Fredrick wrote
>
>Yeah. That sounds just like London.
>
>I was there last summer, and one of the first things I stumbled upon
>was some issue of a weekly Mickey Mouse that featured not only "The
>Bees Have It" by William Van Horn, but also one of Jippes' re-drawn
>JW stories. However, the only copy at that store was quite battered,
>so I decided to find a better one.
>
>Really stupid idea.
>
>For three whole days I searched. Well, I didn't ONLY do that, but
>whenever I passed a store that seemed even remotely likely to carry
>Disney mags, I dived in to check them out. Even at the comic department
>of Virgin Megastore (one of the very few comic shops I found) they
>only had the Gladstone albums. And when I finally did find another
>English Mickey, it was a new issue. No Van Horn. No Jippes.
>
>And this leads me to a question to our English member: How on earth
>can them Fleetway, or whatever their name, survive in a country where
>noone sells their comics? Why, judging from my own experiences, this
>even seemed worse than US! In the US, there will at least BE a comic
>shop somewhere along the road. And, most probably, somewhere in that
>comic shop there will be a few Disneys in some dusty corner. But in
>England, I didn't even see that.
>
Well, as for Fleetway, they are doing so much money with Dredd and similar
things, that I think they do not really care about Disney.
Besides, they are part of a very big company, and you know what happen to
little businness in a big company...
Back to London. There are a lot of big comics shops in London, some of them
not so far from Virgin megastore, such as Forbidden Planet.
Next time, you should buy the Comics Weekly, where you can find a lot of
ads and addresses (btw, I think that The Comics Weekly is also advertized
in the English section of the Diamond's Preview)
Fabio
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Fabio Gadducci
London...
Message 166 -
1994-01-27 at 12:46:09
David A Gerstein
Info for us and Gladstone from Fabio
Message 167 -
1994-01-27 at 16:54:58
Dear Folks (and particularly John),
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Subject: Re: Disney-comics digest #212.
Just some thoughts on old questions...
David wrote
>
> I-1948, MM as Court Troubador
> =============================
>
> I've forgotten who mentioned this story and where it appeared,
>but it was described as being a MM story where Mickey went to the
>studio -- as he does in "The Brave Little Tailor" and "The Robinson
>Crusoe Adventure" -- to make a film, and made one about being in
>medieval times. In the story, he was shown with pie-eyes, so this
>would seem to be based on the 1933 cartoon "Ye Olden Days". I'd like
>to know more about this and how I might obtain it.
>
And Ole added
>
>I had to buy a digest, which featured a story (I 1948) in
>which Clarabelle read a fairy tale to Morty and Ferdie: "Mickey Mouse
>and the Troubadour of Camelot." The story is colored in red-scale and
>has the old pie-eyed Mickey and Minnie appearing in a medieval setting.
>This ties in with the recent character/actor discussion, and I think
>Italian scripters are the most faithful to Floyd Gottfredson, whose
>introduction to the Abbeville book BTW kicks off with the words:
>"Mickey Mouse is an actor."
>
I cannot find out where my copy of that issue is. Anyway, it seems one of
the stories with a particular kind of color that Asteriti and Carpi have
been producing for a while (almost all of them in a medieval setting) but
where the main character is usually Donald: I cannot remember more than a
couple of stories with (pie-eyed) Mickey.
(Btw, the use of a medieval setting where the ducks play has been quite a
common device here in Italy, expecially during the Fifties with Martina
and Bottaro)
Still David, on Gottfredson
>
> Gary said: "Manpower is the #2 reason Gladstone cannot
>publish much of what deservedly should be published of Gottfredson's
>Mickey. The simple gruntwork it takes to make most of the art
>publishable, particularly by today's printing standards, is simply
>beyond our powers today."
>
[...]
>
> Another easy way to use Gottfredson stuff is to order the old
>Western versions. From WDC&S 81-85 "The Gleam" was published
>complete, and in MM BIRTHDAY PARTY 1 (1953) "Love Trouble" got the
>same treatment. I can't say that Dell ever printed any *other*
>Gottfredson stories so completely (there are some panels dropped here
>and there in others that they printed), but there's two at least.
>
> As for the others, both GP (ex-Oberon) and Mondadori have used
>loads of Gottfredson stuff, reformatting it themselves. They'd be
>quite willing to let you use it as with their own stories. All Gladstone
>would have to do there is restore the dialog. Bruce Hamilton owns a
>set of the complete Gottfredson as published by Horst Schroeder in
>Germany -- he told me that himself. All you'd need to do is take the
>set, Xerox the dialog, and paste it in. That'd be no longer a job
>than lettering a foreign story -- in fact it'd take *less* time, since
>Xeroxing 26 pages worth of dialog takes less time than to letter it.
>
> (I assume you can't just use the strips themselves from
>Horst's collections -- presumably the art isn't quite up to Disney's
>proof quality, having been made from newspapers as opposed to proofs.
>But you could indeed use the text, as you did with the Duck stories
>"Race to the South Seas" and "Darkest Africa". It was clear that the
>dialog had been photocopied and pasted into the foreign re-inked
>versions for those two stories, and I sure didn't mind that.)
>
[...]
>
> A few years ago Germany's Ehapa published "In Search of Jungle
>Treasure" as a supplement to their weekly. This may have been taken
>from an Italian product, because I've seen a much larger, but
>basically very similarly-formatted, comic from Italy with "Island in
>the Sky." In both cases the strips are printed in their original
>format, completely cleaned-up, and reading lengthwise (comic is bound
>so it opens with pages rightside up, much wider than they are tall).
>The Italian "Island in the Sky" is in black-and-white, while the
>German "Jungle Treasure" is in color, but it looked to me like the
>German thing was just a reduced-size version of the Italian, which
>someone had colored.
>
> In this case, the Italian version isn't a cut-up version a la
>Mondadori's big white books, either; both of these reprints have not
>altered anything in the word balloons -- even the SHAPES of the word
>balloons are original. Maybe the project didn't start in Italy...
>but who knows?
>
> What I'm trying to say is that cleaned-up Gottfredson should
>be available to Gladstone with no more work than ordering and putting
>together a foreign Duck story.
>
Well, actually I think that the project started in Italy...
During its last years as a Disney's publisher, and with the help of Ernesto
Traverso, Mondadori published ALL Gottfredson strips in chronological order
and with the original format, in nice horizontal books.
