Barks Remarks - a Carl Barks Podcast

Guest Host: Patrick Block | Bing! You're Hypnotized! Listener, you are now a devoted podcast listener! And what better than checking out this episode of the Ten-Page Podcast, in which a credulous Donald is hypnotized by a child's toy! Give the episode a listen to hear us talk about whether the hypno-gun is *really* a toy, the great name "Rockjaw Bumrisk," and Barks' phenomena...

Guest Hosts: Austin Kelly & Bucket Think Tank | Listeners, this is a pretty unusual episode. First, we're covering a story that I consider to be Barks' absolute weakest adventure-length story, Jungle Hi-Jinks. However, Barks himself didn't do the writing: officially the writer is unknown, but my suspicion is that Western Publishing regular Vic Lockman is responsible (at fault?) for...

Guest Hosts: Austin Kelly & Bucket Think Tank The Prize of Pizarro is a classic Scrooge & the ducks treasure hunt, set in the Andes (again!) with an unusual structure: the ducks are never aware of the antagonists of the story, the isolated Incas that have guarded the mines of the Incas for hundreds of years! Join us as we talk about this unusual structure, some uncharacteristic McDuck gene...

Guest Hosts: Patrick Block & Morten Guldberg Ahoy, listeners! Barks is back to the high seas, in this iconic, late 1950s Scrooge adventure! This story involves the ducks' inadvertent search for the legendary ship, the Fliegende Hollander, known in English as the Flying Dutchman! We talk about this uniquely meandering story, which sees the ducks in real dire straits, and has quite the assor...

Guest Host: Alban Leloup Listeners, this episode is quite packed and fascinating, despite being one of Barks' less-remembered Christmas stories (and in fact, being written not by Barks, but by Bob Gregory). My guest and I talk about the contributions of Barks' wife Gare', the great one-off character Ollie Eiderduck, cross-linguistic puns and the difficulty of translation, and much more...

Guest Host: Geoff Moses Listeners, grab your welding torches, gold paint, and don't forget your box of dirt! We're getting set to blast off into space, in a race to be the first to the Twenty-Four Carat Moon! Join us as we talk about Barks' roster of tycoon competitors, parallels to the actual space race, and the weird and poignant conclusion that shakes Scrooge's entire world view...

Guest Host: Dan Cunningham Welcome to the space age, listeners! In this special episode we subvert things a bit, as Dan takes the lead in this pseudo-live experiment. Somehow "the Forbidium Money Bin" is one of just two Barks (adventure) stories I've never read before, so you can hear me experience it for the first time! And what a weird story this "...in Disneyland" story...

Guest Host: Orion Trunk Avast, listeners! This episode features one of Barks' several nautical themed stories, set again in the Pacific Northwest! My guest and I discuss the industrious Beagle Boys, variable comic book coloring, and learn a bit along the way about the history of Chanel perfume, plastic gloves, and more!

Guest Host: Geoff Moses (aka GeoX) Listeners, it's time to earn a new merit badge, and hopefully become promoted to N.E.R.D.B.U.T.T.S*! We've got a great Junior Woodchucks-themed episode, covering Barks' first two Woodchuck ten-pagers. And our first story is arguably the most notable appearance of the Duck family's pet St. Bernard, Bolivar (here called Bornworthy)! There's lots...

Guest Hosts: Mikkel Hagen & Tom Wormstedt Join us, listeners, at the Billionaires' Picnic -- and don't forget the salt and pepper! Beware, however, of the Titanic Ants, the peril facing Donald and Scrooge in this brisk and weird and perhaps not-so-fondly remembered Barks story? My guests and I enjoyed it well enough, but it ranks extremely low based on the community's rankings, so...

Guest Host: Morten Guldberg What ho, listeners! Why aren't you searching for the podcast at the end of the rainbow! This week's Ten-Page Podcast covers an all-time great, Barks' "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" story! This is an unusually sentimental story, with an atypical message about the power of belief! It's also a great showcase for multiple members of the du...

Guest Hosts: Warren Harmon & David Wolpaw Happy April Fool's Day! This episode covers a couple of Barks' "trickiest" stories, in recognition of the mischievous holiday. Both stories are from Barks' prime year of 1951, in fact, they ran in back-to-back issues of Walt Disney's Comics & Stories! The stories feature some great character art (especially "Knightly...

