A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary for color pencil. Black, blue and red pencil on vellum, signed.
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
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: landscape
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: [unknown]

Owners, past and present: For sale by the Carl Barks Studio, possibly in November 1997.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

monochrome xerox of a fax ("NOV-10-1997 11:07AM CARL.BARKS.STUDIO P.02")
larger picture

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

cricket on mechanic horse [preliminary]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary for color pencil. Black, blue and red pencil on white paper.
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
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: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: cricket on mechanic horse

Gyro joins a cricket game on a mechanic horse, while the other contestants flee away on their horses.

Owners, past and present: For sale by the Carl Barks Studio, possibly in November 1997. A fax of this pencil has circulated ("NOV-10-1997 11:11AM CARL.BARKS.STUDIO P.08").

Publications:

Unpublished?

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

walrusses pulling sled [concept pencil]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary for color pencil. Blue and red crayon.
Creation date: 1997?
Art: [none]
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: 25 cm
Height: 33 cm
Finished version: CRI 15 walruses pulling sled [color pencil]

Additional credits: First concept. One of two preliminary drawings.
The other one is walrusses pulling sled [final pencil].

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

walrusses pulling sled [final pencil]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary for color pencil. Pencil, blue and red crayon.
Creation date: 1997?
Art: [none]
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: 28 cm
Finished version: CRI 15 walruses pulling sled [color pencil]

Additional credits: Final pencil sketch. One of two preliminary drawings.
The other one is walrusses pulling sled [concept pencil].

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

my whole morning's rent collection! [preliminary drawing]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary drawing for color pencil. Blue, red and black pencil on paper, signed.
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: landscape
Width: 22 cm
Height: 18 cm
Finished version: XUC BT 1BB My Whole Morning's Rent Collection!

Owners, past and present: For sale at Carl Barks Shop on 21 August 2000. (Order number 6412.)

Circulating material:

picture as on Carl Barks Shop

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

of all the places for this to happen [preliminary drawing]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary drawing for color pencil. Pencil and blue pencil on paper, signed.
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: landscape
Width: 34 cm
Height: 26 cm
Finished version: XUC BT 1BC Of All the Places for This to Happen

Owners, past and present: For sale at Carl Barks Shop on 21 August 2000. (Order number 6411.)

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

picture as on Carl Barks Shop

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

unintended donation to history [preliminary drawing]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary drawing for color pencil. Blue pencil.
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: landscape
Width: 33,5 cm
Height: 25,5 cm
Finished version: XUC BT 1BE Unintended Donation to History

Additional credits: Signed. According to Ebay seller, this is a preliminary for the "Safe Journeys" cycle.

Scrooge on a platform overlooking the La Brea Tar Pits, losing his hat as it's blown off into the tar pits by the wind, with money falling out of his hat.

Owners, past and present: For sale at Ebay on 12 August 1999 (item #145507957).

Circulating material:

larger picture: colour

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material also been for sale on "Dreidreizehn" site in August 1999?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

save a dime lose a bundle! [preliminary drawing]

Inducks: ...
Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: blue pencil on vellum; signed
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: landscape
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: XUC BT 1BH Save a Dime Lose a Bundle!

Owners, past and present: Offered for sale by the Carl Barks Studio, late 1997.

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

monochrome fax: sent out by the Carl Barks Studio, in late 1997; contains notes

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

i may have to spend some of this stuff [preliminary drawing]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary drawing for color pencil. Blue pencil on vellum sheet, signed.
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: landscape
Width: 10 inch
Height: 8 ¹/₂ inch
Finished version: XUC BT 1BL I May Have to Spend Some of This Stuff

Additional credits: (Scrooge is 4 ¹/₂ inch tall)

Owners, past and present: For sale at Ebay on 2 September 2000 (item #421083984). Seller mentions: "This was purchased from the Carl Barks Gallery."

Publications:

Unpublished?

Circulating material:

picture as on Ebay

Other views: See "circulating material" field.

Questions: Has this material been published?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

garden of moolah [preliminary drawing]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary pencil drawing for color pencil
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 2001, March (Europe, Italy)
Issue: Zio Paperone #138
Pages: 1
Orientation: landscape
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: XUC BT 1BM Garden of Moolah

Scrooge holding a "garden plan", standing on a bridge made of gold(?) bricks in his money bin, with a river of bills flowing under the bridge and river banks of gold coins on the sides.

Publications:

Zio Paperone #138 (Europe, Italy): page 7; monochrome or greyscale?

Other views:

large picture: monochrome or greyscale

plenty to blow about [preliminary drawing]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary pencil drawing for color pencil
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 2001, March (Europe, Italy)
Issue: Zio Paperone #138
Pages: 1
Orientation: portrait
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: XUC BT 1BQ Plenty to Blow about

Scrooge blowing a giant horn (in his money bin?), blasting Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie with the extra loud noise.

Publications:

Zio Paperone #138 (Europe, Italy): page 9; monochrome or greyscale?

Other views:

large picture: monochrome or greyscale

outback down under [preliminary drawing]

Inducks: ...
Type: preliminary for color pencil. Pencil.
Creation date: 1996? 1997?
Art: [none]
Pencil: Carl Barks
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [none]
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: [none or unknown]
Issue: [none or unknown]
Pages: 1
Orientation: landscape
Width: [unknown] inch
Height: [unknown] inch
Finished version: XUC BT 1CH Outback Down Under

Additional credits: Either 4,5 x 3,5 inches or 4 x 5 inches approximately. Drawn on the same paper as the to the high pastures of the unicorn [preliminary drawing].

Owners, past and present: Sold at the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1997, and at Ebay in 1999.

Publications: