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The Carl Barks Library in Color
 
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color
 
CBLC-USA 1
FC 386/2 Only a Poor Old Man
Geoffrey Blum: The Romance of Wealth. [Scrooge's ethics as compared with the characters from Henry James' novels. Includes a sketch of Scrooge (»Howdy!«).]
Front: cover miniature of FC 386.
 
CBLC-USA 2
FC 456/2 Back to the Klondike (32-page version), FC 456/3 Somethin' Fishy Here
Back to the Klondike. [Geographic depiction of the scenes of FC 456/2.]
Front: cover miniature of FC 456.
 
CBLC-USA 3
FC 495/2 »The Horse-Radish Story«, FC 495/3 »The Round Money Bin«
Geoffrey Blum: A Case of Horseradish. [Analysis of FC 495/2. Includes a half unpublished page from FC 495/3.]
Geoffrey Blum: The Naming Game. [Barks' »official« titles for the originally untitled Scrooge adventures.]
Front: cover miniature of FC 495.
 
CBLC-USA 4
US 4/2 »The Menehune Mystery«
Geoffrey Blum: Island Interlude. [About the influence of Garé Barks on US 4/2.]
Geoffrey Blum: Goodbye to All That. [Reproduction of Barks' notice of termination to Hal Adelquist, staff manager at the Disney Studio, from 9 November 1942.]
Front: cover miniature of US 4.
 
CBLC-USA 5
US 5/2 »The Secret of Atlantis«
Geoffrey Blum: Atlantis as Springboard. [Analysis of US 5/2.]
Front: cover miniature of US 5.
 
CBLC-USA 6
US 6/2 »Tralla La«, US 6/3 »Outfoxed Fox«
Geoffrey Blum: Surfing the Whirlpool. [Analysis of US 6/2.]
Front: cover miniature of US 6.
 
CBLC-USA 7
US 7/2 »The Seven Cities of Cibola«, US 7/3 »Pigeonholed Millions«
Geoffrey Blum: Wind from a Dead Galleon. [Analysis of US 7/2.]
Front: cover miniature of US 7.
 
CBLC-USA 8
US 8/2 »The Mysterious Stone Ray«, US 8/3 »A Campaign of Note«
Geoffrey Blum: Fragments from the Past. [The 1 1/2 unpublished pages of US 8/2.]
Front: cover miniature of US 8.
 
CBLC-USA 9
US 9/2 The Lemming with the Locket, US 9/3 The Tuckered Tiger
Geoffrey Blum: One Billion of Something. [About mass scenes in Barks' comics.]
More of Barks' Borrowings. [A gag from MOC 4/1 which Barks recycled in US 9/3.]
Front: cover miniature of US 9.
 
CBLC-USA 10
US 10/2 The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone, US 10/3 Heirloom Watch
Lonnie McAllister: Reading and Reveries of Earth. [About the trasure-hunt motif in Barks' works.]
Front: cover miniature of US 10.
 
CBLC-USA 11
US 11/1 The Great Steamboat Race, US 11/2 Riches, Riches, Everywhere!
Geoffrey Blum: Not So Ripping Yarns. [An attempt to place US 11/1 in Barks' work.]
Front: cover miniature of US 11.
 
CBLC-USA 12
US 12/2 The Golden Fleecing (reconstructed version)
Geoffrey Blum: Trick or Treat in Larkie Land. [Analysis of US 12/2 and explanation of the censorship problems. Includes a reproduction of Barks' oil painting »Golden Fleece« (8-72) and 2 panels from US 12/2 which were replaced by the original version in this edition.]
Front: cover miniature of US 12.
 
CBLC-USA 13
US 13/2 Land beneath the Ground (29-page version)
Geoffrey Blum: Notes from Underground. [Analysis of US 13/2 with an examination of the cuts and 2 unpublished panels which could not be integrated into the story.]
Front: cover miniature of US 13.
 
CBLC-USA 14
US 14/2 The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan, US 14/4 »Faulty Fortune«
Geoffrey Blum: Barks' Gothic Gallery. [Some grotesque characters from Barks' works. Includes 4 caricatures from the Calgary Eye-Opener (1929, 1930, 1935), a design sketch for the animated feature »Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs« (1935), and a contribution for a competition initiated by Al Capp (1946).]
Front: cover miniature of US 14.
 
CBLC-USA 15
US 15/2 The Second-Richest Duck, US 15/4 »Migrating Millions«
Geoffrey Blum: Scrooge's Fetch. [Analysis of Flintheart Glomgold as an alter ego of Scrooge. Includes an unpublished cover sketch (»20 K Gold«, CI 5, 1950's).]
Moving Money. [Short overview of the stories in which Scrooge moves his money.]
Front: cover miniature of US 15.
 
CBLC-USA 16
US 16/2 Back to Long Ago, US 16/4 »The 'Colossalest Surprise' Quiz Show«
Geoffrey Blum: Reincarnations. [Analysis of US 16/2 with emphasis on the spiritual aspects of Barks' works. Includes a sketch of Scrooge (»Who's That Nickel«, late 1950's).]
Front: cover miniature of US 16.
 
CBLC-USA 17
US 17/2 A Cold Bargain
Geoffrey Blum: Cold War, Warm Heart. [Analysis of US 17/2 with emphasis on its political aspects.]
The Long Arm of Brutopia. [Excerpts from Barks' correspondence with Horst Schröder and Freddy Milton on Brutopia (1977).]
Geoffrey Blum: Palm It Off on Daisy. [Comparison of the cover of US 17 and Barks' original sketch.]
Front: cover miniature of US 17.
 
CBLC-USA 18
US 18/2 Land of the Pygmy Indians
Geoffrey Blum: Law of the Land. [Examination of the ecological aspects in US 18/2 and other Barks stories.]
The Ultimate Barks Collector. [A Donald Duck one-pager from 1974, drawn by Walt Simonson based on an idea by Kim Weston.]
Front: cover miniature of US 18.
 
CBLC-USA 19
US 19/2 The Mines of King Solomon, UNP US 19/1 »Blinders«
Geoffrey Blum: Mining the Imagination. [Speculations about the inspirational sources of US 19/2. Includes 3 rejected sketches for the cover of US 19 (AC US 19/1 and AC US 19/2, 1957).]
Front: cover miniature of US 19.
 
CBLC-USA 20
US 20/1 City of Golden Roofs, MMA 1/2 September Scrimmage
Front: cover miniatures of US 20 and MMA 1 (not by Barks).
 
CBLC-USA 21
US 21/2 The Money Well
Geoffrey Blum: Natural Resources. [Comparison of FC 386/2, US 21/2, and US 28/1 with emphasis on Scrooge's attitude towards nature.]
Animal Husbandry. [Barks' cover for US 21, an unpublished cover sketch (CI 14), and a sketch for Charlie Roberts (»Always Keep a Few Fat Pigs, Kids!«, 1976).]
Money Mirage. [A rejected cover sketch (»Desert Bank«, CI 10, 1961).]
Front: cover miniature of US 21.
 
CBLC-USA 22
US 22/2 The Golden River (27-page version)
Geoffrey Blum: The Source of the Golden River. Part I: The Ailing King. [About Barks' handling of myths. Includes a panel from US 22/2 which was replaced by 1 1/8 unpublished pages in this edition.]
Front: cover miniature of US 22.
 
CBLC-USA 23
US 23/2 The Strange Shipwrecks, US 23/4 The Fabulous Tycoon
Geoffrey Blum: The Source of the Golden River. Part II: The Phantom Ship. [Seafarer myths in Barks' works and his literary sources. Includes a reproduction of Barks' oil painting »Flying Dutchman« (25-72).]
Front: cover miniature of US 23.
 
CBLC-USA 24
US 24/1 The Twenty-Four Carat Moon, US 24/3 The Magic Ink
Dana Gabbard, Geoffrey Blum: The Color of Truth Is Gray. [Critical review of the book »How to Read Donald Duck« by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart.]
Front: cover miniature of US 24.
 
