "Im Comic Vereint" that all 24 Junior Woodchuck script have survived.)

Backstage: In a December 11, 1969 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks refered to this story as a 6 pager, adding "I'm not sure of the title and can't dig up the record".

Publications:

Unpublished?

Correspondence:

December 11, 1969 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

Questions: Has this material been published? Do you know more about this material, or do you have a copy of it?

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Whale of a Good Deed [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-121
CBL: 06A-180
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1969? 1970?]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, January 1
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 14
Finished version, by others: W JW 7-01 Whale of a Good Deed [Western's version]

Landmark: First appearance of the beaked woodchuck leader.

Backstage: In a December 11, 1969 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks wrote: "I did a 14 page of the Junior Woodchucks for Chase [Craig] a few months ago. (Sept. or thereabouts) Also a 6 pager (I'm not sure of the title and can't dig up the record). Chase is now wanting me to do more stories for the Junior Woodchucks, which will likely be a regular comic (1/4'ly). I'm currently writing a 14 page for him. In the story I did in Sept.(?) I used Uncle Scrooge as the villain. I'm doing the same in the current story. Analyzing all the things you fans have written and said I've included that you all liked him best when he was the menace in the duck stories. When he became the hero, with his own book, I had to be careful how bad I made him. Anyway, in the current story he is fighting dirty against the Junior Woodchucks who are trying to save a whale that got washed ashore by a tidal wave. Uncle S. wants to render the frantic mammal into countless barrels of whale oil. In the previous story Uncle S. was going to cut cown the Black Forest of Duckberg and turn the whole ecology into a suburbia."

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

December 11, 1969 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

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Let Sleeping Bones Lie [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-121
CBL: 06A-184
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1970]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, March 16
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 14
Finished version, by others: W JW 8-01 Let Sleeping Bones Lie [Western's version]; D D 2003-003 Let Sleeping Bones Lie [remake]

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."

Details: In panel 12.7, the Woodchucks' official hound slips a sprig of "pie-eyedus wierdus nightmarus" into Scrooge's "Turnip Tea". In panel 12.4, Philodemus Gentlefogg explains: "And this is a pie-eyedus wierdus nightmarus, which cavemen boiled and sipped to produce visions!" On page 13 and 14, Scrooge hallucinates and imagines Colosso has come back from one million years B.C. (13.6)

Appearances: The Junior Woodchucks' official hound (as identified in 5.5), or "the official hound" (as identified in 14.7). In panel 1.1, a note is added by the editor, pointing at the hound: "make this PLUTO". The name "Pluto" is added in the caption. It's unclear if this replaces any text, but the dog appears to be only refered to as "official hound" in the rest of the script. As Barks's dialogue is all-caps, it's unclear if "official hound" is just a title or the name of the dog.
J.A.W.B.O.N.E., "Judicous Abstruse Wise Bestower Of Neolithic Edification" a.k.a. "Philodemus Gentlefogg, Great Judicous, Abstruse, Wise Bestower Of Neolithic Edification of Duckburg Burrow Number 22 of the Junior Woodchucks of the World" (as identified in 2.5 and 10.5).

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

March 8, 1970 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

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Bad Day for Troop A [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-121
CBL: 06A-188
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1969? 1970?]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, January 1
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 6
Finished version, by others: W JW 8-03 Bad Day for Troop 'A' [Western's version]; H 92002 Bad Day for Troop 'A' [remake]

Additional credits: A signed, handwritten note in the upper right-hand corner of panel 1.1 reads: "To Tom [Berlino?]".

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

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Looter of the Lake [pencil script]

"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

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: 06A-190
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1970]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: June 25, 1970
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 13
Finished version, by others: W JW 9-01 Looter of the Lake

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."

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

August 1, 1970 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

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Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: 06A-194
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1970]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, September 11
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 13
Finished version, by others: W JW 10-01 Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [Western's version]; 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."

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

Sources

Bottled Battlers [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: 06A-197
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1970]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, August 21
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 12
Finished version, by others: W JW 10-02 Bottled Battlers [Western's version]; 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."

