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[Donald Duck #294 just came out today at my local comics shop.]

In this month's PREVIEWS:

* Donald Duck Adventures #37

"Just in time for St. Valentine's Day, this hilarious mix of comedy and
sentimentality will have you begging for more! When Donald and Daisy
break up once again, HDL decide to take a hand in their affairs! Against
the advice of Grandma, they cook up a plot to get the two sweethearts
aboard the same cruise ship but with each one in disguise."

Being the relative Duck newbie of 5 years that I am, I have NO idea who
wrote or drew this story. Anyone? Carl Barks, maybe? The cover shot
shown above the parapraph shows a title, "Three Little Cupids."

* Uncle $crooge #297 (The best comic book for two years and running...)

"Of Ducks, Dimes, and Destinies" I assume this is yours, DON? I try to
avoid all discussions of comics you've done which Gladstone will
eventually print, so I'm not totally sure. They don't list your name in
the description, which is a tragic error on Gladstone/PREVIEW's part.

Backup: David Gerstein-scripted "No Dime for Stardom", a European story
of Scrooge's first dime in Hollyweird.

* WDC&S #602

"The Woes Garden" by WVH, involving Spelunker Donald

"The Clock Watcher" by Fred Milton, in which Donald plays custodian to a
clock collection of a magician.

"The Treasure of Croesus" by DON, which is part two, I believe. Great
cover, BTW.

"Blaggard Castle" by Floyd Gottfredson

"Sword in the Stone" adaptation, continues

-Augie

P.S. Also CB's WDC&S in Color #49 and the final issue of Carl Barks'
Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color (#25).
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VIDAR:
You said: "I don't remember all, but take a look at the columbus
story...". Oh man! I can't take it any longer. How long does it take these
stories to be published in a Dutch or American comic?. It's annoying to see
all you Skandinavian people talk about brand-new Rosa-stories, that I
will not see in *months*. ;-) You're so lucky!
So, I don't have the columbus story. But I'll take a look at the
other stories you mentioned. Thanks!

DON:
Aah! So that's it. Thank you. I can imagine you could do another
Duck story based on "Vortex". I'm still impressed by it's complexity. Just
an incredibly good story.
You said that you just finished a story called "The Once and
Future Duck". Is that the story about King Arthur, from which you got
ideas from the Monty Python movie? (I just saw that movie at Daniel's
house and I liked it a lot). Some time ago, you also said, that you
made a story about Stonehenge. Is that the same story as the one with
King Arthur? (Stonehenge also appaired in "Knighttime"!). You said that
the ending of "TOaFD" is quite different from "KT". Is the rest the
same, though? Or is it -completely- different?

Have a nice trip to Finland and those other countries. Will you
ever visit the Netherlands? I guess not. First of all, people in Holland
don't know who you are. And secondly, the Dutch Disney-comics-publishers
don't like your artwork. Well, there're at least THREE people in Holland,
who would like you to visit our little country once: Harry, Daniel and me.
And I'm sure there're more. Is that enough? ;-)
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C:\>aR|HUr

I sent this yesterday, however, it seemed to have got hooked down in the net, no doubt
due to finding a nice tavern

Re: Marco Polo

Daniel wrote that

> According to the British librarian Frances Wood, Marco Polo has
> never been in China. He *made up* his stories about his time there.

There's been a certain number of Englishmen who have discovered
new truths about old truths lately. The Holy Grail, Robin Hood's grave
and Arthur's Camelot has been discovered by Graham Philips (with
co-author Martin Keatman) the last few years, most of these a short
drive from Philips' home in Coventry.

Regarding MP the story seems to be that he found in stead a nice
tavern in Constantinople (Queen of cities, Centre of the Roman
Empire) and spent all his time listening to real travellers' stories in that
cosmopolitan centre and end station of the Silk Road. So his own
"travels" are really based on facts, however, second hand. So the
new story goes.

I guess someone will come up with some counterfacts, however much
I enjoy the vision of Constantinople being the cradle of Polo's writings.

Both The Holy Grail, Robin Hood and Arthur have provided an
unceasingly flood of stories, and I look forward to read Don's on
Arthur.

So when will $crooge also discover the Grail and Robin Hood,
perhaps put into one story and connected?

Re: MOUNDS

Thanks, Todd, for providing sources for Pre-Colombian stone
artifacts. I'll try to find the books, especially Trento's and see how they
fit the Norwegian material I mentioned (Prytz). However, I think I'll
remain somewhat sceptical until more "facts" are found, based on
previous experince with Daniken and his likes.

My sceptisism is not reduced by hearing you tell of

> one of the larger sites that is open to the public as a tourist attraction
>in New Hampshire. I visited it in the late 1970's. Unfortunately, it has
> been messed around with a lot since it's discovery by
> previous owners, so the true origins can only be guessed at

Why and how could anyone do a thing like that to "true evidence" for
Europeans in the New World before Columbus? Perhaps because
the owners really didn't believe it to be so true after all?