CBLC-USA 25
CBL 4/0, US 25/2 The Flying Dutchman, US 25/4 »Pyramid Scheme«
Geoffrey Blum: Stormy Seas. [Report on Barks' oil paintings with the »Flying Dutchman« motif. Includes reproductions of the 3 Barks oil paintings entitled »Flying Dutchman« (23-72 and 25-72 plus 24-72 which was not finished until 1991) in the final version and at an unfinished stage, respectively, and of the oil painting »Afoul of the Flying Dutchman« (1985).]
The Duck Man at Work. [Some Barks quotes on his studio and his working methods.]
Front: cover miniature of US 25.
 
CBLC-USA 26
US 26/1 The Prize of Pizarro, US 26/3 »Pizen Bluff«
Lonnie McAllister: The Shapes of Barks' Fiction. [Analysis of the metaphors in Barks' works under cartographical aspects.]
Front: cover miniature of US 26.
 
CBLC-USA 27
US 27/1 The Money Champ, US 27/3 Uncle Scrooge and His Handy Andy
Geoffrey Blum: Barks' Breakdowns. [Documentation of the development of Barks' oil paintings illustrated by »She Was Spangled and Flashy« (19-75). Includes a reproduction of the finished painting and 9 illustrations of different stages.]
Front: cover miniature of US 27.
 
CBLC-USA 28
US 28/1 The »Paul Bunyan« Machine, US 28/3 The Witching Stick
Geoffrey Blum: Burnout and Beyond. [Examination of the reasons for the decreasing quality of Barks' works in the early 1960's.]
Front: cover miniature of US 28.
 
CBLC-USA 29
US 29/1 Island in the Sky, US 29/3 Hound of the Whiskervilles
Thomas Andrae, Geoffrey Blum: Tales of the Gold Rush. Part I: Rethinking Scrooge. [About the evolution of Scrooge's past in the first Scrooge adventures and possible inspirations in the book »Klondike '98« by Ethel Anderson Becker. Includes a reproduction of a part of Barks' oil painting »The Goose Egg Nugget« (30-73).]
The Lowdown on Highbrow Art. [About Barks' attitude towards modern art, illustrated by US 29/3.]
Front: cover miniature of US 29.
 
CBLC-USA 30
US 30/1 Pipeline to Danger, US 30/3 Yoicks! The Fox!
Thomas Andrae, Geoffrey Blum: Tales of the Gold Rush. Part II: The Last Big Adventure. [About the deconstruction of the gold-rush myth in Barks' later Scrooge stories. Includes a reproduction of Barks' oil painting »Always Another Rainbow« (23-74).]
Front: cover miniature of US 30.
 
CBLC-USA 31
US 31/1 All at Sea, US 31/3 Two-Way Luck
Geoffrey Blum: Crumbling Empires. Part I: The Age of Camp. [About the shift from romantic to parodistic elements in Barks' Scrooge adventures as a reaction to social changes.]
Front: cover miniature of US 31.
 
CBLC-USA 32
US 32/1 That's No Fable!, US 32/3 Clothes Make the Duck
Geoffrey Blum: Crumbling Empires. Part II: The Old Campaigner. [About the criticism of imperialism and society found in Barks' late Scrooge stories. Includes a cartoon for the San Diego Comic Con (»What Wrong wit Those Country?«, 1980).]
Front: cover miniature of US 32.
 
CBLC-USA 33
US 33/2 Billions in the Hole, US 33/4 Bongo on the Congo (partially changed version), US 34/1 Mythtic Mystery, US 34/3 Chugwagon Derby
The Screwball Derby. [About the development of US 34/3.]
Front: cover miniatures of US 33 and US 34.
 
CBLC-USA 34
USGTD 1/1 »The Fantastic River Race«, DBP 1/1 »The Forbidium Money Bin«, SF 2/1 Fun? What's That?
Front: cover miniatures of USGTD 1 (not by Barks), DBP 1 (not by Barks), and SF 2 (not by Barks).
 
CBLC-USA 35
US 35/1 The Golden Nugget Boat, US 35/3 Gift Lion, US 36/1 The Midas Touch, US 36/3 Money Bag Goat
Geoffrey Blum: Fifty Years of Scrooge McDuck. [Scrooge's evolution from 1947 through 1996, illutrated by more or less significant happenings. Includes a panel from Barks' script for HDL 6/1.]
Front: cover miniatures of US 35 and US 36.
 
