The Complete Life & Times always appears as two volumes. The first collects the original run of stories written and drawn by Rosa, running through Scrooge McDuck's life in chronological order. This is usually published as volume one.

After it was finished, Rosa later produced some new stories, at all different points in Scrooge's life, that fit into the timeline of the first volume. These are usually collected as volume two.

Is there a Complete Life & Times collection that publishes the whole collection in order? That is, it has all the stories in the right chronological order, regardless of when they were first written or published?

I do recall hearing that the deluxe version was to be presented this way, but I believe that did not happen.

I just bought and received vols 1-2, but haven't had the time to read all the way through. I don't want to get to the end of volume 2 and find out that I'm missing the rest of the story. (And I'm a stickler for not "turning to the end of the book," so that's not an option).

The "vols 1-2" thing has me wondering if I messed up and only ordered half the series. But I can't find any reference to further volumes on Amazon, B&N, etc.

If I'm missing some books, please let me know. Any hints about where to find them would be welcome as well, since the major online booksellers don't seem to carry them. Or if they're out of print, hard to find, whatever, that would also be helpful because then I could get in touch with some contacts I have in the used book business.

Thanks!

I've spend the past weeks making a timeline of the Don Rosa and Carl Barks comics and I wondered if some of you have a timeline as well. If so, I would love to see it!

I'll make a link to my timeline soon

Hey all,

I’ve been trying for the past 3-4 months to get ahold of the remaining four box sets from the Don Rosa Library, with little to no luck. I currently just own the first one. I and a significant group of friends from around Europe, have been systematically contacting suppliers from all over the continent, in the hopes of finding any remaining box sets.

I am up to date with the Disney banning controversy, as well as with Don’s latest and last post on Twitter about the subject.

With that being said, what I managed to gather from all the big, medium and small retail shops from both western and eastern Europe, is that pretty much EVERY single one of them is pissed with the lack of (re)publishing of certain books from Fantagraphics.

Mind you, this is not just in regards to the Don Rosa Library, which is STILL indexed everywhere on the internet, where you can still place backorders and wait for MONTHS without any feedback, thus all these shops losing money and potential customers, but there are also some problems with some other series as well.

The Carl Barks box set 1 (Lost in the Andes) is out of print but still indexed.

Then there’s: Carl Barks Library Lost Peg Leg Mine Black Pearls Tabu Yama Box Set 18 & 19

And also: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Gift Box Set: "The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" & "The Mines of King Solomon": Vols. 16 & 20

Not just that but also box set 5 and box set 6 from Disney Masters are also pretty much gone from Europe, although box set 6 you can still find in low quantities in the US, etc.

We still have all the emails where chain supplies across the continent have expressed discontent with Fantagraphics, and we also have the receipts for all the botched up backorders that they failed to deliver.

Is there any way to hold Fantagraphics accountable or get them to republish the missing box sets to multiple series that theyre still actively printing and selling? It seems VERY odd and unethical.

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Does anybody know which stories by Giorgio Cavazzano take place in a Rosa-setting? I think Cavazzano has done some Scrooge in Yukon-stuff but I don’t know where to look for it?

Hey everyone. Does anyone know if he still makes art and if it's possible to buy some? Been googling away and doesn't seem to be much for sale of his original art. Least within my pricerange. Anyone know some important information about this subject?

I see that it was first published in " The story was first published in the Danish Anders And & Co. #1992-33; " but what month in 1992 was that?

In Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, on page 3 of chapter 11, there's a sequence that is kind of out of place that takes place in Goldopolis City, where Scrooge hides some deed from the McViper clan.

I am pretty sure this, like many other things in Life and Times, is a reference to an older comic. I have a faint memory of reading it. I cannot, however, find anything about it while trying to google it.

Anyone have any idea what comic this is?

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Just like many consider Rosa successor of Barks.

Sorry if I express myself badly, english is my second language. Some comics break the structure of the panels for various reasons - like showing the severity of an explosion that even breaks the borders of the images. Or sometimes they even interact with the reality of another frame, breaking not necessarily the 4th wall, but the in-fiction reality.

Hard to explain? Here's an example: https://i.imgur.com/xHTYn.jpg

You can see more here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrameBreak

I vaguely remember that Don Rosa used such techniques on at least one occasion. Does anyone of you remember in which comic that was?

10 years ago, I once had his complete works, but now my hard drive are corrupted and I cant seem find the comprehensive list of Rosa’s works.

Do Lifetime and Library include all of his comics? Because I seem can’t find some minor titles (e.g The Black Knight and The Black Knight Glorps Again as the sequel of Universal Solvent in Rosa Library).

Do you guys have complete list?

So, let's liven things up a bit, here. How did you all get into the comics of Don Rosa?
For me it started with a comicbook owned by my grandmother. It featured a black and white version of the Return to Xanadu (in my native language). If I remember correctly, the book collected a few stories from different artists. Unfortunately, it is lost now. I immediately liked the story, though. It was different, it had a sense of adventure, and it had great comedy. After that I read some other adventure stories of Rosa that were published in the 'Donald Duck Extra'. I fell in love with the drawing style, all the little details and off course the unique stories. They stood out to me as they were very different from the Donald Duck stories I used to read.

I then noticed that all these stories were created by the same author, so I tried to find more of his comics in my local library. Since my library was pretty small, they didn't have anything. However, it was possible to order them from other libraries. I then found the 'Life and Times', which was cut up in a number of albums. This had more depth than any other comicbook I read (I was still a kid, of course), and it solidified my love for this mysterious creator.

For some reason I stopped reading comicbooks and Don Rosa left my mind, for quite a while. Up until a few years back. I went back into the comicworld and started reading some more 'serious' graphic novels, like 'Maus' and 'Daytripper'. I randomly stumbled upon a comic from Don Rosa and immediately the memories started flowing in. I bought some of the albums I used to read from the library, which soon turned into a heated treasure hunt for the entirety of Rosa's work (in my native language). I reread all the great stories I used to read as a kid, and got introduced to many more. My appreciation for Don Rosa grew with every new story I read.

Off course, I am a bit of a purist. After collecting most of Rosa's work in my own language, I wanted to read the 'true version' of these stories, like they were always meant to be read; in english. And, naturally, this brought me to the Don Rosa Library from Fantagraphics, from which the first part had just been released.

So, what are your stories? What was your first read? How did you get into reading Don Rosa's work? I'm interested to hear it. Let's put some life in this sub, shall we!

He didn't say much, but if you have any questions about the experience, I will be more than happy to provide answers.

Hey all, new to the sub. I'm a huge fan of Don (been reading his comics since I was five) and I want to buy a collection of everything he's done (Life and Times & other works). Although English is fine too, it'd be nice to get them in French (if possible) since that's how I've always read them. On a side note, I'm heartbroken after learning that his eyesight isn't as good and that he can't draw any more :'(