Anchored by the Dickensian �A Christmas for Shacktown,� this volume collects the universally beloved comics adventures of Donald Duck, his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and his Uncle Scrooge.The third volume of Fantagraphics� reprinting of Carl Barks�s classic Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge work, like last spring�s Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man, focuses on the early 1950s, universally considered one of Barks�s very peak periods. Originally published in 1951, �A Christmas for Shacktown� is one of Barks�s masterpieces: A rare 32-pager that stays within the confines of Duckburg, featuring a storyline in which the Duck family works hard to raise money to throw a Christmas party for the poor children of the city�s slums (depicted by Barks with surprisingly Dickensian grittiness), and climaxing in one of the most memorable images Barks ever created, the terrifying bottomless pit that swallows up all of Scrooge�s money. But there�s lots more gold to be found in this volume (literally), which features both the �The Golden Helmet� (a quest off the coast of Labrador for a relic that might grant the finder ownership of America, reducing more than one cast member to a state of Gollum-like covetousness) while �The Gilded Man� features a hunt for a rare stamp in South America�two more of Barks�s thrilling full-length adventure stories. But that�s less than half the volume! This volume also features ten of Barks�s smart and funny 10-pagers, including a double whammy of yarns co-starring Donald�s insufferable cousin (�Gladstone�s Usual Very Good Year� and �Gladstone�s Terrible Secret�), as well as another nine of Barks�s rarely seen one-page Duck gags� all painstakingly recolored to match the original coloring as exactly as possible, and supplemented with an extensive series of notes and behind-the-scenes essays by the foremost Duck experts in the world. Yes