Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge "The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan": The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 16 (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, 16)

This might very well be the best collection of Carl Barks work that we've seen so far. At this point I don't think it's really necessary to go into things like the binding, artwork, and the cover. It's all of the same high quality as the previous volumes. What separates this volume from the rest is the stories that are contained within. Simply put, I don't think any of the other volumes give you as many of Barks classic longer stories as this one does. Along with those longer stories comes what I believe to be more smaller, one page stories than any of the previous volumes, but the longer stories more than make up for it. Ignoring the one pagers, altogether you have: The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan- the titular story that features Scrooge and his family searching for an ancient crown Land Beneath the Ground- Scrooge and his family take a journey deep into the Earth The Second Richest Duck- the first appearance of Flintheart Glomgold Back to Long Ago!- Scrooge and Donald discover an ancient treasure they buried in a past life Cold Bargain- Scrooge purchased a rare element and fights to keep it out of thieving hands Land of the Pygmy Indians- Scrooge travels into the wild to get away from pollution, finding himself meeting a tribe of small Native Americans Fantastic River Race- Scrooge recalls his days as the Master of the Mississippi That's a total of 7 longer stories that you can really sink your teeth into, whereas previous volumes might only give you 3-4 of such stories, while also balancing it out with plenty of shorter 10 page stories as well. Personally, while I enjoy almost all of Barks work, his longer stories are my favorites, since they give me more time to really fall into the tale that's being told. So, this volume was a nice surprise for me and almost all of the longer works is a classic in my opinion.

This collection is a MUST-HAVE for collectors and readers of Carl Barks' great "Uncle Scrooge" stories and one-pagers. It contains the title story, about a fabulously valuable jewelled crown, and a one-dollar watch, complicated by a mysterious and potentially menacing abominable snow man (NOT, as Donald Duck says, "an abdominal snowman"). This is swiftly followed by another classic story, "The Land Beneath the Ground" that smacks of the legend of the Hollow Earth, or Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", but revealing, within vast subterranean caverns that span the whole of the Earth, the Terries, who wear bow ties, and the Fermies who wear four-in-hand neck-scarves. They are the REAL explanation of earthquakes, and an appalling menace to Scrooge's money bin, with its "five billion quintuplatillion umptaplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars". It also includes one of Bark's greatest epics, "The Second-Richest Duck', in which Scrooge, and his "three cubic acres of money, uncountable oil wells, gold mines, railroads, factories, and fish houses (!)", confront his greatest, and most unscrupulous rival, Flintheart Glomgold. Simple book-work quickly establishes that each incredible miser owns exactly the same amount of cash and property. So the ultimate question -- WHO is the first-richest duck? -- will be decided by testing who owns the largest ball of randomly accumulated string. Naturally, the only effective way of deciding whose ball of string is biggest is by unrolling the two balls of string across the centre of savage Africa! It is hilarious! In fact, each of these great stories is very funny, almost frame by frame, and also very wry in the final moments! (Scrooge is a miser, but he is not a totally heartless person. Similarly, Donald Duck, his nephew, is often hopelessly inefficient and scatterbrained, on his own, but as a travel companion for Scrooge, along with his own plucky and almost infinitely resourceful juvenile nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louey, Donald is a very worthy foil for Scrooge at his worst.) And there is more. In "Back to Long Ago", Scrooge, under hypnosis (WHY he agrees to being hypnotised is a funny short story in itself) recalls a fabulous lost treasure, and, yet again, the game is afoot! In "A Cold Bargain', Scrooge finds himself in a Cold War arms-contest with the evil forces of Brutopia, each trying to control the world's scarce resources of a mysterious substance called Bombastium. The second last story is yet another of Barks' absolute best, "Land of the Pygmy Indians". The story begins with Scrooge wanting to flee to a pristine wilderness to escape the smog and noxious fumes of his own Duckburg industries. Naturally he buys a remote North American region with no roads, cities, factories or people, the "Thousand Lakes". This quickly turns into a hilarious encounter with a mysterious local tribe who speak in the verse style of Longfellow's "Hiawatha". Along the way, Scrooge discovers unbelievable mineral wealth in the lands around the Thousand Lakes. Just when Scrooge thinks he has beaten and outwitted the natives, they turn the tables on him, using a pinch of oxide of strombolium. The final full-length story "Fantastic River Race" is a framed story that tells an earlier adventure of Scrooge, in younger days, with his Mississippi sternwheeler paddleboat, first racing against, and then trying to outwit, another stern-wheeler crewed by ancestors of Scrooge's nemesis-villains, the dreaded Beagle Boys, while Scrooge has eccentric assistance from his engineer, Ratchet Gearloose, the grandfather of the famous inventor, Gyro Gearloose, a contemporary of Donald Duck. SEVEN full-length CLASSIC adventures! A Carl Barks "Uncle Scrooge" collection doesn't come much better than this! Very highly recommended! John Gough -- Deakin University (retired) -- jagough49@gmail.com

