The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Fantagraphics Books |
Schedule | biannual |
Format | Hardcover |
Genre | Funny animals Adventure |
Publication date | December 2011 |
No. of issues | about 30 |
Main character(s) | Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Daisy Duck, Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander, Grandma Duck |
Creative team | |
Created by | Carl Barks |
Written by | Carl Barks |
Artist(s) | Carl Barks |
Colourist(s) | Rich Tommaso, Tom Ziuko, Joseph Robert Cowles |
Editor(s) | Gary Groth |
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is a series of books collecting all of the comic book Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories written and drawn by Carl Barks, originally published between 1942 and Barks' retirement in June 1966. [1] The series was launched in late 2011, and will comprise 6,000 plus pages over roughly 30 [2] [3] 200- to 240-page volumes when it is finished.
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library has been translated and published in Italy, Brazil, Russia, and Germany.
From March 2024, Disney restricted access to the Kindle editions outside of North America, making the entire digital collection unavailable to purchase officially outside of North America.
The rights to Barks' works were licensed from Disney by Gemstone Publishing from 2003 until the end of 2008, when they ceased publishing Disney titles. When Fantagraphics Books publisher Gary Groth heard this, he contacted Disney and secured the publishing rights to Floyd Gottfredson's work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, resulting in the Floyd Gottfredson Library series that began publication in mid-2011. [4] Groth also tried to obtain the publishing rights to Barks' duck stories. Disney at first announced they would publish the stories themselves, but eventually changed their minds and passed the work on to Fantagraphics. In 2014, Fantagraphics also began publishing a companion series, The Don Rosa Library, collecting the Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck stories written and drawn by Don Rosa.
Barks' duck stories have been reprinted extensively, especially in Europe. Before Fantagraphics there were two complete collections in English published by Another Rainbow. The first was the expensive, scholarly Carl Barks Library (1984–1990) in 30 hardcover volumes collected in ten slipcase volumes with three books in each, which was in black-and-white. [5] The second was Carl Barks Library in Color in softcover album format with modern colouring.
Fantagraphics' 7.5 inches × 10.25 inches (19 cm × 26 cm) hardcover volumes are published in full color, as the stories originally were. When the series is complete, it will represent a chronological collection of Barks' stories. However, the volumes of the stories are being published out of order, starting with the volumes that the publishers believe will attract the most attention, starting with Lost in the Andes!, a volume containing stories from what is considered to be Barks' "peak" period (the late 1940s to the mid-1950s), including the title story "Lost in the Andes", which many fans consider to be representative of Barks' best work, and was Barks' own favorite. [3]
The design work was done by Fantagraphics' lead designer, Jacob Covey. The pages are recolored by Rich Tommaso, [6] using the original comics as a coloring guide, unlike some of Fantagraphics' more scholarly reprints, as the books are aimed at a more general audience than many of Fantagraphics' other offerings, which are often aimed at the comics cognoscenti. [3]
The books are about 240 pages each—about 200 pages of comics, with the remaining pages made up of supplementary material, such as cover reprints and essays. [3] [7]
