Carl Barks Comic Book Art

SURVIVING ARTWORK

The Original Scripts Part I


Carl Barks drew some 6.745 story pages for Western in the period 1943 - 1965. 

On the picture on the left side you can see some of these scripts and sketch drawings.

Take a look at the 3 webpage sections about "The Original Scripts".

Here you can find the original scripts for 4 Uncle Scrooge stories and the last Junior Woodchuck story.

In this section you are able to see the scripts for Uncle Scrooge # 58 and Uncle Scrooge # 63.


Comparison example between original script and original finished page 21 for Uncle Scrooge # 63.


This is an example of Carl Barks original script-page 21 from "House of Haunts" and the matching final original page. Western editors marked the page as number 22 because they should put in an advertising page in the comic. Therefore sometimes sold on later auctions the page numbers are a bit confusing. It is clearly that Carl sticked very closely to his scripts when he draw his stories. It was Carl`s wife, Garè who inked the texting and all of the bigger black areas. Notice that the last panel 8 is actually not missing. If you scroll down this section you will be able to find the panel 8 on script-page 21 which continue to script page 22. 


Original comic book page 21 ( numbered as page 22 by Western ) Carl sold the page on April, 1970 ). Until now we can only match survived original pages from the US-63 story to script pages from the same story. The other survived scripts for Uncle Scrooge stories has no "companion" of original stories to match.

The page # 21 ( 22 ) has found it`s home in Italy.


Original Script for Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" - 20 Pager.


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 1


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 2


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 3


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 4


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 5


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 6


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 7


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 8


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 9


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 10


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 11


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 12


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 13


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 14


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 15


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 16


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 17


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 18


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 19


Uncle Scrooge # 58 : "Giant Robot Robbers" Script page 20


Original Script for Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" ( "His Shining Hour" ). 24 pager.


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 1


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 2


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 2 - Continued.


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 3


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 3 - Continued.


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 3 - "Thoughts"


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 4


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 5


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 6


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 6 - Continued + Page 7.


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 7 - Continued.


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 8


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 9


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 10


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 11


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 12


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 13


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 14


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 14 - Continued.


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 15


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 15 - Continued.


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 16


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 17


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 18


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 19


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 20


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 21


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 21 - Continued.


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 22


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 23


Uncle Scrooge # 63 : "House of Haunts" Script page 24