David A. Gerstein writes on Will Elder's MM parody for MAD:
> Notably, this tale is about Mickey laying a trap for Donald
> (or, "Darnold," as he's called here) to get rid of him for good,
> because he wants the popularity back that Donald stole from him!
>
This story really broke me up when I read it as a kid. In the 50's I
was completely unfamiliar with the FG Mickey, so I never could under-
stand why it was that MM had ever been very popular in the first place!
His resentment of Darnold was inevitable. And until I read the parody,
I had never bothered to wonder about where he did find his 4-fingered
gloves!
David then writes:
> In 1935 Basil Wolverton began a MM comic story when applying
> for a job at Disney. It was never used. Now Bill Spicer has the art
> to the -- unfinished -- story. Who could finish this thing so it
> could appear in D&M?
>
A Wolverton MM? I can't imagine what this is like! I always think of
his art in terms of the grossly distorted anatomy that he produced for
shock effect during the MAD era. One of the most effective current-day
imitators of that particular style is Marc Hansen, in his "Weird Melvin"
strip in Comic Buyers Guide.
Wilmer Rivers
Author
Topic: 199403
(153 messages)
Wilmer Rivers
Elder's and Woolverton's Mickeys
Message 91 -
1994-03-18 at 20:22:48
Mark Mayerson
Wolverton's Mickey
Message 92 -
1994-03-18 at 20:55:42
Just for the record, Basil Wolverton's Mickey work was printed in a fanzine
called Graphic Story Magazine #12. It dates from about 1970.
That magazine was edited by Bill Spicer, which I guess is why he currently
has the art.
I don't have it in front of me, but from what I remember, the work was
done as a sample in the '30's to get work for Wolverton. The work was
in daily strip format and had Mickey and Pluto on some other planet meeting
aliens.
If people want more details, I can take a look at it and summarize the
strips.
___________________________________________________________________
Mark Mayerson Side Effects Software Inc.,
Internet: mayerson at sidefx.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 366-4607
called Graphic Story Magazine #12. It dates from about 1970.
That magazine was edited by Bill Spicer, which I guess is why he currently
has the art.
I don't have it in front of me, but from what I remember, the work was
done as a sample in the '30's to get work for Wolverton. The work was
in daily strip format and had Mickey and Pluto on some other planet meeting
aliens.
If people want more details, I can take a look at it and summarize the
strips.
___________________________________________________________________
Mark Mayerson Side Effects Software Inc.,
Internet: mayerson at sidefx.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 366-4607
Mark Mayerson
Wolverton's Mickey again
Message 93 -
1994-03-18 at 20:56:56
I should add that Wolverton did a pretty good Mickey and Pluto. His
own interests came through in the weird landscape and creatures that
were in the background, but he played it completely straight on the
Disney characters.
___________________________________________________________________
Mark Mayerson Side Effects Software Inc.,
Internet: mayerson at sidefx.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 366-4607
own interests came through in the weird landscape and creatures that
were in the background, but he played it completely straight on the
Disney characters.
___________________________________________________________________
Mark Mayerson Side Effects Software Inc.,
Internet: mayerson at sidefx.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(416) 366-4607
CDAMBROSIO1
MAD and what not
Message 94 -
1994-03-19 at 01:55:56
Greetings all,
Ironically enough I had just gotten off the phone with the
letter column editor (Associate Ed. Charlie Kadau) when I went to
check my e mail and found David's response to Don's response to my
earlier question. And now I'm kind of confused.
David writes "MAD is NO LONGER aimed at kids." It never was.
MAD has always strived to be funny, satirical, etc in the eyes of its
creators first and foremost. There's no doubt that kids are a good deal
of its audience, but there has never been any survey of any kind (b/c
Bill Gaines didn't want to pigeonhole the magazine and give advertisers
a sense of the audience), until the current newstand issue which has a
card asking "what age did you start reading MAD?" how often do you buy
it and where, sex, and age.
