Disney Comic Book Posters created by Carl Barks have been found in the collection of the late Bruce Hamilton and are now being listed for sale. Included among the finds are several sequential sets signed by Barks himself! The posters were produced by Hamilton’s publishing house Another Rainbow. These posters are completely different from the well known line of lithographs produced by the company. The poster series contains four classic covers, three drawn by Barks, from famous Disney Comics. This find is now available directly from the Bruce Hamilton website. 

In the late 1940s and early ’50s,"Carl Barks drew three covers for issues of Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, Donald Duck, and Uncle Scrooge that became classics. Primary among them is the famous cover to Four Color #199, "Sheriff of Bullet Valley." The cover remains one of Barks’ most familiar. Donald stands defiantly protecting his nephews as a hail of bullets flies around him. The second poster in the series includes Bark’s cover to Walt Disney Comics and Stories #108. This time Donald and the boys are sailing the high seas. The last image by Barks is Uncle Scrooge sending a smoke signal that reflects his favorite thing on Earth, money.  

The fourth cover in the series is "Mickey and the Beanstalk" and is taken from the cover for Four Color #157. The Comic Book Database lists the cover pencils as Don Gunn but is unable to confirm that he did the inks. Another Rainbow has reproduced the work in beautiful detail.

Approximately forty years after these covers made their way onto newsstands, another Rainbow received a restricted license to print them as blown up 2 X 3′ posters. The quantity was restricted and there was never any more posters done in this series.

According to Steve Calrow, General Manager for Another Rainbow and Gemstone Publishing, “There were two editions: the first on the normal good quality gloss paper that frame shops offer on premium lines. Secondly, a much smaller edition was printed by the Black Box in Chicago, who also did our company’s Carl Barks lithographs.”

The quality of each poster is stunning “Though not in continuous-tone, these posters were printed on a very expensive, heavy weight, quality board with a fine line screen to enhance the image,” said Calrow. “The quality of these posters is difficult to describe and impossible to reproduce faithfully in miniature representations.”

In 1988, Barks signed a set of 500, which are again being offered in a numbered, limited edition complete with a Certificate of Authenticity accompanying each. The prices are surprisingly affordable for such treasures.