Since this video was posted, the following volumes have been released: Twenty-Four Karat Moon (Vol. 22) Under the Polar Ice (Vol. 23) Island in the Sky(Vol. 24) Balloonatics (Vol. 25) Golden Nugget Boat (Vol. 26) Duck Luck (Vol. 27) Cave of Ali Baba (Vol. 28) - Coming Soon 2023!!

Anybody who regards these as "kid" comics are missing out on some the greatest writing and drawing in comics history. Carl Barks is a genius storyteller and, in my opinion, we NEED a lot more good storytelling in today's comics. The other great thing is after you've read Barks you have all the great Duck stuff from Don Rosa to look forward to and, imho, there is no let down in the art or storytelling. Thank you, Omar, for shining a spotlight on this man and his work. #OmarRules #BarksIsATitan

Me before Near Mint Condition: Duck comics are for kids. Me after watching Omar talk about Duck Comics: Hellz yeah! Placing an order on a couple of the ones he highlighted.

You'd like the Italian comics, they are insane. They made Donald a superhero, secret agent, and galaxy level hero

Scrooge McDuck is one of the two best comic characters ever created, along Maggie from Love & Rockets.

This is on that “I need to read through this before I die” list but know nothing about it. This is an invaluable resource.

Itá always nice to see how much the character of Donald Duck has inpired!♥

Dude, you finally did it!! Thanks so much man, this is awesome and I have been looking forward to this for a long time!

These were the first comics I ever read, probably around 1980. Pretty much my favorites of all time, too. And that's not just nostalgia speaking - I rediscovered these many years later when I bought some of them for my nephews. Barks' writing has a really timeless quality to it. (Still remembered pretty much every story you showed in the video, too.) All his stories have been printed here in Germany. Many times. I'm currently still collecting the HC editions divided by the original American series ("Donald Duck", "Comics & Stories", "Uncle Scrooge", etc.). A bit larger than an omnibus, about 180 pages each. Just the stories in those, though - not the editorials from the earlier "Barks Library" releases in softcover. I'd love to see you do the video on the Rosa box sets. Looks like we're finally starting to get these over here this year, too. About time I got more Rosa stuff - Barks is my favorite, but he did some phenomenal work as well.

Fantastic books, truly THE treasure in the collection, it stands heads and shoulder above all! Just hope I'm still alive when this series is finished (another 10 or so)

I started saying "I'll only get the Uncle Scrooge appearances" five years later I have them all. Donald, Gyro Gearloose, Grandma Duck all of them :). They are so great and addictive.

Carl Barks!!! Great video, thanks for listing the first appearances.And in the 50’s I believe Uncle Scrooge outsold all other comics.

Good evening. In Italy we have original and untraslate Carl Barks' Donald Duck, we call him Paperino. In Italy there's Also a monthly comics for him, One for his uncle and One for his alter-ego Duck Avenger (PK). Congratulations for your work from Italy

Great review. Scrooge Mc Duck & The Beagle Boys were so popular that they had their own comic-books when I was a boy. Those were as popular Donald & I`ll bet he didn`t get paid for those creations.

Best video of the year! Thank you so so much, Omar!!

Donald duck comics best comic ever. I have a huge DD collection with comics ,albums ,books and pocket books 😍😍

BEST VIDEO! I don't have any of the Carl Barks ones I need to pick these up.

Wow, there are so many pages that i recall from my childhood. Never had an idea how much Carl Barks did. I knew what characters he created but not all the stories. There are a lot of collections of these Ducks-comics here in Sweden. But for me it was enough with the "The life and time of Scrooge McDuck" (and its compendium)

Oh my...my...my. Finally this video. Thanks a lot for this. 👍

The carl barks library in color by gladstone were the best imo. Larger format and beautiful coloring! 25 volumes for donald and 56 for uncle scrooge

Cool! I wish I had that set!

Amazing video, I have been collecting the box sets for carl barks' Donald Duck. They are all amazing. And I finally know the reading order of his duck series now.

Mate thank you so much for sharing these bring back many happy memories 🤩 When I was in the Army the infantry manuals were referred to as the woodchuck guides 😆

Nostalgia overload! 😂

looks neat. didn't know this existed

For sure do a Duck Rosa overview! Those are some of the best comics. Have yet to collect Carl Barks but Fantagraphics website also lists their volume number and has the index/contents.

