The Carl Barks Collection
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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using only unchanged artwork and containing material not used in CBL, much of it newly discovered and previously unpublished.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
| BookPeriod I1942–1943 II1944–1945 III1945–1946 IV1947 V1947–1948 VI1948–1949 | BookPeriod VII1949–1950 VIII1950–1951 IX1951–1952 X1952–1953 XI1953 XII1954 | BookPeriod XIII1954–1955 XIV1955–1956 XV1956–1957 XVI1957 XVII1957–1958 XVIII1958–1959 | BookPeriod XIX1959 XX1959–1960 XXI1960 XXII1960–1961 XXIII1961–1962 XXIV1962–1963 | BookPeriod XXV1963–1964 XXVI1964–1965 XXVII1965–1966 XXVIII1966–1968 XXIX1968–1972 XXX1972–2000 | ExtraContent E1Index E2Calgary Eye-Opener E3Who is who in Duckburg E4The Warner stories E5Storyboards E6Paintings | |||||||
| 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).