''The Carl Barks Library'' (''CBL'') is a series of 30 large hardcover books reprinting all of the
Disney comics
Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring characters created by the Walt Disney Company, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck.
The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from 1930 on, starting with t ...
stories and covers written and/or drawn by
Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comics, Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of ...
. 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
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by
Another Rainbow Publishing under license from
The Walt Disney Company
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. 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
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
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is currently collecting all of Barks' work as a hardcover collection, ''
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library''.
See also
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The Carl Barks Collection
*
List of Disney comics by Carl Barks
References
External links
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30 Volume Carl Barks Library – by Another Rainbow*https://nafsk.se/dcml/cbl.html
*http://www.seriesam.com/barks/deta_text_s_cblh.html
Donald Duck
Comic book collection books
Eisner Award winners
Disney comics titles
Another Rainbow titles
Comics by Carl Barks
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