MAD is one of the few magazines that could be placed in a
dentist's office and appeal to parents and kids alike. But I'm not
going to take the space here pointing out things that kids will just
never understand and adults will. What I do question is David's
statement - "I picked up a current issue and was startled by thousands
of very obvious references to sex... [stuff deleted] MAD is making a
mistake in this age of teen pregnancy and AIDS."
As far as sex goes, I searched MADly and could find few overt
things in the most recent issue (326) -- a picture of Adam and Eve in
an article "What if technology invaded history" with post it notes in
place of fig leaves, and a picture of a woman holding up an issue of
Penthouse with the words being :"What does it say about playing by the rules
when... ...the only Miss America in the last 25 years to get anywhere in
Show Biz is the one who posed starkers in Penthouse." The woman being
Vanessa Williams. Checking three or four issues before there is nothing
that says and promotes "everybody's doing it."
On the contrary, in numerous places do they criticize teen pregnancy
in one case it's "thirty years ago Nurse Dweezel treats the fifth grade's
first case of whooping cough!" -- "today Nurse Dweezel treats the fifth
grade's first case of morning sickness!"
Anyway, to wrap it up, MAD has never been just for kids, will never
be just for kids. And I don't see that it has ever declined, sure there have
been some simple articles over the years, though. In fact, I think it's been
very strong over the past four years, but enough.
If I haven't made myself clear or anything, I blame it all on the
fact that I can't edit on this system. For now, fare thee well...
MADly,
Butch D'Ambrosio
Ironically enough I had just gotten off the phone with the
letter column editor (Associate Ed. Charlie Kadau) when I went to
check my e mail and found David's response to Don's response to my
earlier question. And now I'm kind of confused.
David writes "MAD is NO LONGER aimed at kids." It never was.
MAD has always strived to be funny, satirical, etc in the eyes of its
creators first and foremost. There's no doubt that kids are a good deal
of its audience, but there has never been any survey of any kind (b/c
Bill Gaines didn't want to pigeonhole the magazine and give advertisers
a sense of the audience), until the current newstand issue which has a
card asking "what age did you start reading MAD?" how often do you buy
it and where, sex, and age.
MAD is one of the few magazines that could be placed in a
dentist's office and appeal to parents and kids alike. But I'm not
going to take the space here pointing out things that kids will just
never understand and adults will. What I do question is David's
statement - "I picked up a current issue and was startled by thousands
of very obvious references to sex... [stuff deleted] MAD is making a
mistake in this age of teen pregnancy and AIDS."
As far as sex goes, I searched MADly and could find few overt
things in the most recent issue (326) -- a picture of Adam and Eve in
an article "What if technology invaded history" with post it notes in
place of fig leaves, and a picture of a woman holding up an issue of
Penthouse with the words being :"What does it say about playing by the rules
when... ...the only Miss America in the last 25 years to get anywhere in
Show Biz is the one who posed starkers in Penthouse." The woman being
Vanessa Williams. Checking three or four issues before there is nothing
that says and promotes "everybody's doing it."
On the contrary, in numerous places do they criticize teen pregnancy
in one case it's "thirty years ago Nurse Dweezel treats the fifth grade's
first case of whooping cough!" -- "today Nurse Dweezel treats the fifth
grade's first case of morning sickness!"
Anyway, to wrap it up, MAD has never been just for kids, will never
be just for kids. And I don't see that it has ever declined, sure there have
been some simple articles over the years, though. In fact, I think it's been
very strong over the past four years, but enough.
If I haven't made myself clear or anything, I blame it all on the
fact that I can't edit on this system. For now, fare thee well...
MADly,
Butch D'Ambrosio
David A Gerstein
Disney-comics digest #273.
Message 95 -
1994-03-19 at 02:44:00
Dear Folks (especially Don),
Don Rosa said, "Please assure me you aren't luring people over
to these environs who are going to log on pretending they're Donald Duck
or some such silliness. What do those people think when you claim to be
the "comic strip MM"?"
