Carl Barks
made a large number of Disney duck comic book adventure stories that
starred Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and the nephews. The main
storylines had a loose similarity as they started in Duckburg with an
event triggering the beginning of a perilous journey to some faraway
location. Often, Scrooge would return loaded with valuables, whereupon
the Ducks had to content themselves with a reluctant token of
appreciation, sometimes in the form of starvation wages...
The story on this page is one of Barks' earlier Scrooge adventures, and
it is groundbreaking in a number of ways that would foretell further brilliant and intelligent stories to come. It was published in
Western Publishing's issue
U$07 in 1954 without an official title, but it is most commonly
referred to as The Cibola Story. The breathtaking epic has since been
taken to heart by huge numbers of fans, and it
remains one of the most often
published Barks stories outside the USA (see more
HERE). This
is the story.
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BARKS' COMMENTARIES |
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TITBITS |
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This early story offers quite a lot of interesting texts and intriguing pieces of information as well as novel types of panel ideas, many of which Barks would take up in later stories. Here are some diverse examples: |
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RELEVANT PERSONS |
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EXTRA
PAINTINGS |
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In 1987 Barks made a painting titled First National
Bank of Cibola which was later distributed as a lithograph in 345
ordinary issues. It was given the number 133 in Barks' own numbering system
and measures 20x25" (510x635mms). It was the 10th lithograph in a new
series, of which the first one was titled Wanderers of
Wonderlands (Barks' number 123). It was printed
in 5,000 copies for the elaborate book Uncle Scrooge
McDuck - His Life and Times. The latter painting is remindful of
the Cibola painting on several points. But Barks had made his first painting featuring a motif from Cibola in 1975. It is coded and titled 23-75 Golden Cities of Cibola - #113 in Barks' system - and measures 16x20" (405x510mms). It is reminiscent of his second painting shown above and sold for 2,968 dollars to a married couple who were incidentally ardent collectors of Indian jewelry, which led the wife to compliment Barks on his detailed and thoroughly correct rendering of the valuables. Barks later admitted that he had just 'lifted' the stones from certain illustrations in the Arizona Highways magazine... |
http://www.cbarks.dk/THECIBOLASTORY.htm |
Date 2016-08-14 |