Sigurdur wrote:
> Concerning last Egmont issue.
> Was that long, 13 page story done by Van Horn? It was about Donald's
> relative who visits Donald right after jail.
> It was pretty good.
I don't recognize that description. Do you have a code for the story?
/F
Author
Topic: 199405
(152 messages)
Fredrik Ekman
Van Horn story?
Message 31 -
1994-05-05 at 12:34:20
TRYG HELSETH
Signature boo boo's
Message 32 -
1994-05-05 at 14:48:00
Subject: Signature boo boo's
To: Disney-Comics at minsk.docs.uu.se
Per Starback writes:
PS>PS on my ending quote: A long, long time ago Tryg wrote
PS>TH> I like your tagline! (Wish I had thougt of it first... :) )
PS>Digging through my archives I find that I've used it as a signature
PS>quote since August 1987 (the first time on a message on Edmund Hoyle
PS>and poker by the way). But it wasn't until October 1989 I noticed
PS>that I had misspelt it ("ramble" twice and no "gamble"). *Sigh*, it
PS>seems like it's very hard to spell in signatures...
Ha Ha! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who can carry around a
messed up signature and not notice it!
For nearly 30 years I thought that Mickey Mouse's nephews names were
Mortie and Fredie (rather that Ferdie). "Fredie" was a familiar name to
me, so I assumed that is what it was and never looked closely at it
after that. When I first noticed "Ferdie" I thought it must be a
misprint--then I checked my other comics and found I had been wrong all
those years...
Tryg
Internet tryg.helseth at tstation.mn.org
or trygve at maroon.tc.umn.edu
---
p QMPro 1.51 p "Plain Awful! That's what the professah called it!"
To: Disney-Comics at minsk.docs.uu.se
Per Starback writes:
PS>PS on my ending quote: A long, long time ago Tryg wrote
PS>TH> I like your tagline! (Wish I had thougt of it first... :) )
PS>Digging through my archives I find that I've used it as a signature
PS>quote since August 1987 (the first time on a message on Edmund Hoyle
PS>and poker by the way). But it wasn't until October 1989 I noticed
PS>that I had misspelt it ("ramble" twice and no "gamble"). *Sigh*, it
PS>seems like it's very hard to spell in signatures...
Ha Ha! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who can carry around a
messed up signature and not notice it!
For nearly 30 years I thought that Mickey Mouse's nephews names were
Mortie and Fredie (rather that Ferdie). "Fredie" was a familiar name to
me, so I assumed that is what it was and never looked closely at it
after that. When I first noticed "Ferdie" I thought it must be a
misprint--then I checked my other comics and found I had been wrong all
those years...
Tryg
Internet tryg.helseth at tstation.mn.org
or trygve at maroon.tc.umn.edu
---
p QMPro 1.51 p "Plain Awful! That's what the professah called it!"
James Williams
Welcome Aboard
Message 33 -
1994-05-05 at 15:31:55
>We have now a new insider on the list: Heidi Ace MacDonald, who is the
>comics editor for Disney Adventure Digest. Welcome!
Heidi,
Welcome aboard and thank you for joining! If you have any problems or
questions about this list or CompuServe, just ask.
I realized that when we met over on CompuServe, I never introduced
myself. Consider this a belated introduciton. My name is James
Williams. I'm 30 years old and work as a network administrator for the
National Institutes of Health. I'm married to a wonderful woman
who has never read a comic book, but has never done anything but
encourage my reading comics. When I'm not working or reading comics, I
can be found either writing or watching cartoons. Though I've read
comic books all my life, I'm relatively new to Disney comics. I had the
misfortune of reading some very bad Gold Key Disney comics as a kid. For
years, I despised Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. It wasn't until I
discovered Carl Bark's work that I became interested in Disney.
Now that I've introduced myself, I wanted to ask you two questions:
First, how did you go from a columnist for the Comic Buyer's Guide (I
have fond memories of 'Hey Kids Comics') to Comics Editor for Disney
Adventure Digest?
Second, What exactly does the Comics Editor for Disney Adventure
Digest do?
James Williams
>comics editor for Disney Adventure Digest. Welcome!
Heidi,
Welcome aboard and thank you for joining! If you have any problems or
questions about this list or CompuServe, just ask.
I realized that when we met over on CompuServe, I never introduced
myself. Consider this a belated introduciton. My name is James
Williams. I'm 30 years old and work as a network administrator for the
National Institutes of Health. I'm married to a wonderful woman
who has never read a comic book, but has never done anything but
encourage my reading comics. When I'm not working or reading comics, I
can be found either writing or watching cartoons. Though I've read
comic books all my life, I'm relatively new to Disney comics. I had the
misfortune of reading some very bad Gold Key Disney comics as a kid. For
years, I despised Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. It wasn't until I
discovered Carl Bark's work that I became interested in Disney.
