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Issue: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #26
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Title: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Golden Nugget Boat
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On Sale Date: 08/16/2022
Volume: 26
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781683965657
UPC/EAN: 978168396565753500
Price: $35.00 USD
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Content Items: 47 (23 stories, 2 covers)
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Color: color
Dimensions: 7.5" x 10.25" (19.05 cm x 26.03 cm)
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The Golden Nugget Boat

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Magica De Spell
The ducks pursue Magica De Spell and ride in the golden nugget boat.
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This cover image is a composite of Barks illustrations from the stories "The Midas Touch" - page 3, panel 8, and page 6, panel 1, and "The Golden Nugget Boat" - page 19, panel 5.
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Green-toned blank pages. Inside front cover and the first two interior pages.
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Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge by Carl Barks

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Uncle Scrooge; chicken
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Publisher information, editorial credits, indicia, and a single illustration of Uncle Scrooge repurposed from the story "Chugwagon Derby" - page 4, panel 1.
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Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge "The Golden Nugget Boat" by Carl Barks

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Lists "Fantagraphics Books Seattle" as publisher.
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Contents

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four Beagle Boys
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The illustration is repurposed Barks art from the story "Billions in the Hole" - page 16, panel 4.
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The Golden Nugget Boat

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Gladstone Gander
Every few months Uncle Scrooge calls his nearest of kin to his money bin to impress upon them the importance of working hard to get rich!
Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and his nephews set out to Alaska to find golden nuggets and to beat Gladstone Gander, who is also there for the same reason.
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A Thrift Gift

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; postman
I understand you're taking a vacation, Donald, so I'm sending over a little going-away gift!
Donald and the boys are disappointed by Scrooge's gift of matched luggage.
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That's No Fable!

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Uncle Scrooge; Grandma Duck; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; J. Slick; Pablo; Pedro; Charley
Throughout the ages the dream of every duck has been to have eternal youth!
Scrooge and the boys tell Grandma about a trip to Florida they took with Donald a few months previously, where they found Poncey de Loon's fountain of youth.
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Clothes Make the Duck

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Daisy Duck; society ladies; pack of dogs; zoo lions; various hoboes; police officer
One thing I hate about this season of the year is the confounded parties people feel they must give!
Uncle Scrooge desperately tries to get out of attending Daisy's women's club party, for which he'd have to buy a new set of formal wear to attend.
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Scrooge Chases Donald

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck
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Billions in the Hole

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Beagle Boys; jay bird; ferret; ants; Scrooge's engineer
Hi, Uncle Scrooge! Where are you going skipping so gaily?
Uncle Scrooge shows Donald and his nephews his atom subtracter able to miniaturize a huge machine to place it in a small rocket. A Beagle Boy disguised as a janitor nearby overhears the conversation and the Beagles use the machine to shrink Scrooge's money bin to easy-carrying size.
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Story idea by Ron Leonard, a friend of Bill Spicer. Spicer being one of the first fans to make contact with Carl Barks.
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Bongo on the Congo

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Scrooge's clerk; Chief Boogerbooboo of the Qwak Qwak tribe; Qwak Qwak warriors; crocodile; charging rhino; lions; tsetse fly
There goes Unca Scrooge trying to catch Unca Donald again!
Scrooge and his nephews investigate the disappearance of everyone working for one of his African diamond mines.
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Chugwagon Derby

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; antique car enthusiasts; various citizens of Duckburg; security guard; racing judge; racing announcer; court judge; bailiff
Well, isn't this a treat! A parade of old stem-winders to celebrate Duckburg's centennial!
Uncle Scrooge attends a parade of old cars a little amused. However, when he sees that even his nephew Donald participates in and earns money through this, he decides to get his own car and compete in a no-holds-barred race against Donald and other antique car enthusiasts. The dirty tricks quickly whittle the field down to just Scrooge and Donald who have a literal fight to the finish.
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This story is a reworking of Barks' "The Hard Loser" from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #29.
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Fills-out the balance of the last page of "Chugwagon Derby". Half of this blank area is at the top of the page, and half is at the bottom, with the three tiers of the story's final page sandwiched in the middle.
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Mythtic Mystery

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; astronomer; Thor; Balder; Odin; Vulcan; Hercules; various inhabitants of Valhalla
For weeks something big, black, and mysterious has been blotting out the northern sky over Duckburg!
Uncle Scrooge, Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie are taken to a planet called Valhalla, the inhabitants of which were perceived as mythical gods by ancient earthlings, and which is due to collide with earth because Vulcan insists on making gold from iron.
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Gift Lion

