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As a longtime collector I haven't felt the need to buy any Fantagraphics Carl Barks volumes until quite a few of the the Daan Jippes versions of the Barks scripted/layout Junior Woodchucks stories were released in volumes 25 and 27.

Suffice to say I've pre-ordered the slipcased giftset of these two volumes just to own those JW stories since many haven't been published previously in English.

My question is since volume 28 is an Uncle Scrooge and Gyro book, how is it that the complete set will run to only 30 volumes?

In my reckoning there would be quite a lot more books needed to complete all the remaining Scrooge stories plus the remaining Donald 10 pagers plus the remaining Junior Woodchuck stories (as drawn and inked by Daan Jippes). I haven't figured out how Daisy, Grandma and Gyro stories remain but there must be a fair amount left.

Besides cataloguing websites like Inducks and GCD, is there a comprehensive contents list of all the released and to-be-released Fantagraphics CB volumes that doesn't require jumping around 30-odd different webpages? TIA

I don't think it's the "Christmas in Shacktown" one from Carl Barks, but I do think this one is from Barks as well

The only thing that I remember (I read it over 20 years ago as a child) is that there's a poor kid standing in the cold and that Huey, Dewey en Louie give them their food

I believe that they themselves end up having to eat ravioli because they gave all of their food away?

Does anyone know the title of this story?

As an Antipodean Disney comic collector I naturally have amassed a good sized Australian Walt Disney comic collection. These lival reprints were published by W.G. Publications from the late '40s to the late '70s. I started buying Disney comics in the late '80s and I would find stacks of these comics - predominantly 60 and 70s - in secondhand bookshops and junk shops and always bought the duck comics.

However, I wasn't aware of the unique publishing quirk involving the Australian comics and the 'Blinders' one-page gag until re-reading my CBL set recently. According to the CBL (3.3.706) the Blinders gag was first published in the Australian Giant issue 415 in 1967 after being never published in U$ 19 as originally intended. And the film was lost so this publication is significant as the only English language version until 1983. Hmm, how very interesting, here was a local Barks rariety for me to find!

Well, after checking the collection, I didn't already have that issue in my collection so I put out my feelers into eBay and online comic vendors (where are the bricks and mortar stores with old comics these days?!) and after ignoring the temptation to buy the first copy I could find ($50!?) I waited until one came up at reasonable price. The one pictured did together with two other missing issues in my collection so happy days! I might splurge on better copy one day though. It's neat to see the real thing beside the CBL reprinting.

Of Another Rainbow's CBL set I now have 7 volumes (still looking for volumes V, VI and X for a decent price in or shipped to Australia). Obviously each volume has a decent Contents and volume X has the Index but I'm curious as to thoughts on Kim Weston's CBL Index pictured here. What sort of Indexing features does it include? Anything in addition to CBL's own Index? Is it readable? Is it worth it?

TIA

I am only 80% certain it is a Carl Barks story, and the only thing I remember is they dived somewhere and uncovered empty amphorae, but after much searching, they finally find some sealed ones which contain what they need.
I remember it because it's where I first learned of amphorae, and I've recently been learning about them again. But I can't for the life of me remember the rest of the story.

Was reading my old comics and found a really early illustration by the man himself. It's of a girl with a tiny swastika on the side of her bra. She was a Caucasian woman dressed as a native American Cabaret dancer so it's not one of those swastikas that indicate a character being a Nazi, must've been intentional.

I'm wondering if there's any more and if this means something else or if he just really liked Nazis. Again it's from before he ever started drawing ducks so I don't think he'd keep drawing them. Should add that although the swastika image isn't annotated, all the other images are from before 1935

And it featured the ducks discussing EATING CHICKEN. WTAF?

Is it about why cultures around the world like Donald duck?