(That regarding my decision to write articles to
rec.arts.disney in the style of the FG Mouse)
Don't worry, Don, I know what I'm doing. One look at this
newsgroup, and everyone can tell it's more serious in style than
r.a.d. I'm just playing their game -- if the thing to do THERE is to
write in the "voices" of Disney characters, and if I like to do that
(heck, I write COMICS about them just like you do!) there's no reason
I can't do it THERE, where it's the happening thing. By no means will
I encourage people to come over here by saying that they can write all
their posts in the style of Gus Goose, or some such.
(Although SOMEONE -- need I mention who -- was talking about
his personal #1 Dime here a month or two ago! ;-)
Meanwhile, the cost of those WDC&S 4 xeroxes (which will total
around 25 pages I think) will be roughly $1.50. I can just send you
one of my German Rosas, and we can call it a deal, if you'd like that.
You want your German appearances, right? Or do you have a source for
them now? (If you want to answer that, Don, please reply to the
temporary e-mail address below)
* * * * *
Folks, this is my last letter for two weeks, as far as I know.
If someone wants to tell me something, just write to my Dad's E-Mail
address which is
gerstein at math.ucsb.edu
Per, please keep sending the digests to the address they're
NOW going to... so I'll have a big heap of them when I return.
Goodbye, all!
David Gerstein
"I'll always come back! Like a bad penny! Or a ghost!"
"GHOST???! Merciful goodness, what have I DONE? >SLAM!<
<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>
Don Rosa said, "Please assure me you aren't luring people over
to these environs who are going to log on pretending they're Donald Duck
or some such silliness. What do those people think when you claim to be
the "comic strip MM"?"
(That regarding my decision to write articles to
rec.arts.disney in the style of the FG Mouse)
Don't worry, Don, I know what I'm doing. One look at this
newsgroup, and everyone can tell it's more serious in style than
r.a.d. I'm just playing their game -- if the thing to do THERE is to
write in the "voices" of Disney characters, and if I like to do that
(heck, I write COMICS about them just like you do!) there's no reason
I can't do it THERE, where it's the happening thing. By no means will
I encourage people to come over here by saying that they can write all
their posts in the style of Gus Goose, or some such.
(Although SOMEONE -- need I mention who -- was talking about
his personal #1 Dime here a month or two ago! ;-)
Meanwhile, the cost of those WDC&S 4 xeroxes (which will total
around 25 pages I think) will be roughly $1.50. I can just send you
one of my German Rosas, and we can call it a deal, if you'd like that.
You want your German appearances, right? Or do you have a source for
them now? (If you want to answer that, Don, please reply to the
temporary e-mail address below)
* * * * *
Folks, this is my last letter for two weeks, as far as I know.
If someone wants to tell me something, just write to my Dad's E-Mail
address which is
gerstein at math.ucsb.edu
Per, please keep sending the digests to the address they're
NOW going to... so I'll have a big heap of them when I return.
Goodbye, all!
David Gerstein
"I'll always come back! Like a bad penny! Or a ghost!"
"GHOST???! Merciful goodness, what have I DONE? >SLAM!<
<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>
Adair_t
Diamond Previews March 1994
Message 96 -
1994-03-20 at 04:49:55
Source: Diamond Previews Vol 4 no 3 March 1994 page 120
Titles Shipping in May 1994
Graphic Novels
CBLoDonald Duck Adventures in Color #5
[...] This issue: "Volcano Valley" from Donald Duck Four Color #147, plus "Riddle of the Red Hat", Barks's only Mickey Mouse story.
SC, 8x11, 48pg, FC $7.95
CBL Album #29
WDC&S in Color
..."Trouble Indemnity" WDC&S #181
[whoops. That should be "WDC&S #180.]
"The Chickadee Challenge" WDC&S #181
"The Unorthodox Ox" #182
"The Custard Gun" #183
"Three Un-Ducks" #184
Also contains Gladstone Gander trading card. [Should have been #13.]
Comics
DDA #27
Contains a 26-page western yarn--"The Mystery of Widow's Gap"--by Duck newcomers Fernandez and Block.
