Jun19
Review: Carl Barks’ Ducktales Stories
This is the second of three comics sent to me by Travis of Gemstone Publications. The first was reviewed here. This Volume 1 publication of Carl Barks’ Duck Tales Stories has 7 stories that all apparently were made into episodes of the popular TV series of Duck Tales. Again, the quality of the art and paper make this comic/graphic novel a collectible.
My review could never do justice to the passion that Gemstone has for these stories. After reading the introduction by Chris Barat and Joe Torcivia, I realized that they not only research the history of these comic series but have a passion for it and could likely talk for hours on the topic of Duck Tales alone.
Because of my novice status, I can’t quite tell the origins of the comics in this volume (I’m sure Travis could help out here). It appears that they were originally written by Carl Barks’ and Gemstone simple re-animated the cells. It does seem clear that the TV episodes of these stories were rewritten by the shows writers with some liberties toward Carl Barks’ originals. Maybe we can convince Travis to post a good description on his blog that I could link to.
I do remember a few of these stories as episodes on the TV show. The versions in this novel are much more exciting to read and seem to be more complete if that makes sense. Anyway, any casual fan of Duck Tales the TV series or Disney Comics will enjoy these as would any hard core fan like the guys over at Gemstone.
Tags: Comics
Kneon Transitt Jun 27th 2006 at 12:41 pm 1
The stories originally appeared in various issues of Disney comics in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Gemstone has restored them with digital coloring (which is wonderful, as some of the coloring was truly atrocious due to printing limitations).
Glad you’re enjoying your introduction to Disney comics! There’s PLENTY more where that came from. And I’d thoroughly recommend the upcoming WALT DISNEY’S TREASURES collection — available on Amazon.com for a measly $10.00!
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