BangZoom Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 This is why these Boards are so good. I did not know this until today - and now, of course, I'll have to get a copy. Thanks BZ (thumbs u If you'd like to read the story online, I posted it a while back: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 :"The Magic Hourglass" is one of my favorite stories. Reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia. I don't remember that story. I'll have to seek it out. One of my favorite stories is "The Littlest Chicken Thief" which appeared in WDC&S #219. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Beautiful. I liked that cover so much I bought a lithograph of that scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Beautiful. I liked that cover so much I bought a lithograph of that scene. That would have made an awesome wraparound cover (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Great cover! If that was Roger's then that's my old spare file copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Great cover! If that was Roger's then that's my old spare file copy. The circle of life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Great cover! If that was Roger's then that's my old spare file copy. Any chance you could post your non-spare file copy? This book has facinated me for years and I love to see high-grade examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 It's one sharp looking 9.0. I think both Roger and I were puzzled by the grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 This is the copy I kept that came from an original owner collection and has better pages and colors than the file copies I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transplant Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Love my copy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 love that story.. this is from the period Barks experimented with some funky panel lay-outs- that top half of that page is just exquisite. I remember one story in particular where he really went to town with this style - amazing that the editors let him! - "vacation time" from Vacation Parade 1: but at some point he stopped this lay-out style- maybe the editors told him "yeah umm this is getting abit too funky"? Great story. Kind of lost in the shuffle of all of the great FCs during that period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 but at some point he stopped this lay-out style- maybe the editors told him "yeah umm this is getting abit too funky"? Dell eventually imposed standard/simple approaches to page layout to all artists across their comic book line. Barks indicated that he felt that it unnecessarily limited flexibility to tell the story in the best way possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 [...] One of the few times Barks's editors interfered with him. Censored the beginning as too scary! While going through the story recently, I noticed that Barks did something pretty brilliant with the beginning that I never saw before. Note how Witch Hazel entered the story from the upper right and "through" the moon in the original, censored splash panel. In the matching splash at the end, she exits the same place and in the same smooth curve, but from the lower left. I wonder if it might have been this elegant idea of mirrored opening and closing splashes that made Barks draw the original panel without the Ducks(?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Good catch! I'm sure that was intended as it is a very useful story-telling framing device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Ooo, a club I can join. (Cue Groucho Marx...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transplant Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 [...] One of the few times Barks's editors interfered with him. Censored the beginning as too scary! While going through the story recently, I noticed that Barks did something pretty brilliant with the beginning that I never saw before. Note how Witch Hazel entered the story from the upper right and "through" the moon in the original, censored splash panel. In the matching splash at the end, she exits the same place and in the same smooth curve, but from the lower left. I wonder if it might have been this elegant idea of mirrored opening and closing splashes that made Barks draw the original panel without the Ducks(?). What a good observation. Has the uncensored splash been reprinted anywhere? I can't remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitterOldMan Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 The uncensored splash to Trick or Treat has been published many times. Source. http://duckcomicsrevue.blogspot.com/2012/10/trick-or-treat.html Censored splash. Uncensored splash. I could talk about Duck books all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Ooo, a club I can join. (Cue Groucho Marx...) Some of Barks monsters were pretty scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I could talk about Duck books all day. And Mouses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