I positively love your passion for Duck Comics

I just bought all the box sets a few weeks ago with that Fantagraphics sale.

First one I got was Terror of the Beagle Boys 😁

I am 47 and read all of these in various forms 40 years ago, and now I read them again because the next generation still loves them. They have modern duck comics, but they also still like the old ones, which somehow still don't feel TOO dated, despite being 50 or more years old. Because the Ducks go on adventure all the time, you don;t miss modern stuff, the only odd thing that catches the eye is that they don;t have mobile phones

Awesome video! While dated in terms of content Bark's Duck stories are some of the best comics ever created. I think everyone can identify with Donald, the boys, and even Scrooge. Would love to see a review of the Disney Masters books.

Great video. Please do a video highlighting the latest Golden age DC comics omnibus, Superman GA 6, Batman GA 7, Wonder Woman 4, Green Arrow 1. In that way it would whet the appetite on the coming volumes.

Donald duck comics have always been big part of me. Especially Don rosa's, barks's and vicars comics. I just love the universe in donald duck and how barks and Rosa stories are kinda the same world. Love them alot.

Great Video, Carl Barks has always been a favorite of mine. It's good to see his Stories live on in the US, because is Europe he is a Giant known by nearly all people and even if they don't know him they certainly have read some of his stories. By the way in the early 70s he did maybe 25 Huey, Dewey & Louie stories, which were most of the time Junior Woodchok stories, often dealing with environmental problems much ahead of anybody else.

I've read the Don Rosa saga and then various stories from Barks, they are now two of my favourite authors when it comes to disney stories about Donald!

Hey Omar. Thanks for this surprisingly interesting video. The dimensions of your Duck books look similar to my Transformers & Judge Dredd HC series from Hachette. Those are numbered but were also issued out of chronological order. Certainly a nicely assembled collection and those colours really pop. 😊 Some of this brought back some memories of my childhood reading Disney comics (before I discovered Marvel). Gyro Gearloose is a character name I recall. I'm sure some of it appeared in Gold Key here and back then I was also reading Archie, Harvey, Dell & Charlton comics (as well as black & white DC). Sadly I don't have those anymore. Props to the Astonishing Melanie for her great research. Keep up the great work mate 😊

I only had a couple of the Duck books, but recently decided to focus on them. Was able to connect with some comic shops with mail order to get the couple hard to find volumes of both Barks and Rosa and now will just grab up the couple more needed. For the moment I think I might just go through Trick or Treat and also not get Vol 1-4 when they come out. But I'll probably cave and go further. I'll have to do some research on around what year the one-pagers will start dominating the books. The Mickey Mouse strip had a similar trajectory.

Thanks! I asked Kurtis about this not too long ago on Facebook.

The rolling boulder gag in Raiders of The Lost Ark was not taken from the Seven Cities Of Cibola story. It was actually lifted from a much later story called The Prize Of Pizarro. In that story the ducks had to maneuver through a series of booby traps. One of the traps was called the sickle of the short haircut which was designed to decapitate you. Another one of the traps was called the bridge of the roaring skull cracker which featured a rolling boulder. That's the comic that Spielberg lifted the gag from. I first read that story in the 1950's when it was first printed and still have the comic to this day. I knew even back then that Barks was a genius. Also I knew that Carl Barks was the name of the artist as far back as 1959. The reason I knew his name before anyone else did was because I had an aunt that worked at Western Printing and I asked her to see if she could find out the name of the good duck artist. She did find out who he was and then told me. She also took all my Uncle Scrooge comics to Western Printing with her and had them all bound up into a hard cover book, which was really nice of her.

It's really interesting to me that there is a Carl Barks Library published in greek since 2010, one year before Fantagraphics started publishing The Complete Carl Barks Library if I remember correctly. So, I guess it's true that this kind of comics is not very popular in the US (they are a HUGE thing in Greece of course).

Great video Omar! I'm collecting the 2-book slip case editions but they only release 1 per year in September. There are 17 books released & 6 slip case sets. It'll be over 2 years before I'm caught up on whats been released just up to this point.