FC $1.50
WDCaS #592
In this double sized issue:
A 10-page Duck story be William Van Horn,
the final installment of Floyd Gottfredson's "Hoppy the Kangaroo", starring Mickey Mouse,
and a 32-page tribute to Donald Duck, drawn by Tony Strobl.
FC, 64pg (Note Price) $2.95
Uncle Scrooge #287
Features teh third chapter of Don Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck".
Also contains "Duckmade Disaster"--a story written during the sixties by Carl Barks, and re-drawn by Daan Jippes. New cover image by Don Rosa.
FC $1.50
[Sorry about the delay. I've had difficulty accessing my U.S. account, so I'm using this one. I haven't figured out the editor yet, so most of the mistakes are mine.]
Torsten Adair adair_t at kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Titles Shipping in May 1994
Graphic Novels
CBLoDonald Duck Adventures in Color #5
[...] This issue: "Volcano Valley" from Donald Duck Four Color #147, plus "Riddle of the Red Hat", Barks's only Mickey Mouse story.
SC, 8x11, 48pg, FC $7.95
CBL Album #29
WDC&S in Color
..."Trouble Indemnity" WDC&S #181
[whoops. That should be "WDC&S #180.]
"The Chickadee Challenge" WDC&S #181
"The Unorthodox Ox" #182
"The Custard Gun" #183
"Three Un-Ducks" #184
Also contains Gladstone Gander trading card. [Should have been #13.]
Comics
DDA #27
Contains a 26-page western yarn--"The Mystery of Widow's Gap"--by Duck newcomers Fernandez and Block.
FC $1.50
WDCaS #592
In this double sized issue:
A 10-page Duck story be William Van Horn,
the final installment of Floyd Gottfredson's "Hoppy the Kangaroo", starring Mickey Mouse,
and a 32-page tribute to Donald Duck, drawn by Tony Strobl.
FC, 64pg (Note Price) $2.95
Uncle Scrooge #287
Features teh third chapter of Don Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck".
Also contains "Duckmade Disaster"--a story written during the sixties by Carl Barks, and re-drawn by Daan Jippes. New cover image by Don Rosa.
FC $1.50
[Sorry about the delay. I've had difficulty accessing my U.S. account, so I'm using this one. I haven't figured out the editor yet, so most of the mistakes are mine.]
Torsten Adair adair_t at kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Fredrik Ekman
Diamond Previews March 1994
Message 97 -
1994-03-20 at 04:58:35
> WDCaS #592
> In this double sized issue:
> A 10-page Duck story be William Van Horn,
For my VH index: Does anyone know which story this is?
/F
> In this double sized issue:
> A 10-page Duck story be William Van Horn,
For my VH index: Does anyone know which story this is?
/F
Adair_t
Gladstone Comic Albums and Cover Sets
Message 98 -
1994-03-20 at 05:06:11
The recent issue of Previews has two pages of listings for Gladstone albums. I assume that this information is located in an index somewhere, so I'll only list the numbers shown, and if there isn't an FTP file, I'll be willing to create one.
Gladstone Comic Album Series # 1 - 28
Gladstone Giant Album # 1 - 7
Gladstone Comic Covers Sets
The Carl Barks Covers of Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Set
The Comic Covers of Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge From the Carl Barks Library Set
The Carl Barks Covers of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Set
The Comic Covers of Walt Disney's Donald Duck From the Carl Barks Library Set
Question #1: What is in GCAS #28 "Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck"
Question #2: Is there an index file for the Comic Covers Sets
Question #3: Will all of Barks' covers be reproduced
Torsten Adair adair_t at kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Gladstone Comic Album Series # 1 - 28
Gladstone Giant Album # 1 - 7
Gladstone Comic Covers Sets
The Carl Barks Covers of Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Set
The Comic Covers of Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge From the Carl Barks Library Set
The Carl Barks Covers of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Set
The Comic Covers of Walt Disney's Donald Duck From the Carl Barks Library Set
Question #1: What is in GCAS #28 "Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck"
Question #2: Is there an index file for the Comic Covers Sets
Question #3: Will all of Barks' covers be reproduced
Torsten Adair adair_t at kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Fredrik Ekman
Chip n" dale Rescue Ranger Comics
Message 99 -
1994-03-20 at 05:08:41
Matmilam wrote:
> For a while there was a comic series called Chip N' Dale Rescue rangers.
