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Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life & Times

Carl Barks; edited by Edward Summer; recolored by Peter Ledger; appreciation by George Lucas

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Summary

A collection of Carl Barks’s Uncle Scrooge stories, edited by Edward Summer and recolored by Peter Ledger, with an appreciation by George Lucas. The original 1981 work is documented in the Joseph Campbell library catalog. In the inspected essay, Lucas discusses Barks’s storytelling through scenes and multi-page sequences and the tension between Scrooge and his family.

  • SourceOriginal printed An Appreciation — photographed page reproduced at Kitbashed · Lower-page addendum headed An Appreciation, following the separate 1975 interview: actual scan anappreciation.jpg, printed page 9, By George Lucas and signature. Paragraphs on Barks’s scenes, multi-page sequences, imagination and characterization. The 1975 interview is not this book contribution.
  • SourceNYPL — Joseph Campbell Library collection catalog · Call number O.B37 Campbell +: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge McDuck: his life & times; Carl Barks, edited Edward Summer, recolored Peter Ledger; Celestial Arts, Millbrae 1981. Provenance note says Lucas gave this book to the Campbells; not proof they read it.

Why read it Our view

For founders working with stories, study how panel sequences create scenes and how different character motives carry an adventure. Lucas’s essay offers a specific way to examine the craft. It does not show that he read this later anthology during childhood.

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  • George LucasAppreciation contributor
    An actual printed page 9 is headed An Appreciation, by George Lucas, and is signed by him. He discusses Barks’s narrative craft and earlier comics. The 1981 anthology is not treated as a childhood read or a blanket recommendation of every later edition.
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