I've been wanting to read the Carl Barks Donald Duck/ Uncle Scooge comics for quite a while but never got around to it, after learning about Fantagraphics re-issue compilations and hearing from reliable sources that they were the ones to get, so to speak, I decided to pick this one up to start with. I was not disappointed. Let's get this straight first off: these things are big. I was expecting something about the size of a trade paperback or an average comic compilation, and was very pleasantly surprised to find a 10.5 x 8 inch hardcover book printed on high quality paper. The comics themselves are printed in excellent quality, look clean and crisp in full colour (as I understand was Barks' original vision), and there's a sizable endnotes section full of interesting information as well as full page printings of each volume's original covers, and details on which volume and what year each story was originally printed in, something I personally was hoping for but not expecting. There's also a lot here, in addition to the ten full length stories, ranging between 10 and 20 pages each, there are nice little one pagers sprinkled in to break up the longer stories, which are a great inclusion. In regards to the stories themselves, I went into this book as a curious onlooker of Barks' work and finished it a fan. It's not hard to see why he's heralded as one of the greats, the attention to detail and movement in his illustrations are fantastic, and the writing is great, a perfect example of multi-layered story telling that has confidence in the intelligence of it's young audience, resulting in stories that are enjoyable by children and adults alike. Overall, I was very impressed by this volume, and I do plan to continue collecting the rest of the Fantagraphics Carl Barks library, it's a shame I'm so late to party, as some of the more popular volumes have already, to my dismay, gone up in price; here's hoping they reprint those sooner, rather then later.

Absolutely perfect! Some claim Barks' peak period is 1948-1952. I disagree. The great master maintained high-level output throughout the entire 1950's, imo. I believe this wonderful book is ample proof of that. And the next Uncle Scrooge tome will feature "Golden River", "The Money Well" and other gems from this period. Don't miss it!

Although Scrooge is probably my favorite of the Ducks, these stories aren't of quite the same quality as the first volume of the Barks Donald Duck series. I also prefer the version of Scrooge that loves his money but works hard and doesn't cheat - this Scrooge is just an eyelash dodgier than I remember. Still, it's Barks and Ducks, and that's pretty good.

It's Unca Scrooge, what's not to like. BUT most importantly these books are a great way to re-live lost youth and enjoy the art work and story telling of Carl Barks

I am a big fan of Carl Barks, Walt Disney, and Uncle Scrooge. Carl Barks was one of the main illustrators while Walt Disney was still alive. These stories were originally in Comic Book form. Each book contains different stories. I am collecting all of them. To have them in hardback is a treasure.

As soon as I see a new Barks release it goes in my shopping cart!

As all Carl Barks' books, it's excellent. My favourite adventure, is the one with the pygmies.

The best comic book guy ever!