Now that I've introduced myself, I wanted to ask you two questions:
First, how did you go from a columnist for the Comic Buyer's Guide (I
have fond memories of 'Hey Kids Comics') to Comics Editor for Disney
Adventure Digest?
Second, What exactly does the Comics Editor for Disney Adventure
Digest do?
James Williams
H.J.Bjornhaug
Van Horn story?
Message 34 -
1994-05-05 at 16:21:21
Fredrik wrote:
> Sigurdur wrote:
> > Concerning last Egmont issue.
> > Was that long, 13 page story done by Van Horn? It was about Donald's
> > relative who visits Donald right after jail.
> > It was pretty good.
>
> I don't recognize that description. Do you have a code for the story?
The story is in the forthcoming Norwegian Donald Duck & co dated
May 10th, and it's not by Van Horn. It's H-coded, and is probably
by the same person who drew the #2000-story - whose name escapes me
(Ab Heuken or something similar?).
But Van Horn is present in the same Norwegian issue. It looks like him,
at least. It's a Donald story in 3-strip (!), coded KD (and a number).
What does KD stand for?
Also in the same issue is a reprint of a Mickey Mouse continuation
story from WDC375 with a pirate plot set in the 17.-18. century with
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pete. I have always (well, for almost 20
years) thought that that story and the other Mickey continuation
stories by the same artist were by Paul Murry, but the editor's column
says it's by Floyd Gottfredson!
Can anyone give a definitive answer?
--- Helge
> Sigurdur wrote:
> > Concerning last Egmont issue.
> > Was that long, 13 page story done by Van Horn? It was about Donald's
> > relative who visits Donald right after jail.
> > It was pretty good.
>
> I don't recognize that description. Do you have a code for the story?
The story is in the forthcoming Norwegian Donald Duck & co dated
May 10th, and it's not by Van Horn. It's H-coded, and is probably
by the same person who drew the #2000-story - whose name escapes me
(Ab Heuken or something similar?).
But Van Horn is present in the same Norwegian issue. It looks like him,
at least. It's a Donald story in 3-strip (!), coded KD (and a number).
What does KD stand for?
Also in the same issue is a reprint of a Mickey Mouse continuation
story from WDC375 with a pirate plot set in the 17.-18. century with
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pete. I have always (well, for almost 20
years) thought that that story and the other Mickey continuation
stories by the same artist were by Paul Murry, but the editor's column
says it's by Floyd Gottfredson!
Can anyone give a definitive answer?
--- Helge
Harry Fluks
"Van Horn" story / codes KD and AR / Murry in WDC
Message 35 -
1994-05-05 at 19:34:20
Helge Slash That O Please wrote:
> The story is in the forthcoming Norwegian Donald Duck & co dated
> May 10th, and it's not by Van Horn. It's H-coded, and is probably
> by the same person who drew the #2000-story - whose name escapes me
> (Ab Heuken or something similar?).
It's Mau Heymans. The (13-page) story probably is coded H 87048. I don't
know the writer of this story.
> But Van Horn is present in the same Norwegian issue. It looks like him,
> at least. It's a Donald story in 3-strip (!), coded KD (and a number).
The 'K' indicates that it is made for Disney Comics (note the capital C).
The 'D' means that it was made for the comic 'Donald Duck Adventures'.
Van Horn always drew his comics in 3 strips per page, when he worked for
Disney Comics. The stories he later did for Egmont (Denmark), where 4-
strip, because that's Egmont's standard (and of Dutch editor GP too).
I think they are afraid that if the readers see a 3-line story, they would
complain that they didn't get value for their money. In Holland, all
3-line American stories were re-formatted to 4-line stories. Only since
the mid-80s, they started making exceptions for early Barks stories and Van
Horn.
> What does KD stand for?
Yes, does someone know why Disney Comics used a 'K'? And why they used
'J' (and later 'KJ') from 1991 on?
And another thing about story codes: isn't it strange that Gladstone's
own stories are coded "AR" again? "AR" means "Another Rainbow", which was
the parent company of Gladstone in their first run, but now it's "The Bruce
Hamilton Company"...
> Also in the same issue is a reprint of a Mickey Mouse continuation
> story from WDC375 with a pirate plot set in the 17.-18. century with
> Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pete. I have always (well, for almost 20
> years) thought that that story and the other Mickey continuation
> stories by the same artist were by Paul Murry, but the editor's column
> says it's by Floyd Gottfredson!
The 3x8 pages MM stories are (almost) always drawn by Paul Murry. I don't
have or know a reprint of WDC 375, but if the art looks a lot like the
other 3x8-page stories, the editor is definitely wrong.
--Harry.
Harry PTT Research ()_() Dutch Disney comics freak
Fluks Leidschendam (_) H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl
"Yeah... I've _heard_ of coral barques!"
