History Creator / CarlBarks

** Scrooge ended up being so popular that he eventually made his video debut in 1967 in the short WesternAnimation/Scrooge McDuck and Money.

** The only exceptions are Flintheart Glumgold and The Beagle Boys.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Averted in two occasions.

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* ShinyNewAustralia: In "The Golden Helmet", the eponymous helmet was proof an ancient viking named Olaf the Blue was the true owner of North America, theoretically allowing any (alleged) descendant of his to use it to take over the continent. When DonaldDuck got the helmet, an attorney offered to help Donald and wanted Canada as his legal fees.

Barks is renowned for creating characters such as Scrooge [=McDuck=], Gladstone Gander, Gyro Gearloose, the Beagle Boys, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica De Spell, and many others, as well as setting in stone the base geography of the city of Duckburg. His stories brought in the treasure hunt plot to Duck comics and inspired a generation of people (such as Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/OsamuTezuka, Creator/DonRosa, Creator/RobertCrumb, Creator/ArtSpiegelman and the writers of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'') to replicate the thrill of adventure. He's also responsible for expanding Donald Duck's personality beyond his usual one-note characterization in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts; reaching levels that were never rivaled in the animated appearances of the character.

* ScoobyDooHoax: On occasion the heroes would come across as this, most notably in "The Hound of the Whiskervilles."

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Uniquely for kids' comics at the time, there are very few people in Barks's comics that are unambiguously good or unambiguously bad. Most people are firmly in-between, and several of the conflicts don't have a clear good guy or a clear bad guy.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Barks' comics often suffered from this. Several stories that were considered inappropriate were censored or just thrown out entirely, others were cut down to make room for adverts. Some material is most likely lost forever.
** One problem for his editors was that Barks had a taste for Westerns and horror films, and liked to incorporate such elements in his stories. Mummies, werewolves, zombies, magical and cursed objects, invisible men, Yetis, ghost ships, and skeletons entombed in castle walls all turn up in various stories. Some of his ideas were considered overly violent or creepy for an underage audience.

* One Donald ten-pager involved his being influenced by a quack psychologist named "Dr. Pulpheart Clabberhead," who believed any form of punishment administered to children was cruel. Clabberhead was a very thinly veiled parody of Dr. Spock, whose child-rearing books were popular at the time. The nephews used Donald's new softhearted philosophy to get away with everything and drive him nuts. Eventually they decided to light a stick of dynamite under Clabberhead's chair, causing the "doctor" to break his own doctrine by chasing them with a stick.

** And Carl Barks is not considered cool? Comeon.

* ShinyNewAustralia: In "The Golden Helmet", the eponymous helmet was proof an ancient viking named Olaf the Blue was the true owner of North America, theorically allowing any (alleged) descendant of his to use it to take over the continent. When DonaldDuck got the helmet, an attorney offered to help Donald and wanted Canada as his legal fees.

** One Donald ten-pager involved his being influenced by a quack psychologist named "Dr. Pulpheart Clabberhead," who believed any form of punishment administered to children was cruel. Clabberhead was a very thinly veiled parody of Dr. Spock, whose child-rearing books were popular at the time. The nephews used Donald's new softhearted philosophy to get away with everything and drive him nuts. Eventually they decided to light a stick of dynamite under Clabberhead's chair, causing the "doctor" to break his own doctrine by chasing them with a stick.

Carl Barks (1901-2000) was a Creator/{{Disney}} writer and artist who made comics set in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse from 1942 to 1966. He was known as ''the Good Duck Artist'' by the readers for much of this time due to a Disney company rule which forbade the comic authors' names from being featured in their magazines.

* TangledFamilyTree: Barks worked out his own genealogy tree on how the major and minor characters of the Duck and McDuck families are related to each other, including several generations of ancestors. Technically he created most of the characters in it, but it was compiled for the masses to see by Rosa.

* TangledFamilyTree: Barks technically created most of the characters in it, but it was compiled for the masses to see by Rosa.

* ShownTheirWork: Barks was very well known for doing his homework on whatever subject his stories involved.

* OurFounder: Cornelius Coot.

* FurryConfusion: Barks actually points it out in one panel.

* BreakoutCharacter: Scrooge [=McDuck=].

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* GrayAndGreyMorality: Uniquely for kids' comics at the time, there are very few people in Barks's comics that are unambiguously good or unambiguously bad. Most people are firmly in-between, and several of the conflicts don't have a clear good guy or a clear bad guy.

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* MrViceGuy: Scrooge used to be the TropeNamer.
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* GrayAndGreyMorality: Uniquely for kids' comics at the time, there are very few people in Bartks's comics that are unambiguously good or unambiguously bad. Most people are firmly in-between, and several of the conflicts don't have a clear good guy or a clear bad guy.

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* ShinyNewAustralia: In "The Golden Helmet", the eponymous helmet was proof an ancient viking named Olaf the Blue was the true owner of North America, theorically allowing any (alleged) descendant of his to use it to take over the continente. When DonaldDuck got the helmet, an attorney offered to help Donald and wanted Canada as his legal fees.

Barks is renowned for creating characters such as Scrooge [=McDuck=], Gladstone Gander, Gyro Gearloose, the Beagle Boys, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica De Spell, and many others, as well as setting in stone the base geography of the city of Duckburg. His stories brought in the treasure hunt plot to Duck comics and inspired a generation of people (such as Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/OsamuTezuka, Creator/DonRosa and the writers of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'') to replicate the thrill of adventure. He's also responsible for expanding Donald Duck's personality beyond his usual one-note characterization in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts; reaching levels that were never rivaled in the animated appearances of the character.

* BambooTechnology

* ChasteToons
* ColdCash
* ComicBookTime

* DurableDeathtrap

* EEqualsMCHammer

* {{Fiction 500}}

* GoldenSnitch
* GoodIsNotNice

* HollywoodMirage
* IdenticalGrandson
* IncredibleShrinkingMan
* IslandHelpMessage

* TheLastStraw

* MagicHat

* NarratingTheObvious

* ScoobyDooHoax

* ShootOutTheLock

* TreasureMap

* VagueAge

* WrittenSoundEffect

If you've been interested in reading his stories, there's good news for you:[[http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/01/exclusive-fantagraphics-to-publish-the-complete-carl-barks/ Fantagraphics books has been in the process of republishing all of his old Donald Duck stories over a 30 volume series of books in the upcoming years, with two volumes a year!]]

Barks is renowned for creating characters such as Scrooge [=McDuck=], Gladstone Gander, Gyro Gearloose, the Beagle Boys, Flinthart Glomgold, Magica De Spell, and many others, as well as setting in stone the base geography of the city of Duckburg. His stories brought in the treasure hunt plot to Duck comics and inspired a generation of people (such as Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/OsamuTezuka, Creator/DonRosa and the writers of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'') to replicate the thrill of adventure. He's also responsible for expanding Donald Duck's personality beyond his usual one-note characterization in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts; reaching levels that were never rivaled in the animated appearances of the character.

'''Carl Barks''' (1901-2000) was a Creator/{{Disney}} writer and artist who made comics set in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse from 1942 to 1966. He was known as ''the Good Duck Artist'' by the readers for much of this time due to a Disney company rule which forbade the comic authors' names from being featured in their magazines.

* BehindTheBlack: In "Statuesque Spendthrifts", somehow nobody can ever notice a much bigger statue of Cornelius Coot right next to the one getting unveiled until the moment the veil falls off it as well. Taken UpToEleven during the third round, when both statues are at least *ninety* stories high and clearly towering over Duckburg's skyline.