This might very well be the best collection of Carl Barks work that we've seen so far. At this point I don't think it's really necessary to go into things like the binding, artwork, and the cover. It's all of the same high quality as the previous volumes. What separates this volume from the rest is the stories that are contained within. Simply put, I don't think any of the other volumes give you as many of Barks classic longer stories as this one does. Along with those longer stories comes what I believe to be more smaller, one page stories than any of the previous volumes, but the longer stories more than make up for it. Ignoring the one pagers, altogether you have: The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan- the titular story that features Scrooge and his family searching for an ancient crown Land Beneath the Ground- Scrooge and his family take a journey deep into the Earth The Second Richest Duck- the first appearance of Flintheart Glomgold Back to Long Ago!- Scrooge and Donald discover an ancient treasure they buried in a past life Cold Bargain- Scrooge purchased a rare element and fights to keep it out of thieving hands Land of the Pygmy Indians- Scrooge travels into the wild to get away from pollution, finding himself meeting a tribe of small Native Americans Fantastic River Race- Scrooge recalls his days as the Master of the Mississippi That's a total of 7 longer stories that you can really sink your teeth into, whereas previous volumes might only give you 3-4 of such stories, while also balancing it out with plenty of shorter 10 page stories as well. Personally, while I enjoy almost all of Barks work, his longer stories are my favorites, since they give me more time to really fall into the tale that's being told. So, this volume was a nice surprise for me and almost all of the longer works is a classic in my opinion.

This collection is a MUST-HAVE for collectors and readers of Carl Barks' great "Uncle Scrooge" stories and one-pagers. It contains the title story, about a fabulously valuable jewelled crown, and a one-dollar watch, complicated by a mysterious and potentially menacing abominable snow man (NOT, as Donald Duck says, "an abdominal snowman"). This is swiftly followed by another classic story, "The Land Beneath the Ground" that smacks of the legend of the Hollow Earth, or Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", but revealing, within vast subterranean caverns that span the whole of the Earth, the Terries, who wear bow ties, and the Fermies who wear four-in-hand neck-scarves. They are the REAL explanation of earthquakes, and an appalling menace to Scrooge's money bin, with its "five billion quintuplatillion umptaplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars". It also includes one of Bark's greatest epics, "The Second-Richest Duck', in which Scrooge, and his "three cubic acres of money, uncountable oil wells, gold mines, railroads, factories, and fish houses (!)", confront his greatest, and most unscrupulous rival, Flintheart Glomgold. Simple book-work quickly establishes that each incredible miser owns exactly the same amount of cash and property. So the ultimate question -- WHO is the first-richest duck? -- will be decided by testing who owns the largest ball of randomly accumulated string. Naturally, the only effective way of deciding whose ball of string is biggest is by unrolling the two balls of string across the centre of savage Africa! It is hilarious! In fact, each of these great stories is very funny, almost frame by frame, and also very wry in the final moments! (Scrooge is a miser, but he is not a totally heartless person. Similarly, Donald Duck, his nephew, is often hopelessly inefficient and scatterbrained, on his own, but as a travel companion for Scrooge, along with his own plucky and almost infinitely resourceful juvenile nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louey, Donald is a very worthy foil for Scrooge at his worst.) And there is more. In "Back to Long Ago", Scrooge, under hypnosis (WHY he agrees to being hypnotised is a funny short story in itself) recalls a fabulous lost treasure, and, yet again, the game is afoot! In "A Cold Bargain', Scrooge finds himself in a Cold War arms-contest with the evil forces of Brutopia, each trying to control the world's scarce resources of a mysterious substance called Bombastium. The second last story is yet another of Barks' absolute best, "Land of the Pygmy Indians". The story begins with Scrooge wanting to flee to a pristine wilderness to escape the smog and noxious fumes of his own Duckburg industries. Naturally he buys a remote North American region with no roads, cities, factories or people, the "Thousand Lakes". This quickly turns into a hilarious encounter with a mysterious local tribe who speak in the verse style of Longfellow's "Hiawatha". Along the way, Scrooge discovers unbelievable mineral wealth in the lands around the Thousand Lakes. Just when Scrooge thinks he has beaten and outwitted the natives, they turn the tables on him, using a pinch of oxide of strombolium. The final full-length story "Fantastic River Race" is a framed story that tells an earlier adventure of Scrooge, in younger days, with his Mississippi sternwheeler paddleboat, first racing against, and then trying to outwit, another stern-wheeler crewed by ancestors of Scrooge's nemesis-villains, the dreaded Beagle Boys, while Scrooge has eccentric assistance from his engineer, Ratchet Gearloose, the grandfather of the famous inventor, Gyro Gearloose, a contemporary of Donald Duck. SEVEN full-length CLASSIC adventures! A Carl Barks "Uncle Scrooge" collection doesn't come much better than this! Very highly recommended! John Gough -- Deakin University (retired) -- jagough49@gmail.com

