Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 16

A huge thanks to Fantagraphics for reproducing the works of Disney Legend Carl Barks.What can one say on the quality of the contents which takes you back to that tales of nostalgia and magic associated with Disney.You cannot go wrong with this product.A worthwhile gift for both Young and the Old.

Corners damaged, therefor I only give 3 stars and and not 5

A classical; a must!

Very good quality... a must for anyone that, like me, spent a great part of their childhood reading the Duck family adventures!

Uncle Scrooge by Carl Barks! What more needs to be said?

GOSTEI DE TUDO PRINCIPALMENTE O FORMATO QUE É MAIOR AINDA DO QUE A COLEÇÃO BRASILEIRA E PRETENDO COMPRAR OS DEMAIS VOLUMES DA COLEÇÃO POIS OS DESENHOS DE CARL BARKS SÃO DEMAIS...

Este encadernado em capa dura é lindo. Conta com várias histórias do Tio Patinhas e também do Pato Donald, feitas pelo grande Carl Barks. Este volume é inédito no Brasil.

A capa é luxuosa e seu material é muito bom. As estórias de Carl Barks são sensacionais e mundialmente reconhecidas. A qualidade das folhas internas poderia ser melhor.

went really well and being able to buy this items

Beautifully reprinted old Barks-classics with accompanying commentary, cover art etc.

CHRISTMAS GIFT

Historias muy graciosas con una calidad en ellas constantes. Vale la pena

最近、スクルージおじさんのファンになったのですが、グッズがほぼ無しの感じでどうやってこの欲を解消しようかとネットをチェックしてた時に洋書を発見しました。そうか、洋書という手があったと、初めて洋書を購入しました。英語はさっぱりわかりませんが、スクルージおじさんがたくさん載ってるし話の内容はキャラの動きでなんとなく察せます。満足です。

This collection is a MUST-HAVE for collectors and readers of Carl Barks' great "Uncle Scrooge" stories and one-pagers.It contains the title story, about a fabulously valuable jewelled crown, and a one-dollar watch, complicated by a mysterious and potentially menacing abominable snow man (NOT, as Donald Duck says, "an abdominal snowman").This is swiftly followed by another classic story, "The Land Beneath the Ground" that smacks of the legend of the Hollow Earth, or Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", but revealing, within vast subterranean caverns that span the whole of the Earth, the Terries, who wear bow ties, and the Fermies who wear four-in-hand neck-scarves. They are the REAL explanation of earthquakes, and an appalling menace to Scrooge's money bin, with its "five billion quintuplatillion umptaplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars".It also includes one of Bark's greatest epics, "The Second-Richest Duck', in which Scrooge, and his "three cubic acres of money, uncountable oil wells, gold mines, railroads, factories, and fish houses (!)", confront his greatest, and most unscrupulous rival, Flintheart Glomgold.Simple book-work quickly establishes that each incredible miser owns exactly the same amount of cash and property.So the ultimate question -- WHO is the first-richest duck? -- will be decided by testing who owns the largest ball of randomly accumulated string.Naturally, the only effective way of deciding whose ball of string is biggest is by unrolling the two balls of string across the centre of savage Africa!It is hilarious!In fact, each of these great stories is very funny, almost frame by frame, and also very wry in the final moments! (Scrooge is a miser, but he is not a totally heartless person. Similarly, Donald Duck, his nephew, is often hopelessly inefficient and scatterbrained, on his own, but as a travel companion for Scrooge, along with his own plucky and almost infinitely resourceful juvenile nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louey, Donald is a very worthy foil for Scrooge at his worst.)And there is more.In "Back to Long Ago", Scrooge, under hypnosis (WHY he agrees to being hypnotised is a funny short story in itself) recalls a fabulous lost treasure, and, yet again, the game is afoot!In "A Cold Bargain', Scrooge finds himself in a Cold War arms-contest with the evil forces of Brutopia, each trying to control the world's scarce resources of a mysterious substance called Bombastium.The second last story is yet another of Barks' absolute best, "Land of the Pygmy Indians".The story begins with Scrooge wanting to flee to a pristine wilderness to escape the smog and noxious fumes of his own Duckburg industries.Naturally he buys a remote North American region with no roads, cities, factories or people, the "Thousand Lakes".This quickly turns into a hilarious encounter with a mysterious local tribe who speak in the verse style of Longfellow's "Hiawatha".Along the way, Scrooge discovers unbelievable mineral wealth in the lands around the Thousand Lakes.Just when Scrooge thinks he has beaten and outwitted the natives, they turn the tables on him, using a pinch of oxide of strombolium.The final full-length story "Fantastic River Race" is a framed story that tells an earlier adventure of Scrooge, in younger days, with his Mississippi sternwheeler paddleboat, first racing against, and then trying to outwit, another stern-wheeler crewed by ancestors of Scrooge's nemesis-villains, the dreaded Beagle Boys, while Scrooge has eccentric assistance from his engineer, Ratchet Gearloose, the grandfather of the famous inventor, Gyro Gearloose, a contemporary of Donald Duck.SEVEN full-length CLASSIC adventures!A Carl Barks "Uncle Scrooge" collection doesn't come much better than this!Very highly recommended!John Gough -- Deakin University (retired) -- jagough49@gmail.com

This might very well be the best collection of Carl Barks work that we've seen so far. At this point I don't think it's really necessary to go into things like the binding, artwork, and the cover. It's all of the same high quality as the previous volumes. What separates this volume from the rest is the stories that are contained within. Simply put, I don't think any of the other volumes give you as many of Barks classic longer stories as this one does. Along with those longer stories comes what I believe to be more smaller, one page stories than any of the previous volumes, but the longer stories more than make up for it. Ignoring the one pagers, altogether you have:The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan- the titular story that features Scrooge and his family searching for an ancient crownLand Beneath the Ground- Scrooge and his family take a journey deep into the EarthThe Second Richest Duck- the first appearance of Flintheart GlomgoldBack to Long Ago!- Scrooge and Donald discover an ancient treasure they buried in a past lifeCold Bargain- Scrooge purchased a rare element and fights to keep it out of thieving handsLand of the Pygmy Indians- Scrooge travels into the wild to get away from pollution, finding himself meeting a tribe of small Native AmericansFantastic River Race- Scrooge recalls his days as the Master of the MississippiThat's a total of 7 longer stories that you can really sink your teeth into, whereas previous volumes might only give you 3-4 of such stories, while also balancing it out with plenty of shorter 10 page stories as well. Personally, while I enjoy almost all of Barks work, his longer stories are my favorites, since they give me more time to really fall into the tale that's being told. So, this volume was a nice surprise for me and almost all of the longer works is a classic in my opinion.

Absolutely perfect! Some claim Barks' peak period is 1948-1952. I disagree. The great master maintained high-level output throughout the entire 1950's, imo. I believe this wonderful book is ample proof of that. And the next Uncle Scrooge tome will feature "Golden River", "The Money Well" and other gems from this period. Don't miss it!