A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Additional credits: At one point, Barks considered drawing a "Maharajah Donald" cover for the slipcase of The Carl Barks Library - Set VI. He made a rough design, based on the opening panel of «in "Maharajah Donald"».

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome

Sources

"rocket chair" [pencil drawing]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-202
CBL: ---
Type: pencil drawing
Creation date: [1961]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: CU 3 "rocket chair" [inked]

Publications:

Unpublished?

Questions: Do you have more information on this material? Has it been published?

Sources

CRI 2 nephews playing bullfight

Barrier: MBAC-204
CBL: 08A-083
Type: Cover idea. Ink on tissue.
Creation date: early 1960s
Art: [none]
Pencil: [Carl Barks]
Ink: [Carl Barks]
Script: [Carl Barks?]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1983, August
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VIII
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Intended issue: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories [if properly finished and accepted]

Donald bends over to pick a flower. Two nephews hold a cape in front of his rump, while the third nephew wears bull's horns and charges it. Intended for "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories".

Backstage: In the early 1960s, Barks submitted small penciled roughs to Western Publishing before doing finished pencils and then ink drawings for final submissions. Western never used this one, but Barks later inked it at the request of a fan.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VIII (USA): black-and-white

Congruences:

CR DD 106 ambush at thunder mountain [cover layout]: Rear-end humour.

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

CRI 10 cutting tart with harp [cover design]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 09B-496
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: "June" [mid-1950s]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1985, June
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set IX
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version, by others: cutting tart with harp

Additional credits: The pencil art is simply dated "June". The art has been sketched quickly in blue on tissue paper. Barks submitted it to Western Publishing, but for some reason the idea was not used. The rejected sketch remained in Barks's files for twenty years, until he completed it in black pencil at the request of a fan. In 1982, Stephen Eberhart sent Volker Reiche a photocopy of the sketch, and Reiche responded with an inked rendition.

Status: Information in The Carl Barks Library - Set IX suggests that Barks's sketch has survived.

Questions: Has the original sketch been published? Do you have a xerox of it, or do you have the original sketch itself?

Sources

treasure of aztec-land [pencil sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover rough; pencil sketch
Creation date: [1965]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1991, July
Issue: The Comics Journal 151
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W DD 103-00 treasure of aztec-land [inked version]

Owners, past and present: Given by Barks to Bob Gregory, a fellow artist on the Donald Duck comics (and a friend of Barks) in the 1960s. Gregory, in turn, gave it to his daughter, Roberta Gregory.

Publications:

The Comics Journal 151 (USA): [monochrome]

Sources

CR DD 106 ambush at thunder mountain [cover layout]

Barrier: MBAC-115
CBL: 02C-641
Type: Cover layout. Pencil.
Creation date: [1965]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W DD 106-00 ambush at thunder mountain

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): colour

Congruences:

CRI 2 nephews playing bullfight: Rear-end humour.

Sources

CR DD 117a wolf pulling sled

Barrier: ---
CBL: 02C-646
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1967]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W DD 117-00 werewolf and shaking tree

Additional credits: Rejected because the Disney characters appear only as tiny background figures.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR DD 117b gold wolf statue in box [cover design]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 02C-668
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1967]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W DD 117-00 werewolf and shaking tree
Finished version, by others: HC DD1999-03 gold wolf statue in box

Additional credits: Rejected because Barks's editors judged the design too static. They may also have felt that the gold statuette would be more puzzling than intriguing to someone who had not read the story.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): monochrome

CBL-notes: The upper-right corner is covered by another design.

Sources

wolf shaking tree [cover design]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: 02C-668 (second edition only); 10A-003
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1967]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II (second edition only)
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W DD 117-00 werewolf and shaking tree

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): (second edition only); monochrome
The Carl Barks Library - Set X (USA): monochrome, small reproduction

Sources

CR DD 126 Officer For a Day [law book and disorder]

Barrier: MBAC-116(?)
CBL: 02C-675
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1968]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney Donald Duck
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W DD 126-00 ticket on bicycle
Finished version, by others: HC DD1997-11 law book and disorder

Additional credits: The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering.
Western Publishing rejected this design because of its violence.

