The Carl Barks Collection

The Carl Barks Collection is a series of books from the Disney licensee Egmont containing all Disney comics and covers written and/or drawn by Carl Barks, collected in chronological order. It also includes significant textual materials (articles and analysis) written by editor Geoffrey Blum. It was published from 2005 to 2008 in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Germany. It was also published by Sanoma in Finland, although one year after the other countries. The complete set consists of 30 books collected in 10 slipcase boxes, constituting about 8000 pages (including the articles) or some 500 comic book stories by Barks. The series was only available by subscription. In many aspects the series is similar to Carl Barks Library (CBL) but differs by being published in colour, organizing the stories by date of publication, using only unchanged artwork and containing material not used in CBL, much of it newly discovered and previously unpublished. Blum was a contributing editor to CBL, and his familiarity with the Barks canon and its historic background is the principal reason Egmont hired him. Blum has drawn not only on material that appeared previously in CBL but new research he has undertaken which has resulted in a number of significant discoveries and fresh perspectives on Barks and his creations.

A similar edition was published in Spain, by Planeta deAgostini. It differed from the other editions by not having Blum's articles (having, instead, articles signed by the Barks speciallist Alfons Moliné), it was smaller and not in boxes, and it was sold through comic book shops. A book was published approximately every three months, but the collection was stopped after volume 4.

Beginning in 2010 a similar edition is also published in France by Glénat, also smaller and not in boxes. This edition has different cover and is planned to 24 volumes.

In Norway, and possibly in other countries, there will be a six-volume follow-up series called Carl Barks Ekstra. It will contain examples of Barks' works outside his Disney comics production.

Contents

Editions

Denmark: Carl Barks' Samlede Værker, 1800 numbered copies

Finland: Carl Barksin kootut, 3200 numbered copies

Germany: Carl Barks Collection, 3333 numbered copies

Norway: Carl Barks Samlede Verk, 2500 numbered copies

Sweden: Carl Barks Samlade Verk, 2000 numbered copies

Spain: Biblioteca Carl Barks

France: La dynastie Donald Duck - Intégrale Carl Barks

Volumes

Book Period     Book Period     Book Period     Book Period     Book Period     Extra Content
I 1942-1943 VII 1949-1950 XIII 1954-1955 XIX 1959 XXV 1963-1964 E1 Index
II 1944-1945 VIII 1950-1951 XIV 1955-1956 XX 1959-1960 XXVI 1964-1965 E2 Calgary Eye-Opener
III 1945-1946 IX 1951-1952 XV 1956-1957 XXI 1960 XXVII 1965-1966 E3 Who is who in Duckburg
IV 1947 X 1952-1953 XVI 1957 XXII 1960-1961 XXVIII 1966-1968 E4 The Warner stories
V 1947-1948 XI 1953 XVII 1957-1958 XXIII 1961-1962 XXIX 1968-1972 E5 Storyboards
VI 1948-1949 XII 1954 XVIII 1958-1959 XXIV 1962-1963 XXX 1972-2000 E6 Paintings

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