Fantagraphics chose to have the artwork computer-recolored, using the original comics as color guides, rather than reprinting with the original off-register colors as they have in many of their other archival projects. Colorist Rich Tommaso has stuck closely to the original colors, although muting the originally garish ones somewhat in a concession to modern readers. [8] Sometimes the colors were changed when it was known that Barks hadn't liked them, or when it was felt they could be corrected or improved. Some stories are printed from recently rediscovered original artwork. [9]
Volumes 5-20 were completely uncensored, including the racial caricatures that appeared in the originals that had been retouched in later printings. Starting from Volume 21, some stories were edited or removed.[ citation needed ]
Vol. | Release order & date | Title figure | Title | Period | Page count | ISBN | Inducks link |
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1 | 28: 2025-06 | Donald Duck | "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" | 979-8-8750-0113-0 | |||
2 | 27: 2024-11-12 [13] | Donald Duck | “Frozen Gold” | 1943–1945 | 238 | 978-1-68396-988-4 | CBDL 2 |
3 | 26: 2024-08-20 [14] | Donald Duck | “Mystery of the Swamp” | 1945–1946 | 238 | 978-1-68396-972-3 | CBDL 3 |
4 | 25: 2023-10-10 | Donald Duck | “Maharajah Donald” | 1946–1947 | 224 | 978-1-68396-900-6 | CBDL 4 |
5 | 5: 2013-11-10 | Donald Duck | “Christmas on Bear Mountain” | 1947 | 210 | 978-1-60699-697-3 | CBDL 5 |
6 | 4: 2013-05-16 | Donald Duck | “The Old Castle's Secret” | 1948 | 226 | 978-1-60699-653-9 | CBDL 6 |
7 | 1: 2011-12-05 | Donald Duck | “Lost in the Andes” | 1948–1949 | 250 | 978-1-60699-474-0 | CBDL 7 |
8 | 6: 2014-05-02 | Donald Duck | “Trail of the Unicorn” | 1949–1950 | 224 | 978-1-60699-741-3 | CBDL 8 |
9 | 8: 2015-05-15 | Donald Duck | “The Pixilated Parrot” | 1950 | 210 | 978-1-60699-834-2 | CBDL 9 |
10 | 10: 2016-05-07 | Donald Duck | “Terror of the Beagle Boys” | 1951 | 225 | 978-1-60699-920-2 | CBDL 10 |
11 | 3: 2012-11-07 | Donald Duck | “A Christmas For Shacktown” | 1951–1952 | 234 | 978-1-60699-574-7 | CBDL 11 |
12 | 2: 2012-07-17 | Uncle Scrooge | “Only a Poor Old Man” | 1952–1954 | 240 | 978-1-60699-535-8 | CBDL 12 |
13 | 9: 2015-10-26 | Donald Duck | “Trick or Treat” | 1952–1953 | 236 | 978-1-60699-874-8 | CBDL 13 |
14 | 7: 2014-11-05 | Uncle Scrooge | “The Seven Cities of Gold” | 1954–1955 | 244 | 978-1-60699-795-6 | CBDL 14 |
15 | 11: 2016-09-13 | Donald Duck | “The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp” | 1953–1955 | 242 | 978-1-60699-953-0 | CBDL 15 |
16 | 12: 2017-08-15 | Uncle Scrooge | “The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan” | 1956–1957 | 232 | 978-1-68396-013-3 | CBDL 16 |
17 | 13: 2017-09-19 | Donald Duck | “Secret of Hondorica” | 1955–1956 | 200 | 978-1-68396-045-4 | CBDL 17 |
18 | 14: 2018-03-27 | Donald Duck | “The Lost Peg Leg Mine” | 1956–1958 | 192 | 978-1-68396-093-5 | CBDL 18 |
19 | 15: 2018-09-05 | Donald Duck | “The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama” | 1957–1958 | 200 | 978-1-68396-123-9 | CBDL 19 |
20 | 16: 2019-05-21 | Uncle Scrooge | “The Mines of King Solomon” | 1957–1958 | 200 | 978-1-68396-187-1 | CBDL 20 |
21 | 17: 2019-10-08 | Donald Duck | “Christmas in Duckburg” | 1958–1959 | 200 | 978-1-68396-239-7 | CBDL 21 |
22 | 18: 2020-06-09 | Uncle Scrooge | “The Twenty-Four Carat Moon” | 1958–1962 | 200 | 978-1-68396-291-5 | CBDL 22 |
23 | 19: 2020-11-10 [15] | Donald Duck | “Under the Polar Ice” | 1959–1960 | 200 | 978-1-68396-383-7 | CBDL 23 |
24 | 20: 2021-03-16 | Uncle Scrooge | "Island in the Sky" | 1959–1960, 1990∗ | 210 | 978-1-68396-401-8 | CBDL 24 |
25 | 21: 2021-11-16 | Donald Duck | "Balloonatics" | 1960–1961, 1969–1970∗∗ | 210 | 978-1-68396-474-2 | CBDL 25 |
26 | 22: 2022-05-17 | Uncle Scrooge | "The Golden Nugget Boat" | 1960–1962 | 208 | 978-1-68396-565-7 | CBDL 26 |
27 | 23: 2022-09-27 | Donald Duck | "Duck Luck" | 1960-1961, 1971** | 202 | 978-1-68396-653-1 | CBDL 27 |
28 | 24: 2023-06-20 | Uncle Scrooge | "Cave of Ali Baba" | 1960-1962, 2006* | 208 | 978-1-68396-763-7 | CBDL 28 |
∗ The Pied Piper of Duckburg: pages 1–3 script and pencils by Carl Barks in 1959; pages 4–8 script and finished art by Don Rosa in 1990, respectively Daan Jippes in 2006.
∗∗ Only scripts done by Barks; for Junior Woodchucks stories, art by Daan Jippes.
Release order & date | Title figure | Title | Vol. | ISBN |
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1: 2013-11-10 | Donald Duck | "Christmas Treasury Gift Box Set" | 5 & 11 | 978-1-60699-714-7 |
2: 2014-10-18 | Donald Duck | "Lost In The Andes" & "Trail Of The Unicorn" | 7 & 8 | 978-1-60699-796-3 |
3: 2015-11-23 | Uncle Scrooge | "Only A Poor Old Man" & "The Seven Cities Of Gold" | 12 & 14 | 978-1-60699-875-5 |
4: 2016-09-13 | Donald Duck | "Christmas On Bear Mountain" & "The Old Castle's Secret" | 5 & 6 | 978-1-60699-979-0 |
5: 2017-09-19 | Donald Duck | "The Pixilated Parrot" & "Terror of The Beagle Boys" | 9 & 10 | 978-1-68396-046-1 |
6: 2018-09-25 | Donald Duck | "A Christmas for Shacktown" & "Trick or Treat" | 11 & 13 | 978-1-68396-124-6 |
7: 2019-10-15 | Donald Duck | "The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp" & "Secret of Hondorica" | 15 & 17 | 978-1-68396-240-3 |
8: 2020-10-20 | Donald Duck | "The Lost Peg Leg Mine" & "The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama" | 18 & 19 | 978-1-68396-384-4 |
9: 2021-12-07 | Uncle Scrooge | "The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" & "The Mines of King Solomon" | 16 & 20 | 978-1-68396-475-9 |
10: 2022-10-25 | Donald Duck | "Christmas in Duckburg" & "Under the Polar Ice" | 21 & 23 | 978-1-68396-662-3 |
11: 2023-10-10 | Uncle Scrooge | "The Twenty-four Carat Moon" & "Island in the Sky" | 22 & 24 | 978-1-68396-898-6 |
12: 2024-10-15 | Donald Duck | "Balloonatics" & "Duck Luck" | 25 & 27 | 978-1-68396-987-7 |
Fantagraphics has also published three paperback titles containing selected stories from the hardcover line. In comparison to the full size hardcover series which features stories in Barks' typical four-row format, the paperback line present the material in a two-row format at a page size of 7.3 × 5.5 inches.
Free Comic Book Day 2012
In 2011 it was announced that Fantagrapics would participate in the Free Comic Book Day promotion campaign in May, 2012. For this occasion they would release a comic book titled, Walt Disney's Donald Duck Family Comics, an issue featuring reprinted duck stories by Carl Barks. [16] [17] The issue contained the three stories: The Round Money Bin, Donald Duck's Worst Nightmare and Somethin' Fishy Here, as well as eight one-page gag comics.
The Brazilian version is titled Coleção Carl Barks Definitiva and was initially published by Editora Abril from 2016 to 2018, when the publisher ended its contract with Disney. In November 2019, Panini Comics resumed the collection. [18]
Vol. | Released | Title figure | Title | Period | Page count | Publisher | ISBN | Inducks link |
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4 | 2024-01 | Donald Duck | “O Tigres Reais” | 1946–1947 | 224 | Panini | 978 65 2592 196 9 | CCBD 4 |
5 | 2016-11 | Donald Duck | “Natal nas Montanhas” | 1947 | 220 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 243 4 | CCBD 5 |
6 | 2016-10 | Donald Duck | “O Segredo do Castelo” | 1948 | 244 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 098 0 | CCBD 6 |
7 | 2016-08 | Donald Duck | “Perdidos nos Andes!” | 1948–1949 | 244 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 065 2 | CCBD 7 |
8 | 2016-12 | Donald Duck | “Em Busca do Unicórnio” | 1949–1950 | 244 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 111 6 | CCBD 8 |
9 | 2017-04 | Donald Duck | “O Papagaio Contador” | 1950 | 220 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 172 7 | CCBD 9 |
10 | 2017-07 | Donald Duck | “O Vil Metal e os Vilões” | 1951 | 236 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 203 8 | CCBD 10 |
11 | 2020-01 | Donald Duck | “O Trenzinho da Alegria” | 1951-1952 | 200 | Panini | 978 85 426 2394 9 | CCBD 11 |
12 | 2020-02 | Uncle Scrooge | “Nadando em Dinheiro” | 1952-1954 | 200 | Panini | 978 85 426 2698 8 | CCBD 12 |
13 | 2017-09 | Donald Duck | “A Noite das Bruxas” | 1952–1953 | 228 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 225 0 | CCBD 13 |
14 | 2020-06 | Uncle Scrooge | “As Cidades do Ouro” | 1954-1955 | 200 | Panini | 978 65 5512 083 7 | CCBD 14 |
15 | 2017-02-24 | Donald Duck | “A Cidade Fantasma” | 1953–1955 | 252 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 139 0 | CCBD 15 |
16 | 2019-11 | Uncle Scrooge | “A Coroa Perdida de Genghis Khan” | 1956-1957 | 200 | Panini | 978 85 426 1711 5 | CCBD 16 |
17 | 2018-01 | Donald Duck | “O Segredo de Hondorica” | 1955-1956 | 200 | Editora Abril | 978 85 5579 258 8 | CCBD 17 |
18 | 2018-03 | Donald Duck | “A Mina Perdida do Perneta” | 1956-1957 | 200 | Editora Abril | 978 85 69522 53 9 | CCBD 18 |
19 | 2020-10 | Donald Duck | “O Tabu das Pérolas Negras” | 1957–1958 | 200 | Panini | 978 65 55123 15 9 | CCBD 19 |
20 | 2020-09 | Uncle Scrooge | “As Minas do Rei Salomão” | 1957–1958 | 200 | Panini | 978 65 55124 42 2 | CCBD 20 |
21 | 2020-12 | Donald Duck | “Natal em Patópolis” | 1958–1959 | 200 | Panini | 978 65 55125 52 8 | CCBD 21 |
22 | 2021-03 | Uncle Scrooge | “A Lua de Vinte e Quatro Quilates” | 1958-1962 | 200 | Panini | 978 65 55126 99 0 | CCBD 22 |
23 | 2021-05 | Donald Duck | “Sob o Gelo Polar” | 1959-1960 | 200 | Panini | 978 65 59600 41 0 | CCBD 23 |
24 | 2021-07 | Uncle Scrooge | “A Ilha no Espaço” | 1959-1960 | 216 | Panini | 978 65 59821 73 0 | CCBD 24 |
25 | 2022-02 | Donald Duck | “Folias Aéreas” | 1960-1961, 1969-1970 | 208 | Panini | 978 65 59605 21 7 | CCBD 25 |
26 | 2024-04 | Uncle Scrooge | “O Navio de Ouro” | 1960–1962 | 216 | Panini | 978 65 25918 60 0 | CBDL 26 |
27 | 2024-08 | Donald Duck | “Um Pato Sem Sorte” | 1960-1961, 1971 | 202 | Panini | 978 65 25915 44 9 | CBDL 27 |
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The German version is titled Onkel Dagobert und Donald Duck von Carl Barks and started November 2022. It was published by Egmont Comic Collection. As of 2024, only the first two volumes were published.
US Vol. | Release order & date | Title | Period | ISBN | Boxed set ISBN |
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5 | 1: 2022-11-10 | “Die Mutprobe” | 1947 | 978-3-7704-0446-9 | 978-3-7704-0487-2 |
6 | 2: 2023-01-18 | “Das Gespenst von Duckenburgh” | 1948 | 978-3-7704-0447-6 | |
7 | 3: 2023-10-10 | “Im Land der viereckigen Eier” | 1948–1949 | 978-3-7704-0499-5 | 978-3-7704-0503-9 |
8 | 4: 2024-01-16 | “Die Jagd auf das Einhorn” | 1949–1950 | 978-3-7704-0502-2 | |
9 | 5: 2024-12 | “Familie Duck auf Ferienfahrt” | 1950 | 978-3-7704-0627-2 | 978-3-7704-0638-8 |
10 | 6: 2024-12 | “Gefährliches Spiel” | 1951 | 978-3-7704-0637-1 |
Two volumes were published by Rizzoli Lizard in 2012-2013 before being canceled after the second volume. In November 2019, Panini Comics resumed the collection publishing "Le Storie di Natale di Barks", a box set that is the translation of the first Fantagraphics box set with volumes 5 and 11. In November 2022 Panini continued with volume 6.
Vol. | Release order & date | Title figure | Title | Period | Page count | ISBN | Inducks link |
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5 | 3: 2019-11 | Donald Duck | “Il Natale di Paperino sul Monte Orso” | 1947 | 224 | 978-88-287-0875-9 | DCLA 2B |
6 | 5: 2022-11 | Donald Duck | “Paperino e il segreto del vecchio castello” | 978-88-287-0884-1 | |||
7 | 1: 2012-11 | Donald Duck | “Il mistero degli Incas” | 1948–1949 | 240 | 978-88-17-06065-3 | CBRL 1 |
11 | 4: 2019-11 | Donald Duck | “Paperino e il decino fatale” | 1951-1952 | 248 | 978-88-287-0876-6 | DCLA 2C |
12 | 2: 2013-6 | Uncle Scrooge | “La disfida dei dollari” | 1952–1954 | 240 | 978-88-17-06684-6 | CBRL 2 |
Vol. | Release order & date | Title figure | Title | Volumes | ISBN |
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N/A | 1: 2019-11 | Donald Duck | "Le storie di Natale" | 5 & 11 | 978-88-912-8094-7 |
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The Russian version is titled Библиотека Карла Баркса and is published by АСТ since 2017.
Vol. | Release order & date | Title figure | Title | Period | Page count | ISBN | Inducks link |
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12 | 1: 2017-04-03 | Uncle Scrooge | “Всего лишь бедный старичок” | 1952–1954 | 248 | 978-5-17-101749-1 | CBDL 12 |
5 | 2: 2017-11-01 | Donald Duck | “Рождество на Медвежьей горе” | 1947 | 216 | 978-5-17-102848-0 | CBDL 5 |
14 | 3: 2017-12-07 | Uncle Scrooge | “Семь золотых городов” | 1954–1955 | 240 | 978-5-17-102847-3 | CBDL 14 |
6 | 4: 2018-03-26 | Donald Duck | “Тайна старого замка” | 1948 | 232 | 978-5-17-106038-1 | CBDL 6 |
7 | 5: 2018-08-15 | Donald Duck | "Затерянные в Андах" | 1948-1949 | 240 | 978-5-17-107862-1 | CBDL 7 |
8 | 6: 2018-12-04 | Donald Duck | "След единорога" | 1949-1950 | 224 | 978-5-17-107861-4 | CBDL 8 |
9 | 7: 2019-02 | Donald Duck | "Ужасные Братья Гавс" | 978-5-17-110924-0 | CBDL 9 | ||
11 | 8: 2019 | Donald Duck | "Рождество в Беднотауне" | 978-5-17-112211-9 | CBDL 11 | ||
16 | 9: 2019 | Uncle Scrooge | "Пропавшая корона Чингисхана" | 978-5-17-115067-9 | CBDL 16 | ||
13 | 10: 2019 | Donald Duck | "Шутка или угощение" | 978-5-17-117585-6 | CBDL 13 | ||
20 | 11: 2020 | Uncle Scrooge | "Копи царя Соломона" | 978-5-17-117611-2 | CBDL 20 | ||
15 | 12: 2020 | Donald Duck | "Призрачный шериф" | 978-5-17-120383-2 | CBDL 15 | ||
10 | 13: 2020 | Donald Duck | "Безумный попугай" | 978-5-17-121138-7 | CBDL 10 | ||
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