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Issue: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #28
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Title: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Cave of Ali Baba
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On Sale Date: 06/21/2023
Volume: 28
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9781683967637
UPC/EAN: 978168396763753500
Price: $35.00 USD
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Content Items: 55 (29 stories, 2 covers)
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Dimensions: 7.5" x 10.25" (19.05 cm x 26.03 cm)
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Cave of Ali Baba

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Knockoffs of the Treasure of Ulysses are thrown at the ducks by an out-of-frame Magica De Spell.
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This cover image is a composite of Barks illustrations from the stories "Oddball Odyssey" - page 19, panel 4, and "Cave of Ali Baba" - page 12, panel 7.
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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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Dewey (blue cap)
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Publisher information, editorial credits, indicia, and a single illustration of Dewey repurposed from the story "Cave of Ali Baba" - page 8, panel 6.
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Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge "Cave of Ali Baba" by Carl Barks

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Lists "Fantagraphics Seattle" as publisher.
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Contents

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three Beagle Boys; Magica De Spell; Ratface (raven)
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The Beagle Boys illustration is repurposed Barks art from the story "Deep Down Doings" - page 2, panel 2. The Magica de Spell illustration is repurposed Barks art from the story "Oddball Odyssey" - page 11, panel 2.
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Cave of Ali Baba

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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adventure, anthropomorphic
Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; troupe of whirling acrobats; Professor Dustdiver
Uncle Scrooge is on a tour of his faraway oil pipelines! He and his nephews camp beside an ancient caravan trail in the foothills of one-time Persia!
The Ducks are touring Scrooge's oil pipelines in Persia when they are joined by an archeologist carrying clay tablets that tell of Ali Baba's cave. Their donkeys are soon stolen by giant rocs that lead them to the cave itself.
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Monkey Business

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Uncle Scrooge; French mountain-climbing team; Von Tripp's mountain-climbing team; spectators; judge
It's the greatest mountain-climbing race in years!
Uncle Scrooge and his mountain-climbing team wins a five-team competition but is disqualified for taking some unorthodox steps.
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Collection Day

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Uncle Scrooge; lady tenant
Okay! Okay!
Uncle Scrooge balcony-serenades a lady tenant in order to collect his owed rent from her.
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Noisemaking Nephews

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Huey; Dewey; Louie
Huey, Dewey, and Louie make lots of noise with a metal washtub, old shoes, a drum, and some tin cans.
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Green-toned repurposed Barks art of Huey, Dewey, and Louie from the story "Much Luck McDuck" - page 3, panel 8. Lower half of page.
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Deep Down Doings

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; The Beagle Boys; salmon hatchery worker
Hi, Uncle Scrooge! You sent for us! What's up on this dank foggy morning?
Uncle Scrooge ties pearls to the tails of a migrating school of salmon to avoid them being found by the Beagle Boys.
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Seeing Is Believing

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Gladstone Gander; Daisy Duck
Ho, boy! Do you see what I see?
Scrooge rushes toward the end of the rainbow with a wheelbarrow and returns with a pot of gold, much to the dismay of a skeptical Donald and Gladstone.
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The Unsafe Safe

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Magica De Spell; The Beagle Boys; steamroller driver; welder; sledgehammer wielder; Scrooge's watchman; Police Chief O'Teal; Ratface (raven) stun-ray test rat; Italian tour group; Vesuvius Airlines ticker clerk; train conductor, kangaroos; Scrooge's office manager; Scrooge's office staff; Abe (music shop proprietor); indigenous Tanganyikans; Tanganyika Yeekers
Hey! What's the idea, Uncle Scrooge?
Scrooge sheathes his Money Bin in an indestructible glass that defies the efforts of Magica de Spell and the Beagle Boys to crack it. Then an overconfident Scrooge learns that the cry of a bird called the Tanganyika Yeeker can shatter even the glass that protects his bin, and the panicked race is on between Scrooge and Magica to round up Tanganyika Yeekers.
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Loosely adapted by the TV series DuckTales as "The Unbreakable Bin" (1989). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1052608/?ref_=ttep_ep15
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Playmates

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Uncle Scrooge; monkey
Scrooge impulsively buys a large monkey as a playmate, then learns there's a catch.
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Pantomime.
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Much Luck McDuck

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Mr. Sarrpuss
No doubt you lads have often wondered how I became so rich!
Donald and the nephews try to spoil Scrooge's sale of a vacant lot that they've been using as a playground.
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Rags to Riches

