A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Description: 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.

Changes: As published, the "wide load" lettering has been replaced by (Dutch) happy newyear greetings.

Surviving material: CRI 5 wide load! [cover idea]

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HC DD1984-29 "Piggy bank dog" [reconstruction]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover
Script: Carl Barks
Submission: 1956, May 24; [1984?]
Publication date: 1984, July 20 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1984-29
Pages: 1

Additional credits: Based on Barks's recollection of "Piggy bank dog", as described in Barrier's «Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book» (page 202).

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HC DD1984-36 moose hunter call

Barrier: ---
CBL: 02C-644
Type: cover
Art: Ulrich Schröder
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1984, September 7 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1984-36
Pages: 1
Based on: CRI 3 moose hunter call [polished cover design]

Surviving material:

moose hunter call [nephews in front]
moose hunter call [donald in front]
CRI 3 moose hunter call [polished cover design]

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HC DD1985-13 hot gold brick in bed

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover
Art: Ulrich Schröder
Script: Carl Barks
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1985, March 29 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1985-13
Pages: 1
Based on: CRI 4 hot 20k gold brick in bed [cover idea]

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HC DD1986-31 kids at bat [Dutch version]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover
Art: Michel Nadorp
Script: Carl Barks
Submission: [none or unknown]
Publication date: 1986, August 1 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1986-31
Pages: 1
Based on: CR CU 4 kids at bat [layout #1]

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HC DD1986-52B christmas caroling at peoples' doors [reconstruction of missing art]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story segment
Art: Michel Nadorp
Script: Robert Klein
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: [1986?]
Publication date: 1986, December 26 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1986-52
Pages: 0 1/2

Additional credits: Made to fill in missing art of christmas caroling at peoples' doors. Based on amicable conversations between Barks and Rob Klein. (No notes were made). On June 24, 1999, Klein remembered Barks confirming that the "Great stuff! Great stuff!" dialogue exactly was according to his recollection of the half page.
It's difficult to guess how the original half page exactly may have been. Maybe it indeed contained a neighborhood overview in the first panel (which would underscore the silent night and Donald disturbing it), but maybe it contained another panel of Donald being carried away by the book?
See D 2001-068 christmas caroling at peoples' doors [remake of reconstruction], for more information.

Remakes: D 2001-068 christmas caroling at peoples' doors [remake of reconstruction]

Congruences:

W WDC 32-02 rabbit's foot test: Donald reading a book while saying "Great stuff! Great stuff!"

Other views:

New page 1A, drawn by Michael Nadorp: New page 1A, scripted by Rob Klein.

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H 89174 in "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" [inked]

Barrier: ---
CBL: 06B-379
Type: story
Art: Carl Barks (page 1-3); Don Rosa (4-8)
Ink: Don Rosa
Script: Carl Barks (page 1-3); Don Rosa (4-8)
Hero: Gyro Gearloose
Submission: [none]; [late 1980s?]
Publication date: 1990, April 13 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1998, February (USA);
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1990-15 Walt Disney Comics & Stories 621
Pages: 8
Based on: CX OS '59 in "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" [unfinished]

Additional credits: In or around 1989, Don Rosa inked the three pencil pages of »Gyro Gearloose in "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" [unfinished]«, adding five pages which provide his own conclusion to the story.

Changes: The words "money bin" in the dialogue of panel 1.5 were changed to "overflow money bin". This change smooths over the different setting of the money bin in Rosa's own concluding five pages.

Correspondence:

1980s (1988/1989?) letter from Don Rosa to Carl Barks
1980s (1988/1989?) letter from Carl Barks to Don Rosa
February 1, 1996 e-mail from Don Rosa to the Disney comics Mailing List
February 12, 1996 e-mail from Don Rosa to the Disney comics Mailing List

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H 92001 Duckmade Disaster [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, July 30; [1991]
Publication date: 1992, January 3 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1994, August (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1992-01 Uncle Scrooge 287
Pages: 12
Based on: Duckmade Disaster [pencil script]

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H 92002 Bad Day for Troop 'A' [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, January 1; [1991?]
Publication date: 1992, February 14 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1996, July (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1992-07 Walt Disney Giant 6
Pages: 6
Based on: Bad Day for Troop A [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of Bad Day for Troop 'A' [Western's version], using Barks's original page count and page layout.

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H 92012 Storm Dancers [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, February 4; [1991? 1992?]
Publication date: 1992, March 27 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1995, June (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1992-13 Donald Duck Adventures No. 32
Pages: 12
Based on: Storm Dancers [pencil script]

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H 92051 The Day the Mountain Shook [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, May 4; [1992?]
Publication date: 1992, July 17 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1996, July (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1992-29 Walt Disney Giant 6
Pages: 13
Based on: The Day the Mountain Shook [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of The Day the Mountain Shook [Western's version], using Barks's original page layout.

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H 92085 Traitor in the Ranks [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1970, October 26; [1992?]
Publication date: 1992, October 23 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1995, April (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1992-43 Donald Duck Adventures No. 31
Pages: 13
Based on: Traitor in the Ranks [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of Traitor in the Ranks [Western's version], using Barks's original page layout.

Changes: Hero is Donald Duck, instead of Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks.

