Dubious  Doings  at  Dismal  Downs

von Carl Barks

9. Lithographie der "Another Rainbow" Reihe

herausgegeben: 1986

9. AR lithograph, published : 1986
Auflage weltweit : 345 regulars + 100 Gold Plates
Format : 41 x 51 cm Bild auf 54 x 65 cm Blatt
Preis :
auf Anfrage / on request

Carl Barks' Dubious Doings at Dismal Downs is a continuous-tone, twelve-color lithograph of the redoubtable
and indomitable patriarch of the clan, Uncle Scrooge McDuck, and his nephews Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck,
each riveted by the spellbinding presence of an unseeable apparition
carrying a chest of treasures and wielding a jewel-encrusted sword.
They are shown in the pseudospooky graveyard setting of a Sherlock Holmesian estate on the Scottish moors.
This lithograph's regular edition is of 345 signed and numbered copies.
A second edition of 100 lithographs, each stamped with a debossed ¼” gold band surrounding the 16" x 20" image area,
and an edition of five complete sets of progressive proofs have been struck, all trimmed to a 21 ½” x 25" paper size.
In addition there are a small number of artist's, publisher's and printer's proofs not for sale.
There have been no previous editions, there will be none in the future, and there are no unsigned or unnumbered copies.
All printing plates have been destroyed to prevent future use.
The iridescent, mother-of-pearl Opalesque paper, embossed with a silk texture,
has been pressure-stamped on the image area to more closely simulate the nontextured surface of the original oil.
Constructed of 100% cotton fiber for strength and longevity, this archival quality paper has exceptional ink holdout,
is acid free to resist aging, and has alkaline buffering to counteract the effects of acids normally present in the environment.
Dubious Doings at Dismal Downs is the ninth Carl Barks lithograph in a series produced by Another Rainbow Publishing.
It was printed by The Black Box, continuous-tone lithographers, of Chicago.

Die Ducks werden beim Betreten des Schlosses durch das schwebende Schwert bedroht.

Die Merkwürdigkeit der freischwebenden Truhe erschließt sich nur dem,
der den Ausflug der Ducks zu Dagobert Ducks alter, in den schottischen Hochmooren gelegenen Duckenburgh (,Castle of Dismal Downs': Burg der Düsteren Höhen) aus The Old Castle's Secret (FC 189),
dt.: Das Gespenst von Duckenburgh (Tollste Geschichten DD 1; Klassik Album 2; Ich Dagobert Duck 2), vor Augen hat.
Des Rätsels Lösung ist der mit Unsichtbarkeits-Spray versehene Schloßverwalter Scottie McTerrier, der den von den Ducks gefundenen Goldschatz zur eigenen Verwendung einzubehalten gedenkt.
Die pseudospukhafte Unheimlichkeit dieser an schaurigen Elementen reichen und gleichzeitig komischen Sherlock-Holmesiade im nebligen Schottland wird durch den stabreimenden Titel der Lithographie noch betont.