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I prefer always a boxed book. The books stay in much better condition during shipping and throughout the years in my book shelf.

I'll just inform you that it is out now for pre-ordering - £13 in Amazon.com.uk

Fantagraphics tells:
?¢ The title story, ??Lost in the Andes" . Donald and the nephews embark on an expedition to Peru to find where square eggs come from only to meet danger in a mysterious valley whose inhabitants all speak with a southern drawl, and where Huey, Dewey, and Louie save Unca?? Donald??s life by learning how to blow square bubbles!
?¢ Two stories co-starring the unbearably lucky Gladstone, including the epic ??Race to the South Seas" as Donald and Gladstone try to win Uncle Scrooge??s favor by being the first to rescue him from a desert island.
?¢ Two Christmas stories, including ??The Golden Christmas Tree" one of Barks?? most fantastic stories that pits him and the nephews against a witch who wants to destroy all the Christmas trees in the world.
?¢ In other stories, Donald plays a TV quiz show contestant and ends up encased in a giant barrel of "Shaky-Jell," a truant officer who matches wits with his nephews, and a ranch hand who outwits cattle rustlers.

Sure looks good to me...

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I have just talked to a representative of Fantagraphics. The "Donald Duck" book IS the first of the "Barks Library", and WILL also be sold in boxed sets of 2 volumes. Why does Amazon not list the volume number? It surely isn't going to be Volume I, starting in late 1948, and going through 1949. So, Amazon has no comment yet on the boxed sets. They might have ruined some people's chances to get the pre-order discount on the first volume, by not making it clear what this book is. Fantagraphics and Amazon need to coordinate better.

Quote from user: Robb_KI have just talked to a representative of Fantagraphics. The "Donald Duck" book IS the first of the "Barks Library", and WILL also be sold in boxed sets of 2 volumes. Why does Amazon not list the volume number? It surely isn't going to be Volume I, starting in late 1948, and going through 1949. So, Amazon has no comment yet on the boxed sets. They might have ruined some people's chances to get the pre-order discount on the first volume, by not making it clear what this book is. Fantagraphics and Amazon need to coordinate better.
According to the original interview, this would be volume #7. Since they're not going to release these chronologically, unlike the Gottfredson sets, it makes sense not to assign the books a volume number (at least not on the cover), otherwise confusion would arise. On Amazon's defense, Fantagraphics has been listed as the publisher on the "Product Details" section for a long time now. As a minor nitpick, the information on "Product Description" IS a bit off; it says this volume covers 1948-1950, yet Voodoo Hodoo's, a mid-1949 classic, is the last story included.

Speaking of the description, it strikes me as curious that they specifically highlight "The Golden Christmas Tree", given how Barks himself was critical of that story given the changes made to its original ending. I wonder if an article there will address said topic.

This is old info, but it hasn't been posted here, so...

Quote:Though Fantagraphics only recently announced that it would also publish the complete Donald Duck strips by Carl Barks, Groth said that in fact the publisher signed Mickey and Donald together, but the Barks collections won't launch until November. "The main reason we're starting the Barks books later is because we have to recolor every single page, which we did not have to do with Mickey Mouse," Groth explained. "And of course, recoloring 200 pages takes time."

The Donald Duck collections, too, face similar issues to the Mickey books, with some strips rendered controversial by shifting cultural mores. "These were all done in the 1940s, when there was an entirely different standard about what was racially appropriate. All of the Donald Duck stuff has been reprinted in various forms in the past," Groth said. "I can't guarantee this, as Disney has not yet approved all of the Donald Duck material as they have for the Mickey Mouse material, but I'm hoping to run everything unexpurgated. And there will be a number of essays in the Donald Duck book, also, giving historical as well as aesthetic context." Those essays will include a biography of Barks by Don Ault and essays on each individual story by Ault, Art Fiori, Rich Kreiner, Jerry Gardner, Frank Stajanno, Leonardo Gori and Stefano Priaroni. "We're getting an international mix of people, well-known Barks scholars and American critics and writers who have not previously written about Barks," Groth said. "And we're publishing an essay about Barks by Donald Phelps in the first volume, as well. I consider that to be pretty important. It's going to be about Barks in general and touching on stories in the first volume."
Now, I really hope they announce more details soon...This'll be the first time I have the chance to own collected Barks, and the wait is driving me absolutely nuts! The hype is reaching unhealthy levels here!

Quote from user: Roger NorthDonald Duck Finds Pirate Gold was Barks first Duck Story.
...if you don't count the newspaper gags. :)

I seem to recall someone saying that you could order the box separately if you wanted. Anyone else remember hearing that, or am I just making it up on an account of wishful thinking.

Quote from user: MustangRockstarI seem to recall someone saying that you could order the box separately if you wanted. Anyone else remember hearing that, or am I just making it up on an account of wishful thinking.
I recall that statement being posted here somewhere as well. But I could not find reference on Fantagraphics site when I went looking.