Backstage: The cover depicts crime and violence running rampant when Donald becomes a substitute policeman: the Purgatory Cherubs motorcycle gang is fighting the Beagle Boys while a flying saucer absconds with the loot. As usual, Donald is comically ineffectual, so hamstrung by legal technicalities that he is unable to stop the lawbreakers. Like many of Barks' narrative covers, this one illustrates the story without actually depicting any one scene from it: several disasters are compressed into a single event, thereby intensifying the catastrophe and Donald's ineptness in controlling it.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): monochrome

Questions: Barrier mentions: "A rejected sketch for this cover shows Donald in battle with the Purgatory Cherubs." This description doesn't match with the design of Donald doing nothing but looking puzzled in a law book, while there's a lot of violence on the background. Is there a possibility that Barrier means another design than this one?

Sources

moose hunter call [nephews in front]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover design. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s/1960s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1995, December
Issue: The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color No. 24
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: HC DD1984-36 moose hunter call

Additional credits: Contains the text "Mooo", as a sound coming from Donald's horn.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color No. 24 (USA): monochrome

Sources

moose hunter call [donald in front]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover design. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s/1960s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1995, December
Issue: The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color No. 24
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: HC DD1984-36 moose hunter call
Finished version: CRI 3 moose hunter call [polished cover design]

Additional credits: Contains a circled "X", which indicates Barks choice to pursue this design.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color No. 24 (USA): monochrome

Sources

CRI 3 moose hunter call [polished cover design]

Barrier: MBAC-204
CBL: 02C-645
Type: Cover idea/layout. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s/1960s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Donald Duck
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1986, November
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set II
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Intended issue: Walt Disney's Donald Duck [if finished and accepted]
Intended publication date: [none or unknown]
Finished version, by others: HC DD1984-36 moose hunter call

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): monochrome
The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color No. 24 (USA): monochrome

Sources

diving scrooge discovers old vase

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover sketch?
Creation date: early 1990s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [1997?]
Issue: Carl Barks�- Background Material and Current Events
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: D 94003 Horsing Around With History [story] ?

Additional credits: Apparently, a cover sketch for Horsing Around With History [story]. It shows a similar scene as in panel 12.7.

Publications:

Carl Barks�- Background Material and Current Events (USA): monochrome, xerox-quality on pink-coloured page; A hand-written note (most likely not by Barks) in the lower left corner of the page identifies the sketch as "- Cover".

Other views:

larger picture: Monochrome.

Questions: Is this sketch really by Barks? And if so, was it really intended as a cover sketch for "Horsing Around With History"?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

CRI 5 wide load! [cover idea]

Barrier: MBAC-204
CBL: 01C-510
Type: Cover idea. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s/1960s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks?]
Hero: [Donald Duck?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1984, July
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set I
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version, by others: HC DD1982-52 wide load!

Christmas theme. Donald is carrying an armload of Christmas packages with a "wide load" sign hung on them; the nephews are waving lanterns to clear the way.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set I (USA): monochrome

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

CRI 4 hot 20k gold brick in bed [cover idea]

Barrier: MBAC-204
CBL: 01C-609
Type: Cover idea. Rough pencil sketch.
Creation date: [1950s?], June 1
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [Uncle $crooge?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1984, July
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set I
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version, by others: HC DD1985-13 hot gold brick in bed

Additional credits: A hand-written note included on a circulating xerox mentions the date "June 1".

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set I (USA): monochrome

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Questions: Is the date "June 1" shown on the original art itself?

Sources

CR OS 495 jack-in-the-box [inked cover preliminary]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover concept sketch; inked; signed
Creation date: 1953?
Colorist: Garé Carroll ? [a.k.a. Garé Barks]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Ink: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: ---
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1998, August
Issue: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge No. 312 (Series II)
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: 9 inch
Height: 11 inch
Finished version: W OS 495-00 pirate jack-in-the-box

Additional credits: Identified as a quickly traced cover concept rough. Contains a non-Barks hand-written text, which reads "To Timmie Robinson". Coloured with gouache or permanent dyes.
The non-Barks hand-written text appears to be written by Laura Waggoner, Timmy Robinson's late grandmother, who had moved to Van Nuys. She visited the Robinson household almost every weekend in 1953, and it's known that she often misspelled Timmy's name as "Timmie".

Scrooge, Donald and the nephews are frightened by a pirate jack-in-the-box popping out of a treasure chest.
Significant differences with pirate jack-in-the-box are the knife in the pirate head's mouth; Scrooge's looking frightened instead of surprised; and the decoration on the spring and around the head's neck.

