Redrawn Barks (Luca)

[H.W.Fluks@kpn.com]

Luca asked:

> About Daan [Jippes] and his "remaking" 
> old Barks' stories, I also wish to know if "DD's Atom Bomb" 
> redrawn by him for the Dutch "Donald Duck" is the *same* 
> version printed in 
> The Carl Barks Library, or a different one.

The artwork is by Jippes in most panels. Except when Jippes' version was too
different from the original, they used a newly restored original panel.

The two final panels of the story have been censored in the CBL version (but
not in the Dutch Jippes version).

Also note that Jippes drew the story has an 8-page 4-tier story.
Gladstone/AR re-arranged some Jippes artwork to come closer to the original
layout (30-page 1-tier).

Some time ago, I've been comparing the various versions panel by panel (I
also have xeroxes of the original story).

> "Race to South Seas", CBL
> Set VI, Volume One). It's the same reprinted in DDA # 26, 
> 1992 (but with the pages' numberscut).

There is still proof for the Jippes version: the text "Dagobert McDuck" on
page 2 (I think), and the Dutch text "Kwaak" on a boat in the story. I think
these things were removed in later reprints (in Gladstone comics/albums).

> Well, in DDA # 26 Daan 
> is not credited, and the same happened for the Italian 
> translation of that story, in ZP 40.
> In case of reprinting, it'd be necessary to do it, isn't it?

Yes, that's one thing that I found annoying in the Carl Barks Library. They
should have mentioned at least the fact that some of the stories were
redrawn.

--Harry.