![]() ![]() It’s a classic collector’s conundrum: It’s the same books either way, but we all want the collection to match perfectly. I feared for awhile that I would have to buy the two books separately and go without the slipcase. There was only one hiccup across all of those Christmases: One set either went out of print early on or got delayed and didn’t publish until after Christmas. (And, really, I needed yet another copy of that series. Those stories are already in the DRL books, but it’s such a popular series that they did a two book set with only those tales. (I own a couple boxes’ worth of those, too…)įor five Christmases, I received that year’s pair of DRL hardcovers in the slipcase edition, plus the two volume set that reprinted all of the “Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck” stories. It’s a collector’s dream edition of the works, equal or larger in page size to the albums that Gladstone produced in the 1990s. ![]() His “DuckTales Magazine” story is even in there (I still have that magazine in my collection), as are a couple of scripts from stories that never got made. Every short story, cover, gag story, and adventure story is reprinted in those books in chronological order, complete with commentary from Rosa and (perhaps slightly controversially) some coloring changes. In recent years, Fantagraphics published a ten volume set of beautiful hardcover books called “The Don Rosa Library.” It collects all of Rosa’s Duck works. I ate up those comics for the next 15 years and had quite a few letters published along the way to prove it. ![]() I don’t know which Don Rosa story I read first, but like so many readers of that era I quickly became enamored of the Duck work of the triumvirate of Carl Barks, Van Horn, and Rosa. While I started with “The Amazing Spider-Man” #318, I can also remember one of the early comics I bought was an issue of “DuckTales” that featured a William Van Horn story, “Windfall on Mt. I started reading comics in 1989, as an offshoot of my interest in animation. ![]()
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