NILS:
> Are there any memorable Gregory+Gregory (script+art) stories?
The only one I can think of is the one I listed from Daisy & Donald,
"Who's Jealous?" (I don't know the original English title).
> Where can one find the Becattini index?
Frank already answered this, but I can add the following:
- Also listed in the books are short bibliographies of all writers
and artists who did original work for Disney publisjers in the USA.
So Daan Jippes and Romano Scarpa are listed there, but
e.g. Ben Verhagen is not.
- The credit information from those books was used in the
Disney comics Database (the ftp files), as far as we didn't already
know them. This was done with the permission of Becattini.
This certainly doesn't mean you can do without the books: there's
a lot of information there that is not (and will never be) in our
Database.
> And, again, to make sure, there are no other
> Gregory+Barks stories then, besides XmsParade 9?
Not that I know of. We don't know the writers of most Grandma
Duck and Daisy's Diary stories, so some of them might be written
by Gregory. Maybe, one day, we can recognise Gregory's
writing style...
--Harry.
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Author
Topic: 199605
(235 messages)
Harry Fluks
Nils: Becattini, Gregory
Message 211 -
1996-05-28 at 21:07:44
Arthur De Wolf
Wooden figurines
Message 212 -
1996-05-28 at 22:34:34
Hi!
DON:
You were talking about wooden figurines of Scrooge.
Are they really so rare? I have already seen many wooden
figurines of Scrooge and other Disney characters like
Mickey in Holland. Most of them cost a couple of hunderd
dollars and were about 50 or 60 cm tall!
Bye!
Arthur
DON:
You were talking about wooden figurines of Scrooge.
Are they really so rare? I have already seen many wooden
figurines of Scrooge and other Disney characters like
Mickey in Holland. Most of them cost a couple of hunderd
dollars and were about 50 or 60 cm tall!
Bye!
Arthur
Vsaari
page missing?
Message 213 -
1996-05-29 at 03:34:19
STEVE CROOKS:
About the missing pages in "Life & Times..."-album.
What you said to be a logical split between parts two and three is
actually in the middle of part two and part three seems to be
missing entirely in your copy of the album. There should be sixty
pages and the missing text page is the last one.
--
Ville Saari EMail: (Email removed)
Tallbergin puistotie 7 B 21 Phone: +358 0 682 2226
00200 Helsinki
FINLAND /dev/null: write failed, file system is full
About the missing pages in "Life & Times..."-album.
What you said to be a logical split between parts two and three is
actually in the middle of part two and part three seems to be
missing entirely in your copy of the album. There should be sixty
pages and the missing text page is the last one.
--
Ville Saari EMail: (Email removed)
Tallbergin puistotie 7 B 21 Phone: +358 0 682 2226
00200 Helsinki
FINLAND /dev/null: write failed, file system is full
Eric Chun
(No subject)
Message 214 -
1996-05-29 at 05:13:55
DON:
For services rendered to the good citizens of Duckburg (and the rest of
us), you should be awarded the Junior Woodchuck A.W.E.S.O.M.E. medal
(Artist and Writer of Excellent Stories and Online Mail Esquire).
Eric :)
For services rendered to the good citizens of Duckburg (and the rest of
us), you should be awarded the Junior Woodchuck A.W.E.S.O.M.E. medal
(Artist and Writer of Excellent Stories and Online Mail Esquire).
Eric :)
RMorris306
Turner, Salten, Barrie, Gregory et al
Message 215 -
1996-05-29 at 05:38:02
Donald Markstein wrote:
<<I don't know what DC's deal is as regards Warner animated characters, but
the new stuff being produced isn't done by them -- Katie Main at Warner Bros.
Worldwide Publishing is supervising production of comics stories in bulk... I
could be wrong, but it was my impression that the older material was included
in the mix.>>
I don't see why it wouldn't be, since that's the way virtually every
such contract is worded, including those at DC in years past. (When it had
the rights to Tarzan, for instance, it not only produced new stories but
reprinted material ranging from the Hal Foster strip to the Russ Manning
stories at Gold Key. Even more intriguing, Marvel UK had the rights to STAR
TREK years after (and, through Malibu, years before) it had them
domestically, so it was able to reprint Trek stories from many publishers, DC
included!
