The cover and art to the long lead adventure, “The Golden Christmas Tree,” is by Carl Barks, a holiday favorite (from Donald Duck Four Color #203, 1948). A magnificent issue but, unfortunately, an extremely limited quantity remains of this book. (As a side note, editor Foster wrote in “Between the Lines that “the biggest news this month, is the announcement of an agreement that’s been reached between Disney and Glad-stone Publishing to create a 51-volume set of The Carl Barks Library in color.” A full-page ad in the same comic declares that it was “a four-and-a-half-year project beginning in January 1992, consisting of albums reprinting in strict chronological order all of the two thousand, five hundred forty one and a half (2,541 1/2) pages of interior art drawn for Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories by the Old Duck Man between 1943 and 1966.” Each album includes exclusive Trading Cards and was then followed by similar Libraries reprinting in color all of the Adventures of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, in addition to nine other catch-all miscellaneous albums.
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