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I love slip cases for Blu-Rays and DVDs. It a shame that Disney only shipped it with the first copies.
Back to the Carl Barks Library: I got my copy today. The box set is really nice. I like the bold cover art. Although the one box looks a little bit misplaced between the unboxed books.

I also received my boxed set yesterday and I'm totally pleased with it. I do have an extremely serious question of major importance, though, for everyone who has also received their boxed set.

When you put your boxed set in the bookshelf next to your other Fantagraphic volumes, which side do you face out, the open side where you see the two volumes, or the closed side where you see the small Christmas in Shacktown painting? For now I have the closed side with the small painting facing out, but I haven't been able to completely 100% make up my mind yet with this very important decision.

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Quote from user: Patrick HanifinWhen you put your boxed set in the bookshelf next to your other Fantagraphic volumes, which side do you face out, the open side where you see the two volumes, or the closed side where you see the small Christmas in Shacktown painting
I will face the closed side out. And I will keep both Christmas books in it.

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When you put your boxed set in the bookshelf next to your other Fantagraphic volumes, which side do you face out, the open side where you see the two volumes, or the closed side where you see the small Christmas in Shacktown painting? For now I have the closed side with the small painting facing out, but I haven't been able to completely 100% make up my mind yet with this very important decision.

Patrick Hanifin
www.PatrickHanifin.com
www.SqueakyCleanComedy.com
I had my my Gottfredson's and my Peanuts' with the books facing out, then I realized one day that they were meant to go the other way round. They look fantastic on the book shelf en mas when presented that way, and also protects those precious books just that much more.
I keep my Gottfredson's and Peanuts (which I only have one box set of) facing out purely for convenience

I have just received my copy of "Christmas on Bear Mountain", and no covers or rare material this time; only a few lines for each story. Poor extras if we compare them with Gottfredson Library, full of articles, essays, rare drawings and extra material. Fantagraphics must take care of this in new volumes...

Quote from user: piskito72I have just received my copy of "Christmas on Bear Mountain", and no covers or rare material this time; only a few lines for each story. Poor extras if we compare them with Gottfredson Library, full of articles, essays, rare drawings and extra material. Fantagraphics must take care of this in new volumes...
There were no Barks covers during the period covered by that volume. Walt Kelly was drawing all the covers for Walt Disney's Comics and stories at that time, and for whatever reasons, Western had even the special books drawn by other (lesser) artists. During that period, Barks' extra time was taken up by his drawing and writing Barney Bear and Benny Burro stories for Western (and MGM's comics).

Quote from user: piskito72Thanks for the information, Robb_K. Ok, Barks didn't do covers during this period, but I continue thinking that Gottfredson Library offers much more for almost the same money. If Fantagraphics wants to deliver the ultimate edition of this great classic I think it will have to make a better effort...
There is a large difference between production costs for the Barks set and the Gottfredson, as virtually ALL pages in Barks are colour, and most in Gottfredson are black and white(daily newspaper strips). Gottfredson sets can have costs added for extras, and still be sold for a price that can warrant their printing, whereas I would guess that very little Barks set costs can be added and result in a sales price that can earn enough sales to warrent those books' printing. Otherwise, I'd expect that Fantagraphics WOULD add significantly more extras. For a long time it was thought that no US publisher could attempt to produce a quality hardbound colour Barks set of any kind.

Quote from user: RichieDon Rosa's collection will be in color, though, and it seems it'll also carry more extras than the Bark releases.

Piskito, are the stories' analysis really that shorter compared with previous volumes?
Maybe Fantagraphics has significantly higher costs for producing The Barks set, due to having to pay significantly more to get the rights to publish it, than the rights to publish the Rosa set. Then, they also can't reflect that higher cost in increased sale price for fear of scaring away all the people who already have the black and white Carl Barks library? There must be a good reason why they need to keep their costs down so low. Both gary Groth and Kim Thompson were huge Barks fans, and dedicated to putting out high quality products. If they could produce a much higher-quality Barks set, they would have done it (as they are proving with the Rosa Set). There must be different factors involved. I believe that we are very lucky that a full-colour English language set of all Barks works can be printed, at all. For years it was considered infeasible.