In 1939 a marketing genius from the Walt Disney Corporation, Herman 'Kay' Kamen, and Western Publishing's editor Eleanor Packer started the comic book series called Four Color (FC for short). The name comes from the four colour process of printing. It contained a variety of Donald Duck newspaper strip material and was published irregularly. The FC magazine was a so-called One Shot which means that each issue had a different title. The series became an instant success but it was obvious from the start that the Disney name and the recycled newspaper strips were not enough to continue selling the magazine so Western began to develop new stories. They started to employ various artists to draw hundreds of different features and the magazine was well received by the readers.
Carl Barks started his comic book career in the FC series with #9 in 1942 and he continued contributing until #1267 in 1961 by which time he had written and drawn numerous short stories and long adventure stories. Parallel to this feat he also wrote hundreds of stories for Walt Disney Comics and Stories (WDCS), another magazine that was established by the same creative duo that had started FC.

FC0214   FC0468   FC0581   FC0654 Many of Disney's cartoon characters were also recurring characters in the FC magazine.

FC0234   FC0252   FC0442   FC1183 The characters from several of Disney's cartoon feature films were also represented.

FC0614   FC0624   FC0631   FC0933 Western also adapted many of Disney's real feature films to the FC series.

FC0223   FC0256   FC0367   FC0386 Barks wrote and drew many of his best adventure stories for the series.

FC1010   FC1073   FC1055   FC1150 Western also made two special series titled 'Grandma Duck's Farm Friends' and 'Daisy Duck's Diary' featuring stories with the two ladies. Barks participated in several of the issues mainly by drawing and inking other artists stories.

FC1047   FC1095   FC1184   FC1267 At the end of his career at Western Barks wrote and drew a few longer comic book stories (5 to 10 pages) solely with his character Gyro Gearloose. Gyro had for years triumphed in a multitude of short Barks stories (4 pages) in the US magazine.

See a detailed listing of all Barks' duck stories in the FC magazine HERE.

See a similar presentation of Western's other comic book series:
The U$ magazine
The WDCS magazine
The Various Magazines

EXTRA

FC0048   From 1943 to 1947 Barks was requested by Western to draw stories with other characters than those from his already well-established duck universe. You can see a full listing of the stories HERE. One of the stories appeared in the FC series as FC0048 Porky of the Mounties.