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

Disney comics Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring characters created by the Walt Disney Company, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge. The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from 1930 on, starting with ...

stories and covers written and/or drawn by Carl Barks. 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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Another Rainbow Publishing Another Rainbow Publishing is a company dedicated to the re-publication and greater recognition of the work of Carl Barks that was created in 1981 by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran. Its name references Barks's saying that there would be "always a ...

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.

Volume sets

Reprintings

Gladstone Publishing (a subsidiary of Another Rainbow) published a full-color version, ''

The Carl Barks Library in Color ''The Carl Barks Library in Color'' is a series of 141 Disney comics albums reprinting most of the Duck comics written and/or drawn by Carl Barks. The set was published by Gladstone Comics from 1992 to 1998. The series is a full-color reprinting ...

'', in a series of 141 comic book albums between 1992 and 1998.

Fantagraphics Books Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint. History Founding Fantagraphics was found ...

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 ser ...

''.

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