A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Editions: The front cover of the paperback edition contains a colour photograph.
The hardcover edition does not contain this photo, but is better made. It has yellow end papers with a blue cover, and the print run is much lower than the paperback edition.

Extensive review, by Kevin McGowin: http://www.eclectica.org/v7n3/mcgowin_barks.html.

Description: Illustrated compilation of interviews with Carl Barks.

Contents:

introduction - ix
Chronology - xxxv
The Duck Man - 003: Malcolm Willits, Don Thompson, Maggie Thompson
A Conversation with Carl Barks - 019: J. Michael Barrier, Glenn Bray, Bob Foster, and Bill Spicer
Writing to Please Myself: An Interview with Carl Barks - 026: Paul Ciotti
Carl Barks, Telling It Like It Is - 037: Donald Ault
Carl Barks: On His Life and Career - 050: J. Michael Barrier
Carl Barks and His Ducks - 069: J. Michael Barrier
Of Ducks and Men: Carl Barks Interviewed - 080: Edward Summer
An Interview with Carl Barks, Duckburg's True Founding Father - 091: Donald Ault, Thomas Andrae, and Stephen Gong
An Interview with Carl and Garé Barks - 109: Klaus Strzyz
Views from Carl Barks - 120: E.B. Boatner
Fortune Favors the Bold: An Interview with Carl Barks - 123: Edward Summer
Interview with Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson [1982] - 132
Interview with Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson [1983] - 132: Bruce Hamilton and Bill Blackbeard
Carl Barks Interview - 137: Bruce Hamilton
Conversation with Carl Barks - 140: Gottfried Helnwein
Reluctant Cult Hero: Carl Barks - 155: Michael Naiman
Carl Barks Speaks with the Finnish Press [1993, September] - 161
Carl Barks Speaks with the Finnish Press [1993, October] - 161: Markku Kivekas
When Donald Duck Turned 60 - 165: Erik Svane
Carl Barks at Disneyland Paris - 173: Sébastien Durand and Didier Ghez
Carl Barks Remembers "A Perfect Life" [1997, June 13] - 181
Carl Barks Remembers "A Perfect Life" [1997, June 14] - 181: Donald Ault and Lynda Ault
Carl Barks: On Floyd Gottfredson [1998, August] - 198
Carl Barks: On Floyd Gottfredson [1998, September] - 198: Leonardo Gori and Francesco Stajano
"Those Things That Came Along in the 20th Century and Became Obsolete"... - 205: Full title: "Those Things That Came Along in the 20th Century and Became Obsolete": Carl Barks on the Past, Present, and Future of Comic Books; Donald Ault
Living the Stories: The Carl Barks Genius - 210: Donald Ault, Bruce Hamilton, John Ronan, and Nicky Wright
Ideas Flowing Like Waterfalls: Some Reflections from Carl Barks at 98 [1999, June 3] - 215
Ideas Flowing Like Waterfalls: Some Reflections from Carl Barks at 98 [1999, June 5] - 215
Ideas Flowing Like Waterfalls: Some Reflections from Carl Barks at 98 [1999, July 22] - 215: Donald Ault
Carl Barks: Spools of Memory - 221
Carl Barks: Spools of Memory - 221: Donald Ault
Notes on the interviews - 227
Index - 233

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- Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book

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Author: J. Michael Barrier
Publisher: M. LiLien
Publication date: 1981
Country: USA. New York
Type: book
Width: 22 cm
Height: 28,5 cm
Pages: ± 227

Description: Hardcover ISBN 0-9607652-0-4
Paperback ISBN 0-9607652-1-2

Extensive book on Carl Barks' career, containing many comments from Barks interviews and letters; photo's and greyscale reproductions of some original Barks comic book pages; rare art; and "A Carl Barks Comic-Book Bibliography" filling half of the book, using Barks' private vouchers. Most of the book was written in 1978, with a few bits and pieces added in 1979 and 1981. The bibliography covers all Barks publications in American comic books up to October 1978 (also non-Disney works), containing facts, changes and descriptions of the art. This book was made in collaboration with Barks and is seen as the ultimate Carl Barks book.

