The story's legacy, coupled with Barks ' own love for it, made it launch the first The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library volume.

In 2011, Yoe Books will issue a hardback volume collecting the Carl Barks work on the series.

To make a little extra money beyond what his pension and scripting earnings brought in, Barks started doing oil paintings to sell at the local art shows where he and Garé exhibited.

He was mentioned in the story " A Christmas for Shacktown " ( 1952 ) by Carl Barks, in which Donald Duck dresses up as Jake in an attempt to trick Scrooge into giving money to charity.

Carl Barks invented the " money swim " in 1950, followed by the " money bin " in 1951.

Paintings of Scrooge by Carl Barks often show him with piles of golden money.

Despite its name, the fanzine contained material on various fields within Disney comics, but still with an overweight on material about Carl Barks, the passing of whom unleashed the discontinuation of the fanzine.

The plot borrows elements of horror and mystery stories, favorites of Barks, such as the old and mostly abandoned castle with dark halls, hidden dungeons and crypts, ancestors ' skeletons buried inside the castle, the old McDuck cemetery with the graves of entire generations of the main characters ' ancestors, the misty swamp, the threatening " ghost " and the eminent danger that the characters feel around them.

In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.

In his later years, Kirby, who has been called " the William Blake of comics ", began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987, he, along with Carl Barks and Will Eisner, was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

In 1987, with Carl Barks and Jack Kirby, he was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

This is often ignored in other stories to be able to have the rivals meet on a daily basis as in the case of Scrooge's other rival, Flintheart Glomgold ( who in the Barks stories lives in South Africa ) with John primarily managing his activities from a large business building he owns in Duckburg, and the three characters sitting at the same table in the Billionaires ' Club of the city.

The latter included environmental themes that Barks first explored in 1957 of the Pygmy Indians ", Uncle Scrooge # 18.

These skillfully rendered paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks (" A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By ", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 108 by Barks ).

Quagmire McDuck was first mentioned by Carl Barks in the story " The Heirloom Watch ", published on June, 1955.

The Number One Dime first appeared in the story titled " The Round Money Bin ", created by Carl Barks and first published in Uncle Scrooge # 3 ( September, 1953 ).

By 1952 the popularity of the character convinced Dell to give Scrooge a try-out as a lead character in the seminal " Only a Poor Old Man ", a story Barks expert Michael Barrier has termed a masterpiece.

The company had its origins as a subsidiary of " Another Rainbow ", a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran to publish the Carl Barks Library and produce limited edition lithographs of Carl Barks oil paintings of the Disney ducks.

Formerly named " River Aux Echorches ", which means " The River of the Barks " in English, the area that would become Ecorse was originally used as a burial ground for the Native American tribes of the area, and later settled by the French in the last two decades of the 18th century.

He was especially fond of the character of Goofy, which he appropriated for a humorous spoof on Italian hippiedom of the 1970s entitled Perché Pippo sembra uno sballato (" Why Goofy Looks Like A Pothead "), and a later, unfinished story entitled La leggenda di Italianino Liberatore (" The Legend Of Italianino Liberatore ", referring to his old friend Tanino Liberatore ); he also said in an interview that Carl Barks, the creator of Uncle Scrooge, Magica De Spell and other characters of the " duck's family ", was a model for his art.

* The stamp was sought after in the 1952 Carl Barks comic " The Gilded Man ", in which Donald Duck, the philatelist, said it was " worth more than fifty thousand dollars!

Likely one reason it was a favorite is that it was inspired by Barks ' own experiences in the poultry business.

This is the period referred to in Barks ' famed quip that he could feel his creative juices flowing while the whiskey bottles hurled at him by a tipsy Clara flew by his head.

( The title is a reference to Lost in the Andes !, a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in April, 1949.

She is also a co-founder of Broadway Barks, an annual animal adopt-a-thon held in New York City.

The most famous use of the McDuck Castle outside of the Barks / Rosa universe is an Angus / Vicar story titled The Sobbing Serpent.

Sir Eider McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Quackly McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Roast McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Swamphole McDuck is one of the ancient McDucks, created by Carl Barks.

Sir Stuft McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Captain Hugh " Seafoam " McDuck first appeared in an untitled Carl Barks story ( known as " The Horseradish Story "), where the story of Swindle McSue's trickery on Seafoam is used as back-story.

" by Carl Barks, in a scene where Scrooge McDuck is hypnotized into seeing events in the lives of his previous incarnations.

The Matilda McDuck character was dropped in Barks ' 1991 Duck Family Tree sketch ( where Gladstone Gander is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge ), but Don Rosa picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Gyro Gearloose is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic chicken created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company.

Magica De Spell is a fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe, a sorceress created by Carl Barks.

Carl Barks ' incarnation is quite powerful, with her naivete being her only prominent weakness.

His mother is known only as Maw Pete and was mentioned in the story " Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold " by Carl Barks and Jack Hannah ( first published October, 1942 ) as a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Calisota is a fictional U. S. state, created by Carl Barks in his story " The Gilded Man " ( Four Color # 422 ).

Since Barks never actually said that it was because of the coin that Scrooge was the richest duck in the world, Don Rosa, after various informations exchange with Barks, for a faithful production of Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck, clarified that The Number One Dime is not actually an amulet, and that this vision was just a myth.

The dime is a key plot point in practically every story featuring Magica De Spell, a character invented by Carl Barks, as the main villain.

In the Barks / Rosa universe, the Beagle Boys have almost identical personalities, but one of the members ( 176-167 ) is known to be very fond of prunes, a weakness that proves to be the Beagle Boys ' downfall in some stories.