I've been wanting to read the Carl Barks Donald Duck/ Uncle Scooge comics for quite a while but never got around to it, after learning about Fantagraphics re-issue compilations and hearing from reliable sources that they were the ones to get, so to speak, I decided to pick this one up to start with. I was not disappointed. Let's get this straight first off: these things are big. I was expecting something about the size of a trade paperback or an average comic compilation, and was very pleasantly surprised to find a 10.5 x 8 inch hardcover book printed on high quality paper. The comics themselves are printed in excellent quality, look clean and crisp in full colour (as I understand was Barks' original vision), and there's a sizable endnotes section full of interesting information as well as full page printings of each volume's original covers, and details on which volume and what year each story was originally printed in, something I personally was hoping for but not expecting. There's also a lot here, in addition to the ten full length stories, ranging between 10 and 20 pages each, there are nice little one pagers sprinkled in to break up the longer stories, which are a great inclusion. In regards to the stories themselves, I went into this book as a curious onlooker of Barks' work and finished it a fan. It's not hard to see why he's heralded as one of the greats, the attention to detail and movement in his illustrations are fantastic, and the writing is great, a perfect example of multi-layered story telling that has confidence in the intelligence of it's young audience, resulting in stories that are enjoyable by children and adults alike. Overall, I was very impressed by this volume, and I do plan to continue collecting the rest of the Fantagraphics Carl Barks library, it's a shame I'm so late to party, as some of the more popular volumes have already, to my dismay, gone up in price; here's hoping they reprint those sooner, rather then later.

Absolutely perfect! Some claim Barks' peak period is 1948-1952. I disagree. The great master maintained high-level output throughout the entire 1950's, imo. I believe this wonderful book is ample proof of that. And the next Uncle Scrooge tome will feature "Golden River", "The Money Well" and other gems from this period. Don't miss it!

Although Scrooge is probably my favorite of the Ducks, these stories aren't of quite the same quality as the first volume of the Barks Donald Duck series. I also prefer the version of Scrooge that loves his money but works hard and doesn't cheat - this Scrooge is just an eyelash dodgier than I remember. Still, it's Barks and Ducks, and that's pretty good.

It's Unca Scrooge, what's not to like. BUT most importantly these books are a great way to re-live lost youth and enjoy the art work and story telling of Carl Barks

I am a big fan of Carl Barks, Walt Disney, and Uncle Scrooge. Carl Barks was one of the main illustrators while Walt Disney was still alive. These stories were originally in Comic Book form. Each book contains different stories. I am collecting all of them. To have them in hardback is a treasure.

As soon as I see a new Barks release it goes in my shopping cart!

As all Carl Barks' books, it's excellent. My favourite adventure, is the one with the pygmies.

The best comic book guy ever!

unable to access my book

It's Disney, Carl barks works.... what more can you say? Takes me back to my childhood !!

Super collection! (I can live without the commentaries at the end)

Great collection of Scrooge McDuck stories.

my kids love all of them!

another set of stories by the great Carl Barks.

Takes me back to when I was a kid. Many years ago Great! Will buy more.

not yet read but it will be great since it is Barks art

Carl Barks comics is something anyone would love to read at anytime! This comic is another example of a true author of comedy!

Another outstanding collection of Carl Barks long adventure stories.

Carl Barks art and stories never get old.

Great Book, Thank You For The Timely Manner!

