Please Note:  this CD-Rom version of The Complete Carl Barks Index is a completely revised version, with corrections, revisions and updated content compared to the version originally released in 2014.  Most of the articles and Index available on this CD-Rom are now also available in my book, The Complete Carl Barks Index, on Amazon, and may also be available on ebay when I have received sufficient copies in stock for sale.  The book is available on Amazon now and you can take a "look inside" at interior pages there.  I have also newly included a picture of the cover and several pages in the pictures with this listing.  As noted at the bottom of this listing, there is also a Carl Barks Index available for the 10 Fantagraphics books reprinting the comics of Carl Barks, but since only 10 of the 30 Fantagraphics volumes were available when it was published, the listings for Barks' work only cover the content of the 10 books, although an 11th volume is now available.  Several copies of the final color proof of The Complete Carl Barks Index book are available, discounted, in another listing.  The listing below has been revised somewhat from the original listing.
  
30 years in the making, The Complete Carl Barks Index, a Concordance of the Comics of Carl Barks.  From 1942 until his retirement in 1966, Carl Barks was the most important writer and artist of Donald Duck and related comic books including Uncle Scrooge, as well as the creator of Uncle Scrooge and many of the best loved characters in the Duck comic books.  So beloved and important was Barks' work that in the 1980s Another Rainbow reprinted in a 30 volume deluxe hardback series his complete work for Disney.  And Fantagraphics Books is now reprinting that work again in an acclaimed series of mass market hardback books in color for a much wider audience.  Shortly after the first set in The Carl Barks Library was published, publisher Bruce Hamilton asked Kim Weston to index the complete Disney comic book work of Carl Barks for publication in the final set.  When the license to publish the Library was not extended, there was a rush to publish the last several sets, which made it impossible to complete the index in time for inclusion in the final set.  And the growing comprehensiveness of the index had expanded it to the point where a whole volume would have been required for just the index.

Although the project was orphaned, Kim Weston and his collaborators continued to work on the index at a much less frantic pace until it was completed in 2012, after the death of one of the collaborators.  The index, which was always intended to cover all of Barks' Disney comics as published in the original comic books and as reprinted, or in some cases first printed, in The Carl Barks Library, was also expanded to include Barks' non-Disney comics and also, later, Disney comics not included in The Carl Barks Library and not even published until after the CBL had been completed.  There is even Barks comic book work first published after Barks' death, including work that has not yet been published in the USA or even in English. This has led to some additional material being added to the index as late as 2016 including 4 first American comic book printings by IDW of Barks stories and gags not previously available in English.  

All this is included in a massive searchable database form index with over 29,000 lines of data.  It includes reference to all original USA comic book publications with comic book title, issue, and story page numbers, The Carl Barks Library publication including set, volume and page reference, as well as submission dates based on Carl Barks' personal work records.  Just about any question you might ask about Carl Barks' work, if you can think of it, and it is included in Barks' opus, you can probably find it and all references to it.  Want to find every depiction of a cigarette in Barks' comics?  It's there.  What really was the first appearance of the money bin or its precursors, or the worry room, or Gladstone's luck, every appearance of the Beagle Boys, all incarnations of Barks' pig villain characters, a listing of every half page display panel and other large sized panels, what stories have a camel in them, what Barney Bear and Benny Burro story was rewritten as an Uncle Scrooge story, what other Barks stories were rewritten years or decades later?  It's all there.  

The database is in Microsoft Excel format, but is easily useable in the freeware program, OpenOffice, downloadable from Apache Software Foundation.  In fact, some may find it easier to work with the files in the OpenOffice program than in Excel.  And OpenOffice is free and, like Excel, available in Mac and PC versions.  It also works in the Macintosh iWorks Numbers program, though I have not used that beyond opening a file in Numbers and observing that it is accessible and looks right.  Several different sortings of the information are included on the CD, and since it is in electronic form, you can resort it to your own preference in either Excel or OpenOffice, and possibly in other programs that will open Excel files.  The disc is compatible with both Mac and PC.

There are also a number of more specialized indexes of various aspects of Barks' comics, and there are articles on various aspects of Barks' work, but the main attraction is the comprehensive index and concordance to everything that might be of interest in the comics themselves.  

Since all the basic indexing was already done, as each new Fantagraphics volume of Barks reprints has come out, Kim has indexed them, too.  Information on all 11 books published so far, volumes 5-15, is now included in a separate data column in the master database (chapter 15) in this CD version of the Index.

In April, 2016, Kim published in book form a comprehensive Carl Barks Index of the 10 volumes of Fantagraphics Books The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library that were in print as of May 10, 2016.  These books, volumes 5 - 14, include all of Barks' Disney comics created between December 1946 and March 1953 as well as Uncle Scrooge #1-12 (#12 was submitted in June 1955).  The last 2 pictures in the images in this listing are the front cover and a sample page of the index.  This book is available on ebay, and can also be found at Amazon.com by searching for Carl Barks Index.

Kim Weston is a long time Barks fan and scholar who has contributed to Mike Barrier's magazine, Funnyworld, as well as the Barks Bibliography, and the book, Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book.  He was also a contributor to the Celestial Arts book, Uncle Scrooge McDuck  His Life and Times, and to Another Rainbow's Carl Barks Library.  He has contributed Barks and Disney information to the Overstreet Price Guide.  He is also a contributor to Fantagraphics Books' ongoing series of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library.  And he scripted The Ultimate Barks Collector gag page drawn by Walter Simonson.  Recently he has been contributing  to The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial and he has also written occasionally on Barks' work for the past 40+ years, contributing to Barks and Disney scholarship mostly for a small audience in an Amateur Press Alliance.  That is where he commissioned Jack L. Chalker to write the article which was first published in that Amateur Press Alliance and which was later expanded to become Chalker's book, An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck.  That work was one of the influences that later inspired Don Rosa to do his own comic book series, the well-loved Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.  In 2016, he has published three books on Carl Barks:  The Carl Barks Index, which Indexes the first 10 Fantagraphics Carl Barks reprint books;  The Unavailable Carl Barks (in color) which reprints 10 Barks non-Disney comic book stories, most of which have not been available since their original comic book publications between 1943 and 1953; and The Complete Carl Barks Index, the book version of the CD-rom Index in this listing,  indexing ALL of Carl Barks comic book work.

Price is $19.95

Shipping:  Shipping is $2 in the USA and $5 to Europe, possibly more elsewhere.  CDs will be shipped by First Class Mail in a paper sleeve with a short booklet and tray liner, which the buyer may trim to fit in a Jewel Box CD case if desired.  A Jewel Box is not supplied since it would double or triple shipping costs, and empty jewel boxes are available cheaply.  However, I will offer the Index in a Jewel Box in another listing with higher shipping costs and a more expensive price.  Payment by PayPal is expected within 48 hours of purchase and according to new ebay rules, Buy It Now items remain on sale until paid for.  Any questions?  Send me an email.  Also see my other auctions and my feedback.  The first 3 scans are views of the CD booklet and tray liner.  The next pictures are of the new book, The Complete Carl Barks Index.  Then there two images are from The Carl Barks Index book edition that covers the content of the 10 Fantagraphics hardcover books reprinting Barks work from December 1946 to 1953, plus the first 12 issues of Uncle Scrooge.  Finally there is the front cover of The Unavailable Carl Barks (in color) .