Guest Host: Mikkel Hagen Don't let the summer money expansion get you down! Join us as we discuss this unusual and highly moralistic Scrooge tale. We'll discuss Scrooge's extreme thrift, the old fable the story is based on and more as we cover "the Golden River."

Guest Hosts: Dan Cunningham & Mikkel Hagen Prepare for a high stakes float down the Tulebug River, listeners, as we explore one of Carl Barks' greatest Uncle Scrooge adventures, "the Money Well!" My guests and I talk about this Duckburg set adventure, one of the stories where Scrooge is going to efforts to keep his money away from the Beagle Boys! We'll talk about similarities to "Only a Poor...

Guest Hosts: Ryan Bailey & Becky Barnes Peeeel that banana! Sift that sand! Calling all Shoeless Pashley fans, it's time for the podcast to cover "City of Golden Roofs," the Duck Man's retread of his earlier adventure, "Land of the Totem Poles." This time Donald and Scrooge are in a salesman competition in the ducks' first visit to Southeast Asia! Join us as Scrooge battles both ageism and the...

Guest Host: John Lustig No need to flip a coin to decide whether to listen to this episode! We're covering the story commonly called "Flipism," a fan-favorite ten-pager! We discuss whether Flipism actually works and the many crazy contours of this fan favorite ten-pager!

Guest Hosts: Sara Santiago & Tom Wormstedt Happy Christmas (in February) in the South Seas, listeners! This Barks adventure takes us on a South Seas holiday, with a low stakes adventure that was featured in the Christmas in Disneyland comic, and includes an adventure both on and IN an active volcano! We'll talk about actual black pearls, volcanology, and more!

Guest Hosts: Austin Kelly & Bucket Think Tank Get your mega-tickets ready, listeners, and get ready to go around the world with the ducks and their Junior Woodchuck animal call whistles! "Mines" is a delightful global adventure, and Barks' most globe-spanning story! It sets up a great collision between multiple story elements that pays off with an extremely satisfying conclusion!

Guest Host: Dan Cunningham Start baking your custard pies and get ready to board the second of Barks' riverboat adventures! This story is an unusual one, being a flashback, without Donald or the nephews! This is because it appeared in the atypical comic "Uncle Scrooge in Disneyland," a promotional giant which my guest host talks about in fascinating detail! We'll also briefly explore the other sto...

Guest Hosts: Warren Harmon & Dan Severino Welcome listeners! Join us in "Forbidden Valley," a clear take on the Lost World archetype, and a plot remake of "in Darkest Africa!" We've got the first appearance (arguably) of the villain McSwine (here by a more pickle-themed name) and a tale of dangerous animals, small, medium, and large!

Guest Hosts: Ryan Bailey & Susan Bailey Ready to get away from the big city, with all the soot and smog? See Sidewalk Sam, for all your getting-away-from-it-all real estate needs! Just because which set of lakes you buy, you might encounter the Peeweegahs, as Scrooge and Donald do, in this ecologically-minded wilderness adventure!

Guest Hosts: Ryan Bailey & Veikko Suvanto Listener, have you ever bought something you regretted? Scrooge McDuck has: a one-trillion dollar auction purchase of an orb of Bombastium, a rare and mysterious element. Unfortunately, the sphere must be kept frozen, thus the ducks end up traveling to the mountains of Antarctica, pursued by a representative from the U.S.S.R-inspired country of Brutopi...

Guest Hosts: Patrick Block & Warren Harmon Happy New Year! Are you the type to make a resolution? Donald and the nephews certainly are, in these memorable New Year stories, released in back-to-back years. New Year's Revolutions is an entertaining enough story, but Secret Resolutions is the real treat, with its (admittedly low-stakes) mystery structure and decadent drawings of Carl Barks-invent...

Guest Host: Bucket Think Tank Welcome! Grab your shovel, visit your nearest creepy hypno-therapist, as we journey Back to Long Ago, in this weird tale of past-life regression! Listen to me and my new guest host discuss the personification of Scrooge & Donald's shovels, the nephews' sensible cynicism, and the dynamic of Donald vs. Scrooge stories. We'll also delve into the true story of the inc...

Guest Hosts: Patrick Block & Warren Harmon Happy Holidays! We're checking in with a short episode this week, exploring one of Barks' funniest Christmas-themed stories, in which Donald unwisely attempts to con a free turkey dinner out of his Uncle Scrooge! My guests and I also talk about some of our favorite other Christmas Barks stories.