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

August 1, 1970 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

Sources

Traitor in the Ranks [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: 06A-200
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1970]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Louie, Dewey Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, October 26
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 13
Finished version, by others: W JW 11-01 Traitor in the Ranks [Western's version]; H 92085 Traitor in the Ranks [remake]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

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Eagle Savers [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: 06A-204
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1970]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Louie, Dewey Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, December 3
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 12
Finished version, by others: W JW 11-02 Eagle Savers [Western's version]; H 99044 Eagle Savers [remake]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

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Hound of the Moaning Hills [pencil script]

Hound of the Moaning Hills, script panel 1.1

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: ---
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1971]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey, Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: March 3, 1971
Publication date: 2000 (Germany)
Issue: Der Donaldist 112
Pages: 13
Finished version, by others: W JW 12-01 Hound of the Moaning Hills [Western's version]; D D 2001-015 Hound Of The Moaning Hills [remake]

Appearances: Pluto, "the official hound" (as identified in 3.6).

Publications:

Im Comic vereint. Eine Geschichte der Bildgeschichte (Germany. Berlin): incomplete; only page 1 and 3 (page 147 and 148); [monochrome?]; Andreas Platthaus states that all Junior Woodchuck scripts have survived.
Der Donaldist 112 (Germany): monochrome

CBL-notes: The editors of The Carl Barks Library - Set VI chose to reproduce Barks' original "Junior Woodchuck" pencil layouts. However, this sketch script could not be located by press time, so the editors had to fall back on the published art.

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

Storm Dancers [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: 06A-210
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1971]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey Dewey, + Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, February 4
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 12
Finished version, by others: W JW 12-02 Storm Dancers [Western's version]; H 92012 Storm Dancers [remake]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

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The Day the Mountain Shook [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: 06A-213
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1971]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey, Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, May 4
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 13
Finished version, by others: W JW 13-01 The Day the Mountain Shook [Western's version]; H 92051 The Day the Mountain Shook [remake]

Backstage: In a May 3, 1971 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks wrote: "Just mailed a script to Chase [Craig] this morning that concerned the J.W.s battle to stop Uncle Scrooge from strip mining a lovely mountain into neat windrows of coal."

Research: Scrooge's "mountain grinder" was based on a machine actually used in coal mining. Detailed information

Appearances: Pluto, "the official hound of the Junior Woodchucks", temporary degraded to a mere "Beanhead" (as identified in 11.5).

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

May 3, 1971 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

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Gold of the '49ers [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-217
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1971]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey, Louie, Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, May 25
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 12
Finished version, by others: W JW 13-02 Gold of the '49ers [Western's version]; H 92107 Gold of the '49ers [remake]

Backstage: In a May 3, 1971 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks wrote:"Well, I'm in labor again giving birth to a Junior Woodchuck plot. Just mailed a script to Chase [Craig] this morning that concerned the J.W.s battle to stop Uncle Scrooge from strip mining a lovely mountain into neat windrows of coal.
For the next plot I may have the J.W.s battling the dogfood people to save wild horses. Please don't tell these plots around until sufficient time has elapsed for Western to get the stuff on the presses. That could be four to six months. After reading parts of All in Color for a Dime [edited by Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson; New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1970], I can understand Chase's fear of National scooping him on any plots that might look promising. Those production-line whip crackers could have a comic written, drawn, and on the newsstands in 30 days."

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Correspondence:

May 3, 1971 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

Sources

Duckmade Disaster [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-220
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1971]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey + Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, July 30
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 12
Finished version, by others: W JW 14-01 Duckmade Disaster [Western's version]; H 92001 Duckmade Disaster [remake]

Details: "G.U.F.F.S.P.O.U.T.E.R." is explained as "Gentle, Unflappable, Friendly Fellow and Serene, Peaceful, Orderly, Tranquil Example of Reasonableness", missing a word for the second "U". Perhaps Barks overlooked that word while preparing the script. (As a solution to fill this gap, an explanation like "Orderly, Utterly Tranquil Example..." seems to work.)

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

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wailing whalers [brief outline]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: 06A-224
Type: brief outline; synopsis; hand-written; text-only
Creation date: [1971]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none]
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 4 [or more]
Project: W JW 15-01 Wailing Whalers [Western's version]

Additional credits: Consists of at least four pages. Untitled?

Three synopsis pages with the early concept of the story, and one page containing an example of Barks expending much effort and paper by devising an elaborate title for the Woodchuck officer.

Backstage: Bottom of page 2 reveals an early concept for the finished story's climactic battle, with Scrooge running up a white flag and the nephews snipping the enemy's harpoon lines. Later drafts would rework this scene considerably.
Unnumbered page 4 contains drafts for the explanation of the officer's name "TUBBA BLUBBER".

