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Darin Reid
I did a stupid thing, I deleted all of the lists and indexs collected from
this list (accidentally of course). Can someone email them to me, especially
the Gladstone Index.

Thanks,
Harry Fluks
"
Per Starback writes:

> Welcome back from Christmas vacation everyone and thanks to Andrew and
> Hannes for the Christmas "cards" sent to the list. I didn't send a
> card because my nephews forgot to mail the card orders to the Ajax
> Card Company.

Let's say that is to blame on something that rhymes with 'Fluks'...

I think your Christmas card was exposed on a window store in Duckburg, next
to mine. For those who haven't read it there:

+--------------+ +--------------------+
| Dear friend: | | Mijn wens in druk |
| Noel! | or in Dutch: | luidt: veel geluk! |
| The end. | +--------------------+
+--------------+

...and a happy 1993 to everyone too!

--Harry.

"Oh, peel your eyes and take a peep
at how I buy ingredients cheap.
The wheels spin, the choppers fly
and out goes stuff that sells sky-high!"

(can anyone tell me where _this_ is from? I really don't know)
Harry Fluks
The Gladstone list
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At the end of last year some people volunteered to contribute to our
Gladstone List. They asked for the issues left to be done, and the format
the list should have. I think it is best that one person coordinates
the list, me for instance (if you have problems with that, just tell me).
This could save us unnecessary double work, the use of different codes
for the same artists etc.
(Sorry I didn't start this before christmas, but I was very busy.)

Compiling the list
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "
Volunteers are Per Starback, Hannes Faestermann, Torsten W Adair, Andrew
Krieg. Of course, more volunteers are very welcome.

I suggest the following procedure:

1. e-mail to me the Gladstone issues you are working on or are planning to
work on in the near future.
"
The most recent list of 'to-be-done's (according to Per Starback):

DD 268-272, 274-277
DDA 1, 3-4, 6-7, 9-11, 13, 15-16, 18
DT 1-13
MM (Per will do these)
US 210-214, 216-219, 221-227, 229-234, 236-238, 240
USA 1-3, 7-8, 10-13, 18-19
WDC 512-516, 518-525, 527-530, 532-539, 542-545
some specials
Albums (Andrew will convert his list)

(BTW: I plan to make a 'Disney Comics' comics list myself; well, only
WDC, DDA and US; well, only the issues I have)

2. e-mail to me the parts of the list that are finished (I can do
the format conversions, if necessary. E.g. Per's Digest list, and my
own part need some layout changes)

3. in this mail I include a list of creators (writers, artists) and title
characters. If you find an artist/character that is not mentioned yet,
contact me for a unique abbreviation.

4. from time to time, I will post a list of issues to be done.

5. the first version of the Gladstone list could be finished by, let's
say, april 1993 (?).
Before posting to the list, the authors (the people named above and
me) could review the finished list.
Interim versions can always be obtained from me by e-mail request, by
anyone.
(Parts of) the list already sent to me should not be changed without
my knowledge.

6. If you have any problems with 1.-5., let me know. I don't want to look
like a dictator, but we have to have some rules.
We could continue the discussion about the format of the list after we
have finished the first version.

The layout of the list
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For every entry we list (on fixed positions, *NOT* using TABs):

1. (position 1) Code of Gladstone issue:
CP Christmas Parade
DBP Disneyland Birthday Party
DD Donald Duck
DDA Donald Duck Adventures
GCA Gladstone Album
GG Gladstone Giant
MD Mickey and Donald
US Uncle Scrooge
USA Uncle Scrooge Adventures
USGD Uncle Scrooge Goes to Disneyland
WDC Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

2. (position 11) Number of pages, or
FC = front cover
CF = center fold
PI = full page illustration
IL = illustration ("the Gladstone that never was")

A "+" indicates half a page more, so "6+" is six and a half pages.
Number of pages is rounded to halves of pages.

3. (position 15) Code, this is the _exact_ code as seen in the story.
If a story or cover has no code, a code can be added, e.g. if the
original publication of a reprint is known.

4. (positions 27, 31, 35) Creators in three columns: writer, penciller,
and inker.
If writer not mentioned: writer unknown.
If inker not mentioned: inker = penciler. If inker = '?': inker unknown.

