Mythtic Mystery's lost art

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

DON:

This week I sent an article to Arthur about the lost work of Carl 
Barks. Among those stories is Mythtic Mystery. This story lost 2 
pages, including a splash-panel which Barks once called "the most 
complicated drawing I ever did":

     "My chin hit my knees when I saw that the big half-page stupender 
     I did of Thor and Vulcan and a nephew riding above the busiest 
     street corner in Duckburg in the golden chariot [was] missing. 
     Thor's horses terrified, thousands (at least) of people gaping 
     upward in disbelief. Autos bumper-to-bumper, smoking, clanking. 
     In short, I gave Vulcan something to be scared about." (C.B.)

I've always wondered how that panel would have looked like if it 
wasn't vanished. I don't know of any plans with reprinting the story, 
but if it gets a reprint, isn't it possible that you fill in the lost 
art for that print?

I ask this because I can't think of any other artist who can 
reconstruct that wonderful panel, following the description of Barks 
(which I quoted here). You once did a very good job on the two 
missing panels of "How Green was my Lettuce" and finishing the 
sketches which Barks did for his unfinished "pied piper" story. 
So, that's the reason why I thought of you.

In CBL there's also another description of Barks about the other art 
that is missing from the story (set 4, page 15). I have that 
description here in my computer, but I dare not to quote it here 
because of copyright laws. (Maybe I quoted too much already?)

Don, what do you think of redrawing the lost splash panel (and maybe 
also the other art) for Mythtic Mystery? 


--- Daniel


P.S. I always wondered why Barks didn't make a painting of that scene.