They published the years 1928-1943 in smaller, four colour books (approx.
one for each story) and the years 1943-1956 in 14 b&w books, each
collecting a whole year of strips.
All of these were collector's editions, but a few of the more famous
stories of the Thirties were reprinted (in colour) also in a newstand
edition, and between them "In Search of Jungle Treasure" and "Island in the
Sky", to which David is referring.
Now, the small publisher Comic Art is taking care of the project, and has
already reprinted the years 1957-1980.
Same thing for the sundays: I do not remeber how much of them Mondadori
reprinted, but I'm sure Comic Art has already issued the years 1957-1968.
Maybe Gladstone should ask Mondadori, if they have not yet given all their
stuff to Disney Italy (whose archives are an incredible mess, and searching
down for Gottfredson's strips could be a difficult task...)
Bye for now,
Fabio
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Subject: Re: Disney-comics digest #212.
Just some thoughts on old questions...
David wrote
>
> I-1948, MM as Court Troubador
> =============================
>
> I've forgotten who mentioned this story and where it appeared,
>but it was described as being a MM story where Mickey went to the
>studio -- as he does in "The Brave Little Tailor" and "The Robinson
>Crusoe Adventure" -- to make a film, and made one about being in
>medieval times. In the story, he was shown with pie-eyes, so this
>would seem to be based on the 1933 cartoon "Ye Olden Days". I'd like
>to know more about this and how I might obtain it.
>
And Ole added
>
>I had to buy a digest, which featured a story (I 1948) in
>which Clarabelle read a fairy tale to Morty and Ferdie: "Mickey Mouse
>and the Troubadour of Camelot." The story is colored in red-scale and
>has the old pie-eyed Mickey and Minnie appearing in a medieval setting.
>This ties in with the recent character/actor discussion, and I think
>Italian scripters are the most faithful to Floyd Gottfredson, whose
>introduction to the Abbeville book BTW kicks off with the words:
>"Mickey Mouse is an actor."
>
I cannot find out where my copy of that issue is. Anyway, it seems one of
the stories with a particular kind of color that Asteriti and Carpi have
been producing for a while (almost all of them in a medieval setting) but
where the main character is usually Donald: I cannot remember more than a
couple of stories with (pie-eyed) Mickey.
(Btw, the use of a medieval setting where the ducks play has been quite a
common device here in Italy, expecially during the Fifties with Martina
and Bottaro)
Still David, on Gottfredson
>
> Gary said: "Manpower is the #2 reason Gladstone cannot
>publish much of what deservedly should be published of Gottfredson's
>Mickey. The simple gruntwork it takes to make most of the art
>publishable, particularly by today's printing standards, is simply
>beyond our powers today."
>
[...]
>
> Another easy way to use Gottfredson stuff is to order the old
>Western versions. From WDC&S 81-85 "The Gleam" was published
>complete, and in MM BIRTHDAY PARTY 1 (1953) "Love Trouble" got the
>same treatment. I can't say that Dell ever printed any *other*
>Gottfredson stories so completely (there are some panels dropped here
>and there in others that they printed), but there's two at least.
>
> As for the others, both GP (ex-Oberon) and Mondadori have used
>loads of Gottfredson stuff, reformatting it themselves. They'd be
>quite willing to let you use it as with their own stories. All Gladstone
>would have to do there is restore the dialog. Bruce Hamilton owns a
>set of the complete Gottfredson as published by Horst Schroeder in
>Germany -- he told me that himself. All you'd need to do is take the
>set, Xerox the dialog, and paste it in. That'd be no longer a job
>than lettering a foreign story -- in fact it'd take *less* time, since
>Xeroxing 26 pages worth of dialog takes less time than to letter it.
>
> (I assume you can't just use the strips themselves from
>Horst's collections -- presumably the art isn't quite up to Disney's
>proof quality, having been made from newspapers as opposed to proofs.
>But you could indeed use the text, as you did with the Duck stories
>"Race to the South Seas" and "Darkest Africa". It was clear that the
>dialog had been photocopied and pasted into the foreign re-inked
>versions for those two stories, and I sure didn't mind that.)
>
[...]
>
> A few years ago Germany's Ehapa published "In Search of Jungle
>Treasure" as a supplement to their weekly. This may have been taken
>from an Italian product, because I've seen a much larger, but
>basically very similarly-formatted, comic from Italy with "Island in
>the Sky." In both cases the strips are printed in their original
>format, completely cleaned-up, and reading lengthwise (comic is bound
>so it opens with pages rightside up, much wider than they are tall).
>The Italian "Island in the Sky" is in black-and-white, while the
>German "Jungle Treasure" is in color, but it looked to me like the
>German thing was just a reduced-size version of the Italian, which
>someone had colored.
>
> In this case, the Italian version isn't a cut-up version a la
>Mondadori's big white books, either; both of these reprints have not
>altered anything in the word balloons -- even the SHAPES of the word
>balloons are original. Maybe the project didn't start in Italy...
>but who knows?
>
> What I'm trying to say is that cleaned-up Gottfredson should
>be available to Gladstone with no more work than ordering and putting
>together a foreign Duck story.
>
Well, actually I think that the project started in Italy...
During its last years as a Disney's publisher, and with the help of Ernesto
Traverso, Mondadori published ALL Gottfredson strips in chronological order
and with the original format, in nice horizontal books.
They published the years 1928-1943 in smaller, four colour books (approx.
one for each story) and the years 1943-1956 in 14 b&w books, each
collecting a whole year of strips.
All of these were collector's editions, but a few of the more famous
stories of the Thirties were reprinted (in colour) also in a newstand
edition, and between them "In Search of Jungle Treasure" and "Island in the
Sky", to which David is referring.
Now, the small publisher Comic Art is taking care of the project, and has
already reprinted the years 1957-1980.
Same thing for the sundays: I do not remeber how much of them Mondadori
reprinted, but I'm sure Comic Art has already issued the years 1957-1968.
Maybe Gladstone should ask Mondadori, if they have not yet given all their
stuff to Disney Italy (whose archives are an incredible mess, and searching
down for Gottfredson's strips could be a difficult task...)
Bye for now,
Fabio
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From RoC
Message 168 -
1994-01-27 at 17:03:00
First my burning question: The Disney newspaper strips. How many/which
are/were there? Who do them now? When did they run? "Pluto the Pup"?
And if Bob "Moose" Foster is at Egmont, who writes the DD daily?
Gary, can you reveal a little more about the Jippes/Foster team-up?