CBLC-USA 36
US 37/2 Cave of Ali Baba, US 37/4 Deep Down Doings, DD 79/1 Poor Loser
Donald Ault: Uncle Scrooge in the Global Village. [About Barks' storys of the 1960's as satires on the televison age and the threatening communication crisis.]
Front: cover miniature of US 37.
 
CBLC-USA 37
US 38/2 The Unsafe Safe, US 38/4 Much Luck McDuck, DD 81/1 The Sleepies
Geoffrey Blum: Models for a Sorceress. [Some Barks quotes on Magica de Spell. Includes model sketches for his own use.]
Front: cover miniature of US 38 (not by Barks).
 
CBLC-USA 38
US 39/2 A Spicy Tale, US 39/4 Tricky Experiment
Geoffrey Blum: Smoke and Mirrors. [Analysis of the increasingly society-critical undertones in Barks' comics of the 1960's as a reaction to the course of time.]
Front: cover miniature of US 39.
 
CBLC-USA 39
US 40/1 Oddball Odyssey, US 41/1 The Status Seeker
Geoffrey Blum: The Meaning of Magica. [An outline of Magica's personality.]
Front: cover miniatures of US 40 and US 41 (not by Barks).
 
CBLC-USA 40
US 42/2 The Case of the Sticky Money, US 43/1 For Old Dime's Sake
Front: cover miniatures of US 42 (not by Barks) and US 43.
 
CBLC-USA 41
US 44/1 Crown of the Mayas, US 44/2 The Invisible Intruder
Geoffrey Blum: Back to the Geographic. [About the influence of the National Geographic magazine on Barks' Uncle Scrooge comics.]
Front: cover miniature of US 44.
 
CBLC-USA 42
US 45/2 Isle of Golden Geese, US 45/3 The Travel Tightwad
Geoffrey Blum: Raiders of the Lost Barks. [Excerpts from Barks' correspondence with Don Rosa (1990/1991) on Rosa's sequels to Barks stories and other themes. Includes a handwritten outline of the Duck family tree by Barks (March 1991).]
Front: cover miniature of US 45.
 
CBLC-USA 43
US 46/1 Lost beneath the Sea, US 46/3 The Lemonade Fling
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part I: A New Look. [Documentation of Barks' method of creating a cover and the regulations of Western. Includes Barks' cover for US 46 (»Lost beneath the Sea«) and 3 unpublished sketches (AC US 46/1 and AC US 46/2).]
Geoffrey Blum: McDuck's Deepest Dive. [The record dive of Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh as an inspirational source for US 46/1.]
Front: cover miniature of US 46.
 
CBLC-USA 44
US 47/1 The Thrifty Spendthrift, US 48/1 The Many Faces of Magica de Spell
Front: cover miniatures of US 47 and US 48.
 
CBLC-USA 45
US 49/1 The Loony Lunar Gold Rush, US 50/1 Rug Riders in the Sky
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part II: Visual Bite. [Comparison of some cover sketches by Barks and their published versions. Includes Barks' covers for US 48 (»The Many Faces of Magica de Spell«), US 49 (»The Loony Lunar Gold Rush«), and US 50 (»Rug Riders in the Sky«) and one unpublished sketch each (»Which Face Is Witch?«, AC US 49/1, and AC US 50/1).]
Front: cover miniatures of US 49 and US 50.
 
CBLC-USA 46
US 51/1 How Green Was My Lettuce (17-page version), US 52/1 The Great Wig Mystery
Geoffrey Blum: How Short Was My Story. [About editorial cuts in Barks' comics in the 1960's and the restoration of US 51/1. Includes p. 2 of US 51/1 as originally published by Western.]
Front: cover miniatures of US 51 and US 52.
 
CBLC-USA 47
US 53/1 Interplanetary Postman, US 54/1 The Billion Dollar Safari
Geoffrey Blum: Remembering Garé Barks. [An obituary on Barks' late wife Garé (Margaret Wynnfred Williams) and the role she played in Barks' life. Includes reproductions of 2 paintings by Garé Barks.]
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part III: Packed Drawings and Pachyderms. [About Barks' attempt to adapt himself to the regulations of Western when designing a cover. Includes a reconstructed version of Barks' cover for US 54 (»The Billion Dollar Safari«) and an unpublished sketch (AC US 54/1).]
Front: cover miniatures of US 53 and US 54.
 
