The Carl Barks Library | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Another Rainbow |
Genre | Funny animals |
Publication date | 1983 – 1990 |
No. of issues | 10 sets of 3 volumes each |
Main character(s) | Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander |
Creative team | |
Written by | Carl Barks |
Artist(s) | Carl Barks |
Inker(s) | Carl Barks |
The Carl Barks Library (CBL) is a series of 30 large hardcover books reprinting all of the Disney comics stories and covers written and/or drawn by Carl Barks. Stories that were modified in the original publication, sometimes for production reasons and sometimes due to excessive editing, were restored in CBL to Barks' original intent. [1] The books are collected in ten slipcase volumes with three books in each, a total of about 7,400 pages. The volumes were published from 1983 to 1990 in the United States by Another Rainbow Publishing [2] under license from The Walt Disney Company. The comics were printed (with a few exceptions) in black and white. In addition to the comics, there are numerous articles with background information.
Set | Publication Date | Contents | Story Date |
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I | July 1984 | Four Color Donald Duck 9-223 | October 1942 – April 1949 |
II | November 1986 | Four Color Donald Duck 238–422 and Donald Duck 26–138 | August 1949 – July 1971 |
III | December 1984 | Four Color Uncle Scrooge 386–495 and Uncle Scrooge 3–20 | March 1952 – February 1958 |
IV | November 1985 | Uncle Scrooge 21–43 and The Lemonade Fling | March 1958 – July 1963 |
V | April 1989 | Uncle Scrooge 44–71 and The Christmas Carol | August 1963 – October 1967 |
VI | May 1990 | Giveaways, Annuals and Miscellaneous Issues | 1947 – May 1961 |
VII | March 1988 | Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 31–94 and Large Feature Comics #7 | April 1943 – July 1948 |
VIII | August 1983 | Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 95–166 | August 1948 – July 1954 |
IX | June 1985 | Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 167–229 | August 1954 – October 1959 |
X | August 1990 | Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 230–312 and an Index | November 1959 – September 1966 |
Gladstone Publishing (a subsidiary of Another Rainbow) published a full-color version, The Carl Barks Library in Color , in a series of 141 comic book albums between 1992 and 1998.
Fantagraphics Books is currently collecting all of Barks' work as a hardcover collection, The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library .
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