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.
Publication It was published from 2005 to 2008 in Denmark,INDUCKS: Carl Barks' Samlede Værker Norway,INDUCKS: Carl Barks samlede verk Sweden,INDUCKS: Carl Barks samlade verk and Germany.INDUCKS: Carl Barks Collection It was also published by Sanoma in Finland,INDUCKS: Carl Barksin kootut although one year after the other countries. The complete set consists of 30 books collected in 10 slipcase boxes, constituting about 8,000 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using only unchanged artwork and containing material not used in CBL, much of it newly discovered and previously unpublished.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,INDUCKS: Biblioteca Carl Barks by Planeta deAgostini. It differed from the other editions by not having Blum's articles (having, instead, articles signed by the Barks specialist 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.
In Norway, a six-volume follow-up series called Carl Barks EkstraGCD: Carl Barks ekstraMinetegneserier: Carl Barks ekstra was published 2009–2012. It contains the most of Barks's works outside his Disney comics production. The last four volumes were also published in Sweden,Minetegneserier: Carl Barks extra and the last book with paintings and drawings was published in Norway, Sweden, Germany,INDUCKS: Carl Barks - Die Ölgemälde and Finland.INDUCKS: Carl Barksin maalaukset ja piirrokset
Editions Country Title Numbered copies Denmark Carl Barks' Samlede Værker No. 1 – 1800 Finland Carl Barksin kootut No. 1 – 3200 Germany Carl Barks Collection No. 1 – 3333 Norway Carl Barks Samlede Verk No. 1 – 2500 Sweden Carl Barks Samlade Verk No. 1 – 2000 Spain Biblioteca Carl Barks Not numbered
Volumes Book PeriodI1942–1943II1944–1945III1945–1946IV1947V1947–1948VI1948–1949 Book PeriodVII1949–1950VIII1950–1951IX1951–1952X1952–1953XI1953XII1954 Book PeriodXIII1954–1955XIV1955–1956XV1956–1957XVI1957XVII1957–1958XVIII1958–1959 Book PeriodXIX1959XX1959–1960XXI1960XXII1960–1961XXIII1961–1962XXIV1962–1963 Book PeriodXXV1963–1964XXVI1964–1965XXVII1965–1966XXVIII1966–1968XXIX1968–1972XXX1972–2000 Extra ContentE1IndexE2Calgary Eye-OpenerE3Who is who in DuckburgE4The Warner storiesE5StoryboardsE6Paintings
Other collections Collections of Carl Barks' Disney comics have been published in the United States in The Carl Barks Library and The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, in France in La dynastie Donald Duck - Intégrale Carl Barks (24 volumes planned),GCD: La Dynastie Donald DuckINDUCKS: La dynastie Donald Duck - Intégrale Carl Barks in Italy in La grande dinastia dei paperi (48 volumes),INDUCKS: La grande dinastia dei paperi in Brazil in As Obras Completas de Carl Barks (41 volumes)INDUCKS: O Melhor da Disney - As Obras Completas de Carl Barks and Coleção Carl Barks Definitiva (Brazilian edition of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library),INDUCKS: Coleção Carl Barks Definitiva and in Greece in Η μεγάλη βιβλιοθήκη του Καρλ Μπαρκς (discontinued after 16 of the 48 planned volumes)INDUCKS: Η Μεγάλη Βιβλιοθήκη του Καρλ Μπαρκς and Η Μεγάλη Βιβλιοθήκη Disney (48 volumes).INDUCKS: Η Μεγάλη Βιβλιοθήκη Disney
See also List of Disney comics by Carl Barks List of non-Disney comics by Carl Barks
References
External links webpage of Geoffrey Blum