Would it by chance mean that Jippes is going to draw *comics* again?
Norwegian DD had an interesting supplementary issue this week: "MM -
An Education for Thursday"! Yes, only in Scandinavia: home of the brave,
land of the free! The back cover credited Floyd Gottfredson and Merrill
de Maris and had notes on and dates of the Thursday/Friday trilogy. The
catch was that it was a photographic copy of the 1953 Norwegian 32 page
version of OS 268, credited in various "Carl Barks & Co."s to both Floyd
G. and Paul Murry(!). Looks all Wright to me...
Now for something completely different: some comments to two weeks' old
messages in chronological order:
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 From: David
>As for MM in the Foreign Legion, there's an Arab villain,
>Yussuf Aiper (is there a pun there? I CAN'T find it!)
In the raging debate, noone ever suggested "Just a viper."
Or, if Gottfredson ever did that, a takeoff on some contemporary
celebrity named Joseph. My best shot is Josephine Baker, but still...
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 From: Harry
>This is THE best Jippes story ever made.
>[...]
>The story was reprinted in the first Gladstone WDC issue. I'm surprised
>it hasn't been printed before in Norway, but maybe this is a REprint?
I'm still trying to get hold of all those first Gladstones, so I wasn't
aware that it had ever been printed outside Holland. I most definitely
don't think it ever has in Denmark, and probably not in Norway either.
>BTW: One of the Danish pocket books seems to have a cover by Ulrich Schroeder,
>based on a sketch by Barks. It shows Donald and the nephews slicing a pie.
It's Danish Jumbo Book #57. And it's more like a cake.
>(In the next quote, @ is an unreadable character on my PC)
>> Did Adolf Kabatek really do the "Treasure Chest" series? He is only
>> credited for the idea, and in CB&Co.#18 an Alfonso Molin@ from Spain
>> tells that Francisco Bargad@ runs the Recreo Studio in Barcelona. They
>> make S-coded stories and "recently did [...] Der Regengott von Uxmal."
>> That's ten years ago.
Today @ means an 'a-with-a-dash-on-it' (accent aigu). Doggone ASCII.
>The Treasure Chest stories were the first subject I ever put on this list.
>I think we concluded then that Kabatek _wrote_ the stories. In the album
>about Scotland, there is an introductory text about "the editor who went
>to Scotland", meaning Kabatek. So it's likely he wrote the stories (and most
>of the others.)
Thanks, just checked our 'back issues'. I didn't know that Scottish story.
>> INTERVIEW with MARCO ROTA from CARL BARKS & CO. #20
>> (translated from Danish by Ole Reichstein in January 1994)
>
>Thank you very much!
>It seems our short summary of Rota stories was quite complete ("quite" in
>the Van-Horn-list sense of the word 8-).
How could you tell? I *did* leave out an index of Danish publications of
his works, because we knew all those. I almost think he *got* them here!
Excavations in my sources have unearthed some "new" ones:
AAnd Ekstra 6/1974: 15 p. S-2108 [DD, the swimmer&the sleep machine]
Onkel Joakim 4/1977: 21 p. I-877 [MM, the phony hairdresser] (?)
Onkel Joakim 20/1983: 20 p. S-75087 [DD, the golden egg]
Mickey Mouse 1/1990: 30 p. I-1636a [U$, survivor of the swamps]
Also covers on Jumbo book #s 53, 54, 56, 59, 60, 61, 66 and 79.
Swedish versions may have the same numbers, so feel free to argue.
>> Marco Rota was born on September 18.th 1942 in Milan. He did his first
>> professional job at the age of 16, but it would take another 13 years
>> before he had his first Disney story published. It was "Topolino e la
>> tigre col fiocco" from June 6.th 1971 in Topolino #10.
>
>Can someone translate this title?
I first intended to do so with all the Italian titles, but as this one
came out as 'The Bearded Tiger' I reconsidered.
BTW: The latest MM serial in Dutch DD is not too bad, eh?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 From: Mattias
>Subject: A quiz for Ole!
>Ole Reichstein wanted a hard quiz, 'cause he claims he cheats! Well, Ole,
>here's one that's short'n'sweet:
>What is the habitat of the Gnoof?
>Hmm?
If you mean Freddy Milton's Gnuff, it's Norregade 13. If not, I give up.
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 From: David
> Rota on Gottfredson
>
> I'LL SAY!! I'm surprised Rota praised Murry early in his
>interview, when he later had the guts (which I applaud) to say a thing
>like this -- and also to criticize those who made Mickey "a detective
>who worked almost mechanically with the police".
You'll be interested to know, that the only regular regular MM title
in Denmark, MM pocket, which incidentally is indistinguishable from the
other monthly pocket filled with I codes, Uncle Scrooge, has been dis-
continued. It has however been replaced with the title Mickey Mysteries.
Quoting by memory from the advert: "Mickey has gone full-time detective
to give you stories the way you like them: exciting!" The stories are
Danish coded, but have a strong Italian flavor. Mickey is a Humphrey
Bogart type, and Minnie is an anchor-mouse on a TV network!
Is this an example of Egmont's hardliner 'back to basics' approach???
> ROC described
>
> a new Finnish DD which included 27 pages of Dutch stories,
>including the same 10-page Jippes which was in WDC&S 511, and also a
>Mau Heymans story. Am I meant to take it that the Heymans one is 17
>pages long? If not, what is the third story? And is either the
>Heymans story or the other one worthy of reprint here, BTW?
Nah, it's only 13 pages and not too interesting:
Donald and the kids want to go to the zoo, but it's closed. The owner,
Scrooge of course, claims it has to show a profit. HD&L suggest he finds
an animal, so rare that it will attract customers. ("I had a crowd-
pleaser like that once, a *unicorn*! But then the papers started writing
that it was just a horse!") Scrooge send them to the Himalayas to
capture a yeti. They find his cave, and the dwellers are a short, hairy
creature with big feet and his wife and kid. Donald must pick one to
abduct (why can't he take them all?), but prefers a closed zoo to an
unhappy yeti family so they return empty-handed. Scrooge figures from
the photos that someone could dress up like a yeti. Someone short with
big feet. Someone who owes him for a trip to the Himalayas...
The last 4 pages is a Beagle Boys story, and not interesting at all.
