Walt Disney’s ‘Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold’ Is Out Now
I have been lucky to read a few Walt Disney collections. Each one has been a ton of fun to read and has taken me on some magical journeys. When I first heard about a new Donald Duck collection I hoped I might get a chance to read it. I was able to get a review copy of this collection and here is my thoughts on it.
You can read the plot for this collection here:
Volume 1 in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is, naturally, filled with firsts: Barks’s first comic book story (starring Pluto), the first Donald Duck story created for an American comic book (and also the first to see Donald and his nephews go on a treasure hunt), Barks’s first Donald 10-pager, Barks’s first truly solo Donald Duck story, and Barks’s first solo longer-form Donald Duck adventure (“The Mummy’s Ring”).
With more than 200 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored, and the insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts, this long-awaited collection of stories makes clear what generations of Disney fans have always known: Carl Barks’s work as The Good Duck Artist is some of the greatest American cartooning in the history of the medium.
I had a tough time putting this book down. Each story was a ton of fun to read and took Donald and his nephews on some wild adventures. There were times when things seemed hopeless, but together they always found a way to get through it. Fans of this character will definitely want to pick this collection up.
Walt Disney’s ‘Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold’ is available now. You can follow Fantagraphics on Facebook and Instagram.
