The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

Fantagraphics launched the Complete Carl Barks Disney Library with Lost in the Andes in December 2011. Since then, they have released two volumes each year. The volumes in this library are numbered chronologically, but they are being released in a different order. For example, the first volume released, Lost in the Andes, is volume 7. Carl Barks Disney comics were published between 1942 and 1966. When the Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is completed, it will have around 30 volumes. Carl Barks is in the Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and he is a Disney Legend which makes this library essential reading for Disney Duck Fans as well as all Disney and comic book fans.

Cave of Ali Baba

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 28: Cave of Ali Baba will be released by Fantagraphics in June 2023.

The top illustration on the cover of this book is from the story Oddball Odyssey, and the bottom illustration is from the story Cave of Ali Baba.

This edition of the Carl Barks library is 208 pages, and it includes 29 stories. Comic covers that Carl Barks worked on during this period are also featured in this volume. There is a short biography on Carl Bark’s life as well as behind the scenes pictures and stories about each and every story that is included in this edition. It is full of great and interesting information and should be considered a text book of information for fans of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck. I am glad that it is included in this volume and every volume of the Carl Barks Disney Library.

Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 28 is available in hardcover and KindleComixology versions. A link to buy this book can be found at the end of this review.

Included Stories

There are 29 stories included in this volume:

• Cave of Ali Baba
• Monkey Business
• Collection Day
• Deep Down Doings
• Seeing is Believing
• The Unsafe Safe
• Playmates
• Much Luck McDuck
• Rags to Riches
• A Spicy Tale
• Art Appreciation
• Flowers Are Flowers
• Tricky Experiment
• Oddball Odyssey
• Getting the Bird
• Nest Egg Collector
• Monsterville
• The Cube
• The Nose Knows
• Mighty But Miserable
• The Old Timer
• Brain-Strain
• Mechanized-Mess
• Buffaloed by Buffaloes
• The Great Pop Up
• Madcap Inventors
• Finny Fun
• Posthasty Postman
• Pied Piper of Duckburg

Review

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 28: Cave of Ali Baba is another fine collection of Carl Barks’ Tales of Ducks. This specific volume is packed with a money bin size of 29 comic adventures with our favorite ducks. Fans of Magica De Spell will find two magical stories of the sorceress’ attempts to obtain Scrooge’s number one dime. I love classic Magica. The final thirteen stories of this volume are Gyro Gearloose tales. Gyro fans rejoice!

There are a couple of Carl Barks covers in the back of the book to showcase some of the fantastic comic covers that Carl Barks illustrated for the stories in this volume as well as other comic book issues where he worked on the cover.

The behind the scenes content on each story really completes this volume for a comprehensive experience. I can’t wait to read through the rest of the volumes in the Carl Barks Library. This is volume 28. So we only have volumes 29-30 and then 1-4 left until Fantagraphics’ Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is officially completed. The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 4 will be released in November.

As a reminder: It would take a lot of time and money to compile a comic collection that included all of these stories. Anything that takes a lot of time and money would not be approved by Scrooge McDuck.

Thank you to Fantagraphics for allowing us to go through this Disney Duck journey. I feel smarter for increasing my Disney Duck knowledge base by reading this volume.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

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