> I-1948, MM as Court Troubador
>
> I've forgotten who mentioned this story and where it appeared,
>but it was described as being a MM story where Mickey went to the
>studio -- as he does in "The Brave Little Tailor" and "The Robinson
>Crusoe Adventure" -- to make a film, and made one about being in
>medieval times. In the story, he was shown with pie-eyes, so this
>would seem to be based on the 1933 cartoon "Ye Olden Days". I'd like
>to know more about this and how I might obtain it.
It was I, and it is a 38 page story in 3 strip format. The 11 page frame
story (in color) could be skipped without any problems. The splash page
shows a 'photo' of a pop-up book, so the story is probably inspired by
a classic toon, even if the plot is quite complex compared to those.
If you want it, ask your friends at Egmont for a copy of Onkel Joakim
(Uncle Scrooge pocket) #14/1993.
Just bought a bunch of Gladstone's MMs: I'm a born again mickeymaniac:)
<oLe 'RoC' Reichstein Nielsen, c/o Lasse 'Spot' R.N. (lrn at daimi.aau.dk)>
are/were there? Who do them now? When did they run? "Pluto the Pup"?
And if Bob "Moose" Foster is at Egmont, who writes the DD daily?
Gary, can you reveal a little more about the Jippes/Foster team-up?
Would it by chance mean that Jippes is going to draw *comics* again?
Norwegian DD had an interesting supplementary issue this week: "MM -
An Education for Thursday"! Yes, only in Scandinavia: home of the brave,
land of the free! The back cover credited Floyd Gottfredson and Merrill
de Maris and had notes on and dates of the Thursday/Friday trilogy. The
catch was that it was a photographic copy of the 1953 Norwegian 32 page
version of OS 268, credited in various "Carl Barks & Co."s to both Floyd
G. and Paul Murry(!). Looks all Wright to me...
Now for something completely different: some comments to two weeks' old
messages in chronological order:
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 From: David
>As for MM in the Foreign Legion, there's an Arab villain,
>Yussuf Aiper (is there a pun there? I CAN'T find it!)
In the raging debate, noone ever suggested "Just a viper."
Or, if Gottfredson ever did that, a takeoff on some contemporary
celebrity named Joseph. My best shot is Josephine Baker, but still...
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 From: Harry
>This is THE best Jippes story ever made.
>[...]
>The story was reprinted in the first Gladstone WDC issue. I'm surprised
>it hasn't been printed before in Norway, but maybe this is a REprint?
I'm still trying to get hold of all those first Gladstones, so I wasn't
aware that it had ever been printed outside Holland. I most definitely
don't think it ever has in Denmark, and probably not in Norway either.
>BTW: One of the Danish pocket books seems to have a cover by Ulrich Schroeder,
>based on a sketch by Barks. It shows Donald and the nephews slicing a pie.
It's Danish Jumbo Book #57. And it's more like a cake.
>(In the next quote, @ is an unreadable character on my PC)
>> Did Adolf Kabatek really do the "Treasure Chest" series? He is only
>> credited for the idea, and in CB&Co.#18 an Alfonso Molin@ from Spain
>> tells that Francisco Bargad@ runs the Recreo Studio in Barcelona. They
>> make S-coded stories and "recently did [...] Der Regengott von Uxmal."
>> That's ten years ago.
Today @ means an 'a-with-a-dash-on-it' (accent aigu). Doggone ASCII.
>The Treasure Chest stories were the first subject I ever put on this list.
>I think we concluded then that Kabatek _wrote_ the stories. In the album
>about Scotland, there is an introductory text about "the editor who went
>to Scotland", meaning Kabatek. So it's likely he wrote the stories (and most
>of the others.)
Thanks, just checked our 'back issues'. I didn't know that Scottish story.
>> INTERVIEW with MARCO ROTA from CARL BARKS & CO. #20
>> (translated from Danish by Ole Reichstein in January 1994)
>
>Thank you very much!
>It seems our short summary of Rota stories was quite complete ("quite" in
>the Van-Horn-list sense of the word 8-).
How could you tell? I *did* leave out an index of Danish publications of
his works, because we knew all those. I almost think he *got* them here!
Excavations in my sources have unearthed some "new" ones:
AAnd Ekstra 6/1974: 15 p. S-2108 [DD, the swimmer&the sleep machine]
Onkel Joakim 4/1977: 21 p. I-877 [MM, the phony hairdresser] (?)
Onkel Joakim 20/1983: 20 p. S-75087 [DD, the golden egg]
Mickey Mouse 1/1990: 30 p. I-1636a [U$, survivor of the swamps]
Also covers on Jumbo book #s 53, 54, 56, 59, 60, 61, 66 and 79.
Swedish versions may have the same numbers, so feel free to argue.
>> Marco Rota was born on September 18.th 1942 in Milan. He did his first
>> professional job at the age of 16, but it would take another 13 years
>> before he had his first Disney story published. It was "Topolino e la
>> tigre col fiocco" from June 6.th 1971 in Topolino #10.
>
>Can someone translate this title?
I first intended to do so with all the Italian titles, but as this one
came out as 'The Bearded Tiger' I reconsidered.
BTW: The latest MM serial in Dutch DD is not too bad, eh?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 From: Mattias
>Subject: A quiz for Ole!
>Ole Reichstein wanted a hard quiz, 'cause he claims he cheats! Well, Ole,
>here's one that's short'n'sweet:
>What is the habitat of the Gnoof?
>Hmm?
If you mean Freddy Milton's Gnuff, it's Norregade 13. If not, I give up.
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 From: David
> Rota on Gottfredson
>
> I'LL SAY!! I'm surprised Rota praised Murry early in his
>interview, when he later had the guts (which I applaud) to say a thing
>like this -- and also to criticize those who made Mickey "a detective
>who worked almost mechanically with the police".
You'll be interested to know, that the only regular regular MM title
in Denmark, MM pocket, which incidentally is indistinguishable from the
other monthly pocket filled with I codes, Uncle Scrooge, has been dis-
continued. It has however been replaced with the title Mickey Mysteries.
Quoting by memory from the advert: "Mickey has gone full-time detective
to give you stories the way you like them: exciting!" The stories are
Danish coded, but have a strong Italian flavor. Mickey is a Humphrey
Bogart type, and Minnie is an anchor-mouse on a TV network!
Is this an example of Egmont's hardliner 'back to basics' approach???
> ROC described
>
> a new Finnish DD which included 27 pages of Dutch stories,
>including the same 10-page Jippes which was in WDC&S 511, and also a
>Mau Heymans story. Am I meant to take it that the Heymans one is 17
>pages long? If not, what is the third story? And is either the
>Heymans story or the other one worthy of reprint here, BTW?