> The story is in the forthcoming Norwegian Donald Duck & co dated
> May 10th, and it's not by Van Horn. It's H-coded, and is probably
> by the same person who drew the #2000-story - whose name escapes me
> (Ab Heuken or something similar?).
It's Mau Heymans. The (13-page) story probably is coded H 87048. I don't
know the writer of this story.
> But Van Horn is present in the same Norwegian issue. It looks like him,
> at least. It's a Donald story in 3-strip (!), coded KD (and a number).
The 'K' indicates that it is made for Disney Comics (note the capital C).
The 'D' means that it was made for the comic 'Donald Duck Adventures'.
Van Horn always drew his comics in 3 strips per page, when he worked for
Disney Comics. The stories he later did for Egmont (Denmark), where 4-
strip, because that's Egmont's standard (and of Dutch editor GP too).
I think they are afraid that if the readers see a 3-line story, they would
complain that they didn't get value for their money. In Holland, all
3-line American stories were re-formatted to 4-line stories. Only since
the mid-80s, they started making exceptions for early Barks stories and Van
Horn.
> What does KD stand for?
Yes, does someone know why Disney Comics used a 'K'? And why they used
'J' (and later 'KJ') from 1991 on?
And another thing about story codes: isn't it strange that Gladstone's
own stories are coded "AR" again? "AR" means "Another Rainbow", which was
the parent company of Gladstone in their first run, but now it's "The Bruce
Hamilton Company"...
> Also in the same issue is a reprint of a Mickey Mouse continuation
> story from WDC375 with a pirate plot set in the 17.-18. century with
> Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pete. I have always (well, for almost 20
> years) thought that that story and the other Mickey continuation
> stories by the same artist were by Paul Murry, but the editor's column
> says it's by Floyd Gottfredson!
The 3x8 pages MM stories are (almost) always drawn by Paul Murry. I don't
have or know a reprint of WDC 375, but if the art looks a lot like the
other 3x8-page stories, the editor is definitely wrong.
--Harry.
Harry PTT Research ()_() Dutch Disney comics freak
Fluks Leidschendam (_) H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl
"Yeah... I've _heard_ of coral barques!"
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen
From RoC
Message 36 -
1994-05-05 at 19:52:09
Here's a letter I wrote when Gary Leach was still on the list, and
"Walt Disney Comics in Colour" had just been banned, but he left
before I got around to posting it...
>>>
QUICK AND PAINLESS (Ducks and comics: a lethal cocktail)
--------------------------------------------------------
Gary, I too lament the fate of the unborn WDCiC, but if you've still
got money to burn, I do have a couple of ideas:
1.st: Would anyone care to explain to me why it's better to publish six
titles once in a blue moon, instead of *the* comic every darn tuesday!?
Considering the attention span of the average American young person,
a higher frequency of publishing would make it easier not to forget
that you are a regular buyer. Even I have to dig up the previous issues
for every new chapter of the 'World of Tomorrow' serial. If, as I
suspect, most of your sales are subscriptions, I wonder how many of
them are for only one or two titles, not all of them, save maybe one?
With a weekly Donald Duck as your only title, you would sell the
equivalent of eight bi-monthly issues to all subscribers, and maybe
they'll even grow accustomed to reading on a regular basis.
I know; it's un-American, subversive, and probably downright undoable.
At the very least though, some titles, like WDC&S, ought to be monthly.
2.nd: If you *must* have a new title with the profitable '#1' on the
cover you could try an 'old' new title like the Digests; that may fool
Disney into accepting it. But this time please don't use halfsized
reprints of ordinary pages. 6 panel pages preformated for digest/pockets
are available at very cheap discounts. In Denmark 264 paged Jumbo books
are published every month, selling more than a million copies a year;
it's the best selling book in Denmark. 'It a ly? :)
<<<
TALKIN' BACK:
Sigurdur:
=========
>Who was the artist who did the motorcar story 2 issues ago? Something
>about Donald renting a bigger car to impress Daisy. Was it
>the same one who did the "Donald as a Pizza delivery man" story?
No, the pizza delivery story was by William van Horn, while H 8296 in
whatever-your-Donald-is-called #16/94 is by Freddy Milton, the Famous
Danish Artist. Though the code as far as I know means it was written
in 1982, an early version of the script was published in Freddy's own
fanzine "Carl Barks & Co." #3 in 1975, credited to B"orner and Milton.
I see the Icelandic edition follows the Nordic ones, but as they are
slightly different, I'd like to ask you to list the codes for all the
stories from one issue; I'm curious how it compares to the others.
I believe that DANISH-INDEX (which I will soon update, really) on
LYSATOR will work just fine for your books too.
If you like Freddy's stories, you can also try and find some of the
Nordic Woody Woodpecker issues from 1982-85. He wrote a "duck story"
with WW or the Gnuffs (a dragon family) for almost every issue.
