The Carl Barks Library (CBL) is a series of 30 large hardcover books reprinting all of the Disney comics stories and covers written and/or drawn by Carl Barks. Stories that were modified in the original publication, sometimes for production reasons and sometimes due to excessive editing, were restored in CBL to Barks' original intent. The books are collected in ten slipcase volumes with three books in each, a total of about 7,400 pages. The volumes were published from 1983 to 1990 in the United States by Another Rainbow Publishing under license from The Walt Disney Company. The comics were printed (with a few exceptions) in black and white. In addition to the comics, there are numerous articles with background information.
Volume sets SetPublication DateContentsStory DateIJuly 1984Four Color Donald Duck 9–223October 1942 – April 1949IINovember 1986Four Color Donald Duck 238–422 and Donald Duck 26–138August 1949 – July 1971IIIDecember 1984Four Color Uncle Scrooge 386–495 and Uncle Scrooge 3–20March 1952 – February 1958IVNovember 1985Uncle Scrooge 21–43 and The Lemonade FlingMarch 1958 – July 1963VApril 1989Uncle Scrooge 44–71 and The Christmas CarolAugust 1963 – October 1967VIMay 1990Giveaways, Annuals and Miscellaneous Issues1947 – May 1961VIIMarch 1988Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 31–94 and Large Feature Comics #7April 1943 – July 1948VIIIAugust 1983Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 95–166August 1948 – July 1954IXJune 1985Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 167–229August 1954 – October 1959XAugust 1990Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 230–312 and an IndexNovember 1959 – September 1966
Reprintings Gladstone Publishing (a subsidiary of Another Rainbow) published a full-color version, The Carl Barks Library in Color, in a series of 141 comic book albums between 1992 and 1998.
Fantagraphics Books is currently collecting all of Barks' work as a hardcover collection, The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library.
See also The Carl Barks Collection List of Disney comics by Carl Barks
References
External links
30 Volume Carl Barks Library – by Another Rainbow https://nafsk.se/dcml/cbl.html http://www.seriesam.com/barks/deta_text_s_cblh.html