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Uncle Scrooge; Hercules Safe Company representative; The Beagle Boys; police officer; judge
Twelve skydillion impossibitrillion dollars in my money bin, and all of that moola kept safe by the mighty lock on this mighty door!
Having discovered a faulty lock on his vault door, and with no repairmen available until the next day, Uncle Scrooge decides to get a lion to guard his money bin for the night. Unfortunately, his guard-lion is a disguised Beagle Boy.
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The Midas Touch

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Magica De Spell (first appearance); Miss Quackfaster; Scrooge's detectives; paper flower merchant
Is the day of sorcery past?
When Magica de Spell, a sorceress, comes to buy a coin from Scrooge to use in making a magic amulet, he accidentally gives her his Old Number One Dime. She refuses to return it and so the ducks pursue her to her sorcery shop on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
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Art submitted on April 17, 1961. First appearance of Magica de Spell and first story in which the Old Number One Dime is identified by that name. Synopsis from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" by Michael Barrier (M. Lilien, 1981).
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His Shining Hour

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Gyro Gearloose
I think I have about perfected my newest invention - a home shoe shiner!
Gyro invents a home shoe shiner, but overlooks one key detail while testing it.
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Money Bag Goat

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; mountain goat
You sent for us, Uncle Scrooge?
Scrooge is given a mountain goat that will eat only money, and takes him to a valley so that the goat can learn to eat grass.
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Cave of the Winds

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Uncle Scrooge; The Beagle Boys
High in the Aeolian Mountains, where the winds play strange tunes among the crags, Gyro meets his knottiest problem while doing a job for trillionaire Scrooge McDuck!
On Gyro's advice, Scrooge buys Duckburg savings bonds with his money to save it from the Beagle Boys, then hides the bonds in caves in the Aeolian Mountains. But, as so often happens, the Beagle Boys find it anyway.
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Uncle Scrooge is described as a mere "trillionaire" in the story's opening caption.
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The Madball Pitcher

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; "Knuckleball" Noogan; Duckburg Southside Team; Duckburg Northside Team; members of the Northside Social Club (toughs); umpire; riot police
Oh, boy! I've invented a new kind of attracting force!
Gyro, caught in the middle in a hotly contested baseball game between two Duckburg teams, invents an unhittable ball for one side and an unmissable bat for the other.
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Mixed-Up Mixer

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Grandma Duck; Billy the Goat
Those heavy rains in the mountains worry me!
Gyro uses his new cement mixer to build a dam on Grandma's farm when a flood hits, then Grandma uses it to mix bread for flood refugees.
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The Call of the Wild

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Gyro Gearloose; hunter
The woods are full of hunters! Listen to their moose calls!
Gyro invents a moose call that sounds so realistic that hunters open fire on him.
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The Bear Tamer

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Gladstone Gander; bear; members of the Royal Order of Horeshoe Kids Club
Here is what I consider my finest invention - a Gyroburger!
Gladstone recruits Gyro to help him barehandedly tame a wild bear so that he will be crowned "King of Luck" by the Royal Order of Horeshoe Kids. Despite the fact that all he wants to do is enjoy his Gyroburger lunch, a hesitant but obliging Gyro invents a repellent that keeps the bear subdued. Complications arise with the bear, and Gyro never does get to have his long-anticipated lunch.
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A notable peering into the soul of the obnoxiously overconfident Gladstone Gander, whose heretofore unseen inner insecurities actually drive him to get Gyro to help him cheat at winning a "contest of luck" versus a field of other presumed extraordinarily lucky contenders.
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Tale of the Tape

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Gyro Gearloose; elephant
Nobody has ever told me if I snore! Tonight I'm going to find out!
Gyro tapes his snores, but the tape picks up an elephant's snores as well.
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That Small Feeling

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; witch doctor; Gyro's beatnik neighbor
Dig this crazy book about witch doctors and voodoo hoodoos!
A witch doctor comes to Gyro looking for an upgrade to his voodoo doll.
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You Can't Win

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; picky busybodies of Duckburg
It's a lovely spring day! I'm going to get away from the grind and go fishing!
Gyro is shamed into inventing a serum that changes the shapes of trees for a bunch of ungrateful citizens, when all he really wants to do is go fishing.
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Wily Rival

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Mr. Ipsquiggle; Mr. Giltfilcher
I've just finished another invention! No doubt Mr. Giltfilcher, the patent attorney, will be very eager to see it.
At the patient office, Gyro's curiosity over another inventor's secret product gets the better of him.
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Fast Away Castaway

