The Carl Barks Collection

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. It was published from 2005 to 2008 in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Germany. It was also published by Sanoma in Finland, 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using only unchanged artwork and containing material not used in CBL, much of it newly discovered and previously unpublished.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, 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 has been published 2009–2012. It contain examples of Barks' works outside his Disney comics production. The last four volumes have also been published in Sweden.

Volumes

Book	Period		Book	Period		Book	Period		Book	Period		Book	Period		Extra	Content
I	1942–1943		VII	1949–1950		XIII	1954–1955		XIX	1959		XXV	1963–1964		E1	Index
II	1944–1945		VIII	1950–1951		XIV	1955–1956		XX	1959–1960		XXVI	1964–1965		E2	Calgary Eye-Opener
III	1945–1946		IX	1951–1952		XV	1956–1957		XXI	1960		XXVII	1965–1966		E3	Who is who in Duckburg
IV	1947		X	1952–1953		XVI	1957		XXII	1960–1961		XXVIII	1966–1968		E4	The Warner stories
V	1947–1948		XI	1953		XVII	1957–1958		XXIII	1961–1962		XXIX	1968–1972		E5	Storyboards
VI	1948–1949		XII	1954		XVIII	1958–1959		XXIV	1962–1963		XXX	1972–2000		E6	Paintings

See also

• Carl Barks Library
• The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
• List of Disney comics by Carl Barks

External links

• Spanish

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