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HARRY:
The Gilded Man gag seemed "forced" to you? Hey -- if that's the only
gag or reference in that chapter, much less all 12 chapters, that seemed
"forced", then I have done a far better job than I ever dreamed!
What "Dutch comics newsgroup"? Where is it?

ARTHUR:
When you see my text in Gladstone's U$ with chapter XI, you'll see
more of this. But the fact that Barks had stated in that very-early use of
$crooge in "Voodoo Hoodoo" that $crooge had commited actual crimes, was one
Barksian fact I'd always thought I'd hafta ignore in the "Lo$". But when the
time came, I decided that very out-of-character act could be exactly what I
needed to base that whole chapter on. Yes -- I think $crooge was too mean in
Africa, too... that's the point of the story, right? And besides, part of
the "fun" of the whole series, for us anal-retentive fanboys is to use every
Barksian fact in the series, whether it fits in well or not. Actually, the
whole challenge of that series was NOT writing a "life story" for $crooge --
that would be easy. It was doing it in such a way as to give mention to each
and every Barksian Fact, ignoring none, and finding a logical way to get
them to inter-relate. As I've also said, I don't know if I came up with a
good story (usually I was SURE I wasn't!), but I think the way I spun all
those "facts" together and mentioned them all was not bad at all.
And that chapter XI will appear in America as is. The people at
Disney who watch over this stuff are really not bad, as long as the
higher-ups in the corporation who have less interest or knowledge in the
comics are not involved in the decision making. I think the reaction was
that chapter XI would have been nixed as a stand-alone story (and as a
stand-alone story I would agree that it would have had no purpose), but that
its omission at this stage of the game would have loused up the entire (ahem
- award winning) series. So they passed it on.

DANIEL vE:
I didn't plan to ever do anymore stories set in the 1930-1947 time
frame, so I won't need to worry whether $crooge ever again saw his two
sisters. But if I tell you what I was thinking when I wrote that, I do NOT
think he ever again saw either of his sisters, and that they probably went
away and died or never returned to Duckburg. Sad, eh? I never saw $crooge's
life as a deleriously happy one. I think that last page of "Only a Poor Old
Man" sums it up -- he's learned to live with himself and take pleasure in
his memories, but he also has the bit of self-doubt that you see in that one
panel on that page. Ew... too heavy! This stuff feels way to leaden when you
put it down into words. But that's why I love this cast of characters.
Donald, the happy failure... and $crooge, the worried, never content, success.

> Dwight just mentioned USA 35
> having appeared. Next week should come WD GIANT 2 (unless it also
> came out this week).
>
WD Giant #2 came out at the same time as USA 35. Greasy-feeling not-a-cover,
the back of the comic taken up by a Little Golden Book reprint...oh me,
oh my.

--Dwight Decker

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PETER:

> I am looking for birthdays for the Disney characters. I know that are no
> real evidence for a specific birthday for some of our friends. I know that
> we celebrated Donald Duck last year, 9 of June, and I also know that some
> people regard 13 of Mars as the actual birthdays. I guess that the
> definition of birthdays should be the date a character debuted as artist in
> a strip, movie, frame, mag or book.

Of which characters do you want to have the birthdays? I can help you
with a list of first appearances of Barks-characters. In this case
you can choose between two "birthdays":

1. The date on which Barks sent his material to the editor.
2. The date on which the material was actually published.

> Yes! I have asked this question once before, but with no reply.

I remember a reply in which was asked what you actually meant with
"birthdays". For example: Scrooge was born in 1947, but in the
Duckburg universe he must have been born a long time before that,
because he was already an old man by then.

PS. I think it's better that you send your question about the digest-
mode to "disney-comics-request at minsk.docs.uu.se".

Greetings,

--- Daniel

Could anyone tell me about the Woodchuck?s Official Hound? I have one
page from a JW-story sceduled for Norwegian DD 49/95, code D 95040,
where the hound looks much more hairy than General Snozzie. Also, it
is called General Sniff in the English text. Has this dog appeared
before?

Erik
adress egil at telepost.no

Regarding Cash Flow, by Don Rosa,

I thought it was an early issue of Gladstone, but am no longer sure as at
that time I still gave all of our well read comics away to friends with
children who didn't like to read (and it made readers out of them as you can
imagine). It was sometime between 1985 and 1987 I am positive. It could
have been in a Gold Key comic.

