theinspiredrosa

The American artist Keno Don Hugo Rosa is probably the most dedicated disciple of Carl Barks and his artwork. He has drawn a multitude of stories which faithfully follow in Barks' footsteps, some of them are even sequels of Barks' adventure stories. In that respect Rosa is the sequelist.

SEQUELS

AR130 Return to Plain Awful

FC0223 Lost in the Andes

This small selection represents some of Rosa's sequels:

1987
AR102 Son of the Sun (U$26 The Prize of Pizarro, 1959)
AR103 Nobody's Business (WDCS155 'The Rainbow Heirs', 1953)
AR106 Cash Flow (U$8 'The Stone Ray Machine', 1955)

1988
AR113 Last Sled to Dawson (FC0456 Back to the Klondike, 1953, and U$59 North of the Yukon, 1965

1989
AR130 Return to Plain Awful (FC223 Lost in the Andes, 1949)

1991
D 90314 Return To Xanadu (U$06 'Tralla-La', 1954)
D 91192 War Of The Wendigo (U$18 Land of the Pygmy Indians, 1957)

1999
D 98346 Escape From Forbidden Valley (DD54 Forbidden Valley, 1957)

LIFE STORY

D 92083

FC0386

D 93121

U$59

D 93288

FC0238

D 93288

FC0386

Starting in the middle of 1991, Rosa spent 2½ years writing and drawing 12 stories, which were later published in one book called The Life & Times of $crooge McDuck. As the title indicates, Rosa follows Scrooge's life from its beginning, and he based the events on clues scattered by Barks in his stories. Following are the titles of those stories in the correct chronological order:

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D 91308 The Last of the Clan McDuck
D 91411 The Master of the Mississippi
D 92008 The Buckaroo of the Badlands
D 92083 The Raider of the Copper Hill
D 92191 The New Laird of Castle McDuck
D 92273 The Terror of the Transvaal
D 92314 Dreamtime Duck of the Never Never
D 92514 The King of the Klondike
D 93121 The Billionaire of Dismal Downs
D 93227 The Invader of Fort Duckburg
D 93288 The Empire Builder from Calisota
D 93488 The Richest Duck in the World

FRONTCOVERS

ARC DDA 16

ARC USA 17

ARC DD 279

ARC USA 20

ARC DDA 21

ARC USA 25

This small selection represents some of Rosa's Barks-inspired frontcovers:

1989
ARC DDA 16 (FC0291 The Magic Hourglass, 1950)
ARC USA 17 (U$46 Lost Beneath the Sea, 1963)

1990
ARC DD 279 (MOC4 Maharajah Donald, 1947)
ARC USA 20 (U$28 The Paul Bunyan Machine, 1960)

1993
ARC DDA 21 (DD46 Secret of Hondorica, 1956)

1994
ARC USA 25 (U$21 The Money Well, 1958)