The Carl Barks Collection is a series of books from the

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licensee Egmont containing all

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and covers written and/or drawn by

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, 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

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, and

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. It was also published by

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, 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 ''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 productio ...

(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using only unchanged artwork and containing material not used in CBL, much of it newly discovered and previously unpublished.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

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, 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 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, and the last book with paintings and drawings was published in Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Finland.

Editions

Volumes

Other collections

Collections of Carl Barks' Disney comics have been published in the

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in The Carl Barks Library and The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, in

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in ''La dynastie Donald Duck - Intégrale Carl Barks'' (24 volumes planned), in

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in ''La grande dinastia dei paperi'' (48 volumes), in

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in ''As Obras Completas de Carl Barks'' (41 volumes) and ''Coleção Carl Barks Definitiva'' (Brazilian edition of ''The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library''), and in

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in ''Η μεγάλη βιβλιοθήκη του Καρλ Μπαρκς'' (discontinued after 16 of the 48 planned volumes) and ''Η Μεγάλη Βιβλιοθήκη Disney'' (48 volumes).INDUCKS: Η Μεγάλη Βιβλιοθήκη Disney
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