''The Carl Barks Library'' (''CBL'') is a series of 30 large hardcover books reprinting all of the

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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 comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuc ...

. 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

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by Another Rainbow Publishing under license from

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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.

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Gladstone Publishing Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. The company had its origins as a subsidiary of Another Rainbow Publishing, a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran t ...

(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.

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is currently collecting all of Barks' work as a hardcover collection, ''

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library ''The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library'' is a series of books collecting all of the comic book Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories written and drawn by Carl Barks, originally published between 1942 and Barks' retirement in June 1966. The s ...

''.

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