"New" Barks stories

[Anders Engwall]

Per Starback...

> I recently bought some old (50's) Swedish Disney books, something I
> haven't done for a long time.  I got a really strange feeling when I
> found a ten-pager by Barks there that I've never read before.  It was
> WDC 174 (Donald delivers mail on ice) which hasn't been reprinted in
> Sweden since then,

This was reprinted in issue 3 of 1987, under the title "Isb}t till
B{ver|n".

> I have never bothered to tick off what Barks stories I have, and
> which ones I lack, but I *thought* that I had them all, or at least
> have read them all, in one way or another, at least everything longer
> than one page.

There is a fine Barks index in the Swedish price guide of 1991.
It's sorted by the stories' original U.S. appearances, so it should
be quite easy to tick off the ones you haven't read yet. It also
includes his non-Disney work. U.S. titles are omitted, unfortunately.

> I wonder if there are more unknown treats out there for me?  What
> about everyone else on the list?  Are you still seeing most of Barks's
> stories for the first time when you see them, or are you as surprised
> as I was when you see something you don't recognize?

I've read the majority of them, but there are however several stories
that I haven't. Firstly, there are a few ones that for some reason
haven't been reprinted since their original Swedish printing. Some
of these were originally printed as far back as in 1950, and those
will cost you an *obscene* amount of money to obtain. Secondly, I
gave up on the Swedish Donald books in 1978, and there have been
quite a few reprints there since then -- and even some stories never
printed in Swedish before. These are the main reasons for my 'blank
spots' (yup, I mainly do my Disney reading in Swedish).

The choice between getting a reprint from say, 1982, and its original
printing from 1954 is a rather delicate one, btw. Those old issues just
look and feel *so* much better, but boy, will they cost you...
And you always have the suspicion that the rare old gem you just spent big
$ to obtain will be reprinted very soon. Hmm -- perhaps it's better to
use flipism in such situations.

Another thing about those old fifties Swedish Disney books is that
there are no ads in them, except for other Disney publications, which
by today's standards is quite extraordinary. I think ads started
to appear sometime in the late fifties. Anyone knows more exactly?