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Topic: Fantagraphics to Publish Barks Library in English

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Charlie Brown
Quote from user: Louis LaneWhich version is included in Another Rainbow's hardcover Carl Barks Library?
INDUCKS says "re-inked" and "censored": http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+MOC++20-01
Gerd Syllwasschy
The CBL has the Dutch re-inked version for both "Darkest Africa" and "Race to the South Seas".
Ramapith
The hardback CBL also has a reinked version of "Santa's Stormy Visit."
This was fixed early: the CBL in Color and other more recent printings use the original version.
Gerd Syllwasschy
By the way, has there ever been a not-reinked reprint of "Too Many Pets" (FC 29)?
Rodney
I think overall, this is a great volume. Doesn't so much take the place of the Another Rainbow library, but compliments it well. It's also, obviously, far more readable than the brittle paper comics I've been saving for years. Don't need those anymore!
Charlie Brown
I got my copy in New York City. It was really easy.Every book store had at least one copy. But it should come shrink-wrapped. It was impossible to get a copy without any damage. That's why I love the boxed sets.
Anyway: a great book!!
Dutch Duckfan Down Under
More news! On Amazon, the cover for the second issue can be found.
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disneys-Uncle-Scrooge-Complete/dp/1606995359/ref=pd_sim_b_1
The Beagle Boys's blue shirts don't look good to me. I'm used to them in orange, and I don't think this shade of blue fits them well.
GeoX
They do look a bit peculiar by contemporary standards, but their shirts WERE blue in the original printing of "Only a Poor Old Man," so if we're trying to be as old-school as possible here...
Patrick Hanifin
This is a nice time period. Fantagraphics did a superb job with with their first volume. I'm very pleased and looking forward to the next one. There are a few things I would have possibly done differently but overall it's absolutely great!

I grew up with the Another Rainbow releases which I really liked but mostly everything they released that I wanted was so expensive. It was appreciated and ground breaking but cost so much it took a lot of the fun out of collecting for me. The 10 black and white bound library issues were $100 each. The first Always Another Rainbow Uncle Scrooge statue was $5000 (and delicate, too). Then if you wanted the library again in color that was another small fortune in volumes. The litho's were a lot as well. Then Disney released the bronzes at several thousand each and you even had to get to a convention to buy one or pay more on the secondary market.

I can't tell you what a pleasure it is for me to pick up this easy to hold book in color on Amazon for less than $20. Then buy the new hardbound Yoe Barks Big Book of Bears for a low price, too. Finally, getting Series 1 of the Dark Horse Scrooge figures for around $40 each with all the different characters. (I wish they'd done a better job on the second series of these, had done the Junior Woodchucks, or Glomgold, but I'm not complaining at all. I'm not a completest and I just buy what I like. The ones I don't like as well I don't have to have.) For several hundred dollars I've got a new collection going now of both Carl Barks' color stories with incisive articles and a whole bunch of well done Barks' figures. I'm really having fun again with this hobby and it's not costing me a million dollars where I'm sad I can't even afford to buy what I want. I'm in heaven!

Patrick Hanifin
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Joxer96
Quote from user: Patrick HanifinThis is a nice time period. .....(snip) I'm really having fun again with this hobby and it's not costing me a million dollars where I'm sad I can't even afford to buy what I want. I'm in heaven!

Patrick Hanifin
www.PatrickHanifin.com
www.SqueakyCleanComedy.com

That makes two of us, Patrick! Just a short time ago I'd thought I'd never see a Gottfredson collection, much less one of such quality and so affordable. These are great times indeed.

Gus
Charlie Brown
I agree, too! Since I had the book in my own hands, I forgot all the small things I didn't like about it (while reading the previews). Great work!
I got it at an local book shop with no discount. But $25 is still a fair price for this book.
Argonaut
Quote from user: Charlie BrownI agree, too! Since I had the book in my own hands, I forgot all the small things I didn't like about it (while reading the previews).
Heh, same here. Not a fan of the colouring approach at all, but darned if this book isn't a tremendous pleasure to read.

Anyway, the cover for the next volume is up!

http://i41.tinypic.com/vpg9c4.png
David K
Hmm. I don't like (the color of) those Beagle Boys up there. I hope they'll change it in something cooler.
Coolwater
Quote from user: Charlie BrownI got my copy in New York City. It was really easy.Every book store had at least one copy. But it should come shrink-wrapped. It was impossible to get a copy without any damage.
I got an absolutely clean and damage-free copy in a shop last week--in Berlin. Haven't read it yet, but the book looks good. The colours are okay. I look especially forward for reading the accompanying texts in this and the future books. It's good that Donald Ault will let off steam in this edition. After all I have already so many essays by Geoffrey Blum in various Barks Libraries and Collections, and it's always good to hear another opinion where the light is thrown on the object from a different perspective.
Hedberg
Got my copy today and will return when I know what to say!
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