I’ve seen multiple times in the past where Fantagraphics’ title story in a Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge ends up being one of the weakest in the book. ‘The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan’ is an ok story and managed to get turned into an episode of Duck Tales but I assume it was chosen as the showcase story only because it has the catchiest name. If you want a much better adventure story may I suggest ‘Back to Long Ago’ which is also featured in this volume. For another great story check out ‘The Second-Richest Duck’ which contains the first appearance of the brilliant Flintheart Glomgold. The creation of Flintheart Glomgold is inspired. He’s a ridiculously rich duck. An elderly, overly competitive tightwad. Sound familiar? The joke is that Scrooge despises Glomgold for everything he is despite the fact the fact that he is essentially a mirror image. Carl Barks only used Glomgold on two more occasions but other writers saw the genius of the character. The beauty and humor of Uncle Scrooge is in his extreme hyper thrift and the absurdity of it. Scrooge is so rich that the value of his wealth is a completely made up astronomical number. In ‘A Cold Bargain’ Scrooge pays one trillion dollars for the mysterious Bombastium at an auction and it’s clear that this sum is only a small fraction of his wealth. In ‘Faulty Fortune’, he becomes obsessed with making money on a worthless one inch by one inch plot of land that he won from a coffee promotion. From an economic standpoint it makes no sense for Scrooge to waste his time on penny pinching schemes when he apparently has more wealth than most nations. Time is money but Scrooge seems to have endless time to devote to saving a buck. In fact, he sabotage himself over and over again by buying cheap rate equipment every time he goes on an adventure. Perhaps my favorite story in the book is ‘Land of the Pygmy Indians’. It absolutely encompasses everything you need to know about Uncle Scrooge. Scrooge decides to move away from Duckburg because of the terrible pollution which he himself admits was his own fault. He buys up a massive amount of gorgeous, pristine unspoiled land and moves there with Donald and his three nephews. It is an idyllic paradise but all Scrooge can think about is ways to exploit the land. When they discover that there are Pygmy Indians living on the land Scrooge begins to consider ways to exploit them. Uncle Scrooge’s dirty little secret is that he’s really quite terrible. He has his brief moments of rare kindness but mostly he is everything that is wrong with amoral selfish Capitalism. Ironically, Barks watered down Donald Duck significantly and if you read the early comics by Bob Karp and Al Taliaferro Donald is a sociopath. The Duck family seems rife with serious mental extremes. None of this is meant to be taken serious and we can all enjoy the stories even if a real life Uncle Scrooge would be despicable. Thus far, Fantagraphics has released nine Donald Duck volumes and three Uncle Scrooge. My preference is for Uncle Scrooge because he’s just such a unique character. Fantagraphics always does a great job of presenting the comics and I love the way they clean up the images but I know it’s not for everyone. I haven’t always loved Story Notes but this time they did a pretty good job. I’m not sure if I’ve ever given one of the Fantagraphics Carl Barks books less the five stars but if I haven’t I’m certainly not going to start now.

Another wonderful Barks volume. The publisher doesn't prominently list the chronological order of the books, so I'll just keep doing this list of VOLUMES PUBLISHED SO FAR: (volumes 1-4 to be published at a later date. The books can, of course, be read in any order. There will eventually be 30 volumes.) 5 Donald Duck “Christmas on Bear Mountain”, 1947 6 Donald Duck “The Old Castle’s Secret”, 1948 7 Donald Duck “Lost in the Andes”, 1948 8 Donald Duck “Trail of the Unicorn”, 1949 9 Donald Duck “The Pixilated Parrot”, 1950 10 Donald Duck "Terror of the Beagle Boys", 1951 11 Donald Duck “A Christmas For Shacktown”, 1951 12 Uncle Scrooge “Only a Poor Old Man”, 1952 13 Donald Duck “Trick or Treat”, 1952 14 Uncle Scrooge “The Seven Cities of Gold”, 1954 15 Donald Duck "The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp", 1954 16 Uncle Scrooge "The Lost Crown Of Genghis Khan" 1956 ?? Donald Duck "The Secret of Hondorica", TO BE PUBLISHED SEPT. 2017 ?? Donald Duck "The Lost Peg Mine", TO BE PUBLISHED APRIL 2018