For the first time ever some of Carl Barks' shelved plot ideas are presented together in the sub-pages. They are all very raw renderings of initial ideas, which - for some reason or other - never were completed. By just browsing these hastily jotted first concepts you will get a unique insight into Barks' versatile way of dreaming up stories, and we, the readers and fans, can only regret that they never passed the first stage of production.

The examples chosen are all in Barks' own hand writing. The quality is, regrettably, not the best (mostly written in gray colour with a pencil on yellow paper or soft tissue) but you will be able to read the drafts without a transcript. None of the drafts bear any indication of the year they were conceived, but it will be a fair assumption that they were all written between 1955 and 1965.

NB.: The brief commentaries accompanying the plot ideas partly serve as a brief note of Barks' texts and are not necessarily synopses for the intended stories as a whole.