Before preparing his panel-by-panel "shooting script", Barks would write up a synopsis for each Junior Woodchuck story. Details might change as he created dialogue or roughed out the drawings, but this brief first outline would serve as a guide for pacing the story. Barks also expended much effort and scratch paper devising elaborate titles for his Woodchuck officers.)

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome

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Wailing Whalers [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-225
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1971]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey Dewey + Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, September 30
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 18
Finished version, by others: W JW 15-01 Wailing Whalers [Western's version]; H 98239 Wailing whalers [remake]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

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Where There's Smoke [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-230
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1971? 1972?]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey Dewey, Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1972, January 3
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 16
Finished version, by others: W JW 16-01 Where There's Smoke; D D 2003-038 Where There's Smoke [remake]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

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Be Leery of Lake Eerie [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-234
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1971? 1972?]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey, Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: [1972, January 27] ?
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 16
Finished version, by others: W JW 17-01 Be Leery of Lake Eerie [Western's version]; I WDP 2-B Be Leery of Lake Eerie [Italian version]; D D 2002-023 Be Leery of Lake Eerie [Danish version]

Additional credits: Barks's editors must have objected to the cautionary tone of page 16 because they requested an alternate sequence.

Comparison of both endings.

Backstage: In an August 16, 1972 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks wrote about the story: "Just noticed that there is another script I overlooked. 'Be Leery of Lake Eerie' 16 pages about pollution. It will be the next on the stands, I think. It concerns Lake Eerie which has become so full of acids, old tires, gunk and junk that the J.W.s have to wear grease when swimming. A giant dragon forms in the lake from the coalescense of chemical matters. He consumes junk in great mouthfuls. The J.W.s protect the dragon, but a big game hunter tries to kill it. Anyway, the office butchered my ending and it all comes out as sweet as raindrops on rose petals."

Research: This story was inspired by the real-life Lake Erie (one of the five "Great Lakes" between Canada and the American Midwest), which at the time the story first appeared had recently made the news for its excessive pollution. Barks wasn't exactly a liberal in most ways, but he did care about the environment, a concern that made itself felt in several of his Junior Woodchucks stories of the period.

Owners, past and present: Page 5 has been for sale at Dreidreizehn, on 28 October 1999.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Circulating material:

page 5 as on Dreidreizehn: [colour?]; page 5; 21,5 cm x 27,9 cm; 8,5 inch x 11 inch; black pencil on white drawing paper

Correspondence:

August 16, 1972 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

Congruences:

W WDC 142-02 summer vacation on houseboat: Reference to Lake Erie

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Sources

be leery of lake eerie [alternate sequence]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-238
Type: pencil script; alternate sequence
Creation date: [1971? 1972?]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: [1972, January 27] ?
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 1
Finished version, by others: W JW 17-01 Be Leery of Lake Eerie [Western's version]; D D 2002-023 Be Leery of Lake Eerie [Danish version]

Additional credits: Requested by the editors, to replace page 16 of Be Leery of Lake Eerie [pencil script]

Comparison of both endings.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Sources

teahouse of the waggin' dragon [rough story notes]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-174
Type: rough story notes; hand-written; text-only
Creation date: [1972]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none]
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 3? [at least]
Project: W JW 19-01 Teahouse of the Waggin' Dragon

Additional credits: Consists of at least two or three pages. Rough story notes, scribbled at night on a bedside table.

A fakir sells Scrooge invisibility powder. Detailed information

Backstage: The gag about invisibility powder later became the sequence with Sing Song Long's volatile fortune cookies.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; one page; not included in The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 2
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 2 (USA): monochrome; two(?) pages; not included in The Carl Barks Library - Set VI

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

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teahouse of the waggin' dragon [shooting script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-239
Type: preliminary "shooting script"; hand-written; text-only
Creation date: [1972]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none]
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 2 [at least]
Project: W JW 19-01 Teahouse of the Waggin' Dragon

Additional credits: Consists of at least two page. Unnumbered page 1[?], and page 3. Apparently untitled. The top of unnumbered page 1[?] only contains the note "TITLE."

