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rebus's review
5.0
Unlike so many other creators of his time--I'm looking at you, Hal Foster--who were simply producing imperialist propaganda, Barks was not only a master of storytelling who had some of the best linework in the history of the medium, but he was a socialist who was sneaking that sort of subversive content into tales for the children (and Walt Disney himself was quite subversive, and both he and Carl would be rolling in their graves with horror to see what a lame propaganda outfit Disney has been since at least the 70s, plying in family friendly garbage when not engaging with the war propaganda that is Marvel features).
This is Barks at the beginning, already a master craftsman, and I'm sad that no one else has listed the other 9 volumes of what was the definitive Barks approved editions of these stories (oft censored by Disney in comic book form).
I'm substituting the single volumes of a much later edition where they exist in approximately 200 page volumes. Only #4 is missing and there is a Volume 10 listed without art that I am substituting for #s 28-30 in the final slipcover. If I do not manage to rate them, please assume a 5 star rating for each. They are also listed as read by me--the series of 10 slipcases was published in a very strange order--during the years they were published according to a Wikipedia page (volumes 8, 1, and 3 were published first, which I recall from having worked at the world's largest distributor of comics at the time).
This is Barks at the beginning, already a master craftsman, and I'm sad that no one else has listed the other 9 volumes of what was the definitive Barks approved editions of these stories (oft censored by Disney in comic book form).
I'm substituting the single volumes of a much later edition where they exist in approximately 200 page volumes. Only #4 is missing and there is a Volume 10 listed without art that I am substituting for #s 28-30 in the final slipcover. If I do not manage to rate them, please assume a 5 star rating for each. They are also listed as read by me--the series of 10 slipcases was published in a very strange order--during the years they were published according to a Wikipedia page (volumes 8, 1, and 3 were published first, which I recall from having worked at the world's largest distributor of comics at the time).
glyptodonsneeze's review
4.0
A scattershot overview of Barks' work. He wrote the introduction, and one wonders whether he chose his favorite comics, comics he considered important to the development of the Ducks, comics he heard most about from fans, comics the proper length to stick in the book, or whether someone else chose the comics and why. (The introduction is good. Barks talks about the Ducks' development and namechecks a few early Disney artists whose work he built on. He also says that most of his fan mail is from adults, which wouldn't surprise me now, but he was writing in the '70s.)
Lost in the Andes is in here. I grew up on Return to Plain Awful and I always squee when I read the source material. So is Luck of the North, which is a nice adventure from the days before airplanes were regulated and has the good sequence of Huey, Dewey, and Louie rescuing Donald while he's snowblind and wandering over polar bears. And there's an early Scrooge story where all the money from the money bin goes into the Duckburg reservoir and the Beagle Boys buy land downstream. But Christmas for Shacktown is reproduced here as well, and it's insipid. The Golden Helmet is stupid and should be buried, but it's in this collection.
Everything in this book has been collected elsewhere, and really, why go Donald when you can go Scrooge? If you find a copy of this Duck collection in your hands, read it by all means, but there's better out there.
Lost in the Andes is in here. I grew up on Return to Plain Awful and I always squee when I read the source material. So is Luck of the North, which is a nice adventure from the days before airplanes were regulated and has the good sequence of Huey, Dewey, and Louie rescuing Donald while he's snowblind and wandering over polar bears. And there's an early Scrooge story where all the money from the money bin goes into the Duckburg reservoir and the Beagle Boys buy land downstream. But Christmas for Shacktown is reproduced here as well, and it's insipid. The Golden Helmet is stupid and should be buried, but it's in this collection.
Everything in this book has been collected elsewhere, and really, why go Donald when you can go Scrooge? If you find a copy of this Duck collection in your hands, read it by all means, but there's better out there.
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