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Over the years I've purchased comic book stories in many different formats. The Barks Library oversized in black and white and in color albums, more expensive square spine comics with better paper from both Gladstone and Gemstone, different books such as the Don Rosa Life and Times in comics, paperback, and hardback. Also Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge books from Gladstone and Celestial Arts, different books with Carl's art, the excellent Fantagraphics Books Lost in the Andes, the first Gladstone comics, and paid high prices for many old original first edition comics as well.

Tonight I was rereading the Gladstone Uncle $crooge Adventures #27. This features the first American printing of the outstanding 28 page story, The Guardians of the Lost Library. It originally sold for $1.50. It has one of my favorite Don Rosa covers, the paper is a pretty nice quality, and the coloring is really well done by Susan Daigle-Leach. It even has a reader's letter page at the end which I always enjoy and the paper's starting to develop that nice comic smell, too.

There's a certain honesty to a comic like this which I especially enjoy and there's a nice nostalgia feeling you get opening it up again. There's something very special about it and the excitement of when I first read this story comes back to me. For my money a plain simple comic book with a really good story is hard to beat.

Patrick Hanifin
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