The Carl Barks Collection

The Carl Barks Collection is a series of books from the Disney licensee Egmont containing all Disney comics and covers written and/or drawn by Carl Barks, collected in chronological order. It also includes significant textual materials (articles and analysis) written by editor Geoffrey Blum. It was published from 2005 to 2008 in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Germany. It was also published by Sanoma in Finland, although one year after the other countries. The complete set consists of 30 books collected in 10 slipcase boxes, constituting about 8,000 pages (including the articles) or some 500 comic book stories by Barks. The series was only available by subscription. In many aspects the series is similar to Carl Barks Library (CBL) but differs by being published in colour, organizing the stories by date of publication, using only unchanged artwork and containing material not used in CBL, much of it newly discovered and previously unpublished. Blum was a contributing editor to CBL, and his familiarity with the Barks canon and its historic background is the principal reason Egmont hired him. Blum has drawn not only on material that appeared previously in CBL but new research he has undertaken which has resulted in a number of significant discoveries and fresh perspectives on Barks and his creations.
A similar edition was published in Spain, by Planeta deAgostini. It differed from the other editions by not having Blum's articles (having, instead, articles signed by the Barks specialist Alfons Moliné), it was smaller and not in boxes, and it was sold through comic book shops. A book was published approximately every three months, but the collection was stopped after volume 4.
In Norway, a six-volume follow-up series called Carl Barks Ekstra has been published 2009–2012. It contain examples of Barks' works outside his Disney comics production. The last four volumes have also been published in Sweden.
==Volumes==
Book	Period 	   	Book	Period 	   	Book 	Period 	   	Book 	Period 	   	Book 	Period 	   	Extra	Content
I 	1942–1943	   	VII 	1949–1950	   	XIII 	1954–1955	   	XIX 	1959 	   	XXV 	1963–1964	   	E1 	Index
II 	1944–1945	   	VIII	1950–1951	   	XIV 	1955–1956	   	XX 	1959–1960	   	XXVI 	1964–1965	   	E2 	Calgary Eye-Opener
III 	1945–1946	   	IX 	1951–1952	   	XV 	1956–1957	   	XXI 	1960 	   	XXVII 	1965–1966	   	E3 	Who is who in Duckburg
IV 	1947 	   	X 	1952–1953	   	XVI 	1957 	   	XXII 	1960–1961	   	XXVIII	1966–1968	   	E4 	The Warner stories
V 	1947–1948	   	XI 	1953 	   	XVII 	1957–1958	   	XXIII	1961–1962	   	XXIX 	1968–1972	   	E5 	Storyboards
VI 	1948–1949	   	XII 	1954 	   	XVIII	1958–1959	   	XXIV 	1962–1963	   	XXX 	1972–2000	   	E6 	Paintings
==See also==
*Carl Barks Library
*The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
*List of Disney comics by Carl Barks
==External links==
*Spanish
Category:Comic books