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So, since I am new here. I have a question for today:
What is your favorite Carl Barks story:
Why:
and, what issue/periodical did you read it in:
Thanks
Bamm

There are too many great Barks stories to single one out. It might be one one day, and another another day. I like "Lost in the Andes" a lot, but also many others.
I CAN choose a favourite panel, however:
The scene in which Donald is standing in the shower, and is very far below the showerhead. The fear on his face is fantastic, as he thinks he has been shrunken. No other comic panel has had such a powerful capturing of human emotion (that I have seen).

Quote from user: Roger NorthRobb What story was that in? the scene where Donald thinks he has been shrunk by the shower? I don't think I have that story. .
It was in "Voodoo Hoodoo", Donald Duck #238 from 1949.

Like Robb, I absolutely love Lost in the Andes as well (that story gave me my lifelong love of almost all things Peruvian) but can't really choose a specific one. My parents had the Best Comics Donald Duck Collection (they were collectors and it was one of the few duck comics they would let me read because when I was younger I had a habit of, for some unknown reason, tearing off the covers of comic books)and pretty much almost all of my top ten Barks stories are included in it (including a Christmas for Shacktown, which had a huge influence on me growing up, and Maharajah Donald).

Also like Robb, I DO have a favorite panel.
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9370/onlyapooroldman.jpg

Donald has just told Scrooge that he is "only a poor old man," and you can almost hear Scrooge's heart breaking as that insult shatters him. Every time I read this story his expression in this panel just kills me; it's a pitch perfect drawing with one of the best uses of negative space I have ever seen in a single comic panel, period. There is just so much I love about this drawing that I can't really put into words, and it just packs an emotional punch that's stayed with me since I first read the story as a little, little girl.

Quote from user: Brigitta CatDonald has just told Scrooge that he is "only a poor old man," and you can almost hear Scrooge's heart breaking as that insult shatters him.
It' s a great panel indeed, but I don't think Scrooge is shattered by Donald's comment as if it had been an insult (either on Donald's part, or in his understanding). Rather, he seems to be taken aback, nonplussed by Donald's sudden impatient reaction; it takes a while to process it, understand what it means, maybe have a slight doubt the whole span of a microsecond; then he just dismisses it and jumps into his money to enjoy it.
Thus, rather than "shattered by an insult" '"How could he tell me such a thing?! Me?! a poor old man?! How rude of him!"), I understand it as the second phase (within dashes-->) of "uh?-- hmm... wait a minute... could he be r... -- naaaaaah,my silly nephew is just plain wrong, as always".

Several stories with Gallions and pirates made me shiver as a child - The Strange Shipwrecks, Seven Cities of Cibola and The Flying Dutchman.
These stories were cut-up i four pieces and published in Denmark as "continuing next week" - so the suspence was totally overwhelming...

Quote from user: Brigitta CatAlso like Robb, I DO have a favorite panel.
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9370/onlyapooroldman.jpg
When I first saw that panel here I thought: "What a horrible fate to befall the world!" In the story about the mystrerous stone ray, just after the Beagle Boys reveal their plan to him. Here's the page:
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Also one of Barks' best panels.
About Barks' best story: I've read far too less to decide. A good one up 'till now is "The Golden Helmet".