Elon:
=====
>On an aside, there was a thread on duck heroes a while ago (Paperinik).
>Has anybody seen stories in which Fethry Duck is a superhero (Batman-like,
>but Fethry-style, if you know what I mean)? The name was "Morcego Vermelho"
>in Brazil. I wonder if it could be a Brazil-only creation.
>Though this one was not bad, I'm sorry to say that Brazilian made stories
>are not good in my opinion. There was a series of stories (also published
>in Denmark, I guess) in which the Disney characters formed a "space patrol"!
The only B-coded stories I have seen, are a handful of Beagle Boys
stories in pocket books, and they were no better or worse than most.
I'm sorry to say I don't know those you describe; they sound funnier.
Fabio:
======
>"Paperinik was created with a parodistic intent: during the Sixties, in
>Italy were well spread a kind of comics called 'I neri' as a genre. Their
>"heroes" were violent, ruthless law-breakers. Their names, very derivative
>of the first one of them, Diabolik, always ended with a K: Satanik,
>Demoniak and so on...
>Besides, in the same period there was a revival of Fantomas, a French pulp
>character of the first years of the century, whose first story with
>Paperinik is reminiscent of (as for the name as Fantomius, the former owner
>of the building were DD decides to become Paperinik, after reading that
>guy's diary, and so on...)"
...and in German Paperinik = Phantomias.
Don:
====
>Have I ever posted a list of the Whitmans I need to see if
>anyone here can help me fill in the holes? I'll do so now.
You're probably drowning in responses, but here's my checklist:
U$ #179, WDC&S #480, HD&L #61+73, SG #64+68, and C&D #70+76+77.
I only have one of each, and they'll take ages to reach you, but I'd
be happy to swap with some "Captain Kentucky" books, if you still
"have a garage full of the #$%@& things!"
If anybody wants a copy of DD #231 (reprints all of DD #131, including
Tony Strobl's "Flight of the Golden Butterfly"), "I'm givin' g'way free
semple." My dealer sent me *eight* of'em!
<oLe 'RoC' Reichstein Nielsen, c/o Lasse 'Spot' R.N. (lrn at daimi.aau.dk)>
"Walt Disney Comics in Colour" had just been banned, but he left
before I got around to posting it...
>>>
QUICK AND PAINLESS (Ducks and comics: a lethal cocktail)
--------------------------------------------------------
Gary, I too lament the fate of the unborn WDCiC, but if you've still
got money to burn, I do have a couple of ideas:
1.st: Would anyone care to explain to me why it's better to publish six
titles once in a blue moon, instead of *the* comic every darn tuesday!?
Considering the attention span of the average American young person,
a higher frequency of publishing would make it easier not to forget
that you are a regular buyer. Even I have to dig up the previous issues
for every new chapter of the 'World of Tomorrow' serial. If, as I
suspect, most of your sales are subscriptions, I wonder how many of
them are for only one or two titles, not all of them, save maybe one?
With a weekly Donald Duck as your only title, you would sell the
equivalent of eight bi-monthly issues to all subscribers, and maybe
they'll even grow accustomed to reading on a regular basis.
I know; it's un-American, subversive, and probably downright undoable.
At the very least though, some titles, like WDC&S, ought to be monthly.
2.nd: If you *must* have a new title with the profitable '#1' on the
cover you could try an 'old' new title like the Digests; that may fool
Disney into accepting it. But this time please don't use halfsized
reprints of ordinary pages. 6 panel pages preformated for digest/pockets
are available at very cheap discounts. In Denmark 264 paged Jumbo books
are published every month, selling more than a million copies a year;
it's the best selling book in Denmark. 'It a ly? :)
<<<
TALKIN' BACK:
Sigurdur:
=========
>Who was the artist who did the motorcar story 2 issues ago? Something
>about Donald renting a bigger car to impress Daisy. Was it
>the same one who did the "Donald as a Pizza delivery man" story?
No, the pizza delivery story was by William van Horn, while H 8296 in
whatever-your-Donald-is-called #16/94 is by Freddy Milton, the Famous
Danish Artist. Though the code as far as I know means it was written
in 1982, an early version of the script was published in Freddy's own
fanzine "Carl Barks & Co." #3 in 1975, credited to B"orner and Milton.
I see the Icelandic edition follows the Nordic ones, but as they are
slightly different, I'd like to ask you to list the codes for all the
stories from one issue; I'm curious how it compares to the others.
I believe that DANISH-INDEX (which I will soon update, really) on
LYSATOR will work just fine for your books too.
If you like Freddy's stories, you can also try and find some of the
Nordic Woody Woodpecker issues from 1982-85. He wrote a "duck story"
with WW or the Gnuffs (a dragon family) for almost every issue.
Elon:
=====
>On an aside, there was a thread on duck heroes a while ago (Paperinik).