Definitely interested in the Don Rosa breakdown. I have that one my list of books to buy so would like to hear your take on it why you prefer it over Carl Barks. Keep up the good work hombre!

Hello friend, I discovered your channel recently for everything related to fantagraphics and I love it. I speak Spanish but I understand and can read English well. I want to start collecting these Disney volumes but I don't know where to start. I was thinking of starting with Mickey Mouse: The Greatest Adventures... I would appreciate a recommendation so I don't fail in my first choice haha. Greetings and thanks for your content!

Thank you for posting these interesting videos , i grew Up reading Disney comic books and everytime i read a Disney comic book i used to think that Disney was the man Who drew all these wonderful stories , later i discovered that all Donald's family and Friends were created by Carl Barks, i had a copy of Christmas on the Bear Mountain It was a very old comic book later through the internet i knew that It was the first time that uncle Scrooge appeared on a Disney comic book by that time i had spent more than 16 years reading comic books , thank you i really loved this video .

Thanks!

Just bought my first Uncle Scrooge book, Only a poor old man. Hope you approve Omar, I'm going in blind. Lost in the Andes and Christmas on Bear mountain are up next.

I grew up on Uncle Scrooge comix in the 70s, having no idea who was behind them - they were just "Walt Disney Productions". But they were clearly on a different level than most "WD" productions of the time: full of complex, morally ambiguous characters on globe-trotting adventures with plot-twists on every page... like the Freak Brothers for kids. Huey, Dewey, and Louie grew up into Franklin, Phineas, and Freddy

Would be awesome if you could do a complete overview of all the Don Rosa library editions as well!

This video makes me wanna be a wealthy duck!

Video suggestion: top 8 Carl Barks fantagraphics compilation books

THANK YOU! I enjoy all of your reading order videos, but I especially enjoyed this one on "the good duck artist" Carl Barks. I think you did a wonderful job summarizing his career and life, and most importantly, based on comments, you are introducing a lot of people to his wonderful work. 1) Beyond the rolling boulder sequence, I think the character of Indiana Jones is heavily influenced by Uncle Scrooge. He always goes to incredible lengths to get a particular treasure in pursuit of "fortune and glory", very similar to Uncle Scrooge's pursuit of riches. But they often leave the treasure they worked so hard for (Temple of Doom) or something ironic happens to the treasure (Raiders). 2) I have most of the oversized books from Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran (Another Rainbow), but don't have the ones that collect the material from the end of Barks career. (It was good, but not magical like his work from the forties and fifties. More Beagle Boys and less exotic adventures.) However, I like the bigger presentation, the articles and the presentation of some of Barks paintings. However, only a few stories have color and the Fantagraphics reprints provide that. Cochran also did a very nice book that collected all of Barks paintings but you would need to donate a kidney to buy it (around $1,000 - see Amazon or ebay, "The Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks". As a kid, I saw some of these paintings at comic conventions. I particularly remember "The Sheriff of Bullet Valley" which I probably looked at for half an hour. 3) One sidenote on acquiring the Fantagraphics books: Unlike the Rosa and Pogo releases which have sequential box sets, the Barks series is erratic, with some volumes not included in box sets and some volumes included in box sets twice. A minor complaint, which is offset by the quality of the books themselves, but the volumes are erratic on my shelf. 4) Send good thoughts to Fantagraphics owner Gary Groth, who is emerging from a bout with convid-19. THANKS AGAIN for a superb video that I plan to rewatch a couple more times in the future.

i am glad i got a chance to get all uncle scrooge and donald duck the don rosa library before they got out of stock the collection bundles at least, but these are also interesting but many volumes are out of stock as far as i know XD

At age eleven, I started collecting Barks' stuff in the Dutch book series which finished some years back at 135 issues. The collection is still very dear to me. Also, I got Rosa's stuff in the Dutch editions but also in English, in the recent two hardcovers of The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Awesome stuff.

Hey Omar, can you make a reading order of Thor?

