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Maybe someone remembers that I was creating a list of Disney
comics published all over the world. Anyone?!?!? No? Anyway, my list is
getting bigger and bigger, and now I have found a book, which contains all
the information about ALL Disney comics published in Europe and Eastern
Europe. It is really a great book. The book isn't mine though. I have to
give it back to it's owner in about a week, but I'm going to make photo-
copies of it, and use the information for my list. The book is not availabe
for 'normal' people. It was made for companies, who want to place
advertisements in Disney comics all over Europe. The title is: "Adver-
tising Guide Disney Magazines Europe/Middle East". The book also contains
the advertising Rates. For example: when you want to place a
full-page-advertisement in the Italian Topolino (there're 13 different
Italian Disney comics mentioned), it costs 22,000,000 Lire. All information
about every Disney comic is in the book. The average sale, the format in
centimeters, the number of pages and advertising pages, average readership,
gender breakdown by sales, everything. It's incredible.
Is there anyone on this list, who knows more about this book,
or maybe if there are more books availabe. If there's an "Advertising Guide
Disney Magazine Europe", there's probably also a "Advertising Guide Asia",
or "Advertising Guide Northern and Southern America".
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Of course, the books you asked specifically about are the books set for
DECEMBER release, which would be, according to PREVIEWS:

Donald Duck #295

"The Code of Duckburg" by Carl Barks, with a collection of Taliaferro strips

DD&MM #4

"Old Froggie Catapult" by Carl Barks

"The Treasure of Shark Reef", a 16-page MM story without any artists or
writers mentioned

Cover by WVH

WDG #4

"The Mysterious Stranger", a 11 page Mickey/Goofy take-off on "The
Invisible Man." Cover by Pat Block

U$A #37

Chapter one of Romano Scarpa's "Colossus of the Nile" at last (I remember
a letter in Gladstone's last run asking for this story, giving a detailed
account of it, which Gladstone edited out for obvious reasons.)

Cover by Jose Guardia

Hope this helps!

-Augie, typed this up before looking at what Per had, so I could very well
be repeating everything for all I know, but there are those who
are interested, no doubt.
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Thanks Augie! Thanks Augie! Thanks Augie! :-)

No wonder you thought I was talking about later issues than I was.
Who would ask about books so old that "everyone" already has them?

I told you it was an uninteresting question. To compensate, here's a
question that might prove interesting -- I hope:

Once when I quoted "she musta been vaccinated with a phonograph needle",
which is Mickey Mouse on Clarabelle Cow, someone told me that he
recognized that as a Groucho Marx quote, even though he couldn't tell
me from where it was. Is that so? And in that case, who copied whom?
Or is neither Mickey nor Groucho first to come up with this wisecrack
remark?
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"I heard she had her tonsils removed so she could talk more freely!"

I've been reading in this "Disney Magazine Europe"-book. Some
figures are just incredible. What to think of the German "Micky Maus"
which has an average sales of 666,000 copies and an average readership
of 1,650,000. It's not suprising to see that it costs DM 36,000 (over
$50,000?) to have a full advertising page in the German "Micky Maus".
I was also surprised to see that in Finland, one-fifth of the
population reads "Aku Ankka". This weekly comic has an average reader-
ship of nearly one million people. 98% of these readers are subscribers,
while only 2% buy them in kiosks. Those figures are nothing, compared
to Norway, where 1,100,000 of 4,000,000 people read "Donald Duck & Co."
Now, I also know for sure that Portugese and Brazilian Disney
comics are mixed. It says: "One of the largest publishers in the world,
Editorial Abril, is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Portuguese
market benefits not only from Disney comics imported from Brazil, but
also from locally developed magazines."
Also Eastern Europe, with a consumer base of 250 million people,
will become an increasingly powerful sector of Europe, and Disney magazines
will be part of the growth for years to come. Russia, for example, has
two Disney comics: Mickey Mouse (MNKKN MAYC) and Ducktales. Each with
an average readership of one million people. And what do you think of
Egypt? I happen to have bought some Egyptian Disney comics yesterday.
Very strange to see the cover on the back side of the issue. ;-)
Most of the Disney comics are aimed at children. There are some more
mature magazines though. Especially in Skandinavia and Greece. In Greece,
they have the monthly Komix, launched in 1988. It has a target age group of
10 and up. Don already talked about the credits being printed in this
magazine. The Greek magazines are, in large part, adult collector's items.
I had never heard of the British Disney Mirror, a comics supplement
of the Daily Mirror. It has an average sales of 2.5 million!
Just incredible to see all these figures. Disney comics are sure
becoming more and more popular in Europe.
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unsubscribe a6295119 Mami Yamada

> Once when I quoted "she musta been vaccinated with a phonograph needle",
> which is Mickey Mouse on Clarabelle Cow, someone told me that he
> recognized that as a Groucho Marx quote, even though he couldn't tell
> me from where it was. Is that so?

Yep. Groucho said something like this in "Duck Soup" (!) -- that's the
one where he plays one Rufus T. Firefly who all of a sudden is appointed
president of Freedonia... One of my all-time favourites.

Actually, Groucho's line is about himself, I think it's something like
"Ya know, I haven't stopped talking since I came here -- I must have
been vaccinated with a phonograph needle".

> And in that case, who copied whom?

Dunno. The movie is from 1933. How old is the strip?

---
Anders Engwall

"N{r atombomben kommer, l}t oss ta en kasse |l
och g} ut i skogen med tills det blir fred"

On Fri, 20 Oct 1995, Gilbert Roser wrote:

> Btw. German money
> has silver, copper and Messing (don't know the English name) coins.

The English word for Messing is brass, I believe.

> Thats my two cents!

You do mean your two Kreuzers, don't you?

/F

AAARGH! I should have read Digest #823 before replying to
#822... now I know that my descriptions of the Gladstones aren't
really needed (although Augie, ya missed the 1-pager in USA 35).

PER:
Mickey's comment on Clarabelle (1930) came before the Groucho
quote, in "Duck Soup" (1933, isn't it?). But maybe Groucho also uses
the quote in "The Cocoanuts" (1929), which I haven't seen in years.
In any event, that's Walt Disney himself writing for Mickey
when he says that. WD's own conception of Mickey has him constantly
letting out puns and wisecracks: "A starch in time keeps the worm
from turning" ... "Lafayette, we are here!" ... and of course my
favorite, "The only way for anyone to get *ahead* of Mickey Mouse --
is to run in front of him!"
Kinda gives the lie to that 1934 character synopsis that says
"Mickey is not a clown... he is neither silly nor dumb." While
Mickey's no dope, he has a good sense of humor in the cartoon films
UNTIL 1934. Luckily, Gottfredson's MM remained enjoyable after that.

David Gerstein
<96dag at williams.edu>
"Heh, heh, heh! A nice stroke of business!"