Creator + '?' means: uncertain.
Creator + '+' means: the main creator listed wasn't alone.

5. (position 39) Title prefix and title or description.
The title character is abbreviated, see the legend below.

Title prefix:

T: exact title (even a cover can have a title!)
D: description from the contents page, if the story has no title
O: own description, if T: and D: not available.

Texts between [] after the title/description are comments.

Legend of title characters:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BB The Beagle Boys
BR Brer Rabbit
C&D Chip 'n' Dale
CC Clara Cluck
DA Daisy (Duck)
DD Donald Duck
GD Grandma Duck
GyG Gyro Gearloose
GO Goofy
HDL Huey, Dewey and Louie
HtW Hazel the Witch
JW Junior Woodchucks
LBW Li'l Bad Wolf
MM Mickey Mouse
MM SSA Mickey Mouse Super Secret Agent
MMM The Marvelous Mad Madam Mim
PB The Phantom Blot
PL Pluto
SC Scamp
US Uncle Scrooge / Scrooge McDuck
WtP Winnie the Pooh
Wuz The Wuzzles

M&D Mickey and Donald
M&G Mickey and Goofy

Legend of creators:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AH Al Hubbard
AT Al Taliaferro
BK Bob Karp
BMo Bob Moore
BV Ben Verhagen
BW Bill Wright
BWa Bill Walsh
CB Carl Barks
CF Carl Fallberg
DB Daniel Branca
DC Don Christensen
DCo Del Connell
DF Don Ferguson
DG Don Gunn
DJ Daan Jippes
DM Dick Moores
DR Don Rosa
EL Edwin Loftus
FG Floyd Gottfredson
FS Frank McSavage
GL Gary Leach
GMa Guido Martina
GR George Roussos
GT Gil Turner
GW George Waiss
HB Homer Brightman
HE Harvey Eisenberg
HKa Hubie Karp
HP Hank Porter
JB Jack Bradbury
JC John Carey
JCF Jose Colomer Fonts
JK Jan Kruse
JL John Liggera
JLu John Justig
JM Jack Manning
JU John Ushler
KC Ken Champin
KH Ken Hultgren
KW Kay Wright
LG Luciano Gatto
LH Lee Hooper
LM Larry Mayer
MGr Marty Greim
MN Michel Nadorp
MO Morris Gollub
MR Mike Royer
PA Pete Alvarado
PL Phil de Lara
PM Paul Murry
RG Robert Gregory
RM Richard Moore
RMi Russ Miller
RSc Romano Scarpa
RSh Russell Schroeder
RSt Ruud Straatman
RT Riley Thompson
SS Steve Steere
TO Ted Osborne
TS Tony Strobl
TT Ted Thwaites
TY Tom Yakutis
VB Carl Von Buettner
VR Victor A. Rios (Vicar)
VRe Volker Reiche
VRi Vivie Risto
WH William Van Horn
WK Walt Kelly

Collaborations:
B+H CB + Jack Hannah
B+R CB + DR
C+R R. Cimino + RSc
M+S PM (Mickey and Goofy) + Dan Spiegle (the rest)
F+S Eric Freiwald + Robert Schaefer
M+B Merrill de Maris + CB
M+J Freddy Milton + DJ
N+B William F. Nolan + Charles Beaumont

Example of the list
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MD 1 FC DJ O:M&D, Merry Christmas box [remake of cover to FGA 1949]
MD 1 8 WDC&S 242 PM T:MM The Trail to Treasure
MD 1 8 FGA 1949 CB CB T:DD in "New Toys"
MD 1 8 FGA 1949 BW T:MM's Christmas Surprise
MD 1 4 AR 109 DR DR D:DD in "Fir-Tree Fracas"

Thanks in advance for everybody's cooperation!

--Harry.

e-mail: H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl
Harry Fluks
Last july, I had an e-mail discussion with an Andrew from Australia
about the story 'Darkest Africa'. There are some facts that might be
interesting for this mailing list, so here is a modified version.

The story of a story
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I will try to explain the whole thing by giving a chronological overview.

1. In the 40s, Barks drew 22 pages "Darkest Africa", published in a
comic called "Boys' and girls' March Of Comics". This comic was
a so-called Giveaway. The original artwork (22 pages Barks inks)
has been lost - Western did not store it because it was only a
giveaway, or maybe they threw it away when they needed the
space - so they could't use the story again for a reprint.