So, first of all, thank you very-very much for this video! I hope you will see my comment because I will also have some questions. My love for "ducks" is going back to my childhood! Just as you have been filing through one of the books I have instantly recognized some of the stories which have appeared in Hungarian as well! I just started to smile seeing them..... :). About 2 weeks ago I have started reading the Don Rosa library and of course in the introduction "all" I was reading about was Carl Barks here, Carl Barks there. :). So I was thinking, wait a minute..... I should start with those first.... I know you mentioned that the stories are not really related, but still, it was always my obsession to read things in a chronological order. Just YESTERDAY I have ordered almost all the books what you went through in your review here, today I will receive them all. I have ordered the ones in Gift Box set, except Uncle Scrooge, with this one I am having problems! :( Vol. 14 The Seven Cities Of Gold is like a "treasure" and cannot be found at a reasonable price. :( There is also a Gift Box edition together with Only A Poor Old Man, but of course that as well is at stellar prices. Now, I have even forgotten, that I purchased Only A Poor Old Man back in 2014, so luckily I have that, but this Seven Cities Of Gold I cannot get! :( Also I am noticing, that even in the Gift Box sets they are not putting the books in order! Very strange, it looks like only Marvel cares about organizing properly their books. :) I would like to ask if you know somehow, that volume is Uncle Scrooge: Island In The Sky (23 Feb. 2021). By the way, Vol. 23 Donald Duck: Under The Polar Ice should appear 10th of November! Look at this lovely opening to your video.... all of them in order, would mean so much if they would have put volume numbers on them as well like with the Don Rosa Library. I can see that they are still going AHEAD with the volumes, do you have any information when they are planning to do anything about volumes 1-4? Now I know that I have the longest comment (again) here, but I hope that you will find the time to reply with details if possible and looking forward to more presentations as such, for example what kind of books are in that red sleeve in your video please? Thank you very much once more!

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Hi Omar, I'm thinking about picking up some duck comics. Is The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Vols. 1-2 Boxed Set by Don Rosa a good starting point for a beginner?

hey Omar, would you recommend picking up these volumes individually or picking up the gift box sets, same question for the don rosa and masterworks series.

Have you done Don Rosa duck comics ? Never mind I just found the video you did put on the play list I’m watching it next .

Where is the best place to start with duck comics. Don rosa duck comics or carl barks?

How does this all connect to the don rosa books and the European stuff? I would love to see a look at more of these Disney books! I only know of one other youtuber who mentions them

Hey Omar, thanks for this reading order. But I just checked out your top 10 graphic novel video and you put at number 2 “The complete life and times of Scrooge mcduck.” I wanna get that book but it turns out there are way more than just one version. Can you put in a link where to buy this book. And I’m also having a hard time finding these Carl bank books. So can you tell me where to buy that as well? Thanks!

I would like you to make a video providing an overview of fantagraphics Mickey Mouse comics. Particularly the ones by Floyd Gottfredson. But also some of the classic topolino titles by guys like Romana Scarpa.

Don Rosa??? Yes

Thank you Omar for posting this great video. I believe you misspoke at 24:00 minutes as Flintheart Glomgold's first appearance "The Second-Richest Duck" Uncle Scrooge #15 appears in The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan (Volume 16). Again, great presentation and I hope you do more Carl Barks Videos. If anybody has an opinion on what order they think I should buy in then please let me know. (I already have: volume 8 “Trail of the Unicorn”, vol. 9 “The Pixilated Parrot”, volume 12 “Only a Poor Old Man”, and volume 14 “The Seven Cities of Gold”.) I am trying to decide in what order to pick up the following volumes: “Christmas on Bear Mountain,” “The Old Castle’s Secret,” “Lost in the Andes,” “Terror of the Beagle Boys,” and “A Christmas For Shacktown.” After your presentation I was really impressed with the art in “A Christmas For Shacktown." Besides that is the volume with "The Golden Helmet," "The Big Bin on Kilomotor," and "Statuesque Spendthrifts." In my opinion nothing can possibility beat Volume 12 but who knows! I am trying to prioritize Golden Years of Barks first. I hope you guys are enjoying Duck Comics like I am. Cheers!

Hey do you know if they are going to reprint the Don Rosa stuff? I got the first 2 slip cases but looks like all the other slip cases and single HCs are way out of print. Just curios!

Hi, thanks for the video. I did not manage to buy Only a poor old man when it was published. Any idea if those older volumes will ever be republished?

Which Carl Barks fantagraphics collection contains the story “bicep blues?”

What are some major/minor differences between the Done Rosa collection and Carl Barks? Thanks!