Nah, it's only 13 pages and not too interesting:
Donald and the kids want to go to the zoo, but it's closed. The owner,
Scrooge of course, claims it has to show a profit. HD&L suggest he finds
an animal, so rare that it will attract customers. ("I had a crowd-
pleaser like that once, a *unicorn*! But then the papers started writing
that it was just a horse!") Scrooge send them to the Himalayas to
capture a yeti. They find his cave, and the dwellers are a short, hairy
creature with big feet and his wife and kid. Donald must pick one to
abduct (why can't he take them all?), but prefers a closed zoo to an
unhappy yeti family so they return empty-handed. Scrooge figures from
the photos that someone could dress up like a yeti. Someone short with
big feet. Someone who owes him for a trip to the Himalayas...
The last 4 pages is a Beagle Boys story, and not interesting at all.
> I-1948, MM as Court Troubador
>
> I've forgotten who mentioned this story and where it appeared,
>but it was described as being a MM story where Mickey went to the
>studio -- as he does in "The Brave Little Tailor" and "The Robinson
>Crusoe Adventure" -- to make a film, and made one about being in
>medieval times. In the story, he was shown with pie-eyes, so this
>would seem to be based on the 1933 cartoon "Ye Olden Days". I'd like
>to know more about this and how I might obtain it.
It was I, and it is a 38 page story in 3 strip format. The 11 page frame
story (in color) could be skipped without any problems. The splash page
shows a 'photo' of a pop-up book, so the story is probably inspired by
a classic toon, even if the plot is quite complex compared to those.
If you want it, ask your friends at Egmont for a copy of Onkel Joakim
(Uncle Scrooge pocket) #14/1993.
Just bought a bunch of Gladstone's MMs: I'm a born again mickeymaniac:)
<oLe 'RoC' Reichstein Nielsen, c/o Lasse 'Spot' R.N. (lrn at daimi.aau.dk)>
Even Flood
London
Message 169 -
1994-01-28 at 08:34:40
>Back to London. There are a lot of big comics shops in London,
>some of them not so far from Virgin megastore, such as Forbidden Planet.
>Next time, you should buy the Comics Weekly, where you can find a lot of
>ads and addresses (btw, I think that The Comics Weekly is also advertized
>in the English section of the Diamond's Preview)
I did go to the Forbidden Planet (in Oxford Street) when I
was in London. When I asked for Disney comics all I got
was a blank stare.
Even
>some of them not so far from Virgin megastore, such as Forbidden Planet.
>Next time, you should buy the Comics Weekly, where you can find a lot of
>ads and addresses (btw, I think that The Comics Weekly is also advertized
>in the English section of the Diamond's Preview)
I did go to the Forbidden Planet (in Oxford Street) when I
was in London. When I asked for Disney comics all I got
was a blank stare.
Even
Even Flood
Ugly duckling found a home.
Message 170 -
1994-01-28 at 15:45:24
Thanks for messages of interest and sympathy.
My ugly duckling found a home with Fredrik Ekman
who had other Arab versions, so my ward will not be alone.
(In other words - Fredrik knew what he was getting
and *still* wanted it???))
He was the first to respond and also the postage to
Sweden was much cheaper than to the US.
So maybe he or someone else can answer something that
puzzeled Geir end me: Why is Gyro without a hat in
this edition? It has been removed, making Gyro look somewhat
with a strange tonsure.
My ugly duckling found a home with Fredrik Ekman
who had other Arab versions, so my ward will not be alone.
(In other words - Fredrik knew what he was getting
and *still* wanted it???))
He was the first to respond and also the postage to
Sweden was much cheaper than to the US.
So maybe he or someone else can answer something that
puzzeled Geir end me: Why is Gyro without a hat in
this edition? It has been removed, making Gyro look somewhat
with a strange tonsure.
James Williams
Disney-comics digest #225.
Message 171 -
1994-01-28 at 18:08:38
>You'll be interested to know, that the only regular regular MM title
>in Denmark, MM pocket, which incidentally is indistinguishable from the
>other monthly pocket filled with I codes, Uncle Scrooge, has been dis-
>continued. It has however been replaced with the title Mickey Mysteries.
>Quoting by memory from the advert: "Mickey has gone full-time detective
>to give you stories the way you like them: exciting!" The stories are
>Danish coded, but have a strong Italian flavor. Mickey is a Humphrey
>Bogart type, and Minnie is an anchor-mouse on a TV network!
>Is this an example of Egmont's hardliner 'back to basics' approach???
That is surprising, less than two years ago Egmont was pushing
Mickey Mouse stories where Mickey and Goofy ran an air cargo service.
I've never seen one of these stories, but I always thought they
sounded a lot like the Disney Afternoon cartoon TaleSpin (which
Don Rosa worked on for a short while). I suspect that Bob Foster
had a lot to do with the decision to go to an all mystery format.
>The last 4 pages is a Beagle Boys story, and not interesting at all.
I've never been impressed by the 4 page Beagle Boys stories. I'd
prefer 4 page Magica DeSpell stories.
James Williams
>in Denmark, MM pocket, which incidentally is indistinguishable from the
>other monthly pocket filled with I codes, Uncle Scrooge, has been dis-
>continued. It has however been replaced with the title Mickey Mysteries.
>Quoting by memory from the advert: "Mickey has gone full-time detective
>to give you stories the way you like them: exciting!" The stories are
>Danish coded, but have a strong Italian flavor. Mickey is a Humphrey
>Bogart type, and Minnie is an anchor-mouse on a TV network!
>Is this an example of Egmont's hardliner 'back to basics' approach???
That is surprising, less than two years ago Egmont was pushing
Mickey Mouse stories where Mickey and Goofy ran an air cargo service.
I've never seen one of these stories, but I always thought they
sounded a lot like the Disney Afternoon cartoon TaleSpin (which
Don Rosa worked on for a short while). I suspect that Bob Foster
had a lot to do with the decision to go to an all mystery format.
>The last 4 pages is a Beagle Boys story, and not interesting at all.
I've never been impressed by the 4 page Beagle Boys stories. I'd
prefer 4 page Magica DeSpell stories.