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; flock of hungry seagulls; ship's captain; ship's crew
Every so often I invent a real flossy invention, and this little jigamaree is one!
Gyro travels to a desert isle to test his food-supplier machine.
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Duckburg's Day of Peril

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Mr. Horrorstuff (movie director); Mr. Horrorstuff's crew; Goliath (giant robot); various citizens of Duckburg
Inventions! Inventions! Big, fresh, juicy inventions today!
A giant mechanical man being used in a movie runs amok, and Gyro is called in to stop him.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Uncle Scrooge #32

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Uncle Scrooge; armored car driver
With his bindle of bucks, Uncle Scrooge hitches a ride on an armored car.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Uncle Scrooge #33

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Uncle Scrooge shovels a wheelbarrow full of coins into a bank's night deposit box.
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Story Notes

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Observations and analysis from Disney comics scholars and historians on each story in this volume.
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Individual articles are authored as follows:

Matthias Wivel on "The Golden Nugget Boat" and "Bongo on the Congo".

Rich Kreiner on "That's No Fable", "Chugwagon Derby", and "The Madball Pitcher".

Stefano Priarone on "Clothes Make the Duck".

Alberto Becattini on "Mythic Mystery".

Thad Komorowski on "The Midas Touch".

Ken Parille on "Cave of the Winds".

Francesco Stajano on "Billions in the Hole" and "Mixed-Up Mixer".

Daniel Yezbick on "Gift Lion" and "Money Bag Goat".

Joe Torcivia on "The Bear Tamer", "That Small Feeling", "You Can't Win", "Wily Rival", "Fast Away Castaway", "Duckburg's Day of Peril", "A Thrift Gift", "The Call of the Wild", "Tale of the Tape" and "His Shining Hour".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Uncle Scrooge #34

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Uncle Scrooge works out with money-bag weights.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Uncle Scrooge #34 (1961) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo. Between pages 1 and 2 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Uncle Scrooge #35

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Uncle Scrooge
In what looks like Hawaii, Uncle Scrooge wears a lei of dollar bills.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Uncle Scrooge #35 (1961) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo. Between pages 2 and 3 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Uncle Scrooge #36

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Uncle Scrooge sleeps beneath a patchwork quilt, with dollar bills as patches.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Uncle Scrooge #36 (1961) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo. Between pages 3 and 4 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Dell Four Color #1095 Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose

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Gyro Gearloose
Gyro's camera paints a self-portrait.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Dell Four Color #1095 Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose (1960) sans the original Dell Comics publisher's logo. Between pages 4 and 5 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 Series) #3

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Uncle Scrooge
Organ grinder Scrooge shows his monkey that six tin cups are better than one.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for The Carl Barks Library (Another Rainbow, 1983 Series) #3, which was an unpublished cover for Dell's Uncle Scrooge title circa 1961.
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It Was the Best of Dimes

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His Number One Dime looms large in Scrooge McDuck's legend - perhaps even larger than the Money Bin itself...
Text article detailing the backstory of Carl Barks' creation of Uncle Scrooge's Number One Dime, and how it carried forward into his later works.
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Carl Barks Life Among the Ducks

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Carl Barks (in 1982 photo)
"I was a real misfit," Carl Barks said, thinking back over an early life of hard labor - as a farmer, a logger, a mule-skinner, a rivet heater, and a printing press feeder - before he was hired as a full-time cartoonist for an obscure risqué magazine...
A biography of Carl Barks.
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Contributors

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Brief biographies of the various feature contributors to this volume.
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Feature contributors supply their own biographies. In alphabetical order, they are Donald Ault, Alberto Becattini, J. Michael Catron, Thad Komorowski, Rick Kreiner, Ken Parille, Stefano Priarone, Francesco (Frank) Stajano, Joe Torcivia, Matthias Wivel, and Daniel F. Yezbick.
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Where Did These Duck Stories First Appear?

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The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library collects Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories by Carl Barks that were originally published in the traditional American four-color comic book format.
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A compiled listing of original first appearances of the stories reprinted in this volume.
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The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

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Fantagraphics Books: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
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Publisher's ad promoting "The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library", as well as "Disney Masters" and other related books.
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And... FOOF! Magica De Spell!

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Magica De Spell; Carl Barks (photo inset)
Uncle Scrooge laughed when the mystery woman offered a dollar for one of his dimes. But the dime he accidently sold her was Old Number One! And she's about to melt it down for one of her mysterious spells!
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This back cover consists of Barks illustrations from the story "The Midas Touch" - page 4, panel 7 (Magica De Spell) and page 4, panel 8 (Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck) accompanied by text describing the stories in this volume and a black and white inset photo of Carl Barks.

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