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HARRY:
Yes, there was something odd about that cover on U$ #291. Actually, I
liked the gag scene a lot... but the problem is that I don't draw those oval
portraits on the cover art -- I do them separately -- and I didn't realize that
the clothing and expression were identicle until I saw them on the cover with
everyone else. Also, the eyeballs in the portrait were too large for some
reason... I guess I drew them like that, but they look wrong. Also, too, the
oval portrait was supposed to be balancing a boomerang on that unexplained
twirling finger but they removed that because it must have interferred with the
frame -- now $crooge looks like he's saying "well, whoop-dee-doo".
In the story itself, I liked Gladstone's coloring and as always Todd
Klein's lettering was swell -- but I am always a bit distressed by how LARGE his
sound effects are! The one on the flood is way too big... it covered up a lot of
water that I spend loads of extra time drawing just right.

HARRY pointed out that on the last panel of page 3 (of this
story which I translated, in US 291), this sentence was needless:
"I'm not gonna spend one ton of money to get rid of another ton!
Rubleniks are worthless, but the principle bothers me, dagnabbit!"

> The fact that rubleniks are worthless has nothing to do with Scrooge
> spending money. What's the principle?

This is actually the sentence I found the most obvious thing
for deletion, too, on afterthought. What I meant was that while Scrooge
might spend money to get rid of garbage of some kind (if it was
absolutely necessary to do so), Scrooge would NEVER spend money
to get rid of additional MONEY, on principle alone, even if the money
he was trying to obliterate was worthless.

You say that you wouldn't have picked this story for American
reprint. For me, any story which flips things around so that Scrooge
is helping the Beagle Boys and trying to rout Donald's attempts to
preserve law and order, is worth printing. I love stories that take
the traditional state of things in the Duck universe and very
plausibly throw everything for a loop.
And I think that aside from being a little wordy now and then,
my dialogue here was better than "Bugged by Humbuggery" (WDC 589).
But then, people seemed to enjoy that, and no one yet has been all
that hot on "A Case of Too Much Money".

If we're going to talk about being wordy, I might as well
mention that two pages of "Lentils from Babylon" part III are VERY
wordy. They were this way in the Italian as well, as Fabio can tell
you. The BBs explain their entire scheme and it took both Scarpa and
myself a LOT of space to expound it.
On the other hand, I don't think part three of the story is
NEEDLESSLY wordy as Part II was. It's not as complicated and I found
that I got a lot of good gags into it, too. So we'll see what you
think.

I'll be back!

David Gerstein
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JORGEN:

>Could this third one be the story where Mickey and Goofy are hired to find
>that little thing which makes things invisible?

Maybe... I've found a 1982 reprint of that story while browsing
my collection - but this reprint isn't followed by an official code
(there's just a record of the successive local reprints: RMK 168/1 - DE
11/16 - DER 10/11). I can't remember many of those Mickey "Spy" comics:
just the aforementioned "invisible unit" story and another one involving
Herbie the Volkswagen.

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and I'll see
what I can do.

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DISNEY COMICS in the U.S.:
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FROM PREVIEWS DECEMBER 1994
Scheduled to ship in February -

Gladstone:

Graphic Novels:

Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in color #14:
- Darkest Africa, MOC #20
- Race to the South Seas, MOC #41
+ Trading Card

Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics & Stories in color #38:
- Volunteer Fireman, WDC&S #225
- Floating Island, WDC&S #226
- A Tracking Frenzy, WDC&S #227
- No Rest for the Rescued, WDC&S #228
- The Good Deeds, WDC&S #229
+ Trading Card depicting the Brutopian Ambassador from "A Cold Bargain"

Comics:

Donald Duck #290
- Good Canoes and Bad Canoes, CB
- Newspaper strips from the 1930s by Taliaferro

Donald & Mickey #29
- Dodging Miss Daisy, CB
- Goofy King Arthur
- New Rosa cover

Uncle Scrooge Adventures #32
- The Lentils of Babylon, Scarpa
- New Rosa cover

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FROM PREVIEWS JANUARY 1995
Scheduled to ship in March 1995 -

Graphic Novels:

Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in color #15:
- Ancient Persia, FC #275
- The Pixilated Parrot, FC #282
+ Trading Card

Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics & Stories in color #39:
- Black Wednesday, WDC&S #230
- The Wax Museum, WDC&S #231
- Under the Polar Ice, WDC&S #232
- Knights of the Flying Sleds, WDC&S #233
- Riding the Pony Express, WDC&S #234
+ Trading Card depicting the King of Tangkor Wat from "City of Golden Roofs"

Comics:

Donald Duck Adventures #32:
- Catman vs. the Masked Marauder
- Storm Dancers, script CB
- Naturepark Ranger, by Mau Heymans (Dutch)

Uncle Scrooge #292:
- The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, part 8: King of Klondike
- Cover by Rosa

Walt Disney Comics & Stories #597:
- Rite of Spring, Van Horn
- Monarch of Medioka, part 5, Gottfredson
- Cover pencilled by Barks and inked by Van Horn

Others:

Gemstone Publishing:
Offered again:
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Color
- Interviews with Barks and Gottfredson
- 7" vinyl record with conversation between Barks & Gottfredson
- Production limited to 3000 copies
- Hand-signed by Barks and Gottfredson
- $250,00

Matti Eronen:
Carl Barks Surviving Comic Book Art
- What happened to Barks originals?
- Barks comic book checklist
- index of Disney Duck Paintings
- select bibliography
- production limited to 500 copies
- $24,95

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FROM PREVIEWS FEBRUARY 1995
Scheduled to ship in April 1995 -

Graphic Novels:

Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in color #16:
- The Magic Hourglass, FC #291
- Big Top Bedlam, FC #300
+ Trading Card

Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics & Stories in color #40:
- Want to Buy an Island, WDC&S #235
- Froggy Farmer, WDC&S #236
- Mystery of the Loch, WDC&S #237
- The Dog-Sitter, WDC&S #238
- The Village Blacksmith, WDC&S #239
+ Trading Card

Comics:

Donald Duck #291
- Fearsome Flowers, CB WDC&S #214
- Newspaper strips from the 1930s by Taliaferro

Donald & Mickey #30
- Gopher Goof Ups, CB WDC&S #189
- Goofy King Arthur
- Van Horn cover

Uncle Scrooge Adventures #33
- Horsing Around with History, NEW BARKS STORY, Illustrated by Van Horn
- Only a Poor Old Man, CB
- 64 pg., $2,95

Others:

Gemstone Publishing:
The Carl Barks Barkster Bronze Statue
- conceptualized by Steve Geppi
- sketched by Barks
- sculpted by Randy Bowen
- production limited to 100 copies
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Saa faar I ikke mere for den 25-o:re...
Nisse
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MIKE:
Wait! Let's not start misunderstanding here! I didn't say that I might
not answer some irresistable letter in the batch from Finland. I'm just a fair
minded person and I have always made a special point of answering ALL my mail
(albeit slowly); if put in a position of having to select a few letters out of a
huge pile to reply to would be very unfair to all those other nice people, and
I'd almost feel better not to reply to ANY of the batch. But we'll see what
we'll see.
And YES, the Finnish editor did ask me during a brief phone call last
time I was in Norway whether he could send me such a batch of letters, and I
said sure. What I've been trying to say here, once you told me that the stuff
was on its way, is that he never told me what he has told his readers I'm going
to DO with all that mail. I don't know if he's promised them or even implied to
them that I'd answer it all or not. I just don't know what he wants me to do
with it all and I hope he has sent me some communication about what this whole
deal is about. I don't know under what pretenses he solicited the mail from his
readers. All I know is I'm gonna have a big batch of mail from Finland, and I
HOPE it's in English!
Actually, someone named Jari Laitine (I wrote it down) from a Helsinki
store named Goodfellows called me yesterday to say that the Finnish editor has
been telling people I'd be making a trip to Finland in June. This is what I mean
about being distressed to hear these European editors making plans for me. I
told the editor I would be happy to consider a trip to see him, but he never
asked me about any times or dates. June is outta the question since I'll be in
Germany for 2 1/2 weeks then, and I can't miss more work than that without going
bancrupt! These editors never seem to realize that I only lose money when I help
them promote their comics -- they never pay me to do it like in the world of
non-Disney comics or books.

HARRY:
You don't know why Gladstone would reprint that Danish story? Have I ever
explained to you how Gladstone is forced to select foreign stories for
reprinting. It's true that a very small number of foreign stories are known to
be popular, but the vast bulk of the foreign reprints are not selected that way.
John Clark will flip through foreign comics until he spots a story that he CAN'T
READ, but seems to have some interesting action. Then he orders the story and
when it finally arrives he can read the english text in accompanying script. If
it turns out the story sux, it's too long a process to start from scratch and
search out another story, so he has to go with whatever he was sent. This is
just another of the many problems built into this Disney comics system that seem
designed to prevent publishers from producing good comics. And that problem is
pretty miner compared to the way that system is designed to prevent any good
editors or artists or writers or letterers or colorists or anyone else from
wanting to have anything to do with an industry that's frozen in the 1940's as
far as getting credits and royalties. It's just a wretched system altogether.
The only thing that saves it is that there is a handful of people involved in
various positions who love the material so much they're willing to put up with
all the grief to try to produce decent work, while their fellows are out getting
wealthy in much less repressive systems. We have to be thankful for these folks!