>Has anybody seen stories in which Fethry Duck is a superhero (Batman-like,
>but Fethry-style, if you know what I mean)? The name was "Morcego Vermelho"
>in Brazil. I wonder if it could be a Brazil-only creation.
>Though this one was not bad, I'm sorry to say that Brazilian made stories
>are not good in my opinion. There was a series of stories (also published
>in Denmark, I guess) in which the Disney characters formed a "space patrol"!
The only B-coded stories I have seen, are a handful of Beagle Boys
stories in pocket books, and they were no better or worse than most.
I'm sorry to say I don't know those you describe; they sound funnier.
Fabio:
======
>"Paperinik was created with a parodistic intent: during the Sixties, in
>Italy were well spread a kind of comics called 'I neri' as a genre. Their
>"heroes" were violent, ruthless law-breakers. Their names, very derivative
>of the first one of them, Diabolik, always ended with a K: Satanik,
>Demoniak and so on...
>Besides, in the same period there was a revival of Fantomas, a French pulp
>character of the first years of the century, whose first story with
>Paperinik is reminiscent of (as for the name as Fantomius, the former owner
>of the building were DD decides to become Paperinik, after reading that
>guy's diary, and so on...)"
...and in German Paperinik = Phantomias.
Don:
====
>Have I ever posted a list of the Whitmans I need to see if
>anyone here can help me fill in the holes? I'll do so now.
You're probably drowning in responses, but here's my checklist:
U$ #179, WDC&S #480, HD&L #61+73, SG #64+68, and C&D #70+76+77.
I only have one of each, and they'll take ages to reach you, but I'd
be happy to swap with some "Captain Kentucky" books, if you still
"have a garage full of the #$%@& things!"
If anybody wants a copy of DD #231 (reprints all of DD #131, including
Tony Strobl's "Flight of the Golden Butterfly"), "I'm givin' g'way free
semple." My dealer sent me *eight* of'em!
<oLe 'RoC' Reichstein Nielsen, c/o Lasse 'Spot' R.N. (lrn at daimi.aau.dk)>
Meacham
Meacham@gnhvax.commnet.edu
Message 37 -
1994-05-05 at 23:12:08
SUBSCRIBE DISNEY-COMICS Chris Meacham
Fredrik Ekman
... codes KD and AR ...
Message 38 -
1994-05-05 at 23:26:42
Harry wrote:
> And another thing about story codes: isn't it strange that Gladstone's
> own stories are coded "AR" again? "AR" means "Another Rainbow", which was
> the parent company of Gladstone in their first run, but now it's "The Bruce
> Hamilton Company"...
But does Another Rainbow still exist or is it just renamed?
> And another thing about story codes: isn't it strange that Gladstone's
> own stories are coded "AR" again? "AR" means "Another Rainbow", which was
> the parent company of Gladstone in their first run, but now it's "The Bruce
> Hamilton Company"...
But does Another Rainbow still exist or is it just renamed?
Per Starback
April, May and June
Message 39 -
1994-05-05 at 23:29:07
Harry summarized Daisy's nieces' history:
> [...]
> 4. 1960 Dell Giant #33 (Daisy D. and U$ Showtime). If this comic was
> published after DDD 1150, the Price Guide is wrong about it
> being the first (named) appearance of AM&J.
Now I've checked the Swedish publications of the stories in Giant #33,
and I didn't find Daisy's nieces anywhere. The only story I couldn't
check was the 10-page Gyro story "Bad Deed Club's Annual Picnic", as
it hasn't been published in Sweden. Are AM&J really in it, or is that
Overstreet note totally off?
> AM&J have at least been the backup-stories in the Ludwig Von Drake comic.
> Was this before or after WDC 308?
They are the title characters of some stories in Ludwig Von Drake #1-4
from December 1961 to May 1962, a long time before WDC 308 (May 1966).
There's also the Phil DeLara's "Clubhouse Crashers" from Giant #38
(Nov. '60), his "The Bewitched Dolls" from Giant #39, and Bradbury's
"The Toy Testers" from Giant #47 (Aug. '61). (I've been looking at
"April, May, and June", "Daisy's nieces", and "Donald's nephews and
Daisy's nieces" in Alberto Becattini's Disney Index.)
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"We want to see that horror picture---`Gore in the Gully'!"
> [...]
> 4. 1960 Dell Giant #33 (Daisy D. and U$ Showtime). If this comic was
> published after DDD 1150, the Price Guide is wrong about it
> being the first (named) appearance of AM&J.
Now I've checked the Swedish publications of the stories in Giant #33,
and I didn't find Daisy's nieces anywhere. The only story I couldn't
check was the 10-page Gyro story "Bad Deed Club's Annual Picnic", as
it hasn't been published in Sweden. Are AM&J really in it, or is that
Overstreet note totally off?
> AM&J have at least been the backup-stories in the Ludwig Von Drake comic.
