The Carl Barks Index Second Edition: A Concordance of the Comics of Carl Barks

The Carl Barks Index Second Edition is a comprehensive index and concordance of Carl Barks' Disney comic book work created from late 1946 to early 1958 as published by Fantagraphics Books in 15 volumes so far. It updates an earlier edition that covered only the first 10 books in the Fantagraphics series, The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. From 1942 until his retirement in 1966, Carl Barks was the most important writer and artist of Donald Duck and related comic books, including Uncle Scrooge, as well as the creator of Uncle Scrooge and many of the best-loved characters in the Duck comic books. Fantagraphics Books is now about halfway through a 15+ year project reprinting that work in an acclaimed series of mass market hardcover books in color. These books include what is generally considered to be the high point in creativity and quality of writing and drawing in Barks' career as a comic book writer and artist plus many excellent stories before and after. *******With almost 9500 data entries in the index, each entry includes book volume and page numbers for the Fantagraphics book reprinting as well as references to all of the original USA comic book first publications with comic book title, issue, and story page numbers, plus the date of creation based on Carl Barks' personal work records. Just about any question you might want to ask about Carl Barks' work-if you can think of it-you can probably find it and all references to it. Want to find every depiction of a cigar in Barks' comics? It's there. What really was the first appearance of the money bin, or its precursors, or the worry room, or Gladstone, or his luck, the Beagle Boys, Barks' pig villain characters; what stories were rewritten years or decades later? Where does that huge panel of a money dam bursting with gazillions of dollars flowing forth appear? It's all there.*******The Index covers the contents of volumes 5-19 in the series, all of the books that were in print by September, 2018, as well as the original printings of the same stories in comic books. *******The book is available in a regular edition and a LARGE PRINT edition. Both versions include the same content but the LARGE PRINT version has about twice as many pages and larger print in the Index portion of the book, 170 vs. 92 pages for the regular edition.