Gladstone Publishing - Softcover Albums

Softcover Albums

During the first run Gladstone issued 28 albums and seven giant albums consisting mostly of reprints of stories by Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson. In 1990 Gladstone was licensed to publish a series of albums reprinting nearly all the Disney duck stories of Carl Barks. These were known as The Carl Barks Library in Color - consisting of:

• Walt Disney Comics and Stories - Comic Albums #1-51 (With trading cards)
• Uncle Scrooge Adventures - Comic Albums #1-56 (With trading cards)
• Donald Duck Adventures - Comic Albums #1-25 (With trading cards)
• Gyro Gearloose - Comic Albums #1-6
• Uncle Scrooge - One-Pagers - Comic Albums #1 & 2
• Donald Duck 1940s Christmas Giveaways

There were also three different series of Albums featuring stories by Don Rosa and William Van Horn respectively.

• The Don Rosa Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #s 1-4 featured The first twelve chapters of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

• The Don Rosa Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #s 5-8 featured all the Uncle Scrooge stories that Don Rosa did during his first two years as a Disney Comics Artist.

• The William Van Horn Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color #s 1-4 featured all of the stories that William Van Horn did during Gladstone's first run.

After its license expired in 1998, Gladstone ceased publishing new material, and there were no more Disney comics in America (except for occasional graphic novels of the movies put out by Dark Horse Comics), until 2003, when Gemstone Publishing gained the publishing rights.