2. In 1981 (or so), a Dutch or Scandinavian Barks fan had a xerox
copy of the '40s comic. Maybe it was a copy of a copy of a comic
that belongs to an American fan. Anyway, it must have been 22
xeroxes, black and white and on many places almost unreadable...
The Dutch Disney editor wanted to publish _all_ Barks stories.
They could not publish Darkest Africa, because there were no
originals at Western, and the xerox copies they got from the fan
were un-publishable.
So they decided to have Daan Jippes re-ink (and often re-draw)
the story.

They found one panel had to be censored (apart from some textual
changes). That panel was deleted while re-inking the story. The
next panel was widened to fill in the space. (It is the panel
where the cannibals are running away and the man [don't know his
name] is saying something like "that smart-aleck better catch
that butterfy - and soon!")

Daan Jippes went to America in 1981 (to join the Disney studios),
so he could not finish his re-inking. He did only pages 1
through 4. So they got another Dutch artist, Dick Vlottes. He
inked the rest of the story (omitting the censored panel). He is
not a very good Disney artist. If you look very good, you can see
the difference between pp. 1-4 and 5-22.

This re-inked version was published in Holland in 1982 (and reprinted
twice afterwards).

3. In the mid-80s, American publisher Another Rainbow wanted to
publish _all_ Barks stories in The Carl Barks Library. Since
Western did not have the story "Darkest Africa", they got a copy
from Holland. I think they did not know that the story was
reinked and that a panel was missing (because noone told them,
and they never asked...).

The American Disney Company still wanted the story to be censored
(this was _not_ Another Rainbow's decision). So the "remaining"
cannibals in the story got thinner lips, and some texts may be
changed. May be the text is even re-translated from the Dutch.

4. In 1985, the missing panel was published in the Dutch comics
fanzine "Stripschrift" (don't even try to pronounce it 8-).

5. In 1992, I asked Dutch publisher Thom Roep if he had the original
xerox copies, that Jippes and Vlottes worked from 10 years ago.
He said that they had vanished, disappeared, never been seen
again...

6. In 1992, Disney Comics reprints "Darkest Africa" in color. They
took the CBL version, _without_ further changes.

7. In september 1992, the Dutch publisher published "The complete
Barks" in 17 books, black/white, Dutch translation. I helped them
to get the books _really_ complete. This even meant I had to
send _them_ a copy of the missing panel from Stripschrift!

They also included a French copy of the page the panel was on,
so the story must have been published in France sometime.

BTW: Jippes did some redrawing of other rare Barks stories as well,
e.g. 'Atom Bomb' and 'Race to the South Seas' (both recently
reprinted in Disney Comics).
Items 1, 2, 3 and 6 apply to these stories mostly, though no panels
are missing in these stories.
In 'Atom Bomb', Another Rainbow re-insterted some original Barks
panels in the Jippes version.
In 'South Seas', the Dutch origin can be spotted on a panel where
Donald's boat is identified as 'Kwaak', which is the Dutch word
for 'Quack'. This is only in the CBL version: the word 'Kwaak'
is omitted in the Disney Comics version.

---end---
(are you still there?)

Conclusion: the two Dutch members of this list have some Barks
artwork that is NOT in the Carl Barks Library! Nyaah nyaah! 8-)

--Harry.
Per Starbdck
As an appendix to what Harry told us about Darkest Africa (thanks!),
here are all the textual changes in the version published in the Carl
Barks Library (as compared to a bunch of photocopies of the original
I have). As you can see, the changes are there to make the story less
racist and to not make the natives cannibals. (Instead there are made
into head shrinkers!)

* 5:1 (= page 5, panel 1)
The "TAXI" on the taxi has disappeared. (Pretty unimportant, but I
try to list all changes.)