> Was this before or after WDC 308?
They are the title characters of some stories in Ludwig Von Drake #1-4
from December 1961 to May 1962, a long time before WDC 308 (May 1966).
There's also the Phil DeLara's "Clubhouse Crashers" from Giant #38
(Nov. '60), his "The Bewitched Dolls" from Giant #39, and Bradbury's
"The Toy Testers" from Giant #47 (Aug. '61). (I've been looking at
"April, May, and June", "Daisy's nieces", and "Donald's nephews and
Daisy's nieces" in Alberto Becattini's Disney Index.)
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"We want to see that horror picture---`Gore in the Gully'!"
David A Gerstein
Mouse Revival Update
Message 40 -
1994-05-06 at 05:44:04
Dear Folks,
Great to have a nice LO-O-ONG digest today!
First some old business. Now that we have Heidi MacDonald
here, it has occurred to me that, somewhere, I read that she was the
editor of Disney Comics' HOLIDAY PARADE #2. I wrote a letter to the
WDC&S letter column about that, mainly because there is no letter
column in annual titles. My guess is that you never saw it, Heidi.
So, a VERY belated congratulations on that issue -- ranks with
the best WDC&S issues done by Disney (which were the best things
Disney Comics made, I think). You even printed a Br'er Rabbit story
with the hillbilly dialect intact! And it's also the only time I EVER
saw a MM story from one of the Firestone giveaways...
Now some new news. I talked to Anina Bennett yesterday, and
according to her, the Mouse scripters are all hard at work filling
their 1994 quotas now. Multiple new stories featuring Sylvester
Shyster and Eli Squinch as villains (one of them at a time, of course)
are heading for the art department now, and the scripters are loving
their Mouse stories for the first time in years! She quoted one
writer verbatim:
"You mean you don't want any more BORING Mickey stories?"
In implementing this revival, Egmont has discovered that its
writers thought it expected them to remain true to Murry at all costs.
We suspect that in the past, Egmont may have had such rules. But as
for now, a revitalization of the Mouse is in order, folks. Keep your
eyes open for Squinch and Shyster, because they're going to be coming
your way by the end of this year.
Of course, the stories won't all be great, but the spirit is
back. An unexceptional story with Gottfredson's Mickey is a lot
better than an unexceptional one with a post-lobotomy Mickey...
wouldn't you say?
"WHOOPEE! HOTCHA! HOT DIGGETY DOG! YOWEE!"
<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>
Great to have a nice LO-O-ONG digest today!
First some old business. Now that we have Heidi MacDonald
here, it has occurred to me that, somewhere, I read that she was the
editor of Disney Comics' HOLIDAY PARADE #2. I wrote a letter to the
WDC&S letter column about that, mainly because there is no letter
column in annual titles. My guess is that you never saw it, Heidi.
So, a VERY belated congratulations on that issue -- ranks with
the best WDC&S issues done by Disney (which were the best things
Disney Comics made, I think). You even printed a Br'er Rabbit story
with the hillbilly dialect intact! And it's also the only time I EVER
saw a MM story from one of the Firestone giveaways...
Now some new news. I talked to Anina Bennett yesterday, and
according to her, the Mouse scripters are all hard at work filling
their 1994 quotas now. Multiple new stories featuring Sylvester
Shyster and Eli Squinch as villains (one of them at a time, of course)
are heading for the art department now, and the scripters are loving
their Mouse stories for the first time in years! She quoted one
writer verbatim:
"You mean you don't want any more BORING Mickey stories?"
In implementing this revival, Egmont has discovered that its
writers thought it expected them to remain true to Murry at all costs.
We suspect that in the past, Egmont may have had such rules. But as
for now, a revitalization of the Mouse is in order, folks. Keep your
eyes open for Squinch and Shyster, because they're going to be coming
your way by the end of this year.
Of course, the stories won't all be great, but the spirit is
back. An unexceptional story with Gottfredson's Mickey is a lot
better than an unexceptional one with a post-lobotomy Mickey...
wouldn't you say?
"WHOOPEE! HOTCHA! HOT DIGGETY DOG! YOWEE!"
<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>
Don Rosa
Disney-comics digest #320.
Message 41 -
1994-05-06 at 06:51:04
RoC:
I would gladly give more than simply a set of those stupid
CAPTAIN KENTUCKY magazines for those Whitman comics you have for me!
Besides, where are you... Europe somewhere? I hope you'll send those by
airmail otherwise they'll take MONTHS to get here. I'll, of course, pay
that postage. The Whitmans are quite difficult to find... and I even
thought that UNCLE $CROOGE #179 was particularly rare... but maybe not,
if you found one all the way over in... Europe somewhere?
But I will be VERY happy to once again have full sets of WDC&S
and U$, which I haven't had since they began to be sold as "Whitman"s in
the toy stores.
