'Allo, listeners! We 'ave a great episode for you, zo please join us as we discuss this classic European-set saga, both a celebration and a send-up of Hollywood spy thrillers! Witness the ducks become embroiled in early Cold War-era espionage, as they encounter the mysterious and beautiful Madame Triple-X! This story is famously the Duck Man's most human-filled, to his editor's displeasure. Join us, as we talk about spy tropes, Barks' early career with the risque publication The Calgary Eye-Opener, the shocking character deaths, and much more!

Guest Host: Ruben Olsrud

This story is arguably the best of Barks' "Brittle Mastery" stories -- those where Donald masters an obscure occupation before things go horribly awry. Listen as my guest and I discuss the story's incredible timing and humor, the science and business of rain-seeding, the metaphorical green monster of jealousy, and what exactly an "Idle Dandy" is, anyway.

Merry Christmas in February! "You Can't Guess" is one of Carl Barks' all-time great Christmas-themed stories. As part of our mission to release episodes chronologically, we occasionally find ourselves going a bit off-season, but this story is satisfying to revisit any time of year. "You Can't Guess" finds Huey, Dewey, & Louie forced guess their Uncle's hoped-for Christmas gift in order to receive the gift of their dreams -- an erector set! Join us as we talk about the significance of those classic building sets, wish fulfillment aspects of this story, the duck family tree, and much more!

Guest Host: Suzanne Snow Severino

Happy Valentines' Day, listeners! V-Day didn't lend itself to same kinds of well-remembered story-telling Barks was able to come up with for Christmas or even Halloween, but the Duck Man did have a few memorable 10-pagers, one of which we get to discuss in this episode (My Lucky Valentine), with another romance-centered story (Wild About Flowers) thrown in for good measure!

The Circus! This venerable institution was once a beloved American tradition, and the arrival of the circus train might cause the town to shut down in excitement! Times have certainly changed, and the circus is nearly extinct. But in 1950, when Barks' Big-Top Bedlam was published, every TV show or comic series would certainly have had a circus-themed episode or show. This is what struck me most as we discussed Big-Top Bedlam, a rather slapstick adventure full of one-in-a-million coincidences and the lying-one's-way-into-more-trouble trope.

Journey with us, by shark-powered boat, if need be, to listen to us discuss "The Magic Hourglass" -- the talisman that is the secret to Donald's Uncle Scrooge's wealth, at least, for this story! Barks will quickly abandon this aspect of Scrooge's background, as he would largely abandon this dark characterization of Scrooge. This moralistic story sees the ducks at loggerheads with each other for much of its course. We get to discuss the story's dark elements, its geopolitical themes, and particularly its use of the magical red sand as a proxy metaphor for oil!

Vacation Time! This Carl Barks classic pulls a bit of a bait-and-switch -- nominally a fun vacation-themed romp, it turns into a surprisingly tense survival story at the end. One of the all-time greats, Vacation Time is Barks at his best, with wonderful art, an atypically grounded storyline, and a strong conservationist through-line. My guest host and I talk about this, as well as the possible influence of Bambi, the comic's look at forest fighting, and much more!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...I count 25 episodes of Barks Remarks, 30 including the Ten-Page Podcast! You know who likes to count? Carl Barks' animal creation in this story, the Pixilated Parrot! This brisk adventure is a somewhat slight story, though it possesses one of Barks' all-time greatest gags! Join us as we talk about the story, the meaning of the word pixilated, Duckburg's location, and more!

Guest Host: Ryan Bailey

Happy 2022! This episode is pretty loaded for an episode of the 10PP; we are talking about the Sunken Yacht, one of the earlier 10-pagers featuring Uncle Scrooge McDuck in rascal/antagonist mode. This is the "ping pong" story, that sees the ducks attempt to raise Scrooge's sunken vessel using thousands of the plastic balls, and it is one of the most famous Barks stories outside of Duck Comics fandom, due to being featured in places like Mythbusters, Popular Mechanics, and so forth.

Guest Host; Sara Santiago

Happy Holidays! "Wintertime Wager" is a classic Ten-Pager, the story that famously introduces Gladstone Gander, before Barks had assigned him his supernatural good luck! It also, by technicality, serves as our holiday episode, as the ducks briefly reference it being Christmas at the very beginning! This is a great slapstick story, and rife with opportunities to talk about lemonade, sub-zero swimming, and to explore some of the internalized anxiety at the root of Donald and Gladstone's ridiculous yet hilarious wagers!