PER:
Please unsubscribe all those people who don't want to know about Disney
comics! But DON'T unsubscribe that guy who just made me pay about 3 cents to
receive umpteen lines of exclamation points -- make him read a few more unwanted
Digests.

Thanks to all for continuing my education. I have had no luck thus far
locating any of the newer comics, but I will continue to check the comics
stores. (I did find a bunch of Disney back issues in one store.)

So, is there any source of information on the artists/writers themselves?
I have seen names like Strobl, Branca, Vicar, also stores credited solely
to the Gutenburghus group. Is there any sort of master list of who has
created Uncle Scrooge stories, when they did it, who they worked for, what
country, etc.?

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ME:
>Next week comes Extra issue #2 this year. It's celebrating Black Pete's
>70th birtday. I didn't know he was older than Mickey.

PAULO:
>Me, either. By the way... how come?

Here comes the explanation. Hjemmet managed to do their biggest blunder for
years, although the number '70', which was presented in the last issue, and
also on a lot of big posters all over the country actually is correct.

Donald Duck & Co #7 1995
------------------------

- Front cover (D11725) shows Donald going down a hill on skies which form
after the landscape. Gyro is standing on the side watching.

- Donald Duck (D93296, 10 pages). Art by Vicar.
Donald takes part in a fishing contest (again). This time it's enough to
show a picture of the fish. It can be caught anywhere in the world. Donald
goes to fish a "balluba" in the Lumbago river in N'Tali. The favorite in the
contest tries to sabotage it.
Not so bad, really.

- Mickey Mouse (D93236, 5 pages). Art by Esteban.
It's winter. Mickey finds a lot of tracks in the snow heading against each
house in the neighborhood. He tracks it down to find the crook, and finds --
a post office.
A pure gag story. I don't think I will remember it for a very long time...

- Madam Mim (D91301, 8 pages). Art by Millet.
Mim is taking part in a cooking contest for witches. Accidentally she makes
her cookbook disappear. It suddenly show up in the Beagle Boys' house. One
of them tries it, with bad results. At last they end up in Mim's cake in the
contest.
The idea might not be so bad, but the story is boring.

- Uncle Scrooge (D92206, 7+ pages). William van Horn.
Second part of the story. HDL finds out by themselves who Mr. X is. Only
one person is talented enough to beat Scrooge McDuck -- Scrooge McDuck.
After this they try to find out which company is the next to be taken over
by Mr. X, to find US. They find him, but Mr. X does not want to meet them.
The main story is quite good, but I think there are too few details to back
it up.

- Pluto (KF 7.28.40, one page).

Extra issue #2 1995
-------------------

This issue is celebrating Black Pete's 70th birthday -- or the 60th?

On the front cover of the magazine there is a drawing, by Esteban, of
Black Pete pointing at Mickey, who's standing in front of him. Below is
the text "Black Pete 60 years old!".

The "explanation" is on the back cover of the magazine, in one of the most
stupid articles I've ever seen. It says that Pete is 60 years old on 15.
april (today). Then it says that his first appearance was 15. february
1925. Then the appearance in 1928 is mentioned. There is also a panel
from a story from 1933. In addition there are mentioned a few stories from
the sixties. This is the usual, meaningless, kind of stuff they use to
put into their "articles".

Anyway, somebody is not very good in calculating.

It's not as bad as in 1973, though, when they managed to put a couple of
Mickey ears, and the text "1923 - 1973" on the front cover of several
issues.

Ah, the contents.

- Mickey Mouse (WR/WDC 182-184, 24 pages). Paul Murry.
I always wondered especially about one detail in this story when I was a
child (when I was a younger child...). On the third page the magnet in the
suitcase is stopping the car, but the man isn't pushed forward. Verry
beculiar, proffesors (I played a lot with magnets at that time).

- Mickey Mouse (93265, 10 pages).
Mickey and Goofy are the trainers of a very good horse. It has just won a
contest. To celebrate it, they dress like a horse. Black Pete will steal the
horse, but his helper takes Mickey and Goofy (in the horse suit) instead.
Pete puts Goofy between to moving millstones and tells Mickey he'll move
them closer together until Mickey comes with the horse. Mickey does so.
Then a secret message to the owner makes the police come.
The story isn't bad. I like the idea with the millstones. That makes Pete a
real evil crook, like he should be.

Jorgen