I would gladly give more than simply a set of those stupid
CAPTAIN KENTUCKY magazines for those Whitman comics you have for me!
Besides, where are you... Europe somewhere? I hope you'll send those by
airmail otherwise they'll take MONTHS to get here. I'll, of course, pay
that postage. The Whitmans are quite difficult to find... and I even
thought that UNCLE $CROOGE #179 was particularly rare... but maybe not,
if you found one all the way over in... Europe somewhere?
But I will be VERY happy to once again have full sets of WDC&S
and U$, which I haven't had since they began to be sold as "Whitman"s in
the toy stores.
David A Gerstein
WANTED: PREVIEWS of Gladstone's 15th month
Message 42 -
1994-05-06 at 06:55:41
Dear Folks,
The new issues of DIAMOND PREVIEWS and ADVANCE COMICS have
apparently been published for the new month. As usual, I'm stuck in
Williamstown and have no comic shop accessible.
Can someone tell me -- and all of us -- what either of these
catalogs says about the new releases from Gladstone for this month?
The ones I know for sure are:
DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES #28
WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #593
UNCLE $CROOGE #288
I'm particularly interested in whether any backup stories to
Rosa's LO$ are listed in U$ -- because one of my dialogues may be used
in that issue.
Yours,
David Gerstein
<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>
The new issues of DIAMOND PREVIEWS and ADVANCE COMICS have
apparently been published for the new month. As usual, I'm stuck in
Williamstown and have no comic shop accessible.
Can someone tell me -- and all of us -- what either of these
catalogs says about the new releases from Gladstone for this month?
The ones I know for sure are:
DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES #28
WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #593
UNCLE $CROOGE #288
I'm particularly interested in whether any backup stories to
Rosa's LO$ are listed in U$ -- because one of my dialogues may be used
in that issue.
Yours,
David Gerstein
<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>
Mattias Hallin
RE Digest #319
Message 43 -
1994-05-06 at 10:09:11
`ULLO, `ULLO, EVERYBODY!
Here I am already -- with a few late comments on past subjects:
SIGURDUR:
Those albums your shop-owner friend showed you would EITHER be old issues of Gladstone`s pre-Disney-Disneys comic albums; OR part of their present intended-to-be-complete (or so it seems) Carl Barks Library in Color. You do know, I suppose, about their original Carl Barks Library, the complete reissue of Barks` duck comics, printed in black and white and presented in ten slip-cased sets, each consisting of three large-format hardcover books. (I paid US$ 810 for my complete set back in `87; and never regretted a single cent of that money)
Well, now they`re making us hard-core suckers (one born ev`ry minute -- and I`m sure one of `em!) buy the same comics (and stories -- no, sorry 'bout that!) again, only this time printed in colour, and sold separatly as soft-cover comic albums, ranging in price between (I think) US$ 8.95 and 12.95, but certainly not 20, although I guess your friend might to have to charge you that much to cover his overheads. The least expensive way to get`em is probably to subscribe directly from Gladstone -- in that case you pay only the cover price plus a not-too-hefty postage and handling surcharge; the drawback being they ship`em to you surface mail, which is slow. Once they start coming, though, you`ll get`em just as regularly as if bought from the stand, though about two months behind schedule of course. They too, are worth the money, I guess, `though I haven`t really dared figger the final cost out -- I want mah poor achin` wallet t` be able t` git his nights rest, dontcha know?!
All the best!
Mattias
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!==============================================================================!
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Here I am already -- with a few late comments on past subjects:
SIGURDUR:
Those albums your shop-owner friend showed you would EITHER be old issues of Gladstone`s pre-Disney-Disneys comic albums; OR part of their present intended-to-be-complete (or so it seems) Carl Barks Library in Color. You do know, I suppose, about their original Carl Barks Library, the complete reissue of Barks` duck comics, printed in black and white and presented in ten slip-cased sets, each consisting of three large-format hardcover books. (I paid US$ 810 for my complete set back in `87; and never regretted a single cent of that money)
Well, now they`re making us hard-core suckers (one born ev`ry minute -- and I`m sure one of `em!) buy the same comics (and stories -- no, sorry 'bout that!) again, only this time printed in colour, and sold separatly as soft-cover comic albums, ranging in price between (I think) US$ 8.95 and 12.95, but certainly not 20, although I guess your friend might to have to charge you that much to cover his overheads. The least expensive way to get`em is probably to subscribe directly from Gladstone -- in that case you pay only the cover price plus a not-too-hefty postage and handling surcharge; the drawback being they ship`em to you surface mail, which is slow. Once they start coming, though, you`ll get`em just as regularly as if bought from the stand, though about two months behind schedule of course. They too, are worth the money, I guess, `though I haven`t really dared figger the final cost out -- I want mah poor achin` wallet t` be able t` git his nights rest, dontcha know?!
All the best!