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Uncle Scrooge; beggar
Sob!
Uncle Scrooge gives money to a crying beggar, only to then discover that the beggar is actually wealthy.
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Hugging a Jug o' Jewels

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Uncle Scrooge
Uncle Scrooge blissfully hugs a jugful of jewels as he falls into a deep sleep.
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Green-toned repurposed Barks art of Uncle Scrooge from the story "Cave of Ali Baba" - page 16, panel 1. Lower half of page.
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A Spicy Tale

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adventure, anthropomorphic
Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Miss Emily Quackfaster; Cura De Coco Indians; witch doctor
After sixteen hours of counting money, I'm beat! We billionaires sure have a hard life!
Scrooge goes to the South American village of the Cura de Coco Indians to get wild nutmegs for the tea he loves. On the same plane is Donald, who has been sent by the Tutor Corps to teach the Indians farming, but instead teaches them how to play the bongo drums. He also tutors a witch doctor in creating a brew that would make "small things from big things." Adding some of Scrooge's prized nutmegs to the concoction, it works in reverse. When dumped in a river, it results in all kinds of giant wildlife, from which Scrooge and his kin barely escape with their lives - and with the nutmegs.
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The "Tutor Corps" is a parody of The Peace Corps, an independent agency and program of the United States government, founded by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. That Carl Barks was having fun with the concept in a story published in 1962, adds an additional layer of immediate relevance not fully appreciated when reading reprints of this story over a half-century later.

Though soft-pedaled here, one might infer that the witch doctor wants a brew that would make "small things from big things", would be for the purpose of creating shrunken heads.
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Art Appreciation

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Uncle Scrooge; artist
Beautiful! Such feeling! Such spirit! Such suchness!
Scrooge buys an oil painting to brighten the walls of his money bin.
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Enthusiastic Desk Jockey

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Uncle Scrooge
Uncle Scrooge shows some enthusiasm from behind his desk.
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Green-toned repurposed Barks art of Uncle Scrooge from the story "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" - page 2, panel 6. Lower half of page.
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Flowers Are Flowers

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Uncle Scrooge; Ludwig Von Drake; Grandma Duck; opera patrons
What do you think of my beautiful garden, Ludwig?
Scrooge provides Grandma Duck with a cauliflower corsage when he takes her to the opera.
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Only appearance of Ludwig Von Drake in a Barks story. Carl Barks is credited (by default?) with story in this book, which is at odds with other indexing of this story.
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Tricky Experiment

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; The Beagle Boys; highway patrol officers; judge (owl)
Uncle Scrooge, have you noticed that your Money Bin is empty?
With the Beagle Boys out of jail, Scrooge changes his coins into paper money and stores the bills in a round tank that he operates by remote control so that it eludes the Beagles' efforts to break into it.
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Oddball Odyssey

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Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Magica De Spell
Donald, Dewey, Huey, Louie! I want you to sail with me to Italy right away! I've heard about an ancient treasure there!
Scrooge has received a strangely-scented letter that purports to be from a descendent of Circe. The writer says she will sell the treasure of Ulysses to Scrooge if he brings his Old Number One Dime to prove who he is. The nephews smell a plot by Magica De Spell who, in disguise, claims lineage to the ancient sorceress. After being initially thwarted, Magica accidently stumbles upon the centuries-hidden workshop of the real Circe, containing potions and a wand said to "turn men into beasts".
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Story was reprinted from the first Gold Key issue of Uncle Scrooge and, as such and in accordance with the graphics of the “Early Gold Key Style”, this story has borderless panels with rectangular dialogue balloons.
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Getting the Bird

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Uncle Scrooge; auctioneer; auction attendees; parrot
What am I bid for this lovely parrot?
Scrooge bids for a parrot against a mysterious competitor.
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Nest Egg Collector

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Uncle Scrooge; party guests
Some party!
At a gathering of collectors of precious and historical artifacts, a disappointed and embarrassed Scrooge can show only his money "collection."
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Monsterville

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; motorcycle cop; police chief; fire chief; mayor; road construction chief; meteorologist; various citizens of Duckburg; robot inventor
This is the tale of a great inventor's greatest feat, of of the low-down come-uppance it got him!
Duckburg is rebuilt to Gyro's specifications, but his inventions eliminate so much work that the people have nothing to do.
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The Cube