* 6:4
Donald: KNOW YOU THE VOICE OF THE DRUMS, FUZZY WUZZY?
"FUZZY WUZZY" -> "MUJAZ"

* 14:7
McFiendy: HMM! THERE MUST BE A NATIVE VILLAGE AROUND HERE WHERE I CAN
HIRE SOME *CANNIBALS!*
"CANNIBALS" -> "ASSISTANCE"

* 15:2
text box: WHILE DONALD CHASES THE BUTTERFLY, PROF. McFIENDY MAKES A
DEAL WITH SOME VERY ROUGH SAVAGES!
"SAVAGES" -> "NATIVES"

McFiendy: NOW, YOU GENTS UNDERSTAND--- FOR TWO FALSE TEETH YOU'RE TO
CAPTURE THESE FAT JUICY LITTLE BOYS AND HOLD THEM UNTIL I TELL YOU TO
LET THEM GO!
"FALSE TEETH" -> "CONFEDERATE DOLLARS"
"FAT JUICY" deleted.

* 15:3
This is the deleted panel showing two cannibals licking their lips.
one of the cannibals: YA! AND IF YOU NO TELL US BY MOONRISE, WE
*EATUM!* YUM! YUM!

* 15:8 (that is panel 7 in CBL)
a native: BEGGUM PARDON, BUT FAT JUICY BOYS NO GO HOME! FAT JUICY
BOYS COME WITH US!
-> "BEG PARDON, BUT LITTLE BOYS ARE NOT GOING HOME! LITTLE BOYS ARE
COMING WITH US!"

* 17:8
McFiendy: TRADED THEM TO SOME CANNIBALS FOR YOUR *BUTTERFLY!*
"CANNIBALS" -> "LOCAL COLLECTORS"

* 18:1
McFiendy: AND YOU CAN GIVE ME YOUR BUTTERFLY IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR
NEPHEWS EATEN!
"EATEN" -> "HEADS SHRUNK"

* 18:2
Donald: SHOW ME YOUR CANNIBALS!
"CANNIBALS" -> "SHRINKERS"

* 18:3
McFiendy: THERE ARE YOUR NEPHEWS, AND THERE IS THE STEWPOT!
"STEWPOT" -> "HEADMAN"
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: Per.Starback at student.docs.uu.se
"I vill rebort you to der United Nations!"
Per Starbdck
I quote Bill Hayes from The Comics List Weekly, Vol. 3 No. 1:

| It's been very gratifying to learn that Gladstone will once again be
| publishing Disney-related characters. Remembering that Gladstone did
| once publish DuckTales, I rather stupidly sent a note to longtime duck
| artist Don Rosa to learn if Gladstone would be picking up Disney comics
| based on current film and video projects. I got my ears pinned back,
| and since I spoke from ignorance, I probably deserved it. From what
| Don Rosa says, Gladstone will be publishing stories about Mickey,
| Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Goofy, and their supporting characters. We
| WILL NOT be seeing DarkWing Duck, LaunchPad McQuack, and other such
| characters in the pages of Uncle Scrooge. In fact, says Don, Mickey
| won't even appear in the same story as Donald. They're from different
| universes, declares Don. And since he's been doing Disney characters
| for years, he should know.
|
| And who will get these characters? Marvel, if anyone does, perhaps for
| one-shots and movie tie-ins. Since Disney had diffculty selling comics
| like DuckTales and Roger Rabbit, it's a good bet we won't be seeing any
| new stories for these characters and others. Reprints anyone?
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: Per.Starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Harry Fluks
"
Per Starback wrote:

> As an appendix to what Harry told us about Darkest Africa (thanks!),
> here are all the textual changes in the version published in the Carl
> Barks Library (as compared to a bunch of photocopies of the original
> I have).

Where do these photocopies come from? Are they published somewhere? Or are
you the 'Scandinavian Barks fan' that delivered these copies to the
Dutch editor in the first place? 8-)

(...)

> "I vill rebort you to der United Nations!"

Does a "Brofessor from Rotterdam" really sound like this, in your non-Dutch
ears?

--Harry.
Per Starbdck
Harry Fluks wrote:
> Where do these photocopies [of Barks's story "Darkest Africa"] come
> from? Are they published somewhere? Or are you the 'Scandinavian
> Barks fan' that delivered these copies to the Dutch editor in the
> first place? 8-)

I think I bought mine from Comico, a mail-order firm in Sweden that
sold Disney comics. Besides new and old books and magazines they also
sold photocopies of some (then) really rare Barks stories, like
"Christmas Carol", the Milkman story, "Darkest Africa", "The Firebug",
the "unpublished" pages of "Trick Or Treat" and "Back to Klondike" and
maybe one or two things besides that. (I guess they didn't have any
right to do that, but I didn't mind. It's almost ten years ago btw.)

