The Carl Barks Library

This article is about the black-and-white Another Rainbow collection series. For the color Fantagraphics collection series, see The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library.

The Carl Barks Library (CBL) is a series of 30 large hardcover books reprinting all of the Disney comics stories and covers written and/or drawn by Carl Barks. Stories that were modified in the original publication, sometimes for production reasons and sometimes due to excessive editing, were restored in CBL to Barks' original intent.^[1] The books are collected in ten slipcase volumes with three books in each, a total of about 7,400 pages. The volumes were published from 1983 to 1990 in the United States by Another Rainbow Publishing^[2] under license from The Walt Disney Company. The comics were printed (with a few exceptions) in black and white. In addition to the comics, there are numerous articles with background information.

The Carl Barks Library
Publication information
Publisher	Another Rainbow
Genre	Funny animals
Publication date	1983 – 1990
No. of issues	10 sets of 3 volumes each
Main character(s)	Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander
Creative team
Written by	Carl Barks
Artist(s)	Carl Barks
Inker(s)	Carl Barks

Volume sets

Set	Publication Date	Contents	Story Date
I	July 1984	Four Color Donald Duck 9–223	October 1942 – April 1949
II	November 1986	Four Color Donald Duck 238–422 and Donald Duck 26–138	August 1949 – July 1971
III	December 1984	Four Color Uncle Scrooge 386–495 and Uncle Scrooge 3–20	March 1952 – February 1958
IV	November 1985	Uncle Scrooge 21–43 and The Lemonade Fling	March 1958 – July 1963
V	April 1989	Uncle Scrooge 44–71 and The Christmas Carol	August 1963 – October 1967
VI	May 1990	Giveaways, Annuals and Miscellaneous Issues	1947 – May 1961
VII	March 1988	Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 31–94 and Large Feature Comics #7	April 1943 – July 1948
VIII	August 1983	Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 95–166	August 1948 – July 1954
IX	June 1985	Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 167–229	August 1954 – October 1959
X	August 1990	Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 230–312 and an Index	November 1959 – September 1966

Reprintings

Gladstone Publishing (a subsidiary of Another Rainbow) published a full-color version, The Carl Barks Library in Color, in a series of 141 comic book albums between 1992 and 1998.

Fantagraphics Books is currently collecting all of Barks' work as a hardcover collection, The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library.

See also

• The Carl Barks Collection
• List of Disney comics by Carl Barks