CBLC-USA 48
US 55/1 McDuck of Arabia, US 56/2 Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part IV: Double Dose. [Comparison of Barks' alternate covers for US 56 (»Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad«). Includes the cover of US 56 and the inside front cover (US 56/1).]
Geoffrey Blum: Last Days of an Old Hotel. [About Barks' inspirational sources for US 56/2, the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada and Zane Grey's novel »The Hash Knife Outfit«.]
Front: cover miniatures of US 55 and US 56.
 
CBLC-USA 49
US 57/2 The Swamp of No Return, US 58/1 The Giant Robot Robbers
Geoffrey Blum: Dry Wit. [2 Barks cartoons for a »water-bond« campaign (»Don't Let This Happen to You!«, spring 1952).]
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part V: Duck versus Machine. [About the development of the cover of US 58 (»The Giant Robot Robbers«). Includes the cover of US 58 and an unpublished sketch (AC US 58/1).]
Front: cover miniatures of US 57 and US 58.
 
CBLC-USA 50
US 59/1 North of the Yukon, US 60/1 The Phantom of Notre Duck
Geoffrey Blum: The Barko Factor. [Sled dog Barko from US 59/1 and his model, the husky Balto, who brought it to some fame in 1925.]
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part VI: Everything but the Cathedral. [About the development of the cover of US 60 (»The Phantom of Notre Duck«). Includes the cover of US 60 and 2 unpublished sketches (AC US 60/1 and AC US 60/2).]
Front: cover miniatures of US 59 and US 60.
 
CBLC-USA 51
US 61/2 So Far and No Safari, US 62/1 The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part VII: To Show or Not to Show. [About Barks' different concepts for the cover of US 62 (»The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack«). Includes the cover of US 62 and 3 unpublished sketches (an alternate version of US 62/0, AC US 62/1, and AC US 62/2).]
Front: cover miniatures of US 61 and US 62.
 
CBLC-USA 52
US 63/1 House of Haunts, US 64/1 Treasure of Marco Polo (partially changed version)
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part VIII: Bullets and Micro-Ducks. [About the development of the covers of US 64 (»Treasure of Marco Polo«) and US 65 (»Micro-Ducks from Outer Space«). Includes the cover of US 64 and an unpublished sketch (AC US 64/1) and the cover of US 65 and 4 unpublished sketches (2 alternate versions of US 65/0, AC US 65/1, and AC US 65/2).]
Front: cover miniatures of US 63 and US 64.
 
CBLC-USA 53
US 65/1 Micro-Ducks from Outer Space, US 66/1 The Heedless Horseman
Geoffrey Blum: Duck Family Robinson. [About the television series »Lost in Space« and a similar conzept for a comic series which Barks developed around 1960.]
Front: cover miniatures of US 65 and US 66.
 
CBLC-USA 54
US 68/1 Hall of the Mermaid Queen, US 69/1 The Cattle King
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part IX: Treasures from Robinson Ranch. [Examination of 3 sketches owned by Californian family Robinson which may be versions of Barks' cover sketches inked and colored by himself. Includes the covers of FC 495, US 4, and WDC 158 and the corresponding Robinson pages.]
Front: cover miniatures of US 68 and US 69.
 
CBLC-USA 55
US 70/1 The Doom Diamond, US 71/1 King Scrooge the First
Geoffrey Blum: The Cover Story. Part X: The Siege of Fatcatstan. [About the development of the cover of US 71 (»King Scrooge the First«). Includes the cover of US 71 and 2 unpublished sketches (AC US 71/1 and AC US 71/2).]
Front: cover miniatures of US 70 and US 71.
 
CBLC-USA 56
CID 1/1 »The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama«, FC 1025/2 Trail Tycoon, D 94003/1 Horsing Around with History
Geoffrey Blum: The Last Hurrah. [Examination of Barks' last comic work published before his death (D 94003/1, »Horsing Around with History«).]
Front: cover miniatures of CID 1 (not by Barks), FC 1025 (not by Barks), and Uncle Scrooge Adventures 33 (not by Barks).
 
 
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