Great video! I am actually looking for recommendations. I love these old Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics and am looking for recommendations for comics similar to this. I am not a huge fan of Marvel/DC or any other superhuman/powers type comics and when I look online for comics I can only find info on that stuff. I am looking for stuff like this: Bloom County (heard good things) Bone Calvin and Hobbes Donald Duck by Carl Barks Garfield Hate (heard good things) Peanuts (enjoy, but would cost a fortune to own it all haha) Pogo (heard good things want to get) The Complete Far Side Uncle Scrooge by Don Rosa I must be missing some classics?! I am interested in story, good characters, comedy and clever, I could care less about over the top violence, explosions, superpowers, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Muito bom, curti, faz um vídeo atualizado da coleção. (ILanguage - Portuguese BR)

Hey Omar! I'm a huge fan of the duck tales tv show and I want to get into duck comics. Where do I start?

One thing that annoyed me was the reading order on some comic compilations that were printed here

Very interesting reading order. I really enjoyed it. Can you try to do a Wonder woman reading order next time?

Hey Omar, do you know how many of the box sets are out to buy, having trouble finding some information on them, can only find 4 on amazon but that only adds up to 8 volumes and you have more than that , not sure if they are out of print or they just havnt realised the box sets yet.

Do you know if the HC Boxset editions are the same as this hardcover style just bundled together?

I’ve just checked and a couple of these books are OOP. That really is a shame because I don’t yet have these and wanted to own the complete collection. Do they usually reprint the books at some point?

Will you do a similar video for Don Rosa?

English is not my first language. Normally I have no trouble with English comics, but in Scrooge McDuck by Don Rose I sometimes found the comic difficult to get through, by twisting words, old-fashioned language and the Scottish accent. Is the language used by Carl Barks also like this?

It looks as though 'Only a Poor Old Man' and 'The Seven Cities of Gold' are both out of print... is there a reason why all the others are available except those?

Do they have a special edition containing every debut story of Scrooge and other duckling characters? It's so unfortunate that I missed the bundle version of Scrooge's story by Carl Barks (Indonesian version). The good part in Indonesia is that they have special bundled version with the first appearance of some characters designed by Carl Barks. Looks like I won't get the chance to get that bundle again since Donald Duck comic just discontinued from 29 June in my country, Indonesia.

What is the first set of books tof uncle scrooge and donald duck? Would like to get them !!!!.

Hey guys, To someone that has never read these, is interested in them and is new to comic collecting, I'm not sure whether starting with these or the complete life and times of scrooge mcduck is the way to go? Could someone offer some advice? Thankyou

Wish you’d highlighted the physical builds more, like the spines, side-by-side to Don Rosa books & lining up with or without boxes. For the uninitiated, which do you recommend as the 1st bk to buy/read?

Also, who do you like better Barks or Rosa? Or is it a tie? Just curious! P.S. Wild love to see a further list, I want to start collecting everything!

Hey Omar! If I had to pick one Uncle scrooge book to start with; which one would you suggest? I just want to see if I dig duck comics. Thanks :)

Seems to me like this series is ripe for a multi volume oversized deluxe edition combing two or three books into each deluxe volume.

in the Netherlands donald duck is know to be a comic book character every one has them

how many editions will you have of carl barks? here in Brazil 14 editions have been launched so far 

How come there is no Vol 1-4? Thanks!

I am in India and would love to buy the entire collection, parts of which are available on Amazon, but the import duty and shipping is a killer...is there anyway to purchase them at a lower cost? Thanks

Hey Omar how would you collect web of spider man (1985) in TPBs? Thanks.

Okay so do these Donald ones come first and then the Don Rosa Scrooge/Donald ones?

Hello Omar, nice of you to cover Bark's Duck comics. An easy way to find the actual numbering of the books, is to check INDUCKS, the comics database for Disney stories inducks.org/publication.php?c=us%2FCBDL&pg=img&num=1

Would love an Uncle Scrooge omni of this material

the 0 dislike were everyone who doesn't like Donald duck :)

You ever plan to talk about Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse?

Fantagraphics also has a nice numbered list as well that is a great resource: www.fantagraphics.com/disney/walt-disneys-donald-duck/

What about Tintin?

Any updates on whether or not they’ve released volumes 1-4?