1969 Barks begins to sell original ink art from Uncle Scrooge 60-63, adding a new dimension to Scrooge collecting. Robert Overstreet's Comic Book Price Guide No. 1 documents the secondary market values of old Uncle Scrooge comic books. 1972 First money bin painting by Barks, Pleasure in the Treasure . 1975 Barks paints The Expert , a definitive miniature portrait of Scrooge that will be recreated twenty years later as an English bone china figurine. The start of an international reawakening of interest in Scrooge McDuck, as book deals are negotiated in Europe and the United States.
Barks privately questions new characterizations of Scrooge in Italian comics.
The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck , which launches Another Rainbow and reproduces 122 Barks oils. For this print Barks reworked one of his most famous comic covers to include Scrooge. The first set of Uncle Scrooge comic reprints is published as Set III of the hardbound Carl Barks Library . DuckTales , an animated television series inspired by the Scrooge comics, airs its pilot episode on September 18. Gladstone launches a new Scrooge comic book title, Uncle Scrooge Adventures , and celebrates Scrooge's fortieth birthday by publishing the commemorative book Uncle Scrooge in Color .