Owners, past and present: Presented to Timmy Robinson as payment for services rendered. Barks lived as a guest at the Robinson family ranch near Hemmett, Riverside California, in 1953.
The drawing is housed in its original frame, which bears the seal of the original framing service. The drawing is in excellent condition, with minimal fading, though the paper has yellowed a little in 44�years.

Publications:

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge No. 312 (Series II) (USA): colour; blurry reproduction; some details are missing.

Circulating material:

colour print-out of a 720 dpi scan: supplied by Randa Robinson-Anderson; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Congruences:

CR US 4 bill treated coat [inked cover preliminary]: drawing given to the Robinson family
CR WDC 158 worm in apple [inked cover preliminary]: drawing given to the Robinson family

Other views:

close up: Scan of a more detailed colour print. The wrinkles were caused by the print having been folded, they do not appear on the original art.; (width=369 height=425)

Sources

hearth family pose [pencil version]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-117
CBL: ---
Type: Cover rough. Pencil.
Creation date: [1961]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W OS 1239-00 hearth family pose [edited version]; CR OS 1239 hearth family pose [original version]

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources

paddling motor [preliminary sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: 06A-005
Type: preliminary sketch for cover
Creation date: [1961?]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W 01329 A-00 paddling motor

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome

Sources

CRI 11 gopher and coat

Barrier: ---
CBL: 06A-004
Type: Cover idea. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s/1960s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Daisy Duck
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1990, May
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set VI
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Intended issue: Daisy Duck [if finished and accepted]
Intended publication date: [none or unknown]

Additional credits: Unused cover gag for a "Daisy Duck" comic. Barks's joke seems to be that Daisy's posh coat is really made of gopher fur.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VI (USA): monochrome

Congruences:

W WDC 316-00 dalmatian and coat: Posh coat compared with real animal(s).

Sources

CR US 4 bill treated coat [inked cover preliminary]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover concept sketch; inked; signed
Creation date: 1953
Colorist: Garé Carroll ? [a.k.a. Garé Barks]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Ink: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: ---
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1998, August
Issue: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge No. 312 (Series II)
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: 9? inch
Height: 11? inch
Finished version: W US 4-00 bill treated coat

Additional credits: Identified as a quickly traced cover concept rough. Contains a non-Barks hand-written text, which reads "To Greg Robinson". Reportedly coloured with gouache or permanent dyes.
The non-Barks hand-written text appears to be written by Laura Waggoner, Greg Robinson's late grandmother, who had moved to Van Nuys. She visited the Robinson household almost every weekend in 1953

Owners, past and present: Given to Greg Robinson while Barks lived as a guest at the Robinson family ranch near Hemmett, Riverside California, in 1953.

Publications:

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge No. 312 (Series II) (USA): Black and white xerox quality.

Congruences:

CR OS 495 jack-in-the-box [inked cover preliminary]: drawing given to the Robinson family
CR WDC 158 worm in apple [inked cover preliminary]: drawing given to the Robinson family

Sources

CR US 17 dollar sign hand palm [alternate version]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-285
Type: cover design; pencil
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W US 17-00 dollar sign hand palm

Additional credits: Features a Gypsy fortune teller. According to The Carl Barks Library - Set V, Barks's editors asked that he substitute Daisy, perhaps because they found the crone ugly, perhaps because they wanted as many Disney characters on the cover as possible.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 19b in "King Solomon's Mines" [cover design #1?]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-286
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1956]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 19-00 money snake charming

Additional credits: The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering.

Scrooge is seated on a huge diamond, while juggling smaller diamonds. Donald and the nephews notice eyes glowing in the dark behind them.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 19c king solomon's mines [cover design #2?]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-286
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1956]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 19-00 money snake charming

Additional credits: Only the title prefix ("in") is visible. The title field is unreadable, or blank.

Scrooge holds a huge diamond. Donald and the nephews point to camel riders approaching them on the background.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 19a in King Solomon's Mines [cover design #3?]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 03B-528; 05B-286
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1956]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1984, December
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set III
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 19-00 money snake charming
Finished version, by others: ARC GCA 1 king solomon's mines

Additional credits: The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): monochrome, more details than in The Carl Barks Library - Set V
The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome, less details than in The Carl Barks Library - Set III

Sources

money snake charming [cover idea]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: 03B-528
Type: Cover idea. Pencil.
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1984, December
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set III
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W US 19-00 money snake charming

Additional credits: A hand-written note mentions "Sold".

