Changes in Barks stories

Daniel van Eijmeren daniel at maisie.ow.nl
Mon Aug 14 00:19:31 CEST 1995


Hi all!

What follows here is my Dutch-English translation of a list Harry once 
made. I have only made some minor changes in it. 

If you see a mistake or changed material missing, please let me know.


Greetings,

--- Daniel



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ENUMERATION OF CHANGES IN BARKS-STORIES
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Little changes in 'script only' stories are not enumerated. In this 
list different abreviations are used:

E  = Changes made by the editor.
B  = Changes made by Barks.
BE = Changes made by Barks in order of the editor.

This list is definitively not complete when it comes to changes made 
by Barks himself.

In some cases material survived after replacing and/or changing:

'  = Some of the material has survived.
"  = Most of the material has survived.
"' = All material has survived.

You can also take a look at the lists "Disappeared" and "Unpublished".


WDC  42  "Kite Weather". Layout changed from 10 x 3 lines to 7 x 4
          lines. (E)
WDC  63  <ten dollar bill>. Aureoles added to the last panel. (E)
WDC 147  <helping the poor> Lines 2, 3 and 4 of page 1 have been made
          smaller vertically, this to make way for the publisher's 
          notes. (E)
WDC 157  <mount demontooth> Last three panels replaced. (B')
WDC 175  <toffee story> Material replaced and changed in a very late
          phase. (B")
WDC 247  "Madcap Mariner". Shortened by cutting one page. (E)
WDC 249  "Stranger than Fiction" Shortened by cutting one page. (E)
WDC 259  "Jungle Bunge". First panel replaced, second panel altered. 
          (BE")
OS 108c  "Firebug". Last two panels replaced. (E)
OS 203a  "Golden Christmas Tree". Text in panel 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the 
          last page altered (E?). Some redrawn (half) pages between 
          page 10 and 18 (BE).
OS 238a  "Voodoo Hoodoo". Pupils added to the zombie's eyes. (E)
DD 26a   "Trick or Treat". Shortened with about nine pages (E"). 
          Original beginning replaced (BE"'). Of all the removed art
          only one panel is still missing today.
DD 45    <dogcatcher> Eight panels removed, the order of the lines 
          3 and 4 on page 5 is reversed.
DD 138   "A Day in a Duck's Life". Script of 14 pages reduced to 13
          pages in the inked version. (E"')
OS 456a  "Back to the Klondike". 5 pages removed. (E")
US 8a    <island of stone> A lot of changes during the making of 
          the story (B'). 
US 12a   "Golden Fleecing". Panel removed on page 31, the rest of
          page 31 and 32 moved up (E). Two panels redrawn, references 
          to "Harpies" replaced by "Larkies" (BE"). 
US 13a   "Land Beneath the Ground". Shortened from 32 to 28 pages. 
          (BE')
US 22a   "The Golden River". 1 page removed to make place for two 
          half pages elsewhere in the story. One panel replaced 
          by another one to fill in the gap where the page got 
          cut out (B"').
US 32a   "That's No Fable". Two panel replaced (B"').
US 34a   "Mythtic Mystery". Two pages removed (E).
US 50a   "Rug Riders in the Sky". One page removed (E).
US 51a   "How Green was my Lettuce". Two pages removed (E").
US 63a   "House of Haunts". Title changed, the original title was 
         "His Shining Hour" (E).
OS 495b  <watertank as moneybin> One or more pages removed during the 
          making of the story. (B')
US 13g   <catching lightning> Donald's nephews replaced by Mickey's 
          nephews (BE).
US 14g   <superfuel> Donald replaced by Speedy (BE). 
OS 1184  <Gyro Gearloose> In total three pages removed from the four 
          stories. (E)
JW  7    "Whale of a Good Deed". 14-page script lengthened to 17 
          pages in the inked version (E"').
JW 14    "Duckmade Disaster". 12-page script lengthened to 13 pages
          in the inked version (E"').
JW 17    "Be Leery of Lake Eery". Last half page replaced (BE"').
JW 19    "Teahouse of the Waggin' Dragon". 16-page script lenghtened
          to 17 pages in the inked version (E"').
JW 22    "The Phantom Joker". 16-page script reduced to 15 pages in
          the inked version (E"').
DD 51    <new hat> One-page gag reduced to half-page gag (E).
US 33x   "Tree Trick". Last panel widened (E).
WDC 140p <golfing> Donald has black pupils instead of red ones (E). 
WDC 142p <feeding doves> Background removed (E"').
WDC 156p <dirty towel> Grey fingerprints added (E).
WDC 160p <ships in foot-bath> Donald's face changed (E).
WDC 174p <coin falling through piggy bank> Donald's face redrawn (E).
DD 46p   <blowing candles on pie> Faces of nephews redrawn (E).
DD 106p  "Ambush at Thunder Mountain". Nephew changed in the inked 
          version (BE"'?)
US 54p   "Billion Dollar Safari". Background removed (E"').
OS 353p  <five photographs> Nephews-photo replaced (E).
OS 1239p <posing with bear-fur> Gyro removed, chimney redrawn (E"').
OG 11h   <happy hound: wolf visits mother> 8-page story reduced to 6 
          pages by placing more panels on one page (E).
OG 18b   <serenade for senorita> 8-page story reduced to 6 pages by
          placing more panels on one page.
OS 48    "Porkie of the Mounties". Heads redrawn (E).

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