I guess the copies the Dutch editor got came from the same copy of the
original comic book with "Darkest Africa", but I don't know.

>> "I vill rebort you to der United Nations!"
> Does a "Brofessor from Rotterdam" really sound like this, in your non-Dutch
> ears?

I don't think I've listened to many brofessors from Rotterdam, so I
really wouldn't know. The quoted one was a fake anyhow, as you know.
(For you who haven't read it: of course the quote was from that very
story, "Darkest Africa".)

Since I'm writing to the list anyway I might mention that the current
issue of the Scandinavian Disney books contains part four of Don
Rosa's "Life of Scrooge" series, "The King of the Copper Hill". This
is about the days that Scrooge told the boys of in Barks's "Only a
Poor Old Man" (1952):

"And this dollar---1882! I got that in Montana where I punched cows
while I looked for a homestead! The other Waddies laughed at me
when I filed on a claim that was all mountains and rocks! But I'd
poked around, and I knew that under that scrubby grass was
one-third of the world's known *copper!*"

And still another thing. When I mentioned news from The Duckburg
Times I forgot to mention that it mentions that Panels #2 is still in
print. $6 (plus $3 postage/handling) from: John Benson 205 W. 80th
Street #2B New York NY 10024. Maybe someone is interested? It is a
comics fanzine from 1981 which contains an interview with Carl Barks
(by Edward Summer) with plenty of illustrations, including some old
risque cartoons from The Calgary Eye-Opener and the then-new
watercolours called "Famous Figures of History as They Might Have
Looked Had Their Genes Gotten Mixed Up with Waterfowl", including
"Long, Ben, Arch Pirate" (cover), "Hiawatha" and "Buffalo Bill Cooty",
all in colour. A bit expensive though (cover price was $2.95).
Non-Disney contents: Jesse Marsh remembered by Alex Toth; Harvvey
Kurtzman's war tales analyzed.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Them was the days when drawing was *fun!*, eh?"
Per Starbdck
There is now an ftp archive for this mailing list. Look at
ftp.lysator.liu.se:/pub/comics/disney! (If you don't know how to use
ftp, feel free to ask me. And if ftp isn't available to you, ask me
to mail you the files you want instead.)

This is the README I just put there:

! This archive contains information about Disney comics, most of it
! coming from the Disney comics mailing list.
!
! If you want to join that mailing list, write to
! disney-comics-request at student.docs.uu.se.
!
! If you have any questions, additions, comments or corrections of the
! contents of this directory, please tell Per Starback, whose email
! address is starback at student.docs.uu.se.
!
! Descriptions of the files here:
!
! don-rosa-index An index of Don Rosa's Disney stuff
! gladstone-barks An index of Carl Barks stories in Gladstone's books.
! recurring-characters A list of recurring Disney characters
! (not only from comics).
! story-codes An explanation of the "story codes", often
! shown in the first panel of a comic book story.
!
! * And here follows Kjell Crone's indices on classical American Disney
! books. An explanation of the abbreviations is needed. I'll
! include one as soon as I've done it.
!
! fc.index Four Colors (1st and 2nd series)
! DDOS, USOS and MMOS are *not* included. (They are in
! dd.index, us.index, and mm.index respectively.)
! There are also some other odd books here, at the end.
!
! dd.index Donald Duck Oneshots + Donald Duck, up to #134.
!
! mm.index Mickey Mouse Oneshots + Mickey Mouse, up to #84.
! (I.e., all the Dell issues.)
!
! us.index Uncle Scrooge Oneshots + Uncle Scrooge, up to #75.
!
! giants.index Dell Giants.
!
! wdc.index Walt Disney Comics & Stories #1-67, very incomplete.
!
! * Soon to appear: a complete index of Gladstone's Disney comic books.

1. I put some of the stuff from this mailing list that I had easily
available in updated files there, but I didn't think much about what
should go there. Is there anything else I should put there?