Empty piggy bank and some cookie jars, on a bad day at the Clubhouse. Detailed information

Backstage: Unnumbered page 1[?] contains an opening scene which is very different from the one eventually drawn in Teahouse of the Waggin' Dragon [pencil script]. Barks revised this page in manuscript, adding the working title "Hard-Earned Reward", which he retained until the very last draft.
In Teahouse of the Waggin' Dragon [pencil script], the story begins with a scene from the middle of the story, and then continues with the Woodchucks selling cookies on the street right away. Instead of selling cookies for a new roof, the Woodchucks sell cookies to pay "their bill at the medal factory". The Littlest Chickadees are not mentioned at all.

Owners, past and present: Page 3 has been for sale at Dreidreizehn, on 28 October 1999.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome

Circulating material:

page 3 as on Dreidreizehn: colour; page 3; black pencil on yellow paper

Teahouse of the Waggin' Dragon [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-239
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1972]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey, Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1972, May 31
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 16
Finished version, by others: W JW 19-01 Teahouse of the Waggin' Dragon
Based on: teahouse of the waggin' dragon [rough story notes]; teahouse of the waggin' dragon [shooting script]

Additional credits: Barks retained the working title "Hard-Earned Reward" until the very last draft. On page 1, this title is striked out and replaced with the final title.
Barks' script was expanded by enlarging a number of panels and adding panel 4 on published page 7. The sketch for this panel is attached to the script with sellotape, which can clearly be seen in Wer ist Carl Barks. It shows a spectacled newsman saying: "Just a minute, you kids!"

Owners, past and present: Page 3 has been for sale at Dreidreizehn, on 28 October 1999.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture; the attached sketch is shown, but without the sellotape being visible.
Wer ist Carl Barks (Germany.): incomplete; details unknown

Circulating material:

page 3 as on Dreidreizehn: colour; page 3; 21,5 cm x 27,7 cm; 8.5 inch x 10.9 inch; black pencil on white drawing paper

New Zoo Brews Ado [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-123
CBL: 06A-244
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1972]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey + Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1972, June 5
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 17
Finished version, by others: W JW 20-01 New Zoo Brews Ado [Western's version]; D D 2002-001 New Zoo Brews Ado [remake]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Sources

Music Hath Charms [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-124
CBL: 06A-248
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1972]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey + Louie, Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1972, September 18
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 16
Finished version, by others: W JW 21-01 Music Hath Charms [Western's version]; H 92020 Music Hath Charms [remake Mau Heymans]; D 2006-142 Music Hath Charms [remake Jippes]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Sources

High Wire Heroes [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-124
CBL: 06A-253
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1972]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey, and Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1972, December 9
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 16
Finished version, by others: W JW 22-01 The Phantom Joker [Western's version]; H 98254 Highwire heroes [remake]

Additional credits: Panel 1.1, as published in The Carl Barks Library - Set VI, contains a hand-written note which reads "Mike - Please return this stat".

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Sources

Hark, Hark, the Ark [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-124
CBL: 06A-257
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1973]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey, Louie Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1973, March 9
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 15
Finished version, by others: W JW 23-01 Hark, Hark, the Ark

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Sources

Captains Outrageous [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-124
CBL: 06A-261
Type: pencil script
Creation date: [1973]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Louie, and Dewey Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1973, March 30
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 15
Finished version, by others: W JW 25-01 Captains Outrageous

Owners, past and present: Page 7 has been for sale at Carl Barks Shop on 21 August 2000. (Order number 6212.)

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome; small picture

Circulating material:

page 7 as on Carl Barks Shop: [greyscale?]; page 7; pencil on paper; signed; 21 cm x 28 cm

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Sources

CX OS '59 in "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" [unfinished]

Oh, the cheesy pied piper of rats am I! Hi le, hi le, hi lo!
-- Gyro Gearloose

Barrier: MBAC-124
CBL: 06B-376
Type: Unfinished story
Creation date: [1958 or 1959]
Art: [no one]
Pencil: (?) Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Gyro Gearloose
Submission: [none]
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 3 (less than intended)
Intended issue: Gyro Gearloose One Shot 1047
Intended publication date: 1960, November-January
Finished version, by others: H 89174 in "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" [inked]

Additional credits: Unfinished Gyro Gearloose story.

Scrooge McDuck asks Gyro Gearloose to not only take away the rats in his money bin, but also all rats in Duckburg.

Status: The story's plot is unknown.

Backstage: In a July 14, 1978 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks explained why he never finished the story: "I shelved the Pied Piper story with Gyro because I felt I was getting into something too involved for such a short story. Also I would have to draw whole swarms of kids and rats and people, and the page rates weren't worth it."

