''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 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
United States
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by
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
The Walt Disney Company
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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'', in a series of 141 comic book albums between 1992 and 1998.
Fantagraphics Books 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 ...
''.
See also
*
The Carl Barks Collection
*
List of Disney comics by Carl Barks
References
External links
*
30 Volume Carl Barks Library – by Another Rainbow*http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/cbl.html
*http://www.seriesam.com/barks/deta_text_s_cblh.html
Donald Duck
Comic book collection books
Eisner Award winners
Disney comics titles
Another Rainbow titles
Comics by Carl Barks
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