Introduction: "The very good ones"
Mickey in a magazine
Oskar Lebeck meets Walt Kelly
Whitman, K.K., and Dell
Learning on the job in L.A.
A feel for Walt Kelly's stuff
Animal magnetism
Cartoon conundrums
Carl Barks makes his break
Barks becomes the duck man
The workman: Gaylor DuBois
The observer: John Stanley
"I am a backwoods bumpkin"
"Pure corn" at Disney's
Special talents
Barks masters his medium
An arena for all the passions
Animal kingdoms
Walt Kelly branches out
Strong-handed friends
Carl Barks: the virtuoso
Walt Kelly escapes
Oskar Lebeck in exile
Manifest destiny
Uncle Scrooge: play money
Carl Barks in purgatory
The slow fade
Disasters
Epilogue: Can these bones live?