Barks Library

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The Barks Library (BL for short), more rarely also Carl Barks Library (CBL for short), is the name of a comic album series that was published by Ehapa from 1992 to 2004 and in which the collected works of Carl Barks , from 1942 to his retirement in 1966 written and drawn, were published completely in German for the first time.

Barks Disney Comics

In January 1992, the American publisher Gladstone started the project with the Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color (CBLC-WDC) to publish all of Carl Barks' Disney comics in color. The model was the Carl Barks Library from Another Rainbow, which appeared in black and white in the 1980s. The German edition was published in October 1992, based on the translation by Erika Fuchs .

A total of 133 volumes in 8 series have appeared in Germany. The stories have been arranged chronologically and newly colored. The compilation of the albums in the American and German series differs from one another, as the American albums sometimes had a significantly smaller size and therefore the Gladstone series contain more numbers.

The sub-series “Fähnlein Fieselschweif” contains mostly material for which Barks only provided the preliminary drawings. The two series "Daisy Duck" and "Grandma Duck" contain stories that Barks only drew, while the texts came from other Disney authors.

German series of the Barks Library

In addition to the 51 albums with normal Disney comics (BL-WDC), a further 82 volumes appeared from 1993 in seven Barks Library Special series, each dedicated to a resident of Duckburg. While the 51 volumes of the main series essentially contain the 1-2-page short stories and the 10-page (English ten-pager ) that appeared monthly in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories between 1943 and 1966 , the longer adventure stories are mainly found in the two sub-series Uncle Dagobert and Donald Duck .

  • Barks Library - Walt Disney Comics (BL-WDC - 51 volumes)
  • Barks Library Special - Onkel Dagobert (BL-OD - 38 volumes, 1993-2003)
  • Barks Library Special - Donald Duck (BL-DD - 26 volumes, 1994-2001)
  • Barks Library Special - Donald Duck Christmas Stories (BL-WG - 1 volume, 1993)
  • Barks Library Special - Daniel Düsentrieb (BL-DÜ - 6 volumes, 1994–1995)
  • Barks Library Special - Fähnlein Fieselschweif (BL-FF - 7 volumes, 2001-2003)
  • Barks Library Special - Daisy Duck (BL-DAI - 2 volumes, 2003-2004)
  • Barks Library Special - Oma Duck (BL-OMA - 2 volumes, 2003-2004)

New editions of the Barks Library

The Barks Comics & Stories series is a new edition of the Barks Library - Walt Disney Comics . Each bound volume contains a new foreword by Wolfgang J. Fuchs . The explanatory text in the magazine series has been omitted, and some stories have been re-translated.

Since May 2009, the other series of the Barks Library Special have also been reissued in bound hardcover volumes.

  • Barks Comics & Stories - 17 volumes
  • Barks Uncle Dagobert - 14 volumes
  • Barks Donald Duck - 9 volumes
  • Barks Daisy & Grandma Duck - 1 volume
  • Barks Flag Fieselschweif - 2 volumes

In addition, the Carl Barks Collection (CBC) was published from 2005 to 2008 as a high-quality, 30-volume collector's edition, which also reprinted all of Barks' material in 10 slip cases of three bound half-linen volumes on over 8,000 pages. In this series, other previously lost short stories by Barks were published in German for the first time. The CBC is currently considered the ultimate edition of Carls Barks' oeuvre in German-speaking countries.

Since April 2010 another new edition of the BL-WDC has been published every two months under the title Duckburg Edition - Donald by Carl Barks .

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