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Carey asked about a story with a rebuilt airplane which Jorgen found
his Norwegian books but couldn't give a code for. Carey's original
question was almost a month ago so I hope you're still interested!

The story Jorgen found was "Rainbow Island Rendezvous" from Donald
Duck #41, and it hasn't been reprinted in the USA since that original
publication in 1955.

Jorgen said it was 18 pages, but both in DD 41 and in it's Swedish
publication it was 22 pages, so if you didn't miscount they cut some
pages in Norway.
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: (Email removed)
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

FABIO:

> Why not to look at the numbers of rows per page? Three rows is surely
> Italian...

Not really. Some Egmont stories are also made with three rows, but only about
five a month.

I know I shouldn't include a copy of the face in you new years greetings, so
I'll just say that it's really cute.

Happy new year,
Jacob
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On Jan 2, 9:45pm, Wilmer Rivers wrote:
> Subject: We make the news (unfortunately)
> From the Comics Buyers Guide
> number 1156, dated January 12, 1996:

> "Krig I Andeby" or "War in Duckburg" is the headline of a feature
> story
> in the Sept. 30 issue of the Denmark newspaper Ekstra Bladet. The
> article, written by Hans Bjerregaard based on Internet postings about
> Don Rosa's difficulties with Disney, Carl Barks, and his Danish
> publisher, Egmont, was highly critical of Rosa.
>
> Rosa is not directly quoted in the piece, which is drawn entirely
from
> Internet postings attributed to Rosa.
>
I saw that mention in the Buyer's Guide, and was puzzled by the
line "Rosa is not directly quoted in the piece." It's practically
_all_ Rosa quotes. They're out of context, however, and Bjerrgaard
didn't add background information to explain the circumstances.
Really shoddy journalism. It's a pure attack on Rosa and so personally
vicious that I quite fail to understand why the Ekstra Bladet ran the
thing. The article is written from such a Disney-fan "insider"
standpoint that you'd really have to be tuned into the comics scene
to even understand what it was getting at.

--Dwight

As some of you will recall, I went to Europe this past
November, where I spent entirely too much money on comic
books and such things. One of my purchases was a hardcover
book (well, laminated cardboard covers, really) reprinting
the first four issues of the German "Micky Maus" comic book
from 1951. The date on the book is 1988 and it seems to
have been published in connection with Mickey's 60th
anniversary. There's even a text foreword, allegedly written
byMickey himself, that manages to give a fairly accurate
account of the Mouse's creation and subsequent history,
mentioning Floyd Gottfredson and Paul Murry, despite the
cuteness of it being in first person. How such an old book
happened to be lying around at a big bookstore like the
Thalia in Hamburg, I don't know, but I snapped it up.

In those days, Micky Maus was monthly, the color printing
(assuming it's an accurate reproduction) was fair to awful,
and the word balloons (along with signs and sound effects)
were typed in a sans-serif typeface that strikes me as
pretty ugly. Say what you want about Whizbang, but if
skilled hand-letterers aren't available or cost too much,
it's still a lot better than ugly type. And Erika Fuchs
(a name that means a great deal to our German friends) was
already on the job as head editor.

Interestingly, there are some efforts to "localize" the
stories. Confronted with a talking dog (as if he isn't one
himself!), Goofy's first reaction isn't amazement that the
pooch can talk, but amazement that, "Hey, he knows my uncle in
Frankfurt!"

Anyway, the odd thing for me was the names of Huey, Dewey, &
Louie. Now, they're called Tick, Trick, and Track, but in these
1951 comics they're Rip, Rap, and Rup. Which, incidentally, are
still their names in Denmark. Anybody on the ML know the story
here?

--Dwight Decker

MIKE:
Thanks for the translation of that article in AA. I hope to get that
issue in the mail in about a month.
Yes, I was tentatively invited back to Finland in 1997 when they'll
probably reprint my "Lo$" in a hardback to commemorate $crooge's 50th
anniversary. I'd guess that would be late in the year since $crooge first
appeared at Christmas (1947).
What story will appear next in the Egmont issues? I never know
anything about their schedule. I know there's still a "gag" story laying
around somewhere, that "An Eye for Detail", but I wasn't very comfortable
with that one and don't wonder that they're delaying it. Yes, "The Once and
Future Duck" might be next. Gosh, there aren't many in the bin right now. I
travelled so much in 1995 that I didn't get as many stories done last year.
I may have the same problem in '97, but we'll see.

FABIO:
I was delighted to see you reappear on these pages. Your first
message was stuffed with great info and then topped off with that New Year
graphic! Was that a Doug Adams face?
Happy New Year back at you and absolutely don't have a cow or
something similar!

Don mentioned an article in a Danish newspaper recently about...

Well, I'll just bounce this story back across the Atlantic once more

and leave it to you to guess what it's about.

--- Begin transcript ---

"SENSATION IN DUCKBURG Dec. 13.th 1995

By JACOB RUBIN

Correspondent for Jyllands-Posten, Rio de Janeiro.

* A quite ordinary Wednesday. Headlines on the foreign page of Brazil's

biggest newspaper: Donald Duck's mother and father revealed.