>
> What happened to it?
I don't know for sure, but I think it's a safe bet that it vanished
with most of the rest of Disney's line when their sales started
falling rapidly. The series in question is not in the archive indices
but if you're really interested, I suppose you could find some other
RR stories in other comic books. A quick glance in the legend file
revealed both Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers and Rescue Rangers comics.
The few RR comics we've seen here in Sweden have generally not been
worth the trouble, although there have (surprisingly?) been a few
French RR comics with extraordinarily beautiful art.
/F
> For a while there was a comic series called Chip N' Dale Rescue rangers.
>
> What happened to it?
I don't know for sure, but I think it's a safe bet that it vanished
with most of the rest of Disney's line when their sales started
falling rapidly. The series in question is not in the archive indices
but if you're really interested, I suppose you could find some other
RR stories in other comic books. A quick glance in the legend file
revealed both Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers and Rescue Rangers comics.
The few RR comics we've seen here in Sweden have generally not been
worth the trouble, although there have (surprisingly?) been a few
French RR comics with extraordinarily beautiful art.
/F
Mark Semich
Van Horn (Diamond Previews March 1994)
Message 100 -
1994-03-20 at 06:16:55
>From: Fredrik Ekman <d91fe at calypso.pt.hk-r.se>
>> WDCaS #592
>> In this double sized issue:
>> A 10-page Duck story be William Van Horn,
>
>For my VH index: Does anyone know which story this is?
According to a recent ad in CBG, it's a "new 10-pager" called
"Magica's Missin' Magic" (by the "Duke of Ducks :-) )
>> WDCaS #592
>> In this double sized issue:
>> A 10-page Duck story be William Van Horn,
>
>For my VH index: Does anyone know which story this is?
According to a recent ad in CBG, it's a "new 10-pager" called
"Magica's Missin' Magic" (by the "Duke of Ducks :-) )
Don Rosa
Disney-comics digest #273.
Message 101 -
1994-03-20 at 15:34:15
WILMER:
You are welcome to send me some data, but I would need it
IMMEDIATELY. As I always say, what differentiates anything I might do
from "art" is that I must get it done in a certain amount of time. I DO
spend extra time on my writing and drawing of stories like these, but
not THAT much extra, or it would never even approach a living wage. So,
I need ALL my data on hand in just a few days since I must have my story
pretty much written by then.
I have a great amount of technical data on the Earth's core
right now, with my own technical books and a trip to the library to
supplement them. There are lots of "impossible" technical problems to
overcome -- ONE such problem is easy enough to explain away, but when I
have 3 or 4 to deal with in one story, even if my explanations are or
sound scientificly feasible, I would lose too much story time explaining
stuff and lose the readers who aren't willing to suspend disbelief that
many times in one tale. I can handle the pressure problems and heat
problems... but I need a solid shaft of rock straight to the Earth's
core, and I can't figure out how to explain that'n when there's umpteen
thousand miles of seething, swirling molten matter to get through. Even
if I had an explanation for a shaft, it would instantly be destroyed by
the surrounding irresistable currents.
As a geophysicist you could help GREATLY. In fact, that's
amazing that such would pop up right when I need him, though you may not
be able to help anyhow. I know that the idea of the interior of the
Earth is mostly molten is an ASSUMPTION based on sound-wave data. Are
there any theories, even wacky ones, to explain this data without the
earth's outer core being all molten? (For interested readers, the
Earth's INNER core is assumed to be solid, so I'm okay if I can get that
far.)
And a question for you on top of that: one book I have claims
that the outer core is molten, yet, due to the unimagineable pressures,
it is also as "hard as steel". This makes a certain amount of sense, but
I can't picture something molten and hard at the same time. Help me out
here. This can't be my solution since, even if it IS as 'hard as steel',
if you bored a hole through it, the pressure would immediatle reshape
the steely-hard matter to fill the hole back in.
