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On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, H.W. Fluks wrote:
> I have a new theory. Well, it's not a theory, but a fact. Scrooge McDuck
> is the father of Huey, Dewey and Louie!

Yes, Harry! I finally hear the truth! However, I do not accept your
so-called "evidence" which is from a story you wrote yourself. Since
there is no Fluks.story-index in the database YOU made, the simple truth
is that there is no such story. Hah! Gotcha!

However, the argument still holds. There is a parody published in the
first (and only) issue of Swedish comic book Elitserien in the mid
eighties (some other Swede, fill in the year, please). It was there
EXPLICITLY stated that Scrooge is HDL's father and (hold on to your
keyboards, folks) Daisy is their mother! (Here comes the love duckling
business again.) Donald thinks that he is the father and HDL are
obviously protected from the dirty truth by having been told that he is
their "uncle".

Brilliant comic, too. And don't dare suggesting it shouldn't be
canonical. As you well know, everything is canonical, including role-play
cartoons.

BTW, Disney immediately threatened to sue the publishers of this comic
book and only the very first issue was published.

/F

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DAVID:

Thanks for the help on the Foreign Legion story BUT I checked my Abbeville
and that's not the story! The one I'm trying to locate had Goofy in it
too. Probably dates from the mid-1950s. We had an old copy lying around,
missing pages etc that my mother cut up to make a collage for a Mickey
drawing I had won at a shopping mall. I was only about 5, so of course
didn't say anything like GIVE ME UNCLE SCROOGE while I was up on stage!.
Anyway, I've still got the drawing and will someday have to figure out what
Disney artist was at the Bergen Mall in NJ sometime around 1970, but the
comic is of course gone. Probably better this way than the reverse.

So any other ideas on a Foreign Legion story?

Mike Rhode

No, Mickey isn't Huey, Dewey and Louie's father... MINNIE is.
Jeez, I thought this kinda stuff was obvious.

Meanwhile... MIKE, it sounds like the Mickey story in question
must be Paul Murry's "Lost Legion" from 1953, then, a very good Murry
story which hasn't been reprinted and which we must have discussed
on this list before, last year sometime.
I had a hunch something was fishy when I went back to my FG
strip collection last night and noticed that Mickey's feet hadn't worn
through his shoes during his desert trip, as you said... That's when
I knew I had to be wrong! But I hope I'm right this time.

MARK:
What's the cover of DDMM 3 look like? Pat Block told me he'd
drawn one for DDMM not too long ago, showing Mickey and Donald working
on a vegetable garden. Is that the one?
Just two months 'til we start getting Danish stories in DDMM,
and the return of Eli Squinch! YES!

David Gerstein
96dag at williams.edu
"Have a chestnut, boys! ... OW!"

MVHaas at aol.com $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?!'(B
>I think the Mickey Mouse story Mike Rhode is looking for is "The Lost Legion"
>from Walt Disney Comics and Stories 167-169. That would fit the mid-50s time
>span. Art is by Paul Murry, and if memory serves me correctly, that was the
>first of the 100 or so consecutive issues that featured a Murry MM serial.
> The early Overstreet Price Guides have a MM serial list that was originally
>compiled by John and Tom McGeehan.
>
>Don't know who the Disney artist might be. Murry was living in Lancaster,
>Calif. in 1972, and I think he always lived on the West Coast.
>
>TO DON ROSA: I'm fairly new to the list so this might have come up before.
>Did you read the "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" by Jack Chalker that came
>out in the early 80s? (Guessing on the date, my copy surfaced and then has
>been misplaced again.) I should also note that I'm another one who eagerly
> read your stuff in RBCC, TCR and other zines before you started doing the
>Disney comics.
>
>Best - Merlin Haas
>
>(Hi Dwight Decker and Gary Brown!)
>
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JAKOB:

> Trying to be smart, eh? Well you're NOT! And I *do* hope this isn't meant
> as an *insult*, though that is *exactly* what it looks like!

No, it's not meant as an insult.
I was just paraphrasing you, and using some of your argumentations.
I have great problems understanding you, sometimes. Another example:

> ALL:
> I really *miss* yer answers for my *long* message!

You just replied to my answer to your long message, and then you're already
missing it?

--Harry.

Hi, all!

>TOMMY-810-811-etc:
>
>I liked your paper.

Me, too! I did a paper about comics to, in 10th grade. Wasn't treated very
seriously by my teacher, though, got a rather bad grade, even if the paper
of course was brilliant literature ;-)

>DANIEL-818:
>
>>Of course there are some very interesting post-Barks Magica-stories,
>>I think that Don's "On a Silver Platter" is a good example, and also a
>>long (Rota?) story which was called "The Money Sea" in it's Dutch
>>publication (KJUO43/I-A-215).

Does anyone know when this might have been published in Norway?

>pirate who breaks gold coins in two with his sword; or the one with the
>"trombe di Eustachio" (Eustachian tubes, but also trumpets).

Do you mean the one where U$'s money gets "sick" and he takes them out for a
"walk" in those huge baskets? I never quite liked that one, mainly because
the whole idea of U$ beeing able to transport all his money in 3 baskets
after a locomotive is redicilous...

But come to think of it, I think there are some more italian stories with
ear-stuff in one form or the other. Which one do you mean?

>> Modern Italian Disney is often:
>> a) socio-realistic (somewhat italocentric)
>> b) space-opera (*VERY* unscientific)
>What are those? Do you think this is a complete genre? Can you give me a
>few examples?

There are lots of those. One line has MM and Goofy rescuing some people on a
far away planet, Goofy falling in love with the princess (and vice versa!).

>> c) time-travel (MM and prof. Einmug)
>> d) ethnographical (Wild West, Backwardistan)
>> e) parodic (world litterature classics)
>This is a "house specialty", but I don't like them too much. Pier Lorenzo

I think those are some of the best italian stories, at least as seen in
DD&Co. pocketbooks in Norway. Would be nice to see some of those based on
norwegian literature some day!

>I think that, without attempting to be exhaustive, there are a few other
>"streams" worth mentioning:
>
> * treasure-quest adventures by U$ with nephews using strange machines
> (classical Cimino stuff, some of my preferred stories here)

There are some good ones, but I think that line is a little exhausted.

> * detective stories with Mickey, Goofy and O'Hara
> * Beagle Boys attacks to the Money Bin
> * Fantasy
> This was started by a wonderful trilogy (Trilogia della spada di
> ghiaccio) by Massimo De Vita in the 80s
> and later became inflation-ridden with inferior stories by
>others like Ubezio.

Do you mean that Tolkien-like trilogy with this plate and spoon as means of
transport? That is IMHO one of the _really_ good stories that have been in
DD&CO. pocket books (together with the one Barks story, of course!)!

Let me attempt to add some more genres:
* Fantonald-stories (or Super-Donald or what he is called in english)
* Plain commercial or educational stories (worst of them beeing U$s
spaghetti nightmare, closely followed by lots of mini-volley, mini-basket
and similar stories). Seems like those where published only a short while,
luckily. Can't remember any for some time know.
* U$ vs. Rockerduck (or is this put into the socio-realistic line?)

Let me also try to make a suggestion as to why it might be interesting to
sort this out properly. If one by means of genre can find out who wrote/drew
specific stories, it would very much help in educating someone like myself
about who did what italian story.

And I might need that when I some day come around to make an index over
norwegian DD&Co. pocket books!

P.S.: When and where is Don going to be in Norway?

Knut Hunstad