Walt Disney's Donald Duck (WALT DISNEY DONALD DUCK HC)

Christmas On Bear Mountain is volume 5 in Carl Barks Library. So this is earliest material so far published. Carl Barks first duck story was in 1942, these stories collected are from 1947 and one from Jan 1948. While only five years in to writing the ducks, Barks might not have quite reached the peak of his form, but still he is a master storyteller.My favorites are of course the title story Bear Mountain which featured the creation of Scrooge McDuck a character who would become just as important as Donald in the legend of Disney.My other favorite is Donald Duck And The Ghost Of The Grotto. It is a 26 page Tour-De-Force which is educational, exciting, fast paced and action packed mystery and adventure still filled with humor. An abandoned ship, a giant octopus and a ghost in a suit of armour are some of the story elements. This is the type of story Barks excelled at and nobody in the history of comics ever did better.This volume is 200 pages of pure magic and Love. Fantagraphics has assembled a masterpiece and the source material has never looked better. The storynotes are a wonderful bonus and treasured as much as the comics.Highly Recommended.

The current entry in the compilation of Carl Barks "Disney Ducks" stories is another home run! "Christmas on Bear Mountain" is a great reproduction in original color palette of the original version of a number of Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge and other denizens of Duckville tales. For me, it is a wonderful re visitation to these stories from 60 years ago. To my 12 year old goddaughter it is an eagerly awaited collection of her very favorite comics. Her birthday and Christmas align perfectly with the summer and winter, twice annually release of the 22 volumes in this series. This is the fourth volume and when she gets it she disappears and devours it pretty much in one sitting. So do I. It then is a great vehicle to get old timers and "so almost teenagers it hurts" discussing some really interesting timeless topics. Carl Barks Ducks were much more than funny stories. Almost all touch on actual historical events in a funny way without the pandering of so much of today's comics choices.

While "Christmas on Bear Mountain" is arguably the best-known of the long-form stories of this era, it's important to keep in mind that this particular volume includes FOUR early Barks masterpieces. In addition to the forementioned, you get "Volcano Valley," "Adventure Down Under" and "The Ghost of the Grotto," (my favorite). Volcano Valley and Adventure Down Under are the rarest; they were not reprinted endlessly by Western due to some unfortunate racial stereotyping, typical of 1940s entertainments. Volcano Valley has some silly Latin Americans who seem to keep a permanent siesta schedule, while Adventure Down Under features a few cannibal Australian Aborigines. Well, such stories are usually defended by saying that such stereotypes were common enough for their times. This is true, and hopefully the inherent silliness of these particular stories will soften any uncomfortable take-aways that readers may have. We may point out that these stories were printed a couple of years before Barks really hit his stride in the early 50s. I don't know about that--the 50s and 60s stories were usually better written and slower-paced than the stories in this book. For sheer comic exuberance, you can't beat what's printed between these two covers. Even the longer stories are manic, fast-paced slapstick sessions. Barks was still weaning away from his animated short career, after all. This book is full of comic set pieces, bonks on the head, rude shocks...and big laughs. This is not the intellectual Barks, and therefore, not the intellectual Duck family that one will see in future volumes: those comics that get the deepest attention and criticism (perhaps so much as to detract from one's enjoyment of them). The ducks in this volume are still the funny ducks; nothing too poignant or deep going on here. Just 200 pages of laughs.

Carl Bark's Christmas stories are the perfect gift for children. A friend of mine with small ones has states to me that her youngest child follows her around with volume of Bark's stories in anticipation of her reading them to him. The oldest, a girl who can read devours each as they appear. I am 68 and have no memory of being illiterate as my oldest sister taught me to read with Carl Barks comics. He was a gift to Boomers and can be a gift to later generations.

Amazing collection of stories. Very good edition and high quality paper.

Book arrived in great conditions and it is exactly what I expected. Nice large colourful panels, great format to share the story between parents and children. The Barks Library and the Don Rosa Library are some of the best comics/works of arts in that field as you could imagine. Great edition and awesome job by the publisher (I like all the anectodes, info, and trivia between stories, well researched too).

Essa coleção da editora norte-americana Fantagraphics, publicada aqui em formato melhor pela Editora Abril, republica as histórias de Carl Barks de forma cronológica.Destaque dos volumes originais americanos é que são maiores que os brasileiros, o que permite apreciar a arte de forma mais completa.Também, o texto original é muito mais interessante que a tradução, constantemente atualizada aqui no Brasil nas inúmeras republicações dessas histórias com o passar dos anos.

Il pacco è arrivato con due giorni di anticipo, ottimo stato, tutto perfetto, è quello che cercavo da tempo. Il volume ha una eccellente qualità di stampa, è imballato nella carta cellophane. Contentissimo.

If you are a Donald Duck fan then Carl Barks is the real deal when it comes to his duck tales.