A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Description: Mentioned in June 1, 1990 letter to Marko Leppälä: "Thank you for your interesting letter of May 25th and for the photos and comic books."

Status: Unknown.

Sources

Date: 1990, June 1
Type: Letter, typewritten
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Marko Leppälä

Description: About Barks' non-Disney paintings.

Transcription.

References:

Belles of the Klondike

Sources

Date: 1990, November 3
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Don Rosa

References:

mammoth with golden tusks

Publications:

Uncle Scrooge McDuck by Carl Barks - Uncle Scrooge Adventures 42 (USA): Transcription. Large portion or complete.

Sources

Date: 1991, January 14
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Matti Eronen

References:

W US 59-01 North of the Yukon
W US 63-02 House of Haunts

Publications:

Carl Barks' Surviving Comic Book Art (Finland. Helsinki): Description. (page 30, footnote 62); Description. (page 32, footnote 66)

Sources

Date: 1991, March 31
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Don Rosa

Contains:

duck family tree [March 1991]
the dime's mysterious power

References:

duck family tree [March 1991]
the dime's mysterious power

Publications:

Uncle Scrooge McDuck by Carl Barks - Uncle Scrooge Adventures 42 (USA): Transcription. Large portion or complete.

Sources

Date: 1991, April 22, more or less
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Don Rosa

Contains:

duck family tree [April 1991]
luck charm misconception

References:

Duck Family Tree [1950s]
duck family tree [March 1991]
duck family tree [April 1991]
luck charm misconception

Publications:

Uncle Scrooge McDuck by Carl Barks - Uncle Scrooge Adventures 42 (USA): Transcription. Large portion or complete.

Sources

Date: 1992, February 10
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Geoffrey Blum

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 5 (USA): Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 4)
Carl Barks and the Disney Ducks (USA): Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 3)

Sources

Date: 1992, August 31
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Matti Eronen

References:

The Money Collector

Publications:

Carl Barks' Surviving Comic Book Art (Finland. Helsinki): Transcription. Small portion. (page 65, footnote 84)

Sources

Date: 1995, January 30
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Peter [unknown]

References:

CB WAT 2 Black Gold, Yellow Gold, they keep a guy from getting old [watercolor]

Publications:

Black Gold, Yellow Gold, they keep a guy from getting old [lithograph] ([USA?])

Other views:

larger picture: [monochrome?]

Sources | image: © [Carl Barks]

Date: 1998, August 6 ?
Sender: Carl Barks Leonardo Gori and Francesco Stajano
Location: Grants Pass,

Publications:

Il Grande Floyd Gottfredson (Italy): Transcription. Large portion?
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion?; Combined with an letter of (possibly) 1998, September 5.

Sources

Date: 1998, September 5 ?
Sender: Carl Barks Leonardo Gori and Francesco Stajano
Location: Oregon, Grants Pass

Publications:

Il Grande Floyd Gottfredson (Italy): Transcription. Large portion?
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion?; Combined with an letter of (possibly) 1998, August 6

Sources

Date: 1998, late September and/or early October
Type: notes written in the margins of stapled pages
Sender: Carl Barks [not specified?]

Description: Transcription.

Additional credits: Notes written somewhere between 19 September and 8 October 1998, in the margins of a copy of Carl Barks�- Background Material and Current Events.

References:

Carl Barks�- Background Material and Current Events

Sources

Date: 1999, May 11
Type: Letter, typewritten
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Markku Kivekäs

Description: Contains comments on the future of duck comics.

Transcription.

References:

Utah Color
CS DCML 1 Ode to the Disney Ducks

Sources

Date: 1999, June 3
Type: faxed interchange
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Donald Ault

Publications:

Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.; Combined with an telephone conversation of 1999, June 5; and responses handwritten by Barks on 1999, July 22.

Sources

Date: 1999, July 22
Type: handwritten responses
Sender: Carl Barks
Receiver: Donald Ault

Publications:

Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.; Combined with a faxed interchange of 1999, June 3; and a telephone conversation of 1999, June 5.

Sources

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Date: [1999? between march and june?]
Type: [letter?]
Sender: Carl Barks [unidentified fan]

Additional credits: This letter/material has been sent somewhere before 14 June 1999, after the creation date of the enclosed (xerox of) Ode to the Disney Ducks.

Contains:

A hand-written list of latest work, made on request of a fan. Four pages.
Color photo of Barks sitting next to a miniature cannon, while showing an issue of newspaper "The Oregonian" with the headline "Captured soldiers will be tried". The back of the photo contains a signed, handwritten text by Barks, which reads "READY FOR WORLD WAR III".
A xerox of Ode to the Disney Ducks. On this xerox, the poem is type-written, and accompanied by Barks's hand-written note. The note is in the lower left corner, in an angle of minus 90 degrees.

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