2. As you can see Kjell Crone's indices that I mentioned in December
have arrived. I will do a better explanation of them later, but
most of the records look like this:

> 06 5* US TS THE LAST LAUGH KA 623702
^Swedish publication
^Title. (In all-caps if there really was a title)
^artist (this is Tony Strobl)
^title character (this is Uncle Scrooge)
^number of pages. (This is five full pages and a partial page)
^This is the sixth story in that book.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: Per.Starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

PS: Is anyone doing anything on the Gladstone index? I'm ready with
Mickey Mouse, but I haven't sent the result to Harry yet. You'll get
it soon...
Per Starbäck
Here is a legend for Kjell Crone's Indices that I put on
ftp.lysator.liu.se:/pub/comics/disney. I made it myself, so there may
be any number of faults in it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For every book there is one line for every story in the book. That
line contains Index, Pages, Title Character, Artist, Title, and
Publications, in that order.

* Index

This is 01, 02, etc. for the stories.

Sometimes there are different versions of the same book, where one
version has more stories than another. E.g., there are two versions
of DD 45, one with gag pages by Carl Barks on the inside front cover
and inside back cover, and one version with ads on those pages. That
isn't indicated in these indices, and the stories are numbered
according to their positions in the version of the book with the most
number of stories. Sometimes there is *another* (shorter) story in
the "ad version" of the book, as in FC 1247, where the seventh story
either is a full-page gag, or a half-page gag (with an ad taking up
the remaining half-page). In those cases the story in the "ad
version" of the book has a trailing "a", so that would be story "07a".

FC = front cover, BC = back cover, and other full-page illustrations
at the beginning or the end of the book are called FD, FE, ... or BD,
BE, ... respectively. Various illustrations and other stuff that
aren't comics inside the books sometimes get codes beginning with "p"
and then a page number, and sometimes they aren't listed.

One-page text stories with one illustration at the top are numbered as
the comics stories, and not indicated in any special way, though.

* Pages

This is the number of pages for the story. A trailing "*" indicates
an extra page that isn't full. If the story is less than one whole
page it's shown as a fraction instead.

* Title Character

AD Daisy Duck's Diary (but sometimes just DA is used)
AN Daisy's Nieces / April, May, and June
AW Alice in Wonderland
BI Bambi
BO Bongo
BR Brer Rabbit
BU Bucky Bug
BW Big Bad Wolf
CC Clara Cluck
CD Chip 'n' Dale
CH Captain Hook
CI Cinderella
CJ Casey Jr.
CL Clarabelle
DA Daisy Duck (sometimes also used for Daisy Duck's Diary)
DD Donald Duck
DN Donald's Nephews / Huey, Dewey, and Louie
DT ??? (Appears in DDBP 5.)
DU Dumbo
DV Li'l Davy
DW Dim-Witty
FD Family Duck (only for covers)
FM Family Mouse (only for covers)
GD Grandma Duck
GG Gyro Gearloose
GI Gilbert
GJ Gus and Jaq (see also JG!)
GL Gladstone Gander
GO Goofy
GU Gus Goose
JC Jiminy Cricket
JG Jack and Gus (see also GJ!)
LD Ludwig Von Drake
LH Little Hiawatha
LJ Lumpjaw
LT Lady and the Tramp
LW Li'l Bad Wolf
MA Mad Madam Mim
MD Moby Duck
MF Morty and Ferdie
MI Minnie
MM Mickey Mouse
OG ??? (Appears in SS 1-6.)
PI Pinocchio
PL Pluto
PP Peter Pan
RH Robin Hood
SB Sleeping Beauty
SC Scamp
SD The Seven Dwarfs
SW Snow White
TB Tinker Bell
TH Thumper
TI Timothy
TP Three Little Pigs
UR Uncle Remus
US Uncle Scrooge / Scrooge McDuck

Several characters are sometimes joined with "+".

* Artist

AH Al Hubbard
AT Al Taliaferro
BG Bob Grant
BW Bill Wright
CB Carl Barks
DG Don Gunn
DM Dick Moores
FA Fred Abranz
FG Floyd Gottfredson
FS Frank McSavage
GT Gil Turner
HE Harvey Eisenberg
IT Irving Tripp
JB Jack Bradbury
JH Jack Hannah
JM Jack Manning (I think that's what it supposed to stand for,
but all JM stories here are drawn by Stan Walsh,
according to Becattini's Disney Index Vol. 1.
JS? ??? (Appears in WDCP 3.)
KH Ken Hultgren
Kn ??? (Appears in DDBP 1 and SS 1.)
LH Lee Hooper
MG Manuel Gonzales
MO Morris Gollub
PA Pete Alvarado
PL Phil de Lara
PM Paul Murry
RA Roger Armstrong
RG Robert Gregory
RT Riley Thompson
TS Tony Strobl
VB Carl (Von) Buettner
WK Walt Kelly
ph (a photography)

* Title

Titles in ALL CAPS are actual titles taken from the comic books, other
titles are "descriptive titles".

