A new book collects the very first Donald Duck work of comic book legend Carl Barks

Aug 25, 2025

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Cartoonist Carl Barks's work on Donald Duck comic books for Western Publishing from the 1940s to 1960s is almost unanimously considered one of the best comic book runs in the medium's entire history. Fantagraphics Books has been compiling his complete Duck oeuvre in a multi-volume set of gorgeous hardcovers, released every few months, but out of chronol…

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