James Williams
M93
Some questions
Message 172 -
1994-01-28 at 21:41:23
Mark Mayerson asked:
> ANYBODY:
>
> In Europe, what percentage of the Disney comics readership are girls? I note
> that most of the contributors to this list are male. In North America,
> boys outnumber girls as comics fans. Is this also true in Europe?
As far as I can speak (for Germany): YES!
Most comic fans are male, also most members of the german
organization D.O.N.A.L.D. (the crazy organization who is
devoted to explore the Duck Universe up to its smallest
detail) are male (approx. 90 - 95 %).
Heaven knows why!?
Nevertheless I know a girl who is nutty about Disney stuff
(like clothes, films etc...), but: she admitted she didn't
know the comics very well...
But if you really have a close look at the role
women play in the disney comics, I think it's not
surprising. They unfortunately play the second part.
Nikolaus
> ANYBODY:
>
> In Europe, what percentage of the Disney comics readership are girls? I note
> that most of the contributors to this list are male. In North America,
> boys outnumber girls as comics fans. Is this also true in Europe?
As far as I can speak (for Germany): YES!
Most comic fans are male, also most members of the german
organization D.O.N.A.L.D. (the crazy organization who is
devoted to explore the Duck Universe up to its smallest
detail) are male (approx. 90 - 95 %).
Heaven knows why!?
Nevertheless I know a girl who is nutty about Disney stuff
(like clothes, films etc...), but: she admitted she didn't
know the comics very well...
But if you really have a close look at the role
women play in the disney comics, I think it's not
surprising. They unfortunately play the second part.
Nikolaus
Wilmer Rivers
Big Bad Jewish chicken?
Message 173 -
1994-01-28 at 22:03:35
Even Flood asks an interesting question about an Arabic edition of a
Disney comic book:
> Why is Gyro without a hat in
> this edition? It has been removed, making Gyro look somewhat
> with a strange tonsure.
>
This is pure speculation, but maybe the editors were afraid that the
hat makes Gyro look more like a Jewish chicken? Granted, the hat isn't
a yarmulka (sp.?), but I suspect you can't be too cautious about that
sort of thing in Arabic comic books. After all, before American tele-
vision executives could sell the Western series "Bonanza" to Saudi tv,
they had to convince the authoritites there that the characters were in
fact not Jewish. Apparently the Saudis thought the family name of the
ranch owner was Ben-Cartwright, and with his sons being named Adam and
Joseph, it was considered unacceptable entertainment in that country.
Do you suppose that someone might consider the character of Gyro, wear-
ing a hat, to be Jewish? I know this sounds far-fetched, but the world
is a weird place. At least we can still keep him as a character in the
USA, since he definitely isn't an Indian. [Just as an afterthought -
what do you suppose the Saudi Disney publishers would do to edit a story
in which Gyro meets our old pal, Yosuf Aiper?]
Wilmer Rivers
Disney comic book:
> Why is Gyro without a hat in
> this edition? It has been removed, making Gyro look somewhat
> with a strange tonsure.
>
This is pure speculation, but maybe the editors were afraid that the
hat makes Gyro look more like a Jewish chicken? Granted, the hat isn't
a yarmulka (sp.?), but I suspect you can't be too cautious about that
sort of thing in Arabic comic books. After all, before American tele-
vision executives could sell the Western series "Bonanza" to Saudi tv,
they had to convince the authoritites there that the characters were in
fact not Jewish. Apparently the Saudis thought the family name of the
ranch owner was Ben-Cartwright, and with his sons being named Adam and
Joseph, it was considered unacceptable entertainment in that country.
Do you suppose that someone might consider the character of Gyro, wear-
ing a hat, to be Jewish? I know this sounds far-fetched, but the world
is a weird place. At least we can still keep him as a character in the
USA, since he definitely isn't an Indian. [Just as an afterthought -
what do you suppose the Saudi Disney publishers would do to edit a story
in which Gyro meets our old pal, Yosuf Aiper?]
Wilmer Rivers
James Williams
Non-Disney Comics and Gladstone
Message 174 -
1994-01-28 at 22:56:09
This isn't related to Disney Comics directly. Since it pertains to
Gladstone, I thought you all would find it interesting. Apparently,
Gladstone has secured the comic book rights to Filmation's Mighty
Morphing Power Rangers. I'm pretty sure that Jack C. Harris will be
one of the writers. I've been worried about how Gladstone would remain
solvent when their titles sold so poorly. Hopefully, MMPR will help.
Gary Leach: What other non-Disney Comics is Gladstone planning? Also,
if I have any of the detail wrong, please correct me.
James Williams
Gladstone, I thought you all would find it interesting. Apparently,
Gladstone has secured the comic book rights to Filmation's Mighty
Morphing Power Rangers. I'm pretty sure that Jack C. Harris will be
one of the writers. I've been worried about how Gladstone would remain
solvent when their titles sold so poorly. Hopefully, MMPR will help.
Gary Leach: What other non-Disney Comics is Gladstone planning? Also,
if I have any of the detail wrong, please correct me.
James Williams
Fredrik Ekman
Ugly duckling found a home.
Message 175 -
1994-01-28 at 23:01:10
Even wrote:
> My ugly duckling found a home with Fredrik Ekman
> who had other Arab versions, so my ward will not be alone.
>
> (In other words - Fredrik knew what he was getting
> and *still* wanted it???))
Why, sure! I think them Arabian Disneys are just great! Sort of...
> So maybe he or someone else can answer something that
> puzzeled Geir end me: Why is Gyro without a hat in
> this edition? It has been removed, making Gyro look somewhat
> with a strange tonsure.
In the two Arabian comic books I have before, not only is Gyro's
hat removed, but so is Scrooge's, Donald's and Goofy's hats, and
even Mickey's cap! HD&L's caps seem to be OK, though. I've often
wondered about this, but Wilmer's explanation that they mustn't
appear to be Jewish seems as good as any. Other interesting details
about these comics are extensive redrawing of word balloons in
order to make them fit in the right-to-left reading order, poor
printing and extremely bad colouring. Yet, there is something that
I cannot explain that just makes me, kind of, like these comics.
;-)
/F
PS. Thanks, Even! DS.
> My ugly duckling found a home with Fredrik Ekman
> who had other Arab versions, so my ward will not be alone.
>
> (In other words - Fredrik knew what he was getting
> and *still* wanted it???))
Why, sure! I think them Arabian Disneys are just great! Sort of...
> So maybe he or someone else can answer something that
> puzzeled Geir end me: Why is Gyro without a hat in
> this edition? It has been removed, making Gyro look somewhat
> with a strange tonsure.