Newspaper comics that are edited into a comic book format sometimes
have the copyright year before of after the title, as "'41 WHERE
THERE'S SMOKE" or "Secret invention ('41)", and sometimes the whole
date is there as in "2-9-41 TRAPPED".

Sometimes there is no title except for the date(s), as in
"KF 9-1-46--10-6-46".

* Publications

If the story is a reprint this shows the origin, with "=" followed by
the code of original comic book as given below followed with the index
of that story in that book, as given in this index.

DD = Donald Duck
DDBP = Donald Duck Beach Party
DDFB = Donald Duck Fun Book
DDID = Donald Duck in Disneyland
FC = Four Color
gkWDCP = Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Gold Key)
GIANT = Dell Giant
PPTC = Peter Pan Treasure Chest
SS = Silly Symphonies
US = Uncle Scrooge
VID = Vacation in Disneyland
WDC = Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
WDCP = Walt Disney's Christmas Parade (Dell)
XID = Christmas in Disneyland

For newspaper comics edited for publication sometimes the date
the (partial) date is shown here, like "(c 1941)", "XX-XX-55", or
"KF 5-14-39". More often that is in the title instead.

Most of the time the Publication column is used to show Swedish
(first) publication of the stories:

JFJ = Jag, Farbror Joakim
JKA = Jag, Kalle Anka
KA = Kalle Anka & C:o
KAB = Kalle Ankas B{stisar
KAJ = Kalle Anka Guldbok
KAJK = Kalle Anka Julkul
KAP = Kalle Ankas Pocket
KASL = Kalle Anka Sommarlov
KAVK = Kalle Anka Vinterkul
MPJP = Musse Pigg Jubelpartaj
SLX = Sportlovsextra
VKK = Vi tv} --- Kajsa & Kalle
VKFT = Vi, Knatte, Fnatte, Tjatte
WDG = Walt Disneys Godbitar
WDK = Walt Disneys Klassiker
WDP =
WDS = Walt Disneys Serier
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Per Starbäck
I recently bought some old (50's) Swedish Disney books, something I
haven't done for a long time. I got a really strange feeling when I
found a ten-pager by Barks there that I've never read before. It was
WDC 174 (Donald delivers mail on ice) which hasn't been reprinted in
Sweden since then, which is in one of the CBL sets that I don't have,
and which Gladstone never printed, so it has escaped me totally up to
now. I have never bothered to tick off what Barks stories I have, and
which ones I lack, but I *thought* that I had them all, or at least
have read them all, in one way or another, at least everything longer
than one page. (Except Porky of the Mounties, but that's not Disney
anyhow...)

I wonder if there are more unknown treats out there for me? What
about everyone else on the list? Are you still seeing most of Barks's
stories for the first time when you see them, or are you as surprised
as I was when you see something you don't recognize?
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Harry Fluks
"
Per Starback writes:

> (...) I have never bothered to tick off what Barks stories I have, and
> which ones I lack, but I *thought* that I had them all, or at least
> have read them all, in one way or another, at least everything longer
> than one page.

I thought every Barks fan would have made a Barks checklist..
I have, and I know exactly which stories I have and which I don't.

I can even recognise most of the stories when seeing only one panel of it...

Of most stories I don't have, I have at least seen a copy in a store (I
don't have the Carl Barks Library, but I browsed in it a lot when it was
for sale). The only Barks things I don't have now, are:
- most of the 'script only' stories (loup garou, junior woodchucks)
- most of the 'barney bear and benny burro' stories.
All the other things I have read at least 20 times... I was glad when Don Rosa
started making stories: finally some *new* stories in the Barks quality.

> (Except Porky of the Mounties, but that's not Disney
> anyhow...)

This means you have a copy of all the 'Our Gang' (bear) stories of Barks?

