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Wow! That's awesome to know! Thanks for sharing, dkenny78!!! I hope that Fantagraphics releases Pluto Saves the Ship in some way as well!

Actually, now that I think about, judging from Don Rosa's commentary in Fantagraphics' Don Rosa library, it seems that they have all of his stories set out for the whole collection (he references stories that will appear in later volumes, for example).

I'm presuming that Fantagraphics has done the same thing for the entire Barks collection. Is there any reason why Fantagraphics wouldn't share the entire timeline of the Barks series (i.e., what stories will be in each volume that has yet to be published)? I mean, some of them you can basically guess by looking over a timeline of Barks' releases, but it would still be nice to know for sure, "Oh yeah, this story is going to be in this volume, etc." It will be especially interesting to see how they handle the later Walt Disney Comics ten-pagers. Volume 11, for example, is the last of the Four Color One Shots (besides the Gyro/Grandma/Daisy Duck's Diary stories). But there are over 100 ten pagers that he wrote after that volume came out. Will they risk putting together several volumes of 10 pagers, as suggested earlier? Or will they appear with Uncle Scrooge?

After all, they've been putting six issues of Uncle Scrooge into each of the Scrooge Volumes. The most recent one is Volume 14, which goes through issue 12. If they continue with six issues per volume of Uncle Scrooge, that would theoretically only take us through Volume 24, leaving six more volumes of stories. If we write off 1-2 of those as Duck Family (to incorporate the Grandma/Gyro/Daisy stories, that leaves 4 volumes of (theoretically) only 10 pagers.

It would be nice to have a timeline of all of Fantagraphics' planned releases for the Carl Barks series, even if it would (obviously) be subject to change.

Thoughts?

Talk to you later!

JDHJANUS
Josh

I have 2 copies of Lost in the Andes (I bought the second copy later to get the slipcase) and in both page 84 look okay in mine. They are a first and third printing.

Patrick Hanifin
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These books are very nice, but I still really wish these were done in a larger size like the Fantagraphics Don Rosa Library. I think the story comments at the end of the book could be a little more interesting, too. Mostly the comments just explain to me what I have already read. I'm capable of figuring that out for myself.

Patrick Hanifin
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www.SqueakyCleanComedy.com

I wish the comments included more facts: Barks' comments, publishing notes, etc.
Someone in an Amazon review quoted Fantagraphics as saying there would only be about four US volumes. Can anyone verify or explain?

In 2011, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with Fantagraphics co-founder Gary Groth. The link is below. There are supposed to be 30 volumes in the Carl Barks Library. The stories are being recolored by computer. On November 5, 2014, the seventh book came out---it's volume 14. In May of 2015, the eighth volume will come out---it will be volume 9. Yeah, Fantagraphics is issuing the chronlogical volumes out of order. They want to publish the most popular stories first. Those of us who bought the original Carl Barks Library put out by Another Rainbow, 1984-90, thought we had all the original stories. It turned out that we didn't. Editors had forced Barks to redraw the 1947 story Donald Duck In Darkest Africa to make the tribesmen look more human and to remove all references to cannibalism. The Fantagraphics set includes the original uncensored version. Both versions can be seen via the link below. That makes two links below.
http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=520833
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/comics/donald-duck-and-carl-barks-fantagraphics-goes-on-classics-quest/#/0

When Dell published Barks' Back To The Klondike in a 1953 comic book, they removed five and a half pages which included a flashback scene of Scrooge getting robbed and then starting a brawl in a saloon. The complete story was reprinted in Gladstone's Uncle $crooge Adventures (1996). In 1981, after five pages of the deleted art was located, Barks tried to reconstruct the other half-page from memory. He penciled the panels and Daan Jippes imked them in 1987. In the original story, though---and, obviously, the reprint too---there was a last line added by the editors. Upon realizing that Scrooge rigged a digging contest so the poverty-stricken Goldie would find his cache of gold, the nephews exclaim, "Well, whaddaya know!" Apparently the editors thought that Scrooge's altruism was not made clear so someone enlarged the lettering balloon and added "Good old Unca Scrooge!"

The 1952 Donald Duck cartoon Trick Or Treat opened with the Mello-Men singing a catchy little tune called Trick Or Treat For Hallowe'en. (The Mello-Men also voiced Donald's nephews in Uncle Scrooge & Money.) While the cartoon was still in production, Carl Barks drew a 32-page comic-book adaptation. When the story appeared in Donald Duck #26, nine pages had been cut, including the opening page which depicted a graveyard and several pages which featured an ogre named Smorgie, who was not in the cartoon but was created by Barks because the cartoon did not yield enough material to fill 32 pages. The complete story, minus one panel which was missing and had to be re-created, appeared in 1986 in the second three-book set of the Carl Barks Library. That upcoming Barks collection will also have the complete version. Smorgie lives!