Folks, if you are strangely fascinated by how I go about writing
these alleged "classic" stories of mine (?), you're seeing it being done
right before your eyes. This is the way I wrestle with ALL my stories.
But I'm afraid this one might pin me for three.
You are welcome to send me some data, but I would need it
IMMEDIATELY. As I always say, what differentiates anything I might do
from "art" is that I must get it done in a certain amount of time. I DO
spend extra time on my writing and drawing of stories like these, but
not THAT much extra, or it would never even approach a living wage. So,
I need ALL my data on hand in just a few days since I must have my story
pretty much written by then.
I have a great amount of technical data on the Earth's core
right now, with my own technical books and a trip to the library to
supplement them. There are lots of "impossible" technical problems to
overcome -- ONE such problem is easy enough to explain away, but when I
have 3 or 4 to deal with in one story, even if my explanations are or
sound scientificly feasible, I would lose too much story time explaining
stuff and lose the readers who aren't willing to suspend disbelief that
many times in one tale. I can handle the pressure problems and heat
problems... but I need a solid shaft of rock straight to the Earth's
core, and I can't figure out how to explain that'n when there's umpteen
thousand miles of seething, swirling molten matter to get through. Even
if I had an explanation for a shaft, it would instantly be destroyed by
the surrounding irresistable currents.
As a geophysicist you could help GREATLY. In fact, that's
amazing that such would pop up right when I need him, though you may not
be able to help anyhow. I know that the idea of the interior of the
Earth is mostly molten is an ASSUMPTION based on sound-wave data. Are
there any theories, even wacky ones, to explain this data without the
earth's outer core being all molten? (For interested readers, the
Earth's INNER core is assumed to be solid, so I'm okay if I can get that
far.)
And a question for you on top of that: one book I have claims
that the outer core is molten, yet, due to the unimagineable pressures,
it is also as "hard as steel". This makes a certain amount of sense, but
I can't picture something molten and hard at the same time. Help me out
here. This can't be my solution since, even if it IS as 'hard as steel',
if you bored a hole through it, the pressure would immediatle reshape
the steely-hard matter to fill the hole back in.
Folks, if you are strangely fascinated by how I go about writing
these alleged "classic" stories of mine (?), you're seeing it being done
right before your eyes. This is the way I wrestle with ALL my stories.
But I'm afraid this one might pin me for three.
Sigurdur Hrafn Gislason
Don's Journey.
Message 102 -
1994-03-21 at 13:48:28
Don
If your new story is going to be based on Jules Verne's classic, I was
wondering if you were going to use the same locations as he did?
I live here in Iceland and can see Mt. Snaefell from my own bedroom
window (that was supposed to be the spot where they descended).
I even went camping last summer under the glacier/mountain. Did you know
for example that this mountain has become a some sort of a focus
point for a lot of new-age people? It is supposed to channel psychic energy or
something like that. There even was a UFO convention there last summer.
If you need any data on our culture or even some pictures from this
area, I will be glad to help.
Sig
--
If your new story is going to be based on Jules Verne's classic, I was
wondering if you were going to use the same locations as he did?
I live here in Iceland and can see Mt. Snaefell from my own bedroom
window (that was supposed to be the spot where they descended).
I even went camping last summer under the glacier/mountain. Did you know
for example that this mountain has become a some sort of a focus
point for a lot of new-age people? It is supposed to channel psychic energy or
something like that. There even was a UFO convention there last summer.
If you need any data on our culture or even some pictures from this
area, I will be glad to help.
Sig
--
Harry Fluks
Gladstone Comic Albums and Cover Sets
Message 103 -
1994-03-21 at 15:02:26
Torsten:
We have a complete index of all the Gladstone comic albums and giant albums of
their first run. It's in the ftp-file 'gladstone-disney.index'.