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): monochrome

Sources

dollar smoke signal [cover preliminary]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover preliminary
Creation date: 1955
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: [1955?]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: ± 8 inch
Height: ± 10 inch
Finished version: W US 39-00 dollar-sign smoke signal

Additional credits: Contains pencil note "Mar 25 1955 office"[?] on top of the drawing. Pencil on paper (a few light folds/creases). Page condition okay. Signed at bottom and stamped "walt disney production".

Owners, past and present:

Previously part of the collection of Lisa Hampton, a long time friend of Carl and Gare Barks.
For sale at Ebay, 12 May 2001. (Item # 1144505634): Accompanied with a picture of a "Authentic works by Carl Barks" certificate, and a picture of an "Carl Barks Art" article/note about the "historic Hampton collection".

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

picture as on Ebay: colour; height=1200 width=800

Other views:

picture of certificate and article/note: Greyscale and colour. (height=763 width=750 size= 396 kB)
Transcription of certificate and article/note.

CU 5 six cups [cover layout]

Barrier: MBAC-202
CBL: 03A-008
Type: Cover layout. Pencil.
Creation date: [1961]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1984, December
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set III
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: "six cups"; ARC BL 3 six cups [remake]
Finished version, by others: W US 144-00 organ monkey and large cup

Scrooge holds six cups while a monkey is grinding his organ.

Backstage: It is not known why the editors rejected the design as it is typical of the gag covers Western was using at the time. In a June 24, 1984 interview, Barks was asked if he remembered doing the drawing. He said: "It was just one of a series of misfired ideas that I sent to Western. It's like Garé said: I was a damned fool. I would send in ten or fifteen ideas and then they would accept one. She said, 'Why not just send in one idea?' So I did that and they accepted it."

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): monochrome

Interviews:

June 24, 1984 interview by Bruce Hamilton

Questions: Barks recollection of doing this drawing doesn't seem to fit with the making of "six cups". Maybe Barks was thinking of other work than this particular drawing?

Sources

CR US 46a Lost in Davy Jones' Locker [cover design]

Barrier: MBAC-204
CBL: 05B-287
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1963]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 46-00 flying saucer and safe
Finished version, by others: ARC USA 17 lost in davy jones' locker

Additional credits: The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering, as "Lost in Davy Jones' Locker". A hand-written note included on a circulating xerox mentions "Drawing on acetate".

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Sources

CR US 46b flying saucer, sunken ship, martian standing on safe [cover design]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-287
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1963]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 46-00 flying saucer and safe

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 46c sunken ship, martian standing on safe, handcuffs [cover design]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-287
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1963]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 46-00 flying saucer and safe

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 48 Which Face Is Witch? [faceless person and water]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-288
Type: cover design; pencil
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 48-00 reflections of magica in pond

Additional credits: The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering, as "Which Face Is Witch?".

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

Which Face Is Witch? [fence and spray]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover design. [Pencil?]
Creation date: [1963]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait?
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 48-00 reflections of magica in pond

Additional credits: Alternate cover design, reportedly titled "Which Face Is Witch?" It surfaced briefly when Carl Barks visited Sweden in 1994. The owner obtained it in the 1960s or 1970s and he wanted to show it to Barks.

On 9 February 2001, witness Joakim Gunnarsson described this "very clean and well drawn" version: "I remember it as having US to the left in the picture looking at a dog?, cat? or both, with the face of Magica. In the background there was a wooden fence with possibly a bird with Magicas face on it. To the right behind the fence (Or around the corner.) we, but not Scrooge sees Magica with her spray."

A surprised Scrooge (with Magica's face instead of his own?) looks at animals meeting/swapping faces. Magica looks through a hole in the fence, ready to spray Scrooge.

Publications:

No publication is known. It seems that the owner (Reimers?) doesn't want this version being reproduced.

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources

CR US 49 Loony Lunar Gold Rush [digging gold on moon]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-288
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1963]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 49-00 space ship and pick

Additional credits: The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering.

