Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures Mini Collection (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)

Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures Mini Collection (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)

Carl Barks
$19.99
Publication Date: September 24th, 2024
Publisher:
Fantagraphics
ISBN:
9781683964674
Pages:
350

Description

Our newest Disney collection presents three snazzy books packed with fun, laughs, and adventure — each paperback is complete with all the original story and art by Disney legend Carl Barks!

A ghost in armor, a high noon showdown, and the treasure of a lifetime!

In “Ghost in the Grotto,” Donald Duck and his nephews try to harvest kelp at Skull-Eye Reef but are soon menaced by a ducknapping ghost in armor, a centuries-old curse, and a giant octopus who — well, what do you think giant octopuses do? (Plus: two bonus stories, by Barks!) Next, when Blacksnake McSquirt’s high-tech gang moves into town in “Sheriff of Bullet Valley,” Donald Duck, who learned everything he knows about fighting bad guys from the movies, boldly dons a badge and swaggers into the fray. Can Donald solve the mystery? Can you? (The first clue is on the back cover!) Then Donald Duck and his nephews hoist sail on their most momentous quest ever in “The Golden Helmet”! In a rip-roaring race full of twists, turns, and tumultuous upsets, they bound over treacherous seas, slog across treacherous terrain — and get waylaid by treacherous opponents! The prize: a fabulous Viking artifact that will make its finder king of North America! (Plus: three more Barks bonus stories!)

Our Adventures Mini Collection features nearly 300 pages of comic adventures in three handy landscape format paperback volumes inside a nifty little slipcase.

About the Author

Carl Barks (1901-2000, b. Merrill, Oregon; d. Grants Pass, Oregon), one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the 20th century, entertained millions around the world with his timeless tales of Donald Duck and Barks’s most famous character creation, Uncle Scrooge. Over the course of his career, he wrote and drew more than 500 comics stories totaling more than 6,000 pages, most anonymously. He achieved international acclaim only after he semi-retired in 1968. Among many other honors, Barks was one of the three initial inductees into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame in 1987. (The other two were Jack Kirby and Will Eisner.) In 1991, Barks became the first Disney comic book artist to be recognized as a “Disney Legend,” a special award created by Disney “to acknowledge and honor the many individuals whose imagination, talents, and dreams have created the Disney magic.” He has been similarly honored in many other countries around the world.

Praise for Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures Mini Collection (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)

Enormously well-crafted and equally enormously entertaining, timeless comedy adventures … the perfect gift for just about any reader of comics, regardless of age, background, or experience.
— School Library Journal

[The Golden Helmet is] my favorite … an exciting plot, involving historical intrigue in the search for a fabulous treasure.


— Don Rosa

I consider [Carl Barks's comics] to be the best form of storytelling I’ve read.
— Jeff Kinney

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