When Carl Barks chose to retire from comic book work in 1966 he was looking forward to some relaxing years in front of his painting easel. During the last few years he had grown to detest his work, because it meant a lot of pressure on him, and he felt completely drained of ideas. His publisher, Western, deplored their unparalleled duckman's decision to quit, and the chief editor at the time, Chase Craig, tried several times to persuade him to at least write some new material, realizing that Barks would never sit down at his drawing board again.
Eventually, Craig's tenacity paid off! Barks was persuaded to write and sketch no less than 24 stories for a new magazine named Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks (HDL), and he continued to write and sketch the stories for 5 years (see more HERE).

But Barks also wrote a few 'old-fashioned' Donald and Scrooge stories, which are presented in the sub-pages. In neither case did Barks ink the stories - he chiefly dreamt up the plots, wrote the scripts, and drew the preliminary sketches.

NB.: The stories have all been published more times than once, but the initial information (publishing year, country, and story code) displayed are for the first publishing only.