AFTERMATH

Although DD26 Trick or Treat was not a Barks brainchild he must have liked the story to some extent because, in his golden years, he made no fewer than three paintings depicting elements from the book.

DD26 - 1952 070 Halloween in Duckburg - 1973 21 years after he made the front cover for the Halloween story Barks produced a painting depicting the ducks and the witch in the same positions. In the painting Barks added ghosts and demons thus making it more ominous - a thing he was not allowed to on the front cover.

074 Trick or Treat - 1974 Just a year later Barks repeated the main motif with the same positions but featuring other types of scary beings.

03-74 Student Witch - 1974 The same year Barks made yet another painting with a character taken from his story. It was a Non-Disney painting featuring a rendering of his invention, the cyclops Smorgasbord.