A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Changes: Panel 1.3 in Barks' script, in between published panel 1.2 and 1.3, was deleted. It shows Troop A winning a trail-marking contest.
Scripted panels 1.4 and 1.5; and scripted panel 2.1 are shifted, resulting in published page 1.
Scripted panel 2.2 is shown as double panel (published panel 2.1). Maybe this change was made because the editor felt the alarm bell of scripted panel 2.1 was a better cliffhanger for page 1?

Surviving material: Bad Day for Troop A [pencil script]

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

Remakes: See "reconstructions" field.

Sources

W JW 9-01 Looter of the Lake

Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: ---
Type: story
Art: John Carey
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: June 25, 1970; [1970? 1971?]
Publication date: 1971, April
Issue: Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks 9
Pages: 13
Based on: Looter of the Lake [pencil script]

Landmark: In a March 3, 1971 letter to Donald Ault, Barks wrote: "A TV station in Edmonton, Canada, phoned here Monday. The program chief wanted to do a telephone interview with me for their afternoon talk show that day. It seems he had bought a Junior Woodchucks comic book and was greatly impressed by the story of the kids saving the lake from Uncle Scrooge's polluting factory. He had many questions to ask and Garé stood in for me. Evidently the Woodchucks got a nice plug in Edmonton that afternoon."

Changes: In Barks' script, the title of this story was "Saviors of the Lake".

Surviving material: Looter of the Lake [pencil script]

Correspondence:

August 1, 1970 letter from Carl Barks to Michael Barrier

Questions: The television program has never been tracked down. Do you know more about it and / or do you have a recording of it?

Sources

W JW 10-01 Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [Western's version]

Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: ---
Type: story
Pencil: Tony Strobl
Ink: ...
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, September 11; [1970? 1971?]
Publication date: 1971, July
Issue: Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks 10
Pages: 13
Based on: Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [pencil script]

Changes: Panels 6 and 7 on page 3 of Barks's script were deleted. The splash panel is enlarged and the panels on page 1 to 3 are shifted one tier. The cut two panels panels follow after published page 3, showing the nephews stumbling about with buckets over their heads.

Surviving material: Maple Sugar Time (How Sweet It Is!) [pencil script]

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

Remakes: See "reconstructions" field.

Sources

W JW 10-02 Bottled Battlers [Western's version]

Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: ---
Type: story
Pencil: Tony Strobl
Ink: ...
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, August 21; [1970? 1971?]
Publication date: 1971, July
Issue: Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks 10
Pages: 12
Based on: Bottled Battlers [pencil script]

Surviving material: Bottled Battlers [pencil script]

Remakes: H 94141 Bottled Battlers [remake]

Sources

W JW 11-01 Traitor in the Ranks [Western's version]

Barrier: MBAC-122
CBL: ---
Type: story
Pencil: Tony Strobl
Ink: ...
Script: Carl Barks
Hero: Huey, Dewey and Louie The Junior Woodchucks
Submission: 1970, October 26; [1970? 1971?]
Publication date: 1971, October
Issue: Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks 11
Pages: 13
Based on: Traitor in the Ranks [pencil script]

Changes: Panels 10.3 and 10.6 of Barks's script were reduced in size to single panels so that the story's last panel could be enlarged to a half page. The panels in between are shifted one tier in the published version.

Surviving material: Traitor in the Ranks [pencil script]

Reconstructions: H 92085 Traitor in the Ranks [remake]

Remakes: See "reconstructions" field.

Sources

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