You will hardly be able to find one Carl Barks duck story without several imitative words. The impressive, technical term for such appearances is Onomatopoeia which means the use of sound imitating words such as Bam, Bong, and Buzz which are associated with the objects or the actions they refer to. Barks used them frequently and they can be roughly divided into two groups - A. words consisting of large, black letters and B. the so-called outlined words meaning that the words have a different shade inside their black outlines. This page will only concentrate on the latter group.
You will notice how masterly Barks drew these outlined words and how careful he was when using them; they are extremely diverse. Take for instance one very straightforward main group from the sub-pages named Explosions. A less dedicated artist would probably use the word Boom more or less consistently in order to illustrate an explosion in his art but not Barks! He would walk the extra mile and use several quite different terms! In the sub-pages you will find many examples of Barks' inventive way of thinking and dreaming up Imitative Words.