The Don Rosa Library, Vol. 3 & 4: Walt Disney s Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck Hardcover – Box set, January 1, 2015

Great books! Not only is the artwork by Don Rosa presented in an excellent fashion it comes along with great articles and explanatory texts by Don Rosa himself, I believe this is a must for every Don Rosa fan and Disney comics fan in general! Fantagraphics has done a great job with every detail of these volumes from the cover designs to the layout of the contents of the volumes. Stories are of course great, and Don Rosa's autobiography offers a lot of nice tidbits about the stories behind the stories. And of course the texts of every story shed light on a lot of interesting details about the stories and the collection of covers has some truly excellent pieces of artwork. Great job and I hope they keep it up have both box sets and will continue purchasing them until they are completed!

This is the entire collection of Don Rosa Vol 3 and 4 (total of 10 volumes). Don Rosa took off where Carl Barks left off, but creating even greater content! Don Rosa's work is amazing it's sad this he never did well in the American market. These comics/stories are great for all ages and I highly recommend them to anyone who enjoys comics or has children that do. High quality Hardback with good quality spine. When I get a chance I will try to post some pictures.

Don Rosa's creations are a joy to read. His stories about the duck characters are readable, fun stories full of empathy and pathos. Readable by a child, but outrageously rewarding as an adult, the stories' conflicts rise and are resolved by character-driven moments seated in a deep and affectionate understanding of these iconic characters. The second book in this set contains the greater part of Don's masterwork, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, which up until now was out of print and absurdly expensive. (Life and Times of Scrooge will be completed in volume 5, which may be the only weakness of this set). All of this is bookended by Don's charming creator commentary, which among other things reveals the insane amount of research that he did for many of these stories. His more ambitious stories are historical fiction more than anything, fitting Scrooge and other characters into the historical narrative of the late 1800s and early 20th century. I treasure these books, and plan to buy every volume in the series as they're released (there will be 10 books, of which these are books 3 & 4). If you like Bone, or Pogo, or Carl Barks, you will love these books.

I saw a copy of this volume while waiting for Don to autograph some of his other works for me. He remarked to me that when this is finished it will be the only place where all his works are collected together in English. (In case you don't know Don is BIG in Europe!) He truly is a master craftsman at work and the stories here are very entertaining, ESPECIALLY the first part of his Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Don took all those story elements and tidbits from "Uncle" Carl Barks (he's the greatest Duck Man!) Scrooge stories and put them into a wonderful tale of young Scrooge on the path to adventures and riches. He will eventually become a lonely old miser until he is rescued by his famous nephews in the last episode. The whole story is split between this volume and the next but this gives you a taste and you will want more. The book also has many text pages to help capture what Don was thinking as he wrote these stories and has various covers he did for many comic books, some of which are finally colored properly in this volume. I will be buying the rest of the series and THANKS again Don!

Long time fan of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics since before I could read. One important FYI that I overlooked when I purchased this set is that Vol. 4 contains much of "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" series, which I already own, along with the Companion, both in paperbacks . So, if you already have that string of series (which are one of Don Rosas best) you might want to consider to only by vol. 5 separately. I saw one other review that mentioned this issue, but I really think aforementioned issue should be made clearer in the product text... Other that that, these are extremely good value! Also, although Rosa is translated to many languages I highly recommend reading him in English. Looking forward to the next box set with Vol. 5-6.

Don Rosa is a true legend up to the difficult task of continuing the legacy of Carl Barks. Masterful art and storytelling!

These comics are a big hit. We own the first four volumes and can't wait for volumes 5-6 to come out. Great memories of Ducktales comics I'm happy to share with my kids, nieces, and nephews.

I bought this collection as soon as It came out. It is divided in 2 hard covers books with a summary of all of Don Rosa stories in chronological order and some bonus materials made by himself exclusively for this release. If you are a Don Rosa fan, you need to have this ultimate collection.