Scrooge is digging gold on the moon. On the background, his moon rocket is hijacked.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome; preliminary logo has been removed (otherwise there is more than one version)

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Sources

CR US 50 Rug Bugs in Old Bugdud

Barrier: MBAC-149
CBL: 05B-288
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1963]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 50-00 flying carpet

Additional credits: The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering, as "Rug Bugs in Old Bugdud".

Scrooge is tossed by a magic carpet while the other ducks flee.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome; preliminary logo has been removed (otherwise there is more than one version)

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Sources

greenback lettuce [cover rough]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-150
CBL: ---
Type: cover rough, blue-pencil
Creation date: [1964]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1981
Issue: Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W US 51-00 greenback lettuce

Publications:

Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book (USA. New York): greyscale

Sources

CR US 54a threatening tiger and approaching elephant [three trees]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-288
Type: cover design; pencil
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 54-00 ducks on speckled elephant

Scrooge is startled by a tiger, while Donald and the kids try to warn him for Gladstone, who is approaching them on an elephant. Three trees on background, three plants on foreground. Building on background is shown with details.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 54c threatening tiger and approaching elephant [two trees]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover design. Pencil
Creation date: 1964
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 54-00 ducks on speckled elephant

Scrooge is startled by a tiger, while Donald and the kids try to warn him for Gladstone, who is approaching them on an elephant. Two trees on background, one plant on foreground. Building on background is shown without details.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

greyscale scan: [monochrome source?]

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

CR US 54b running away from chasing elephant

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover design. Pencil
Creation date: 1964
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 54-00 ducks on speckled elephant

Scrooge, Donald and the kids run away for Gladstone who is chasing them on an elephant.

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; Contains typewritten number "183" at the bottom center; and typewritten number "61" at the bottom right. Maybe these are catalog numbers, or page numbers?

Other views:

large picture: monochrome

Questions: Has this material been published? What do the numbers on the xerox mean?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

CR US 57 gun and little black box

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover design.
Creation date: 1964
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 57-00 alligator and porcupines

Additional credits: The promotional text on the design reads:

Uncle Scrooge
battles the
forgetting
machine in~
I DON'T REMEMBER ME!

This must mean that at least for some time Carl Barks considered a different title than the one that was used.

Scrooge lets loose his gun while being buzzed by the Brutopian consul, who holds the little black box.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown

Other views:

large picture

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

giant money sack [pencil sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover rough; pencil sketch
Creation date: [1964]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1991, July
Issue: The Comics Journal 151
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W US 58-00 giant money sack [inked version]

Publications:

The Comics Journal 151 (USA): [monochrome]

Sources

CR US 58 giant money bucket

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-289
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1964]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 58-00 giant money sack [inked version]

Additional credits: A hand-written note included on a circulating xerox mentions "This is an actual size Carl Barks pencil".

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome; slightly cropped; preliminary logo has been removed (otherwise there is more than one version)

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Sources

CR US 60a ducks falling through trapdoor [white areas]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05A-289
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1965]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Project: W US 60-00 black-clad figure rings bell [inked version]
Finished version, by others: XUC DCA 2 ducks falling through trapdoor&nbnsp;?

Panthom opens trapdoor under Ducks. The nephew at the right has his mouth closed.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Questions: Does The Carl Barks Library - Set V show the complete drawing? Or does it have a logo lay-out?

Sources

The Phantom of Notre Duck [trapdoor and black areas]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover design. Pencil and ink on tissue paper.
Creation date: [1965]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: 7.5 inch
Height: 10.6 inch
Width: 19 cm
Height: 27 cm
Project: W US 60-00 black-clad figure rings bell [inked version]

Additional credits: Cover study. Signed. The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering.

Panthom opens trapdoor under Ducks. Contains black area's for the phantom and the dark below the trapdoor. The nephew at the right has his mouth open.

Owners, past and present:

For sale at Ebay, 23 June 2001.: Item # 1158841465

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

picture as on Ebay: width=454 height=599

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

CR US 60b The Phantom of Notre Duck [sculpted lion]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-289
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1965]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 60-00 black-clad figure rings bell [inked version]
Finished version, by others: XFC AA1996-47 flute and sculpted lion

Additional credits: The illustrated story's title is included in the preliminary lettering.

