Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" and "The Old Castle's Secret" (Vol. 5 & 6 of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)

Product Code: 61399
Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" and "The Old Castle's Secret" (Vol. 5 & 6 of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)
Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" and "The Old Castle's Secret" (Vol. 5 & 6 of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)
Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" and "The Old Castle's Secret" (Vol. 5 & 6 of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)
Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" and "The Old Castle's Secret" (Vol. 5 & 6 of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)

Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" and "The Old Castle's Secret" (Vol. 5 & 6 of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)

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The slipcase is rather shelfworn, but it has protected these two volumes from any wear.

From the publisher:

Volume 5 of Carl Barks' world-famous Disney comics includes Uncle Scrooge's first appearance, a Christmas tale and many other adventure yarns.

Scrooge McDuck is now such a fixture in the Disney universe that few remember Carl Barks had been writing and drawing Donald Duck stories for half a decade before he cooked up the miserly multiplujillionaire for what he thought would be a one-time Christmas yarn involving Donald, the nephews, Scrooge in a bearskin, and (inevitably) a couple of real bears. "Christmas on Bear Mountain" is one of Barks's funniest holiday stories and a true landmark in comics history, and offers a fascinating look at a rough-edged, genuinely nasty character whom Barks would soon soften... Scrooge aside, there's plenty of fun to be had in this volume. In "Volcano Valley" Donald and the Nephews end up stuck in Volcania, a south-of-the-border country inhabited by sombrero-wearing, siesta-addicted Volcanians. Other long-form adventures include the self-explanatory "Adventure Down Under," as well as one of Barks's most atmospheric thrillers, the West Indies-based "Ghost of the Grotto," which includes a lovely night-time sequence drawn in Barks's trademark silhouettes and a giantoctopus- vs.-hot-chili-peppers throwdown that climaxes in an explosive splash panel. The book is rounded off with seven of Barks's hilarious 10-pagers, and as with the previous volumes, Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain has been scanned from crisp vintage art and meticulously colored to match the original printing's warm, simple hues, and features abundant critical and historical notes penned by some of duckdom's finest experts.

Donald and his nephews face high-tech Wild West villainy and much more in Volume 6, which includes "extras" such as "In Darkest Africa," unreleased for decades.

With this volume, "The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library" loops back to Barks's earlier days, collecting the entirety of Barks's (astounding) 1948 output. The title story, "The Old Castle's Secret," is notable not just for being the first full-length 32-page adventure instigated by Scrooge McDuck (in his second-ever appearance), but for featuring some of Barks's spookiest, lushest settings in old Clan McDuck castle of Dismal Downs. The other long story, "The Sheriff of Bullet Valley," plunks Donald and the nephews in the Wild West, with Donald as an overconfident deputy having to deal with some high-tech rustlers. The book also includes the less-known "In Darkest Africa," originally published in a giveaway and unreleased for decades. This volume also features an even 10 of Barks's dynamic "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" 10-pagers, including "Wintertime Wager" (the first appearance of a not-yet-lucky-but-still-obnoxious Gladstone Gander); "Spoil the Rod" (in which the exquisitely named educational professor Pulpheart Clabberhead is brought in to help tame the nephews); "Rocket Race to the Moon" (a rare full-on adventure interplanetary, no less in the short form); "Gladstone Returns" and "Links Highjinks" (two more Gladstone yarns); and five more stories... plus a half-dozen hilarious one-page gags. Of course, once again all the stories have been shot from crisp originals, then re-colored (and printed) to match, for the first time since their original release over 60 years ago, the colorful yet soft hues of the originals and of course the book is rounded off with essays about Barks, the Ducks, and these specific stories by Barks experts from all over the world.

Barks, Carl

Condition & Attributes

Very Fine in Very Good+ slipcase (moderate wear to the slipcase edges)

Publishing Information

Seattle
Fantagraphics
2013
1st

Physical Description

10.25 inches
7.5 inches
216+240 pages
color
Hardcover
pictorial boards
English

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