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Donald Duck; Gus Goose; Grandma Duck; various citizens of Duckburg
The place: Duckburg Stadium! The time: The day Gyro introduced the brand-new sport he invented, fittingly named "Cube"!
Gyro tries to find a use for the large plastic cube with holes that he has invented.
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The Nose Knows

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper
My new seeing-talking nose cone will report everything it sees in space to me by radio!
Gyro sends up a rocket that radios back everything it sees and warns him of impending disaster.
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Mighty But Miserable

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; The Beagle Boys; police officer; Donald Duck; Horace Horsecollar; Uncle Scrooge; Daisy Duck
You dimwitted, addleheaded, simple-simoned, dumbskull!
In a microcosm of "brain vs. brawn", a Beagle Boy forces Gyro to increase his intelligence and, to counter his menace, Gyro increases his own physical strength.
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The Old Timer

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Donald Duck
Fill 'er up, Gyro?
Gyro drives his self-servicing car into Donald's service station--but only for a drink of water.
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Brain-Strain

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Donald Duck; Coast Guard patrolmen
Wak! I'll never forgive the weather for sinking my newly-built boat!
Gyro is marooned with Donald on a rocky island when Donald's poorly constructed boat sinks.
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Mechanized Mess

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Gyro Gearloose; two trash collectors
Whoops! This is the day to set out the rubbish can!
Gyro's mechanized trash can frightens the trash collectors.
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Buffaloed by Buffaloes

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Gyro Gearloose; Mr. Quacksoap; rice farmers of Farbakishan; buffaloes
With much fanfare and brave speeches, Duckburg sends the first member of its "Brain Corps" abroad to uplift citizens of less advanced lands -- it hopes!
Gyro, sent to Farbakishan as a "Brain Corpsman," puts idle water buffaloes to work at supplying water to irrigate the rice fields... but overthinks things.
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The Great Pop Up

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; a bunch of bluebirds; two astronauts
Looks as if Duckburg's super rocket is about ready to blast off for the moon!
Gyro frustrates himself trying to repair his old toaster - then invents a new one that, with a little help from a lightning bolt, far exceeds expectations.
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Madcap Inventors

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Gyro's inventor neighbor
Well, well! Some publisher has sent me a book on ten days trial! I wonder what it's about!
Gyro and his new neighbor, also an inventor, have a backyard "inventing war", until little Helper intervenes.
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Finny Fun

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; pond of goldfish; Duckburg mayor; Duckburg Sea Carnival committee member; Sea Carnival announcer; Sea Carnival attendees; team of swimming frogmen; Sea Carnival beauty queen; bathing beauties on beauty queen's float; panicked officials; Monstro (whale); Titan (whale); Hercules (whale); Atlas (whale)
Oh, me! Oh, me! I've got to think of some spectacular invention to entertain people at the Duckburg Sea Carnival!
Gyro invents a wand that hypnotizes fish so that they do his bidding, but his act draws no applause at the sea carnival - until he uses it to free an ocean liner run aground.
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Gyro uses a team of whales to tow the ocean liner, a la Aquaman. Last Gyro Gearloose backup to originally appear in a Dell Comics issue of Uncle Scrooge.
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Posthasty Postman

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Gyro Gearloose; Postmaster; other postal employees; vicious dog
Gyro has grown tired of inventing, and seeks a new career!
Ostensibly eschewing inventing, Gyro starts off on his first day as a postman by pausing between each delivery to invent something to make the life of a letter carrier that much easier - a practice that does not sit well with the Postmaster.
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Atypically, Gyro's Helper does not appear.

This story was reprinted from the first Gold Key issue of Uncle Scrooge and, as such, exhibits the unusual graphic sensibilities of the “Early Gold Key Style” - including non-inked panel borders done in various pastel colors, wider symmetrical panel gutters with no variation, and rectangular dialogue balloons.

Greater detail on this graphic style departure, and the overall transition from Dell to Gold Key for the Uncle Scrooge title, is found in the Story Notes entry for "Posthasty Postman" by Joe Torcivia.
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The Pied Piper of Duckburg

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Uncle Scrooge
Inventions! Inventions! Nice, fresh, juicy, brand-new inventions!
Scrooge hires Gyro to rid his Money Bin of rats, and to do the same for all of Duckburg.
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D 2006-373
No lettering credit is given.

Barks started this story in 1959 for a Gyro Gearloose Four Color issue but abandoned it after three penciled-but-not-inked pages, due to the ultimate scope of effort. Barks is quoted in the Story Notes section of this book describing his original narrative set-up as: "too involved for such a short story".

