The Don Rosa Library

The Don Rosa Library

The cover of the first volume of the series, Son of the Sun
Publication information
Publisher Fantagraphics Books
Schedule Biannual
Format Ongoing series
Publication date October 4, 2014
Number of issues 10
Creative team
Writer(s) Don Rosa
Artist(s) Don Rosa
Colorist(s) Rich Tommaso, Kneon Transitt
Editor(s) David Gerstein

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library is a series of books published by Fantagraphics Books, collecting all of the Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic book stories written and drawn by Don Rosa, originally published between 1987 and 2006. Following up Fantagraphics' Floyd Gottfredson Library and The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, this series was launched in 2014, and will comprise 2000 pages over ten 200-page volumes when it is finished.

Format

The Don Rosa Library volumes are 11 x 8.5 inches (279 mm x 216 mm), making them a little bigger than the volumes of The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library measuring 10.25 x 7.5 inches (260 mm x 191 mm). The library will consist of 10 volumes. When the series is complete it will represent a complete chronological collection of Rosa's Disney stories. The volumes are published in chronological order starting with Don Rosa's first Disney story - The Son of the Sun (1987), this volume was published in 2014.

The pages are colored by Rich Tommaso and Kneon Transitt under the supervision of Disney expert David Gerstein and Gary Groth, with the artistic input of Don Rosa as well. Rosa has stated that he checks every page and panel offering valuable insight and assistance to the Fantagraphics team in restoring the stories as they were originally intended to be published.

The books are approximately 200 pages each containing about 160 pages of comics, with the remaining pages made up of supplementary material, which include comments on the stories by Don Rosa, story covers by the artist and a biography written by Rosa himself. [1] [2] [3]

The volumes are sold separately with a suggested retail price of $30 each, but are also available in bundled sets by the pair in chronological order with a provided slipcase. The boxed sets are suggested to have a retail price at $50 and has therefore "a bargain price worthy of Scrooge McDuck himself!" according to the publisher. [4]

Volumes and boxed sets

Volumes
Volume & date Title Period ISBN
1:  2014-10-04“The Son of the Sun”1987-1988978-1-60699-742-0
2:  2014-11-16“Return to Plain Awful”1988-1990978-1-60699-780-2
3:  2015-09-06“Treasure Under Glass”1990-1992978-1-60699-836-6
4:  2015-11-09“The Last of the Clan McDuck”1992-1995978-1-60699-866-3
5:  2016-06-06“The Richest Duck in the World”1993-1994978-1-60699-927-1
6:  2016-10-22“The Universal Solvent”TBA978-1-60699-961-5
7: 2017-05-06 "The Treasure Of The Ten Avatars" TBA 978-1-68396-006-5
8: TBA "The Last Lord of Eldorado" TBA TBA
9: TBA "The Quest for Kalevala" TBA TBA
10: TBA "The Dream of a Lifetime" TBA TBA
Boxed sets
Volume & date Title Period ISBN
1:  2014-11-30“The Don Rosa Library Vols. 1 & 2”1987-1990978-1-60699-781-9
2:  2015-11-09“The Don Rosa Library Vols. 3 & 4”1990-1995978-1-60699-867-0
3:  2016-10-25“The Don Rosa Library Vols. 5 & 6”TBA978-1-60699-962-2

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