Mattias
!==============================================================================!
!* Mattias Hallin ** <Mattias.Hallin at Jurenh.lu.se> ** Phone: +46 46-14 84 43 **!
!* Trollebergsvagen 24 B ***** Work: Lund University, Box 117, S-221 00 Lund **!
!* S-222 29 Lund, SWEDEN **************************** Phone: +46 46-10 71 37 **!
!==============================================================================!
!********************** "Oh, the world owes me a livin'" **********************!
!==============================================================================!
!========================================================================!
!Mattias Hallin Phone: +46 (0)46-107137 (am) !
!Juridiska enheten +46 (0)46-109709 (pm) !
!Lund University Fax: +46 (0)46-104232 !
!Box 117, S-221 00 Lund, SWEDEN e-mail: <Mattias.Hallin at Jurenh.lu.se>!
!========================================================================!
Fabio Gadducci
WANTED: PREVIEWS of Gladstone's 15th month
Message 44 -
1994-05-06 at 10:35:26
> Dear Folks,
>
> The new issues of DIAMOND PREVIEWS and ADVANCE COMICS have
>apparently been published for the new month. As usual, I'm stuck in
>Williamstown and have no comic shop accessible.
>
> Can someone tell me -- and all of us -- what either of these
>catalogs says about the new releases from Gladstone for this month?
>The ones I know for sure are:
>
> DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES #28
> WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #593
> UNCLE $CROOGE #288
>
> I'm particularly interested in whether any backup stories to
>Rosa's LO$ are listed in U$ -- because one of my dialogues may be used
>in that issue.
>
Hi all!
Just a quick reply (I promise today I'll reply to all of you who still are
waiting for an answer of some kind from me... :-)
I haven't at hand the Diamond preview, but I remeber that there is a
11-page Tony Strobl backup story in US288.
Are'nt you happy, all of you Strobl's fans?! :-)
Fabio
================================================================
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Home: +39-50-541725 Universita` di Pisa
Off.: +39-50-887268 Corso Italia 40, 56100 PISA (ITALY)
FAX: +39-50-887226 E-mail:gadducci at di.unipi.it
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>
> The new issues of DIAMOND PREVIEWS and ADVANCE COMICS have
>apparently been published for the new month. As usual, I'm stuck in
>Williamstown and have no comic shop accessible.
>
> Can someone tell me -- and all of us -- what either of these
>catalogs says about the new releases from Gladstone for this month?
>The ones I know for sure are:
>
> DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES #28
> WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #593
> UNCLE $CROOGE #288
>
> I'm particularly interested in whether any backup stories to
>Rosa's LO$ are listed in U$ -- because one of my dialogues may be used
>in that issue.
>
Hi all!
Just a quick reply (I promise today I'll reply to all of you who still are
waiting for an answer of some kind from me... :-)
I haven't at hand the Diamond preview, but I remeber that there is a
11-page Tony Strobl backup story in US288.
Are'nt you happy, all of you Strobl's fans?! :-)
Fabio
================================================================
Fabio Gadducci Dip. di Informatica
Home: +39-50-541725 Universita` di Pisa
Off.: +39-50-887268 Corso Italia 40, 56100 PISA (ITALY)
FAX: +39-50-887226 E-mail:gadducci at di.unipi.it
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Mikko Henri Juhani Aittola
Disney-comics digest #320.
Message 45 -
1994-05-06 at 13:53:10
Don wrote:
> I don't believe I act very much like a prima donna... but for someone
> to take a story that I spent 2 1/2 years of GREAT EFFORT and planning
> on, and not use the beginning or ending... making the whole story
> absolutely POINTLESS... how should I react to that?!?!?!? They can't
> be serious, right?
Here in Finland the lo$ #11 ends with something like
'this story is not over yet!' so I believe they are
going to print #12. However I've never seen chapters
#1 and #2 printed in Finnish. Luckily I have now
them in U$ #285-6. Maybe I should send some 'hatemail'
to our publisher...
BTW, as I wrote before, Byron Ericson (sp?) and Bob Foster
are going to attend a local comic-con at the end of this month.
Could someone post me some info about them?
/Mikko
> I don't believe I act very much like a prima donna... but for someone
> to take a story that I spent 2 1/2 years of GREAT EFFORT and planning
> on, and not use the beginning or ending... making the whole story
> absolutely POINTLESS... how should I react to that?!?!?!? They can't
> be serious, right?
Here in Finland the lo$ #11 ends with something like
'this story is not over yet!' so I believe they are
going to print #12. However I've never seen chapters
#1 and #2 printed in Finnish. Luckily I have now
them in U$ #285-6. Maybe I should send some 'hatemail'
to our publisher...
BTW, as I wrote before, Byron Ericson (sp?) and Bob Foster
are going to attend a local comic-con at the end of this month.
Could someone post me some info about them?
/Mikko