Scrooge is startled by the sound of a flute, which is being played inside the beak of a sculpted lion.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome; upper right corner is partly covered

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Sources

black-clad figure rings bell [pencil sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover rough; pencil sketch
Creation date: [1965]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1991, July
Issue: The Comics Journal 151
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W US 60-00 black-clad figure rings bell [inked version]

Publications:

The Comics Journal 151 (USA): [monochrome]

Sources

CR US 62a wild girl silhouette

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-290
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1965]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 62-00 wild girl and wild dog

Additional credits: Preliminary logo is incomplete or unreadable. In the defined logo area, a part of an "S" and an "e" is visible (of the word "$crooge"). A hand-written note mentions ""Feeling around" sketch".

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 62b wild girl lifts car

Barrier: MBAC-152
CBL: 05B-290
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: 1965
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 62-00 wild girl and wild dog

Additional credits: Signed. Barks signature mentions "1965".

Wild girl lifts the car in which the Ducks are riding, in such a way that her face is hidden.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 15 (USA): monochrome

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Sources

CR US 62c ducks battling wild dogs

Barrier: MBAC-152
CBL: 05B-290
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1965]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 62-00 wild girl and wild dog

Additional credits: Signed. Barks signature mentions "1965".

The Ducks are fighting wild dogs. They are dressed in protective suits. Four dogs are pulling at Scrooge's arms and legs. The wild girl is not shown.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Sources

glowing in dark [rough sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover rough. Pencil?
Creation date: [1965]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [1965, August] ?
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W US 63-00 glowing in dark

Publications:

Unpublished?

Correspondence:

August 31, 1965 letter from Chase Craig to Carl Barks ?

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources

CR US 64 bullets and jade elephant

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-291
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1965]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 64-00 sedan chair [inked version]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

sedan chair [pencil sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover rough; pencil sketch
Creation date: [1965]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1991, July
Issue: The Comics Journal 151
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W US 64-00 sedan chair [inked version]

Publications:

The Comics Journal 151 (USA): [monochrome]

Sources

CR US 65a flying saucer and buckshot

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-292
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 65-00 flying saucer on beak

Scrooge and two Micro-ducks are flying in a flying saucer, which is being attacked by buckshot, shot by people on the background.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 65b flying saucer and hand

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-292
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 65-00 flying saucer on beak

Scrooge and two Micro-ducks are in a tiny flying saucer, which is held in someone's hand.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 65c flying saucer on closed beak

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-292
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 65-00 flying saucer on beak

Scrooge looks surprised at a tiny flying saucer, which has landed on his beak. Scrooge's beak is closed. The top-right corner contains a sketch of a nephew's head.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 65d flying saucer on open beak

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-292
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 65-00 flying saucer on beak

Scrooge looks surprised at a tiny flying saucer, which has landed on his beak. Scrooge's beak is opened. The main difference with the published cover, is Scrooge's bare head. On the published cover, Scrooge is shown with his characteristic top hat.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 68 ducks fighting merman

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-292
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 68-00 mermaid in underwater cave

Donald and Scrooge fight a merman. The mermaid queen and Daisy Duck are shown on the background.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 70a diamond and scared people

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-292
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 70-00 sinking life raft

Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews, walk through the South Miserystan capital. Scrooge holds up the diamond. On the background, two citizens are hiding behind a wall, and three citizens on a staircase are running away. In comparison, the menace of the diamond is more apparent in the published version.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 70b radio and diamond on ship

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover design. Blue pencil on paper, signed.
Creation date: [1966]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: 20 cm
Height: 27 cm
Project: W US 70-00 sinking life raft

Inside of his ship, Scrooge holds up the diamond while being distracted by a message on the radio. The Beagle Boys and the nephews flee away. Doing so, one Beagle Boy dives through a porthole. In comparison, the menace of the diamond is more apparent in the published version.

Owners, past and present: For sale at Carl Barks Shop on 21 August 2000. (Order number 6511.)

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

picture as on Carl Barks Shop

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material been published?

CR US 71a lance and treasure room

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-293
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1967]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 71-00 ancient civilization

Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews, are inside the royal treasure room. A lance breaks through the door, and barely misses Scrooge's neck.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CR US 71b treasure room and angry witness

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05B-293
Type: cover design; pencil
Creation date: [1967]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Project: W US 71-00 ancient civilization

Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews, are inside the royal treasure room, inspecting a treasure. Khan Khan witnesses them from outside, holding a knife.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

money under hat [painting layout / cover idea]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-158
CBL: ---
Type: Cover idea. Pencil layout for painting.
Creation date: [1975]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: date not available
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: CB OIL 107 Oh, Oh!
Finished version, by others: W US 135-00 money under hat

Additional credits: Pencil layout for »Oh, Oh!«, which Barks sold to Western as a cover idea.

