The Carl Barks Collection

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The first box of the Norwegian edition. Disney

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using only unchanged artwork and containing material not used in CBL, much of it newly discovered and previously unpublished.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

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  Period I 1942–1943 II 1944–1945 III 1945–1946 IV 1947 V 1947–1948 VI 1948–1949

Book  Period VII 1949–1950 VIII 1950–1951 IX 1951–1952 X 1952–1953 XI 1953 XII 1954

Book  Period XIII 1954–1955 XIV 1955–1956 XV 1956–1957 XVI 1957 XVII 1957–1958 XVIII 1958–1959

Book  Period XIX 1959 XX 1959–1960 XXI 1960 XXII 1960–1961 XXIII 1961–1962 XXIV 1962–1963

Book  Period XXV 1963–1964 XXVI 1964–1965 XXVII 1965–1966 XXVIII 1966–1968 XXIX 1968–1972 XXX 1972–2000

Extra  Content E1 Index E2 Calgary Eye-Opener E3 Who is who in Duckburg E4 The Warner stories E5 Storyboards E6 Paintings

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), in Italy in La grande dinastia dei paperi (48 volumes), in Brazil 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 Greece in Η μεγάλη βιβλιοθήκη του Καρλ Μπαρκς (discontinued after 16 of the 48 planned volumes) and Η Μεγάλη Βιβλιοθήκη Disney (48 volumes).

See also

• List of Disney comics by Carl Barks
• List of non-Disney comics by Carl Barks

External links

• webpage of Geoffrey Blum