In the two Arabian comic books I have before, not only is Gyro's
hat removed, but so is Scrooge's, Donald's and Goofy's hats, and
even Mickey's cap! HD&L's caps seem to be OK, though. I've often
wondered about this, but Wilmer's explanation that they mustn't
appear to be Jewish seems as good as any. Other interesting details
about these comics are extensive redrawing of word balloons in
order to make them fit in the right-to-left reading order, poor
printing and extremely bad colouring. Yet, there is something that
I cannot explain that just makes me, kind of, like these comics.
;-)
/F
PS. Thanks, Even! DS.
Gary Leach
Disney-comics digest #226.
Message 176 -
1994-01-30 at 06:17:03
JAMES:
Gladstone is publishing MIGHTY MORPHIN (no 'g') POWER RANGERS, indeed. The
property is actually owned and produced for TV by Saban Entertainment Inc.,
producers of the current X-Men animated series. Jack C. Harris is writing the
lead 16-page stories, with art by Al Bigley and Chic Stone (issue #1), while
Nicola Cuti is writing the 10-page backups with art by Joe Staton; cover by
Brett Blevins and (if he can manage while his house is covered in ice) Terry
Austin. Gladstone is angling for other properties from this company, but no
news yet on what they are.
TO ALL:
We also have completed and delivered to the distributor EEK THE CAT #1 (of 3),
and the comic book adaptation of the 20th Century Fox feature film flop
FREEKED (script by me and John Clark, art by Steve Stiles).
A new Disney comic is being launched by Gladstone, called WALT DISNEY'S COMICS
IN COLOR, a bimonthly anthology title that will feature different Disney
characters from issue to issue. While I make no promises, it is possible that
this will actually give us the chance to try a few new things (mebbe even a
new Mickey tale) without Disney throwing junior executives off the fabled
Tower in blind panic.
And, by the way, watch for thrilling new adventures of Beauty and the Beast,
Aladdin, and the Little Mermaid, coming soon from Marvel! I just wrapped an
8-page Marvel/Gladstone co-op ad for Overstreet's Comic Book Price Guide
annual, and it was simply too thrilling for one human being to stand!
Especially while trying to do an 8-page plus cover MIghty Morphin Power
Rangers premium comic for Fruit of the Loom (to be distributed with kids'
underwear, I presume). Anyway, the co-op ad will feature the first ever
incidence of William Van Horn inking Don Rosa, on a figure of Scrooge that is
part of a group illustration featuring the aforesaid, Donald (an old Barks
drawing), Mickey (pencilled by Russell Schroeder), Beast, Beauty, Aladdin, and
Sebastian the crab (the latter four coming, for all I can tell, from Disney
model sheet clipart). Bill nobly and ably inked the whole shebang for us. This
is a singular and not likely to be repeated occurrence, at least if I hope to
hold onto what's left of my sanity.
I guess Don's computer did crash, eh?
GARY
Gladstone is publishing MIGHTY MORPHIN (no 'g') POWER RANGERS, indeed. The
property is actually owned and produced for TV by Saban Entertainment Inc.,
producers of the current X-Men animated series. Jack C. Harris is writing the
lead 16-page stories, with art by Al Bigley and Chic Stone (issue #1), while
Nicola Cuti is writing the 10-page backups with art by Joe Staton; cover by
Brett Blevins and (if he can manage while his house is covered in ice) Terry
Austin. Gladstone is angling for other properties from this company, but no
news yet on what they are.
TO ALL:
We also have completed and delivered to the distributor EEK THE CAT #1 (of 3),
and the comic book adaptation of the 20th Century Fox feature film flop
FREEKED (script by me and John Clark, art by Steve Stiles).
A new Disney comic is being launched by Gladstone, called WALT DISNEY'S COMICS
IN COLOR, a bimonthly anthology title that will feature different Disney
characters from issue to issue. While I make no promises, it is possible that
this will actually give us the chance to try a few new things (mebbe even a
new Mickey tale) without Disney throwing junior executives off the fabled
Tower in blind panic.
And, by the way, watch for thrilling new adventures of Beauty and the Beast,
Aladdin, and the Little Mermaid, coming soon from Marvel! I just wrapped an
8-page Marvel/Gladstone co-op ad for Overstreet's Comic Book Price Guide
annual, and it was simply too thrilling for one human being to stand!
Especially while trying to do an 8-page plus cover MIghty Morphin Power
Rangers premium comic for Fruit of the Loom (to be distributed with kids'
underwear, I presume). Anyway, the co-op ad will feature the first ever
incidence of William Van Horn inking Don Rosa, on a figure of Scrooge that is
part of a group illustration featuring the aforesaid, Donald (an old Barks
drawing), Mickey (pencilled by Russell Schroeder), Beast, Beauty, Aladdin, and
Sebastian the crab (the latter four coming, for all I can tell, from Disney
model sheet clipart). Bill nobly and ably inked the whole shebang for us. This
is a singular and not likely to be repeated occurrence, at least if I hope to
hold onto what's left of my sanity.
I guess Don's computer did crash, eh?
GARY
Per Starback
JWW emblem (once more)
Message 177 -
1994-01-30 at 11:56:24
Don> No, I THANK you for that list of JWW emblem appearances! It's
Don> one thing I've never kept notes of myself.
Maybe I ought to point out that my list wasn't a complete one.
Don> I referred back to all your cited appearances to make sure of
Don> something I already knew: my version of the emblem is DIFFERENT from
Don> Barks'. I prefer to use a version where the two "W"s are distinct and
Don> not merged with the "J"; I think Barks made it thus in one painting
Don> somewhere, and I figured that gave me leave to choose between the two
Don> styles.
I checked the 4th of July painting, but there it's the normal emblem.
Is it on some other painting as well? When it's small enough to just
be lines and no solid blacks Barks may draw it the other way. At
least it seems to be like that in Bubbleweight Champ (WDC 282, 1:1).
About that book publisher with a similar emblem I think Fredrik is
right: It was John Wiley and Sons I meant, and it really isn't
spectacularly similar.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Don> one thing I've never kept notes of myself.
Maybe I ought to point out that my list wasn't a complete one.
Don> I referred back to all your cited appearances to make sure of
Don> something I already knew: my version of the emblem is DIFFERENT from
Don> Barks'. I prefer to use a version where the two "W"s are distinct and
Don> not merged with the "J"; I think Barks made it thus in one painting
Don> somewhere, and I figured that gave me leave to choose between the two
Don> styles.