> Question #1: What is in GCAS #28 "Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck"
This is a Don Rosa Special, containing:
FC T:US Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck
26 AR 106 T:US in Cash Flow
10 AR 104 D:DD in Mythological Menagerie
2 AR 107 D:US in The Paper Chase
28 AR 113 T:US in Last Sled to Dawson
2 AR 116 D:DD in Rocket Reverie
10 AR 105 D:DD in Recalled Wreck
> Question #2: Is there an index file for the Comic Covers Sets
Nope. But be do have a complete index of all Barks' covers.
--Harry.
We have a complete index of all the Gladstone comic albums and giant albums of
their first run. It's in the ftp-file 'gladstone-disney.index'.
> Question #1: What is in GCAS #28 "Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck"
This is a Don Rosa Special, containing:
FC T:US Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck
26 AR 106 T:US in Cash Flow
10 AR 104 D:DD in Mythological Menagerie
2 AR 107 D:US in The Paper Chase
28 AR 113 T:US in Last Sled to Dawson
2 AR 116 D:DD in Rocket Reverie
10 AR 105 D:DD in Recalled Wreck
> Question #2: Is there an index file for the Comic Covers Sets
Nope. But be do have a complete index of all Barks' covers.
--Harry.
Don Rosa
Disney-comics digest #275.
Message 104 -
1994-03-21 at 15:48:42
TORSTEN:
I'm curious why you would wonder what was in the Gladstone Album
#28. Did you never see that one for sale, but you saw all the others? It
was just about the LAST publication that Gladstone issued before they
lost the license, and I've seen evidence that it must've gotten low
distribution or was, for some reason, difficult to obtain. This is not
the first time that I've heard of a person not knowing there was a #28.
But it was a "Don Rosa Special", so says the title page. It
reprinted "Cash Flow","Mythological Menagerie","Last Sled to Dawson",
"Recalled Wreck", and the gags "The Paper Chase" and "Rocket Reverie".
The art on "Rocket Reverie" restored some details omitted from the first
use, and I did a new rawthuh nice cover for it (I dislike it less than
most of my covers -- I still have the original even).
I'm curious why you would wonder what was in the Gladstone Album
#28. Did you never see that one for sale, but you saw all the others? It
was just about the LAST publication that Gladstone issued before they
lost the license, and I've seen evidence that it must've gotten low
distribution or was, for some reason, difficult to obtain. This is not
the first time that I've heard of a person not knowing there was a #28.
But it was a "Don Rosa Special", so says the title page. It
reprinted "Cash Flow","Mythological Menagerie","Last Sled to Dawson",
"Recalled Wreck", and the gags "The Paper Chase" and "Rocket Reverie".
The art on "Rocket Reverie" restored some details omitted from the first
use, and I did a new rawthuh nice cover for it (I dislike it less than
most of my covers -- I still have the original even).
Don Rosa
Disney-comics digest #276.
Message 105 -
1994-03-22 at 06:01:03
SIGURDUR:
If I said my Duck trip to the Earth's core was going to be a
sequel to or in any way based on Jules Verne's version, I was misleading
you. I might have said that I was originally inspired by the 1959 movie,
but you'll agree that other than the names of the characters and the
surface-setting, that nifty movie had little to do with the book itself.
As fine a book and fun a movie as those both were, they were utterly
preposterous in dealing with a trip into the earth any further than a
few miles down (out of 8,000 or so) -- I hope to try to approach it more
scientifically, though it remains to be seen if I'll be able to come up
with an interesting idea.
If I said my Duck trip to the Earth's core was going to be a
sequel to or in any way based on Jules Verne's version, I was misleading
you. I might have said that I was originally inspired by the 1959 movie,
but you'll agree that other than the names of the characters and the
surface-setting, that nifty movie had little to do with the book itself.
As fine a book and fun a movie as those both were, they were utterly
preposterous in dealing with a trip into the earth any further than a
few miles down (out of 8,000 or so) -- I hope to try to approach it more
scientifically, though it remains to be seen if I'll be able to come up
with an interesting idea.