Some comments on Barks-stories

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

Hi all!

Again, these are lists of Harry which I translated and extended a 
little. Please, tell me if there's a mistake or something missing.

--- Daniel


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STORY-IDEAS
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WDC 103 <beachcombing>. Idea by Dana Coty.

WDC 107 <super-snooper>. Idea by Dana Coty.

WDC 160 <camel as present>. The joke of page 2, panel 4 is by 
Gare Barks.

Of the following stories, the story-idea is by Barks' daughter: 
WDC 198 <knight in shining armor>, WDC 200 <donald's pet service>, 
WDC 211 <wishing stones>, WDC 218 <porpoise-hunting>, WDC 231 "The 
Wax Museum" and US 24b "The Magic Ink".

WDC 264 "Master Wrecker". Idea by Joe Cowles.

OS 9 "Finds Pirate Gold". Barks drew the pages 1, 2, 5, 12 to 40. The 
pages were drawn by Jack Hannah. The script is by Bob Karp, who 
rewrote it from an unused script for an animated Disney movie.

OS 29c "Too Many Pets". Merill de Maris started with the script. 
Finished, rewritten and extended by Barks.

OS 256a "Luck of the North". Idea by Dana Coty.

OS 263b "Trail of the Unicorn". Idea by Dana Coty.

DD 26a "Trick or Treat". Converted by Barks from the cartoon of the 
same name (1952, directed by Jack Hannah).

US 5a <secret of atlantis>. Idea by Chase Craig.

US 16a "Back to Long Ago". Idea by a friend of Bill Spicer.

US 23a "The Strange Shipwrecks". Extended from a short script of 
Nick George.


SOME COMMENTS ON VARIOUS STORIES
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In this paragraph some comments, which don't fit in other paragraphs.

SGW '54 "Donald Tells About Kites". Only on page 7 this version is 
     only different from the Pacific-version: Panels 3 and 4 are 
     replaced for other panels.

US&DD 1 "The Mummy's Ring". Barks redrew page 1, 16 and 17 of "The 
     Mummy's Ring" (OS 29a).

u-WDC 110  <wave-set on dog>. Only a very diminished and partly 
     hidden version of this cover has survived. It was used as a 
     detail for an advertisement for WDC.

s-GG '59 "The Pied Piper of Duckburg". Barks made 3 pages of script 
     for a Gyro Gearloose-story, which he never finished. The script 
     consists of elaborated pencil drawings. In 1989 Don Rosa 
     extended, elaborated and finished it to a 8-page story.

s-US 35a "Aswan Dam". Barks rejected this story in an early phase. 
     What survives of the story are two letters in which he tells 
     about it. It's not likely that Barks made any drawings for this
     story. 

Covers from paintings:
     In 1972 Barks' painting no. 20 was made as a cover for a 
     Christmas Oneshot, but only years later it was used by Gladstone.

Paintings as cover-ideas:
     Of the following paintings, Barks sold the sketch as cover-idea:
     No.  72 (wild horse, 1973, published on WDC 405).
     No. 107 (money falls out of hat, 1975, published on US 135).
     No. 108 (video-phone, 1975, published on Daisy and Donald 25).

Script-only stories:
     DD 117, DD 126 and US 71a are drawn by Tony Strobl.
     DD 138 is propably drawn by Bob Gregory.
     Most JW-stories are drawn by Kay Wright, some by Tony Strobl.

Written-only stories:
     During his retirement Barks made three stories which he 
     submitted as written text, these stories are "Hang Gliders be 
     Hanged", "Go Slowly Sands of Time" and "Horsing Around with 
     History". At the end of the '70s, Barks made 12 drawings for
     "Go Slowly".

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