I checked the 4th of July painting, but there it's the normal emblem.
Is it on some other painting as well? When it's small enough to just
be lines and no solid blacks Barks may draw it the other way. At
least it seems to be like that in Bubbleweight Champ (WDC 282, 1:1).
About that book publisher with a similar emblem I think Fredrik is
right: It was John Wiley and Sons I meant, and it really isn't
spectacularly similar.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Per Starback
Replies replies
Message 178 -
1994-01-30 at 12:11:09
Just thought I'd ought to comment on some remarks explicitly aimed
at me:
RoC> I already have the Geoffrey Blum interview that takes up half of
RoC> CB&Co.#19. If it's not a hanging offence, I could put it on the
RoC> index/archive list for those who understand Danish gobbledigook.
RoC> Just give me the word, Per.
Well... I don't think I'd like to put copyrighted stuff on the
archive site without permission, so rather not. Those who understand
Danish gobbledygook are well advised to get CB&Co for themselves
instead (but I do find it rather expensive now!).
Don> I'm curious about these "unsubscribers". Do you ever hear any
Don> reason why they unsubscribe unless it's due to some lack of time to read
Don> these Digests?
Most of the time, no. When someone states a reason it's mostly that
it takes too much time or that they are going to lose their account.
Don> They know this is about COMIC BOOKS when they subscribe, right?
Don> They knew this wasn't going to be a bunch of pin-back button
Don> collectors here, right?
How would I know? That depends on what whoever told them about the
list told them. The name of the list ought to be a giveaway though.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
at me:
RoC> I already have the Geoffrey Blum interview that takes up half of
RoC> CB&Co.#19. If it's not a hanging offence, I could put it on the
RoC> index/archive list for those who understand Danish gobbledigook.
RoC> Just give me the word, Per.
Well... I don't think I'd like to put copyrighted stuff on the
archive site without permission, so rather not. Those who understand
Danish gobbledygook are well advised to get CB&Co for themselves
instead (but I do find it rather expensive now!).
Don> I'm curious about these "unsubscribers". Do you ever hear any
Don> reason why they unsubscribe unless it's due to some lack of time to read
Don> these Digests?
Most of the time, no. When someone states a reason it's mostly that
it takes too much time or that they are going to lose their account.
Don> They know this is about COMIC BOOKS when they subscribe, right?
Don> They knew this wasn't going to be a bunch of pin-back button
Don> collectors here, right?
How would I know? That depends on what whoever told them about the
list told them. The name of the list ought to be a giveaway though.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Per Starback
Mikki Maus
Message 179 -
1994-01-30 at 12:58:02
Don wrote:
This was one of the hokey phony "collectible" things that Disney
Comics put together, along with that release of the supposedly
sold-out, supposedly first-issue of the Russian Mickey Mouse comic
[ ... ]. (In the case of the Russian MM, it was the third, not the
first issue, which they knew American buyers would never know since
there was no number on it -- and if had been a "sell-out" in Russia,
WHERE did these issues come from?
A Russian MM was sold not only in the USA. My own copy is bought
in Germany and I've seen it here too. Is it not the same as the one
sold in the USA? On the cover of this one Mickey and Goofy fly an
airplane on the cover, and Goofy has a kite. There is no number on
the cover, but in the introductory page on the inside of the front
cover it says that this is the first issue, and there is a "1" high up
on page 1, right at the margin.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"On zhil v Soedinennykh Shtatakh Ameriki, i znali ego Yolt Disney."
This was one of the hokey phony "collectible" things that Disney
Comics put together, along with that release of the supposedly
sold-out, supposedly first-issue of the Russian Mickey Mouse comic
[ ... ]. (In the case of the Russian MM, it was the third, not the
first issue, which they knew American buyers would never know since
there was no number on it -- and if had been a "sell-out" in Russia,
WHERE did these issues come from?
A Russian MM was sold not only in the USA. My own copy is bought
in Germany and I've seen it here too. Is it not the same as the one
sold in the USA? On the cover of this one Mickey and Goofy fly an
airplane on the cover, and Goofy has a kite. There is no number on
the cover, but in the introductory page on the inside of the front
cover it says that this is the first issue, and there is a "1" high up
on page 1, right at the margin.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"On zhil v Soedinennykh Shtatakh Ameriki, i znali ego Yolt Disney."
Tryg Helseth
Disney-comics digest #226.
Message 180 -
1994-01-30 at 18:00:06
On 29 Jan 94 23:17:03 EST, Gary Leach wrote:
>A new Disney comic is being launched by Gladstone, called WALT DISNEY'S COMICS
>IN COLOR, a bimonthly anthology title that will feature different Disney
>characters from issue to issue.
Sounds great! I get this sinking feeling, though, that I am going to go
broke trying to keep up with all of Gladstones publications. :)
BTW, I was reading the Gladstone ad on the back page of the CBG (titled
"Reorder Update") where it mentions The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck
Adventures in Color as being a "current" monthly series. I've never seen
this, nor has anyone at the comic shop I frequent heard of it. Is it
already being published, or is the ad just out of sync with reality?
>I guess Don's computer did crash, eh?
Maybe he just needed a rest from the mail list... :)
Tryg Helseth <trygve at maroon.tc.umn.edu> Minneapolis, MN, USA
or <tryg.helseth at tstation.mn.org>
"I wish they all could be Calisota Ducks!" -The Beach Drakes
>A new Disney comic is being launched by Gladstone, called WALT DISNEY'S COMICS
>IN COLOR, a bimonthly anthology title that will feature different Disney
>characters from issue to issue.
Sounds great! I get this sinking feeling, though, that I am going to go
broke trying to keep up with all of Gladstones publications. :)
BTW, I was reading the Gladstone ad on the back page of the CBG (titled
"Reorder Update") where it mentions The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck
Adventures in Color as being a "current" monthly series. I've never seen
this, nor has anyone at the comic shop I frequent heard of it. Is it
already being published, or is the ad just out of sync with reality?
>I guess Don's computer did crash, eh?
Maybe he just needed a rest from the mail list... :)
Tryg Helseth <trygve at maroon.tc.umn.edu> Minneapolis, MN, USA
or <tryg.helseth at tstation.mn.org>
"I wish they all could be Calisota Ducks!" -The Beach Drakes