General questions about Barks

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Postby Egg » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:54 pm

A question and answer about gun violence in 'The Magic Hourglass' ((OS 291)), taken from DCML:

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On matters
Gary Leach
Fri Apr 20 18:14:14 CEST 2007

[...]

Larry:

> Nils mentioned several Bark comics with gun violence. It
> reminded me that in The Magic Hourglass, 4C291 Sept. 1950, Donald
> and Huey, Louie and Dewey were actually hired by the leader of the
> camel caravan to be riflemen guards. How old are HDL supposed to
> be in these stories? On page 16 their shooting diverts an attack
> on the caravan by the raiders of No Issa. Huey actually advises
> the caravan camel drivers how best to aim at the raiders.

Carl Barks, like my own grandparents, grew up in a time and place
where pre-teen kids were expected to be adept at firing and
maintaining the rifles and shotguns commonly found on farms and other
homesteads. And this sensibility was still quite widespread in the
American population when Barks drew The Magic Hourglass. I myself was
eight when my father first took me hunting, and I even had my own
"junior" .22 into the bargain. While I ultimately didn't gravitate to
the "sport", there was nothing unusual at the time I grew up about
getting one's first training in firearms at a fairly early age.

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http://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/2007-April/024944.html
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Postby Daniel73 » Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:38 am

From an e-mail received at A Guidebook on 22 October 2007:
Subject: Rocket Race to the Moon

My husband swears there was a record made of this comic book, which he used to listen to as a child. We are searching for it and wonder if you know anything about it. Thank you.

Do you mean this story?
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC++93-02
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Postby kdikk » Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:34 pm

Too bad everybody has left McDark. Long ago, it was full of happy threats, joyful insults and funny violence.

Those were the days...

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Postby Egg » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:39 am

kdikk wrote:Too bad everybody has left McDark. Long ago, it was full of happy threats, joyful insults and funny violence.

Egg has replyed in another, new topic: 'McDrake.NL English Form dead?'
http://bb.mcdrake.nl/engdisney/viewtopic.php?t=285
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Postby admin » Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:36 pm

From an email sent to "A Guidebook"-site, 7 December 2007:
I was wondering if you knew of any Carl Barks anthologies I could purchase, which would feature a good deal of his Donald Duck comic strips?
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Postby Egg » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:03 pm

admin wrote:From an email sent to "A Guidebook"-site, 7 December 2007:
I was wondering if you knew of any Carl Barks anthologies I could purchase, which would feature a good deal of his Donald Duck comic strips?


An anthology in English, you mean?

As far as Egg knows, 'The Carl Barks Library' by Another Rainbow is close to a complete overview of all Barks's published comic book art. It consist of 10 sets with 3 hardcover volumes each. (30 volumes in total.) A drawback is that this collection is censored and that there's some very sloppy restoration and redrawing by editors. Without explanation of where the changes were made.

The Carl Barks Library has been partly reprinted in albums by Gladstone: 'The Carl Barks Library in Color'. A few stories are of a superior reproduction quality in comarison with the 'The Carl Barks Library' by Another Rainbow. For example, 'A Cold Bargain' (US 17) is censored in 'The Carl Barks Library'. In 'In Color' the story apparently is uncensored (or less censored).

A anthology which compiles only some (debatable) best stories is titled 'Uncle Scrooge His Life & Times', published as limited hardcover by Celestial Arts in the early 1980s. Later, Egg thinks in 1987, a softcover edition has been released.
The title can be confusing, as it has been largely reused for a compilation of stories by someone else (Don Rosa). These stories try to imitate Barks in an undergroundish way. Egg guesses this titles-confusion is deliberate.

In recent years in Europe, there are plans for a Carl Barks Collection that might eventually appear as English version. Published by Egmont. As far as Egg knows, there's now only a non-English (Danish?) version.

Egg recommends you to have a look at auction sites like Ebay. Although Egg has no experience with such sites. They can give an impression on what's available in connection with Barks.
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Postby admin » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:15 pm

From an email sent to "A Guidebook"-site, 19 December 2007:
About the advertisement on inside of frontcover :

Does the panel 5 and 6 comes from page 2 in US # 42 ; “The Case of the Sticky Money” ?
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Postby Egg » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:53 pm

admin wrote:From an email sent to "A Guidebook"-site, 19 December 2007:
About the advertisement on inside of frontcover :

Does the panel 5 and 6 comes from page 2 in US # 42 ; “The Case of the Sticky Money” ?


No. The art comes from panel 6 of page 5.
Site 'A Guidebook' mentions: "Drawing of Scrooge is taken/copied from the Case of the Sticky Money (panel 5.6)."
http://www.seriesam.com/barks/comicsus036.html#ccus_us0045-01a

Panel 5.6 means: page 5, panel 6

Here's a scan of the advertisement:
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/blumarine/14/us45_ad.htm
The advertisement has been published on inside front cover of Uncle Scrooge 45, 1963.

Could Donald have been taken from elsewhere, too? Is it a Barks Donald?
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