----x----
[Next thing is Barks, but NOT Disney. So if you think it should not be on
this list: skip it]

BTW: some of the non-Disney Barks comics are reprinted in 'Tom and Jerry'
(Harvey publ.) The Happy Hound stories, and some of the oldest (Barney
Bear &) Benny Burro stories. Apparently, they stopped reprinting Barks,
for I have not seen any Barks story in recent issues.

One of the Happy Hound stories, "Mother is a wolf's best friend", is
reprinted with new lettering and a new title: "Hugo Hound".
I think it is re-translated from some other language: maybe German?
(Hugo sounds German...)

Any clues?

--Harry.
Per Starbäck
I wrote that I recently found a Barks story I've never read before,
and didn't know I hadn't read.

Harry> I thought every Barks fan would have made a Barks checklist..
Harry> I have, and I know exactly which stories I have and which I don't.

I guess I simplified truth a little, because I *have* made such lists
a couple of times, but every time it became hopelessly out-of-date
after a while as I forgot to enter new stuff in it when I got it.

me> (Except Porky of the Mounties, but that's not Disney
me> anyhow...)

> This means you have a copy of all the 'Our Gang' (bear) stories of
> Barks?

Yes, they were all published in Swedish "Tom & Jerry" some years ago.
(And now they are published again in album form by Carl Barks fan (and
lots of other things) Horst Schr"oder.

> [Next thing is Barks, but NOT Disney. So if you think it should not be on
> this list: skip it]

As far as I'm concerned anything by Barks is interesting when talking
about Disney comics, even when it isn't Disney. (But of course I don't
know what the silent majority of the list is interested in.
Opinions?)

> BTW: some of the non-Disney Barks comics are reprinted in 'Tom and Jerry'
> (Harvey publ.) The Happy Hound stories, and some of the oldest (Barney
> Bear &) Benny Burro stories. Apparently, they stopped reprinting Barks,
> for I have not seen any Barks story in recent issues.

Do you know what stories were published in what issues? I have them
in Swedish, as I said, but I'd like to have all Barks in English. (I
regret I didn't get the Barks Bear Book which reprinted all Barks's
non-Disney comics.)
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Anders Engwall
Per Starback...

> I recently bought some old (50's) Swedish Disney books, something I
> haven't done for a long time. I got a really strange feeling when I
> found a ten-pager by Barks there that I've never read before. It was
> WDC 174 (Donald delivers mail on ice) which hasn't been reprinted in
> Sweden since then,

This was reprinted in issue 3 of 1987, under the title "Isb}t till
B{ver|n".

> I have never bothered to tick off what Barks stories I have, and
> which ones I lack, but I *thought* that I had them all, or at least
> have read them all, in one way or another, at least everything longer
> than one page.

There is a fine Barks index in the Swedish price guide of 1991.
It's sorted by the stories' original U.S. appearances, so it should
be quite easy to tick off the ones you haven't read yet. It also
includes his non-Disney work. U.S. titles are omitted, unfortunately.

> I wonder if there are more unknown treats out there for me? What
> about everyone else on the list? Are you still seeing most of Barks's
> stories for the first time when you see them, or are you as surprised
> as I was when you see something you don't recognize?

I've read the majority of them, but there are however several stories
that I haven't. Firstly, there are a few ones that for some reason
haven't been reprinted since their original Swedish printing. Some
of these were originally printed as far back as in 1950, and those
will cost you an *obscene* amount of money to obtain. Secondly, I
gave up on the Swedish Donald books in 1978, and there have been
quite a few reprints there since then -- and even some stories never
printed in Swedish before. These are the main reasons for my 'blank
spots' (yup, I mainly do my Disney reading in Swedish).

The choice between getting a reprint from say, 1982, and its original
printing from 1954 is a rather delicate one, btw. Those old issues just
look and feel *so* much better, but boy, will they cost you...
And you always have the suspicion that the rare old gem you just spent big
$ to obtain will be reprinted very soon. Hmm -- perhaps it's better to
use flipism in such situations.

Another thing about those old fifties Swedish Disney books is that
there are no ads in them, except for other Disney publications, which
by today's standards is quite extraordinary. I think ads started
to appear sometime in the late fifties. Anyone knows more exactly?
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