This quote provides the only clue to possible directions the plot might have taken. According to Geoffrey Blum's article "Version of a Pied Piper, published in The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (page 6B-375), Barks intended the story to be an 8-pager.

In a February 12, 1996 e-mail to the Disney comics Mailing List, Don Rosa mentioned having corresponded about the story with Carl Barks: "I think I looked at the FOUR COLOR issue [OS 1047] and decided the story was originally meant to be 8 pages. Then I wrote to Barks to see if he had any memory of how the story was supposed to end, and he replied that he didn't." Detailed information

Research: The story is based on the legend of the pied piper.

Surviving material:

CX OS '59 in "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" [unfinished]
July 14, 1978 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier
Possibly, a 1980s letter from Don Rosa to Carl Barks. (Unpublished?)
Most likely, a 1980s letter from Carl Barks to Don Rosa. (Unpublished?)

Correspondence:

July 14, 1978 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier
1980s (1988/1989?) letter from Don Rosa to Carl Barks
1980s (1988/1989?) letter from Carl Barks to Don Rosa
February 1, 1996 e-mail from Don Rosa to the Disney comics Mailing List
February 12, 1996 e-mail from Don Rosa to the Disney comics Mailing List

Questions: Has the mentioned correspondence between Don Rosa and Carl Barks (or quotes derived from it) ever been published?

Sources

The Golden Nugget Boat [penciled title lettering]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Design or layout for story title. Blue pencil on tissue paper, signed.
Creation date: 1961
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [2000] (Germany)
Issue: Galerie Laqua 2/2000
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: 14 cm
Height: 18 cm
Finished version: W US 35-02 The Golden Nugget Boat

Additional credits: Design or layout for the title of «W US 35-02 The Golden Nugget Boat«.

Publications:

Galerie Laqua 2/2000 (Germany): greyscale

The Midas Touch / Duckburg's Day of Peril / Safe [penciled title lettering]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Design or layout for story titles. Yellow tissue paper.
Creation date: 1961
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]; Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose; [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: landscape
Width: 13,5 inch
Height: 11 inch
Finished version: W US 36-01 The Midas Touch
Finished version: W US 36-02 Duckburg's Day of Peril
Finished version: W US 38-02 The Unsafe Safe ?

Additional credits: Design or layout for the titles of W US 36-01 The Midas Touch; W US 36-02 Duckburg's Day of Peril; and apparently W US 38-02 The Unsafe Safe.

Owners, past and present: For sale by Michael Naiman on 13 January 1998.

Circulating material:

jpeg scan with a size of 1722 x 1045 pixels: greyscale

Other views:

larger picture: greyscale

Questions: Has this material been published? Is the drawing made in blue pencil?

king scrooge the first [shooting script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: [MBAC-154?]
CBL: ---
Type: shooting script
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: ---
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [unknown]
Submission: [none]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: [unknown]
Project: W US 71-01 King Scrooge the First
Finished version, by others: ARC CBL 5B fighting dirty [segment]

Additional credits: Panel-by-panel breakdown of the dialogue. Contains an alternate sequence and a slightly different ending.

Investigation of scripts.

Publications:

Unpublished? The Carl Barks Library - Set V incomplete; transcription of four panels

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources

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king scrooge the first [pencil script]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: [MBAC-154?]
CBL: ---
Type: pencil script; sketch script
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [unknown]
Submission: 1966, June 22
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 21
Finished version, by others: W US 71-01 King Scrooge the First

Additional credits: Barks' list indicates that "King Scrooge the First" was written as a twenty-four page story; however, the story's dialogue in his pencil script is identical with that in the story as published, and covers only twenty-one pages." In a February 24, 1972 letter to Michael Barrier, Barks wrote: "This is a mystery to me, too, I got paid for 24 pages."

Investigation of scripts.

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

Status: Unknown. Michael Barrier mentions having investigated "the story's dialogue in his pencil script" (page 154).
In an interview published in The Duckburg Times 16, Tony Strobl recalled the script "had a fantastic layout and I hardly needed to do any preliminary sketches, just trace."
Reportedly, material has surfaced in/before 2006. See "questions".

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.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Correspondence:

Other views:

picture of panel 10.1?: possibly one panel of the pencil script, circulating on internet

Questions: Has this material surfaced, or at least parts of it? Has it been published?
Do you know more about this material, or do you have a copy of it?
If the material has surfaced, has Jippes redrawn the story?

Sources

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