Don Rosa completed an eight-page version of Barks' unfinished opus in 1989, with Rosa's own ending extrapolated from what Barks had left. It was first published in 1990 and was widely reprinted.

In 2006, Daan Jippes finished an alternate nine-page version of the story (first published in 2007) which appears here, not to be confused with Don Rosa's previous version of the tale. This is a new and different version that goes in its own direction. At the time of this book's printing, it was a Fantagraphics exclusive presented in English for the first time!!!
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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:

Alberto Becattini on "Cave of Ali Baba".

Stefano Priarone on "Deep Down Doings".

Thad Komorowski on "The Unsafe Safe".

Francesco Stajano on "Much Luck McDuck".

Daniel Yezbick on "A Spicy Tale".

Ken Parille on "Tricky Experiment".

Matthias Wivel on "Oddball Odyssey" and "The Uncle Scrooge One-Pagers"

Rich Kreiner on "Monsterville", and "Buffaloed by Buffalo".

Joe Torcivia on "The Cube", "Mighty but Miserable, "Brain-Strain", "The Great Pop Up", "Madcap Inventors", "Finny Fun", "Posthasty Postman" (see additional note below), and "The Gyro Gearloose One-Pagers".

Jared Gardner on "Pied Piper of Duckburg".

The Story Notes on the Gyro Gearloose short "Posthasty Postman" offer a unique and comprehensive look at the many odd changes in the overall art style exhibited in "Posthasty Postman" as well as the earliest issues produced under the Gold Key banner in general.
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Uncle Scrooge #37

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Uncle Scrooge
Uncle Scrooge sews-up some old leaking money bags.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Uncle Scrooge #37 (1962) with the original Dell Comics publisher's logo and 15-cent cover price. Between pages 1 and 2 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Uncle Scrooge #40

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Uncle Scrooge plays Santa Claus.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Uncle Scrooge #40 (1963) with the original Gold Key Comics publisher's logo and the rolled-back cover price of 12-cents. Between pages 2 and 3 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Back Cover to Uncle Scrooge #40

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Uncle Scrooge plays Santa Claus.
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Reproduces the back cover pin-up illustration for Uncle Scrooge #40 (1963). The issue's front cover image was repeated on its back cover, sans logo and all cover copy and surrounded by a green border. Between pages 3 and 4 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Four Color #1184 Gyro Gearloose

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper
Gyro's fishing is aided by automatic fly swatters.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Dell Four Color #1184 (1961) with the original Dell Comics publisher's logo and 15-cent cover price. Between pages 4 and 5 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Four Color #1267 Gyro Gearloose

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
Gyro uses a "stencil-cycle" to spread his name.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Dell Four Color #1267 (1961) with the original Dell Comics publisher's logo and 15-cent cover price. Between pages 5 and 6 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Cover to Gyro Gearloose #01329-207

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Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper
Gyro fishes from a rowboat propelled by an automatic rower.
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Reproduces the cover illustration for Gyro Gearloose #01329-207 (1962) with the original Dell Comics publisher's logo and 15-cent cover price. Between pages 6 and 7 of "Story Notes".
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Cover Gallery: Unpublished Cover: Gyro Gearloose "The Old Rocket Chair's Got Him!"

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Gyro Gearloose
Gyro blasts-off in a rocket-powered chair.
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A presumably unpublished cover, circa 1961-62. Between pages 7 and 8 of "Story Notes".
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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.

A repurposed Barks illustration of Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck and the nephews from the story "Oddball Odyssey" (page 3, panel 1) rounds out page two of this feature.
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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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Now Available!

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Fantagraphics Books
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Publisher's ad promoting the latest Disney hardcover collection releases.

The covers of "Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Diamond Jubilee Collection", "Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Bear Mountain Tales", "Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow", and "The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition" are produced.
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Green-toned blank pages, on the last two interior pages and the inside back cover.
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Ali Baba's Lost Riches! Magica De Spell! And a Rare Barks Story - First Time in English!

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Magica De Spell; Louie; Gyro Gearloose; Gyro's Helper; Carl Barks (photo inset)
"You can't depend on anything in Persia being what it seems!" warns Uncle Scrooge.
Reprinting
 
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This back cover image is a composite of repurposed Barks illustrations from the stories "Oddball Odyssey" (page 6, panel 3), "Cave of Ali Baba" (page 8, panel 7), and "The Old Timer" (page 1, panel 1).

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