BTW, Todd, thanks for your great job on lettering Sandman! If you
meet Neil G., please tell him that I found his use of G.K. Chesterton in
the series one of the true wonders of the modern world! Of course I'm
deeply sorry that Neil did put an end to using GKC near the conclusion
of the series (or what seems to be the conclusion, so far).

Hopefully he will pop up (or something) in a later and different series!
Beg, persuade, threaten, cry - just make sure Neil keep up his artistic
use of perhaps the greatest, the most original, exciting, paradoxical
and democratic thinker this century!

Anyone interested in getting great ideas for stories shuld read GKC!

Bjorn-Are

bjorn-are.davidsen at s.prosjekt98.telenor.no

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GEORGES:
> Is there anyone who has a Murray-Index of German publications, even not
> complete. I am also interested in a general Murray index.

I'll send you a Paul Murry index from our Disney comics Database, in private
mail. Unfortunately, we don't have any German information in our database.
Also, the Murry information is not complete (yet): especially a lot of info
from the Gold Key and Whitman comics is missing.

--Harry.

After receiving 1 mill. requests for a MM index (well, almost)
I feel forced to send it to this list.
I don't think that this index is complete, so if anyone else
have found MM appearances, let me know!

AR 116: "Rocket Reverie"
pg. 2, panel 5 (MM-planets)

AR 119: "Metaphorically Spanking"
pg. 10, panel 1

AR 125: "The Crocodile Collector"
pg. 9, panel 1 (I Don't know if this is supposed
to be THE mouse)

AR 145: "His Magesty McDuck"
pg. 7, panel 8

H 89174: "The Pied Paper"
pg. 7, panel 1

D 91192: "War of the Wendigo"
pg. 23, last panel

D 93574: "The Duck who never Was"
pg. 4, panel 6 & 9

D 94012: "Treasury of Croesus"
pg. 1, panel 3: (a mouse with MM shorts)
pg. 2, panel 7: (a chicken with MM ears)
pg. 18, panel 5

D 94066: "The universal Solvent"
pg. 3, panel 1 & 2 (MM-robot)

D 94144: "Lost Charts"
pg. 3, panel 1
pg. 19, panel 7

Life & Times of $McDuck:

Part 4:
pg. 12, panel 6

Part 6:
pg. 6, panel 1

Part 7:
pg. 6, panel 5

Some of these appearances have been removed in some countries.

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Geir J. Netland
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Our local cable provider includes an Italian netwok, which broadcasts all
Italian broadcasts - moview, news, game shows, etc.

I was flipping through the channels last night when I ran across the news
and saw a Donald Duck cartoon on with someone doing their report on a
voice over. I don't speak Spanish, so I have no idea what they were
saying but:

(1) They cut at one point to a panel from Don's Lo$! It was panel three
on page four of part ten, showing Donald's younger parents sharing a
heart in a love balonn. It was a black and white photocopy of it.

(2) Is the Italian word for "birthday" similar at all to the Spanish
word? I know in sSpanish it is "cumpleanos" and I thought I heard a word
very similar to that in thenewscast, though I could be mistaken. This
would lead me to believe it was a story about Donald's 60th birthday.

(3) I aalso thought I heard them give Don's name, but with my lack of
understanding of the language, it could have been any word sounding like
'Rosa'.

Oh, well.. Did anyone else see this? Any of our Italy contigent?

-Augie

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Dear Disney-fans:

Hello everyone, I just got a notice from Barry Branvold. He asked me to
tell everyone that he'll be off line for awhile, as he struggles to get
his account up and running.

He'll be back.

Question: Can someone help me identify this Mickey Mouse story, and in
which comic it last appeared. It looked like it was written in the
thirties or forties. The artwork appeared gothic, and it dealt with a
mystery girl who turned out to be evil, and was also immortal. The story
closed with a house in flames, and the girl in it. Clearly, the story
was a little more "dark" than the the typical Disney story. I think it
was in a Mickey Mouse comic, but I don't recall the issue number.

James

Dear folks:

I just got my Walt Disney catalog of merchancrap (expensive stuff,
merchancrap), and in it they were selling an Uncle $crooge watch and clock,
which each displayed a picture of Ludwig Von Drake dressed up as Uncle
$crooge. It was really strange.

They also included Uncle $crooge's first cent (????). It's a silver penny
with $crooge (not Von Drake) on one side and the Roman Mint on the back
(price: $55 -- I think it's expensive because it comes in a box). And
there's a gold version for about $245. Why anyone would need this is beyond
me. Reminds me strangely of the Money Pit -- collectors. I'd rather have a
good old Barks story any day. Heck, I'd rather have a Block and Fernandez
story.

-- Wes

"But, Mickey! It's SUICIDE! We'll be KILLED! How'll we ever land without
wheels?" -- Captain Doberman