Michael Barrier website

New material:

... greenback lettuce [cover rough]
... don't let this happen to you! [dry hose]

Sources | image: © Carl Barks

- Comic Book Price Guide: 1977/1978 [#7]

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Author: Robert M. Overstreet
Publisher: Robert M. Overstreet
Publication date: 1977
Country: USA. Tennessee, Cleveland
Cover type: Paperback
Type: book
Width: 5,6 inch inch
Height: 8,6 inch inch
Pages: 495

Contents:

oil painting "Porky Pig of the Mounties" (on the cover);
acknowledgements, preface, articles about the price guide itself;
"Esoteric Comics", article by Carl Macek in consultation with Scott Shaw;
"The Magic of Carl Barks - comics -", photos and cover gallery, 7 pages;
ads;
"The Magic of Carl Barks - paintings -", photos of Barks and paintings gallery, 14 pages;
"Carl Barks -- from Burbank to Calisota", illustrated article by Elena Barbara Boatner, 21 pages;
1977 list of prices for most US comic-books
ads

Also contains a 1970s Barks drawing, made for this publication, showing fourteen of his characters. This drawing is also published in The Carl Barks Library (page 8A-005). The above mentioned contents also include general introductions on comic books by the authors.

New material:

... A Day in May
... What's The Hurry?
... The Showoff
... Porky of the Mounties

- Comic Book Price Guide #11

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Author: [Robert M. Overstreet]
Publisher: [Robert M. Overstreet]
Publication date: 1981
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Description: Mentions W LFC 7-01 Saves the Ship. (For the first time?)

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- Comic Book Price Guide [1998?]

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Contents:

overstreets price guide cover choice #1 ?
overstreets price guide cover choice #2 ?

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- An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck

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Author: Jack L. Chalker
Publisher: Mirage Press
Publication date: 1974
Country: USA
Cover type: softcover, 2000 copies.
ISBN: 0-88358-502-2
Type: book
Width: 5 1/4 inch inch
Height: 8 1/4 inch inch
Pages: 57

Description: Made with the cooperation of Carl Barks. This book details the ancestry of Scrooge; how he made his fortune; how he kept hold of his fortune; a bibliography of Barks' writings about Scrooge; and notes about the Beagle Boys, Magica De Spell, Flintheart Glomgold, some lesser villains, as well as portraying Scrooge as a villain at times. Everything is referenced to the comic which it was taken from. Jack L. Chalker had originally wanted this book to be illustrated, but Disney would not give permission.

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- The Comic Book in America

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Author: Mike Benton
Country: USA
Type: book

Description: Illustrated History of comics. Contains hundreds(?) of full color photos. Traces the history of comics from the pre-Golden Age to the present, among the focuses are: Timely; DC; Superman; Batman; Carl Barks; Disney; X-men; Spiderman; Avengers; Alan Moore; Frank Miller; EC; Phantom Lady; Captain Marvel; and the Justice League.

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- Donald Duck [Marcia Blitz]

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Author: Marcia Blitz
Publisher: Harmony Books, Inc. (division of Crown Publishers)
Publication date: 1979
Country: USA. New York
Type: book
Width: 21 cm
Height: 27,4 cm
Pages: 258

Description: Hardcover? ISBN 450-04465-3
Paperback? ISBN 450-04639-7

Contents: The 27 page chapter "Books and strips" contains a 12 pages solely about Carl Barks, which are a very interesting contemplation on his life and comic book work. The illustrations show a late 1960s(?) photo of Barks; small pictures of 27 Barks comics (19 in greyscale and 8 in colour); and Barks' 1950 "Magazine comics duck" model sheet.

The 7 page chapter "The Carl Barks gallery" shows 8 Barks paintings in a varying quality:

CB OIL 54 Family Portrait
CB OIL 106 Hands Off My Playthings
CB OIL 51 Visitor from Underground
CB OIL 107 Oh, Oh!
Bullet Valley [73-02, red sky]
CB OIL 84 Season to Be Jolly
CB OIL 16 Christmas Composition
CB OIL 35 Golden Helmet [72-20]

The 1980 Dutch translation "Donald Duck - Het Levensverhaal van een Wereldberoemde Eend" (ISBN: 90&-320-0046-2) contains the 28 page chapter "Donald Duck in Nederland" (Donald Duck in The Netherlands), which mentions Barks and inspired artists like Daan Jippes. On page 240, the chapter shows a photo of a Gevaert Belgium magic lantern film from the company "Real Filmstrip", called "Donald Duck wordt gestoord", which is a line-art(?) adaption of Barks' salesman ten-pager of WDC 83. Judging from the photo, the 25 picture film begins with panel 4.1 up to at least panel 4.6. The article also mentions the film "Donald Duck lijdt Schipbreuk" (Donald Duck is shipwrecked), which must also be a similar Barks comic adaption. On page 248, a 1970s letter from Carl Barks is quoted in which he compliments Daan Jippes . The chapter is written by Kees de Bree, the translator of the book.

New material:

CB OIL 16 Christmas Composition
CB OIL 35 Golden Helmet [72-20]
... Bullet Valley [73-02, red sky]
CB OIL 51 Visitor from Underground
CB OIL 54 Family Portrait
CB OIL 84 Season to Be Jolly
CB OIL 106 Hands Off My Playthings
CB OIL 107 Oh, Oh!
CM 1 Magazine Comics Duck

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

- Carl Barks Checklist

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Author: Mark Worden
Publication date: 1981 (second edition)
Country: USA
Type: book
Width: 5,5 inch inch
Height: 8,5 inch inch
Pages: 64

Editions: Unknown.

Description: Front cover by Worden and Brad Carson, back cover by Marty Greim. Illustrated, containing information about Carl Barks.

Contents:

Duck Family Tree [1950s] ?

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions; Carl Barks]

- San Diego Comicon Souvenir [2001]

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Updates: Scans (b/w) of parts of the book, each about 80kB to 550kB:

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- Donald Duck

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Author: Walt Disney
Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc.
Publication date: 1978
Country: USA. New York
Cover type: Hardcover.
ISBN: 0-89659-006-2
Type: book
Width: 25 cm
Height: 34 cm
Pages: 195

Description: Foreword by Carl Barks. Contains the stories

Contents:

W OS 62-02 in Frozen Gold
W OS 223-02 in "Lost in the Andes!"
W MOC 4-01 in "Maharajah Donald"
W OS 256-02 in "Luck of the North"
W OS 263-02 in "Land of the Totem Poles"
W OS 291-02 in "The Magic Hourglass"
W OS 367-02 in "A Christmas for Shacktown"
W OS 386-02 in "Only a Poor Old Man"
W OS 408-02 in "The Golden Helmet"
W OS 422-02 and the "The Gilded Man"

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- Walt Disney's Donald Duck - 50 Years of Happy Frustration

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Publisher: Three Duck Editions
Publication date: 1984
Country: Great Britain. London
Cover type: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-9509517-0-6
Type: book
Width: 23 cm
Height: 28 cm
Pages: 96

Description: Contains some Carl Barks drawings and the paintings "A 1934 Belchfire Runabout" (1984), which is Barks' personal birthday tribute to Donald; "Donald Duck and the golden helmet" (1972); and "Donald Duck in Ancient Persia" (1971).

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- What's Up,... Underground

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Author: ...
Publication date: 1995
Country: USA?
Cover type: Softbound. Limited to 1000 numbered copies.
Type: book
Width: 9 inch inch
Height: 12 inch inch
Pages: 45

Description: Based on a gallery show, with drawings by artists like Robert Crumb; S. Clay Wilson; Carl Barks; Kim Deitch; Diane Noomin; Rick Griffin; Basil Woolverton; and Harvey Kurtzman. Contains major articles on Wilson; Justin Green; Noomin; Robert Armstrong; and more. Contains four pages of color plates of oils done by Crumb; Green; Deitch; and others.