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APOLOGIES
Sorry for the world's longest series of headers. I screwed up the address a
couple of times and stupidly forwarded the messages. Ah, live and learn.
HARRY
You're right, Dan did the Roger Rabbit adaptation, too. Almost forget. In
addition, I think I misnamed that series of books. It's Mickey Mouse Super
Secret Agent. As we all know, there is a difference between a "super agent"
and a "SUPER secret agent."

The new "administrivia" paragraph at the beginning of each digest should
reduce the amount of unsubscribe posts to this list. However, I think it
should be expanded to include:
The purpose of this list
FTP site info (I keep forgetting it) and
the lysator Disney web site address, which, I assume, has links to
Keno's homepage and the Disney Corporation's website.

On a related note, I will be in New York this weekend to attend the comics
spectacular at the Coliseum. Anyone else going?

Torsten Adair (Email removed) Washington, DC, USA
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On: Mon, 26 Feb 96, Per Starback wrote:

Subject: Totem Poles again.
Message-Id: <(Email removed)>

>Could you (or anyone else) please give short one-line descriptions of
>the nine parts? I wonder what parts I've seen and in what order they
>really should be.
The parts are in fact ten, as follows:

Part 1 (TL 906, art by Carpi): $crooge receives a 10$ banknote which
unbalances his balance, so he decides to start a contest with that banknote
at stake. He rings up Donald and tells him the story of the Totem pole: he
who will discover the secret of what exactly was contained in the pole, will
win.

Part 2 (TL 907, art by Carpi): Paperinik (Super Donald? What's the English
name?) thinks he has discovered the secret (i. e., gold) but is wrong.

Part 3 (TL 909 (!), art by Guido Scala): Granma Duck discovers the secret.

Part 4 (TL 910, art by Cavazzano): $crooge tells the BB the secret, but they
don't understand.

Part 5 (TL 911, art by Massimo De Vita): Mickey Mouse discovers the secret
by looking at two stamps one over the other on the same envelope.

Part 6 (TL 912, art by Massimo De Vita): Pluto comes into play; Mickey
doubles the prize at stake.

Part 7 (TL 913, art by Massimo De Vita): Clarabelle Cow has a chance to
discover the secret ($crooge tells her) but fails to (being silly as a cow...).

Part 8 (TL 914, art by Cavazzano): Peg-leg Pete tries to discover the
secret, but goes to jail...

Part 9 (TL 915, art by Cavazzano): this has almost nothing to do with the
secret of the Totem pole, it's just about Donald and Fethry Duck and
precious stamps.

Part 10 (TL 916, art by Massimo De Vita): the contest ends, the mistery
being solved by Mickey Mouse who will forward the 20$ prize to Peg-leg Pete...

The script is always by Guido Martina.
Some notes. The story dates back to 1973; is this the first time we learn
the (extremely non-canonical, as we all know by now thanks to Don Rosa's
Lo$...) fact that $crooge and Granma Duck are brother and sister? I don't
know; but I shall quote a (later: 1984) story by Marco Rota where the young
duckling Donald is adopted by them who are declared to be brother and
sister, living together as rich people in an old mansion. Moreover: in part
3 we learn that $crooge first met Granma Duck (whom he knew to be her
sister, but had never seen before) in 1948: she was already living in her
farm, he was already very rich but mining on vacation to get relief from
stress...
Well, we all know that Martina had great ideas (in the 50's and 60's...) but
was as uncanonical as possible...

Marco Barlotti

"Here's the first billion I've ever made - Down at the bottom of the pile,
where it's been for seventy years!" (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 130,
7/1951)

I don't know anything about Diamond buying Gladstone but one possible
explanation is that Steve Geppi started a publishing arm of Diamond last
year called Gemstone. They publish the various price guides that Diamond
owns including Overstreet.

Mike Benton's book Masters of the Imagination is being remaindered now in
the States for $13 (as opposed to $30). It's a coffee-table style book
that has a chapter on Barks and another on Walt Kelly's Dell work including
early Pogo which seems to be a lot less political than it became. The
organizing theme for the book is the people in 2 comic book halls of fame
like Kirby, Ditko etc. It also has a pretty good bibliography.

Mike R.

You really think so? I think it's already pretty much with two lines
repeating the same old stuff that most people know (and everyone
*should* know) anyway in every digest. Information on WWW address
etc. is available by sending that "help" command that those lines
suggest by the way.
--
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: (Email removed)
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

On Feb 29, 11:44am, Mattias Hallin wrote:
> Subject: Them *#$% words
> Is not bloody/bleeding a fairly *strong* swearword in
> English -- or is there a difference here between British
> and American usage?

Yes, there is a difference here between English and
American usage. "Bloody" is a very strong vulgarism
in England (or at least it was at one time, when its
use on the stage was considered shocking), but it
has no impact in the US (except as a cute Briticism).
I'm quite mystified myself as to why our British
cousins considered it so horrid, but I'm American,
not English.

--Dwight Decker

WILMER:
The word "bloody" as a Britishism is very common in Monty
Python comedy routines, so I never thought anything could possibly
wrong with it until I went to Britain. There it is considered crude,
but not really offensive as it once was.
I used it in several stories prior to that time (rewrites for
Gladstone), and Disney obliterated it from all of them. I'm actually
quite surprised that it stayed in ODaDaD.
I also unknowingly used a British curse when I titled WDC&S
589's lead story "Bugged by Humbuggery". Disney at first was bothered
by it, but in the end they let it pass. Buggery is a term for sex, as
I understand it now... but then, so is "lay," and that doesn't mean
the word can't be used with reference to hens. I used "humbuggery"
with reference to dirty business dealings. So it passed in the end.

David Gerstein
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