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H 92107 Gold of the '49ers [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, May 25; [1992? 1993?]
Publication date: 1993, June 25 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1995, August (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1993-25 (Story code is mentioned as "H92167".) Uncle Scrooge 293
Pages: 12
Based on: Gold of the '49ers [pencil script]

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H 94001 Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, September 11; [1994?]
Publication date: 1994, November 25 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1997, January (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1994-47 Walt Disney Comics & Stories 607
Pages: 13
Based on: Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [Western's version], using Barks's original page layout.

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H 94141 Bottled Battlers [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, August 21; [1994? 1995?]
Publication date: 1995, March 17 (Europe, The Netherlands); 2006, July (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1995-11 Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge No. 355
Pages: 12
Based on: Bottled Battlers [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of Bottled Battlers [Western's version].

Changes: In panel 1.1 of Barks's pencil script, D.E.M.I.J.O.H.N. inspects a twig that could just be part of a "pussy willow" on the left. In Jippes's redrawn version, the twig is obviously broken off. (Which might suggest the Woodchucks are destroying nature.)

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H 92020 Music Hath Charms [remake Mau Heymans]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Mau Heymans
Ink: Peter Collé
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1972, September 18; [1996?]
Publication date: 1996, June 7 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1996-23
Pages: 16
Based on: Music Hath Charms [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of Music Hath Charms [Western's version].

Changes: Hero is Donald Duck, instead of Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks.
Several panels have been restaged, changing Barks's original layout.

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HC DD1997-11 law book and disorder

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover, illustrating «Officer For a Day [remake]»
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [Donald Duck]
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1997, March 14 (Europe, The Netherlands); 1998, September (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1997-11 Walt Disney Comics & Stories 628
Pages: 1
Based on: CR DD 126 Officer For a Day [law book and disorder]

Changes: In Barks' version, sacks of water(?) are falling down from a trap-door of the flying saucer. In Jippes' version, this is replaced by an alien hanging out of the trap-door, sprinkling downwards with a water pistol.

Surviving material:

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

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H 95145 Officer For a Day [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1968, November 6; [1968? 1969?]; [1996?]
Publication date: 1997, March 14 (The Netherlands, Europe); 1998, September (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1997-11 Walt Disney Comics & Stories 628
Pages: 14
Based on: Officer For a Day [pencil script]

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HC DD1999-03 gold wolf statue in box

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: cover, illustrating «Pawns of the Loup Garou [remake]»
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: [Carl Barks]
Hero: [Donald Duck]
Submission: [unknown]
Publication date: 1999, January 22 (Europe, The Netherlands); 1999, January 22 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1999-03 Donald Duck 344
Pages: 1
Based on: CR DD 117b gold wolf statue in box [cover design]

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H 98135 Pawns of the Loup Garou [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1967, March 21; [1967]; [1998?]
Publication date: 1999, January 22 (Europe, The Netherlands); 1999, January 22 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1999-03 Donald Duck 344
Pages: 21
Based on: Pawns of the Loup Garou [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of Pawns of the Loup Garou [Western's version].

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H 98085 A Day in a Duck's Life [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1970, February 16; [1970? 1971?]; [1998?]
Publication date: 1999, May 21 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1999-20
Pages: 14
Based on: A Day in a Duck's Life [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of A Day in a Duck's Life [pencil script], using Barks's original page count and page layout.

Surviving material: See "circulating material" field.

Circulating material:

original art of page 1A: monochrome; for sale in 1998, possibly at dreidreizehn
original art of page 1B: monochrome; for sale in 1998, possibly at dreidreizehn
original art of page 3A: colour; for sale in 1998, possibly at dreidreizehn
original art of page 3B: colour; for sale in 1998, possibly at dreidreizehn

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H 98239 Wailing whalers [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1971, September 30; [1998?]
Publication date: 1999, October 29 (Europe, The Netherlands); 2004, July (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #1999-43 Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge No. 331
Pages: 18
Based on: Wailing Whalers [pencil script]

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H 99044 Eagle Savers [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, December 3; [1998?]
Publication date: 2001, June 15 (Europe, The Netherlands); 2004, February (USA)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #2001-24 Walt Disney Comics & Stories 641
Pages: 12
Based on: Eagle Savers [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of Eagle Savers [Western's version], using Barks's original page layout.

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H 98254 Highwire heroes [remake]

Barrier: ---
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: Daan Jippes
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Donald Duck
Submission: 1972, December 9; [1998?]
Publication date: 2002, August 23 (Europe, The Netherlands)
Issue: Donald Duck Weekblad #2002-34
Pages: 16
Based on: High Wire Heroes [pencil script]

Additional credits: Remake of The Phantom Joker [Western's version], using Barks's original title, page count and page layout.

Changes: Hero is Donald Duck, instead of Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks.
The indoors scene of panel 1.1 is redrawn as an outdoors scene in Jippes's version.

Backstage: On October 10, 1998, at the "Stripdagen" comic book convention in Breda, The Netherlands, Daan Jippes had a few xeroxed half pages of finished ink-work for this story with him. He said that it was one of four Barks script-only stories he recently had re-inked. The other three stories, all published in Dutch weekly "Donald Duck Weekblad" during 1999, were A Day in a Duck's Life [remake] H 98085; Pawns of the Loup Garou [remake] H 98135; Wailing whalers [remake] H 98239.

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