Status: Unknown.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Questions: Has this material been published? Otherwise, do xeroxes and/or scans exist?

Sources

CRI 7 mcduck soup crackers [cover idea]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05A-005
Type: Cover idea. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version, by others: ARC US 210 mcduck's soup crackers

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

phone 'n view [painting layout / cover idea]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-104
CBL: ---
Type: Cover idea. Pencil layout for painting.
Creation date: [1975]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: date not available
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: CB OIL 108 Buyer Beware
Finished version, by others: W D&D 25-00 phone 'n view

Additional credits: Pencil layout for »Buyer Beware«, which Barks sold to Western as a cover idea.

Status: Unknown.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Questions: Has this material been published? Otherwise, do xeroxes and/or scans exist?

Sources

CR WDC 158 worm in apple [inked cover preliminary]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover concept sketch; inked; signed
Creation date: 1953
Colorist: [Garé Carroll ?] [a.k.a. Garé Barks]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Ink: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait?
Width: 9? inch
Height: 11? inch
Intended issue: Walt Disney Comics & Stories 628 [as historical material]
Intended publication date: 1998, September
Finished version: W WDC 158-00 halloween apple

Additional credits: Identified as a quickly traced cover concept rough. Reportedly contains a non-Barks hand-written text, which reads "To Sarah Robinson". Reportedly coloured with gouache or permanent dyes.
The non-Barks hand-written text appears to be written by Laura Waggoner, Sarah Robinson's late grandmother, who had moved to Van Nuys. She visited the Robinson household almost every weekend in 1953

Reportedly the same scene as on halloween apple, without the nephews.

Appearances: Donald; Daisy.

Owners, past and present: Given to Sarah Robinson while Barks lived as a guest at the Robinson family ranch near Hemmett, Riverside California, in 1953.

Publications:

Unpublished? According to Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge No. 312 (Series II), it was scheduled for inclusion in Walt Disney Comics & Stories 628, which didn't happen.

Congruences:

CR OS 495 jack-in-the-box [inked cover preliminary]: drawing given to the Robinson family
CR US 4 bill treated coat [inked cover preliminary]: drawing given to the Robinson family

Questions: Has this material been published? Otherwise, do xeroxes and/or scans exist?

Sources

rubber glove finger balloons [rough pencil layout]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-178
CBL: ---
Type: rough pencil layout
Creation date: [1954]
Art: ---
Pencil: [Carl Barks]
Script: [Carl Barks?]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: 1954, August 12
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: [portrait]
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version, by others: W WDC 173-00 rubber glove finger balloons

Status: Unknown.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Questions: Has this material been published? Otherwise, do xeroxes and/or scans exist?

Sources

CU 2 hammocks [cover layout]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover layout drawing. Pencil.
Creation date: 1960
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: January 1985 (cover says December 1984) (Germany) ?
Issue: Der Hamburger Donaldist 50 ?
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: "hammocks" [original]
Finished version, by others: GC HD 50 hammocks [remake]; XSC KAP 205B hammocks in open air

Donald and the nephews lie in hammocks suspended one above another.

Publications:

Der Hamburger Donaldist 50 (Germany): ?; details unknown Otherwise unpublished?

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown

Questions: Does Der Hamburger Donaldist 50 really show the original sketch? (Maybe it shows a non-Barks inked version, for example?) Has the sketch been published elsewhere?

ducking for paddleballs [pencil drawing]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: pencil drawing; signed
Creation date: [1960?]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W WDC 247-00 ducking for paddleballs [inked version]

Additional credits: A handwritten note under the drawing reads "To Geoff". Another handwritten note under the drawing seems to be a date. It is barely readable and seems to contain "61". If this is the year 1961, then it doesn't match with the submission-date of the finished version, which is 1960, July 25.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown

Questions: Do you know the contents of the second handwritten note? And do you know what it means?

Sources

CR CU 4 kids at bat [layout #1]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 09A-151
Type: Cover layout. Pencil.
Creation date: [1961]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1985, June
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set IX
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: "kids at bat"; ARC BL 9 kids at bat [remake]
Finished version, by others: HC DD1986-31 kids at bat [Dutch version]

Additional credits: A pencil note in the margin reads: "Cleaned up sketch good enough to submit for approval of art layout. An idea for sale need not be this clean."
See kids at bat [layout #2], for more information.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set IX (USA): monochrome

Sources

CU 4 kids at bat [layout #2]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 09A-152
Type: Cover layout. Pencil.
Creation date: [1961]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1985, June
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set IX
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: "kids at bat"; ARC BL 9 kids at bat [remake]

Additional credits: Contains notes and Barks's signature, written under the drawing. A circulating xerox only shows the top of these writings. Only the note "(was not printed)" is readable.

Backstage: Presumably, after making kids at bat [layout #1], Barks received preliminary approval from his editors, for he then made a larger drawing, adjusting the poses of Donald and the nephews.
See "kids at bat", for more information.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set IX (USA): monochrome

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; Barks's notes are only partly visible

Questions: Does a reproduction of the full notes and signature exist?

Sources

three leashes and one dog [pencil sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover rough; pencil sketch
Creation date: [1964]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1991, July
Issue: The Comics Journal 151
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W WDC 297-00 three leashes and one dog [inked version]

Publications:

The Comics Journal 151 (USA): [monochrome]; printed with a partly black background, so the outer ink lines are partly invisible.

Sources

vacuum cleaner riders [pencil sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover rough; pencil sketch
Creation date: [1964]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1991, July
Issue: The Comics Journal 151
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W WDC 298-00 vacuum cleaner riders [inked version]

Publications:

The Comics Journal 151 (USA): [monochrome]

Sources

skateboard and umbrella [pencil sketch]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover rough; pencil sketch
Creation date: [1965? 1966?]
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1991, July
Issue: The Comics Journal 151
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: W WDC 309-00 skateboard and umbrella [inked version]

Publications:

The Comics Journal 151 (USA): [monochrome]

Sources

spooky stories [cover pencil]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: pencil version of cover. Blue and black pencil on vellum.
Creation date: 1966
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [unknown]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: 14 inch
Height: 17 inch
Finished version: W WDC 315-00 spooky stories and hat rack

Additional credits: Image area 11 inch x 12 inch. Paper shows some yellowing but aging is chemically protected (with certificate).

Owners, past and present: For sale at Ebay on 12 August 1999.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

larger picture: colour

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material been published?

CRI 12 head scratching machine [cover idea]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover idea. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s/1960s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks?]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1996, April
Issue: Comic Book Marketplace V2#34
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version, by others: W WDC 355-PP head scratching machine; ARC LICGY 6 head scratching machine

Publications:

Comic Book Marketplace V2#34 (USA): monochrome

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

bucking bronco [painting layout / cover idea]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: MBAC-192
CBL: ---
Type: Cover idea. Pencil layout for painting.
Creation date: [1973]
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: date not available
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: CB OIL 62 Webfoot Tenderfoot
Finished version, by others: W WDC 405-00 bucking bronco

Additional credits: Pencil layout for »Webfoot Tenderfoot«, which Barks sold to Western as a cover idea.

Status: Unknown.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Questions: Has this material been published? Otherwise, do xeroxes and/or scans exist?

Sources

CRI 13 painting towards door [cover idea?]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: Cover idea?
Creation date: [unknown]
Art: ---
Pencil: [Carl Barks]
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none or unknown]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: [portrait?]
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version, by others: ARC WDC 597 painting towards door

Status: Unknown.

Publications:

Unknown.

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources

CRI 1 wheelbarrow and bank

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05A-005
Type: Cover idea. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Circulating material:

monochrome A4 xerox: source unknown; more detailed, in comparison to mentioned publications

Sources

CRI 6 rare money and book-worm

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05A-005
Type: Cover idea. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none?]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set V (USA): monochrome

Sources

CRI 8a fever thermometer and money bag

Barrier: ---
CBL: 05A-006
Type: Cover idea. Pencil.
Creation date: 1950s/1960s?
Art: ---
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1989, April
Issue: The Carl Barks Library - Set V
Pages: 0 1/4
Orientation: portrait
Width: ± 2 1/8 inch
Height: ± 2 3/4 inch

Additional credits: One of four rough gag ideas on an 8,5 inch x 11 inch sheet of paper. Presumably Barks sketched them with the thought of submitting them to his editors at Western Publishing for consideration as front covers.

Publications: