Out June 20, 2013.
With this volume, “The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library” loops back to
Barks’s earlier days, collecting the entirety of Barks’s (astounding)
1948 output. The title story, “The Old Castle’s Secret,” is notable not
just for being the first full-length 32-page adventure instigated by
Scrooge McDuck (in his second-ever appearance), but for featuring some
of Barks’s spookiest, lushest settings in old Clan McDuck castle of
Dismal Downs. The other long story, “The Sheriff of Bullet Valley,”
plunks Donald and the nephews in the Wild West, with Donald as an
overconfident deputy having to deal with some high-tech rustlers. The
book also includes the less-known “In Darkest Africa,” originally
published in a giveaway and unreleased for decades. This volume also
features an even 10 of Barks’s dynamic “Walt Disney’s Comics and
Stories” 10-pagers, including “Wintertime Wager” (the first appearance
of a not-yet-lucky-but-still-obnoxious Gladstone Gander); “Spoil the
Rod” (in which the exquisitely named educational professor Pulpheart
Clabberhead is brought in to help tame the nephews); “Rocket Race to the
Moon” (a rare full-on adventure—interplanetary, no less—in the short
form); “Gladstone Returns” and “Links Highjinks” (two more Gladstone
yarns); and five more stories... plus a half-dozen hilarious one-page
gags. Of course, once again all the stories have been shot from crisp
originals, then re-colored (and printed) to match, for the first time
since their original release over 60 years ago, the colorful yet soft
hues of the originals—and of course the book is rounded off with essays
about Barks, the Ducks, and these specific stories by Barks experts from
all over the world.
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