The Beagle Boys get ahold of the inventor's anti-inertia and anti-friction
(?)ray guns. They use these to "liquify" and transport Uncle $crooge's
money from his money bin and it flows through the streets of Duckburg.

Perhaps people know this one by another name? I will have to research the
reappearance of the inventor and yes, it was by Don, it may have only been a
cameo appearance.

This is the problem when you work with a networks system 10 months out of
the year. Your mental RAM is too stuffed with details to sort through to the
more fun and interesting things, my brain needs new memory chips.

Kathy
>
>> Ooooops! Thanks for setting me straight on the origin of the inventor. I
>> have not read the classical 1995, but I always wondered if in fact, the
>> inventor had a Barks origin.
>
>Pleased to help! Where did the "cashflow" story you mention appear?
>What are the other stories in which the inventor appears? Are they all
>by Don? You're welcome to reply to the mailing list instead of to me
>personally if you so wish -- others may like to know.
>
>
> Frank (Filologo Disneyano)
>
>
>

DAVID:
Hi! No, I don't think I need any German comics, at least none that I
know of -- but that's the problem. I really don't know which ones have my
stories until I see them. But I have two file cabinet drawers filled with
foreign editions of my stories, spilling over now into a third. It's all I
can do to keep up with new editions, so I'd better assume I have enough
stock in the older German issues. Not that I don't need back-stock in other
editions, but I just might have all the German ones.
Is that what I'd said they changed in Gladstone's use of chapter XI?
I can't recall now. I just remembered it was very minor. I just HOPE they
print it better (or get better photostats) than they did on that chapter X!
Gad, that looked bad! So murky! When they reprint that in the album series
next year, I'll make sure they have better art to place their color film on,
if that's how it works.
Oh, I also know this: "Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies" will be
used in UNCLE $CROOGE #297, one issue after chapter XII. "ODaDaD" is
"episode 0" in the true sense of the term, which has already become
hackneyed in American comic books now. But "ODaDaD" was a story of $crooge's
childhood that I was working on when Egmont decided they wanted me to do the
"Lo$"... it's told as a flashback, not as happening in "real time" as are
the "Lo$" stories, so it's the true precursor to the series... and one of
the rare instances when I kinda liked one of my own stories.
By the way, as I've said before, don't anticipate chapter XI so
greatly! You might not like it -- it's very odd. Don't look forward so much
to how "good" it might be, just look forward to seeing how I managed to pull
it off at ALL.
Scarpa is your favorite Italian Disney artist? What about Marco
Rota??? I think he's the best Disney Duck artist of all right now... and
perhaps ever. And then there's that guy who does the new MM stories for
Egmont -- I think his name is something like Ferolli? He's sensational! I
get embarrassed when I look at art by people like that!
And you know... I think the answer to whether or not $crooge has an
accent is entirely up to the reader. To ME he doesn't have an accent since
while I've read those stories since my youngest days, it never occurred to
me that he did (in those days I didn't know he was Scottish or what a
"Scottish" might have been). I try to explain it to myself now that he has
no accent since he's been a citizen of the WORLD much longer than he grew up
in Scotland.

PETER:
And say hello back to Dick Brobeck for me. (Dick Brobeck, for you
eavesdroppers, is the man who organizes my publicity trips to Sweden).

DAVE R.:
Since you sounded interested, I just took the long hike downstairs
and the length of the house then back up over the garage (to my so-called
"studio-office") to check that PICSOU. They titled your story "Un Guide a la
Hauteur", which I think means "A Guide to the Heights" or something. Could
be a French idiom or expression, or maybe not... we'd need a Frenchman to
tell us.
Where have you been hiding in Oakland and SD this past year? We
didn't have our usual nightcap at the Horton Grand.

KATHY:
Well, since I just took that hike to get that info far Dave R., I
was too pooped to go look up which issue of UNCLE $CROOGE featured "Cash
Flow". If no one else says anything, I'll look it up before next time. But
it appeared in an issue of UNCLE $CROOGE around #225 in 1987 or 88.