Undeniably a real scoop.

The touchy and unsporting comicbook star's ancestral background has

been kept secret for more than 50 years. Now the newspapers correspondant

in Italy can publish the true identity of his ancestors.

The source is Don Rosa, head artist for the Disney studios, who on a

comic book convention in Italy recently, and quite unexpectantly,

revealed the names of Donald Duck's mother, father and grandfather.

Don Rosa's proofs are old, never published drawings and notes by

Disney artist Carl Banks, who for decades was Donald Duck's spiritual

leader.

Break with traditions

The revelation is sensational. Not only is it the first time that a

Walt Disney character gets a carnal offspring. Don Rosa's openmouthedness

also breaks with Disney traditions about team spirit and discretion.

Donald Duck researchers and donaldists (including fetischists and

'afficionados') are outraged.

The newspaper's correspondent reported from the convention that Don

Rosa was boohed out and for a long time had to defend himself against

verbal attacks from fans.

'I am not an iconoclast (destroyer of religious and other symbols, ed.).

I did it in honor of Walt,' Don Rosa defended himself.

It is said that Walt Disney for personal reasons wished Donald Duck's

family tree to be kept secret. The father of the worlds most popular

comic book character was for his whole adult life in doubt about his

own identity and suspected himself to be an adoptive child.

History will know that in the investigation after his real mother

he recieved help from FBI chief Edgar Hoover in return for reporting

on 'communist infiltration' in the American artist community.

But that's irrelevant.

Don Rosa is on the fourth year writing the saga of all the characters

from the Donald Duck comic books, including the more unknown such as

Little Helper, Mad Madam Mim, van Duckefeller, and Gus Goose. In the

Disney studios' archives he stumbled onto Carl Banks' material.

The most surprising of the revelation is perhaps that Donald Duck

was a 2.nd generation immigrant. His parents were born on our

latitudes, and many Danish and European comic book characters could

thus, without knowing it, be related to the famous duck.

And the identity of Donald Ducks parents a.o.? That you'll have to wait

a little to read about on the Back Cover Page."

--- End of transcript ---

As you can see, Don, at least they spelt YOUR name right.

But what IS the meaning of 'I-did-it-for-(uncle)-Walt'???

I'm just a little curious to see what names the article will

give, translated through Italian and Portugese to Danish.

Does anyone have a spare copy of U$ 286 for me? I believe it's one of

the few of Don's stories I don't have in English, and a gaping hole like

that in my Lo$ collection gives me vertigo!

I can offer "Scandinavian Only" Rosa covers and stories, like "The Lost

Charts of Columbus", and "War of the Wendigos".

I don't have the script for that last one either. !@#$%.

Happy New Year to all you from all of me!

Ole Reichstein Nielsen, c/o (Email removed)

"Bold were we, and they called us three the "Unholy Trinity";

There was Ole Olson, the sailor Swede, and the Dago Kid and me.

We were the discards of the pack, the foreloopers of Unrest,

Reckless spirits of fierce revolt in the ferment of the West."

"The Ballad of the Northern Lights"

("Ballads of a Cheechako" by Robert W. Service)

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>Anyway, the odd thing for me was the names of Huey, Dewey, &
>Louie. Now, they're called Tick, Trick, and Track, but in these
>1951 comics they're Rip, Rap, and Rup. Which, incidentally, are
>still their names in Denmark. Anybody on the ML know the story
>here?
>
>--Dwight Decker

In Micky Maus 1/1951 (the first Micky Maus in Germany) WDC 95 had been
published. The German publishers simply had omitted to replace the names
Rip Rap & Rup on the sign in panel 6 page 3 after having done the
translation. The translation was from the American to German, but the print
templates came from Denmark. This is because the Ehapa-Verlag is a German
daughter of Gutenberghus (the Danish publisher of Disney comics).
Gutenberghus had the opportunity to publish in Germany in 1951 as no German
publisher had got licences from Disney at that time. All the stories were
newly colored by Gutenberghus.
In Micky Maus 1/1951 there is a text of 2 pages where Rip Rap & Rup are
correctly mentioned as Tick Trick & Track. This issue is the only one where
this mistake happened.

Georges
Georges Helm, MdD, IRdD

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On Jan 4, 9:02pm, Georges Helm wrote:
> This is because the Ehapa-Verlag is a German
> daughter of Gutenberghus (the Danish publisher of Disney comics).
> Gutenberghus had the opportunity to publish in Germany in 1951
> as no German publisher had got licences from Disney at that time.

Okay, that makes sense. I know the Danish Disney comics started
earlier than the German. I have a recent facsimile edition of
an issue of Anders And, the Danish Donald Duck comic, from 1949,
for example. Why the Germans were so long getting Disney comics
of their own after the war is an interesting question, since they
were occupied in part by American soldiers who would have been
bringing in lots of English-language editions, but I'd guess that
with the dislocations of the war (Germany was in a lot worse
shape than Denmark), it might have taken a few years of economic
rebuilding before anyone could think about anything so frivolous
as funnybooks.

--Dwight