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Just a comment on the current issue of Gladstone Donald Duck, with
a new William van Horn story, 'The Hauntland Treasure', in which Donald
and the boys travel to Florida in search of treasure.

The story is one of the most well written, well illustrated examples of
classic Ducks of late. It is an absolute joy. Donald and the boys are in
rare form, the Woodchuck manual is called upon, but most of all, the art
work and the coloring are BEAUTIFUL, there is no other word to describe
it. It is a feast for the eyes and the soul. The scenes in the swamp
towards the end, and especially the closing frames, with their perspective
of Don and the boys floating into the sunset, with the magnificent swamp
surrounding them, is a real achievement by the artist and colorist. I hope
there are many more such stories to come. They take me back to my youth in
the 50's, and the sheer joy each month of reading and rereading the latest
issue of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

Ron.

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HENRI & HARRY
Adolf Kabatek has been - for decades - one of the main editors
at Ehapa, he sometimes wrote comic-stories (Disney and non-Disney),
but never drew them.
My sources reveal the August 1983 as the first apper-date in Germany,
there have been 6 albums, in two editions (hard and soft-bound)

HARRY
>"The engineer is having a hard time", but that doesn't rhyme...
>I'm more interested in the *source* of your quote.

Bravo for your transation! Actually the quote (also the variation
"Dem Ingenioer ist nichts zu schwoer" - "There's nothing to hard for an
engineer") entered the German language as one of the Barksisms or to
be more accurate Erika-Fuchs-isms. Of course "Ingenieur" (french based
but a genuine German word, the end syllable sounding like the first
in Englisch "Murdoch") doesn't rhyme with "schwer" ("hard" , rhymes
with Englisch "bear") - but that's the trick!
By replacing the "eu" in the first word and the "e" in the second with the
dotted "o" (which appears in this list as "oe" and is pronounced like
the "e" in French "le"), Erika Fuchs created an understandable but
funny-sounding sentence, thus making history...
("Bad" rhymes are a standard with Fuchs-Ducks-translations)
As to where it first appeared, we would have to consult our friends at
D.O.N.A.L.D....

ARTHUR
RE: Burmese "Disney" comic
Well, people have been curious about this beastie [trying hard to use
American colloquialisms, but unsure if doing it right... maybe I
should have used "critter"?], so I thought I give some more infos like title,
publisher, numbering (is it a series?), size etc. when I get hold of it.

By the way: are you people interested in other fakes? E.g. there has been
a German fake called "Donald Punk"...

Harald

---"Morgenstund' ist ungesund" - Donald Duck

---Harald Havas (Email removed)