On the other hand, since contracts are written for extended periods,
even acquisition of the current Turner properties by Time Warner wouldn't
necessarily deliver their characters directly to DC (just as Warner's
original contract with Gold Key/Whitman ran for several years after it
acquired DC--and, for that matter, Disney-produced TV shows continue to
appear on networks like Fox and CBS as well as its "own" ABC). So perhaps the
current holder of the Turner/MGM characters-- Archie?--could do a collection
of Barks' work on them. (Especially as Archie has also done paperback
collections, not to mention its current management being much more
comfortable with producing and marketing humor comics than DC's, whose notion
of a funny comic book seems to be LOBO).
David Gerstein wrote:
<<According to a recent HOLLYWOOD REPORTER article, courts have apparently
ruled that Disney only held a copyright to use the Felix Salten _Bambi_
characters for a certain number of years, and even their film fell under this
license. Anyway, I figure Disney's going to either pay plenty to keep
producing its Bambi-related paraphernalia, or else POOF -- all Bambi
characters save those created just for Disney will not be allowed in Disney
comics and other items.
The upshot being that Thumper will probably be the only
character...who'll be appearing in Disney products...A story involving Flower
the skunk which I planned to do, for example,
will most certainly be taboo. >>
I shamefully admit I've never read the Salten novel, so I had no idea
which characters were from it and which weren't. Admittedly, the most famous
Disney characters who interact with the cartoon stars and have any literary
roots whatsoever generally come from works in public domain: "The Three
Little Pigs," "Pinocchio" (Jiminy Cricket and perhaps Figaro), "Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs," even "The Little Red Hen" (Donald Duck himself!). I
suspect Disney will just pay up to keep the rights, as they've done with
others (e.g., A. A. Milne's estate for the Winnie-the-Pooh characters, who
even had their own TV show and newspaper strip in their Disney incarnations).
But I'm reminded of the stage show I saw at Radio City Music Hall as a
prelude to "Return to Oz." (David, you know this story since I've told it on
the Ozzy Digest, but others here may not.) The plot of the show involved most
of the major Disney characters, and even the Rockettes got written in, but
the Peter Pan characters appeared only in clips from the movie. It finally
occurred to me that Disney had to do that because "Peter Pan" was the only
major Disney feature whose original incarnation had *been* a stage play
(still is, unless you count whatever "The Lion King" owed to "Hamlet," and
*that* play is in public domain). The stage rights to those characters will
be under copyright for a long, *long* time indeed (by the Great Ormond Street
Hospital for Sick Children, to which J.M. Barrie willed them, and the British
Government extended the copyright for a good cause), so Disney would've had
to make entirely new arrangements there!
Harry Fluks wrote:
<<Not that I know of. We don't know the writers of most Grandma Duck and
Daisy's Diary stories, so some of them might be written by Gregory. Maybe,
one day, we can recognise Gregory's writing style...>>
Hopefully so. I asked stylistic expert Martin O'Hearn about him and he
said he knew of only one (credited) story by him that he'd seen, but if
anyone else can get some of his stories together (in the original English),
maybe he can find others...
More later!
Rich Morrissey
<<I don't know what DC's deal is as regards Warner animated characters, but
the new stuff being produced isn't done by them -- Katie Main at Warner Bros.
Worldwide Publishing is supervising production of comics stories in bulk... I
could be wrong, but it was my impression that the older material was included
in the mix.>>
I don't see why it wouldn't be, since that's the way virtually every
such contract is worded, including those at DC in years past. (When it had
the rights to Tarzan, for instance, it not only produced new stories but
reprinted material ranging from the Hal Foster strip to the Russ Manning
stories at Gold Key. Even more intriguing, Marvel UK had the rights to STAR
TREK years after (and, through Malibu, years before) it had them
domestically, so it was able to reprint Trek stories from many publishers, DC
included!
On the other hand, since contracts are written for extended periods,
even acquisition of the current Turner properties by Time Warner wouldn't
necessarily deliver their characters directly to DC (just as Warner's
original contract with Gold Key/Whitman ran for several years after it
acquired DC--and, for that matter, Disney-produced TV shows continue to
appear on networks like Fox and CBS as well as its "own" ABC). So perhaps the
current holder of the Turner/MGM characters-- Archie?--could do a collection
of Barks' work on them. (Especially as Archie has also done paperback
collections, not to mention its current management being much more
comfortable with producing and marketing humor comics than DC's, whose notion
of a funny comic book seems to be LOBO).
David Gerstein wrote:
<<According to a recent HOLLYWOOD REPORTER article, courts have apparently
ruled that Disney only held a copyright to use the Felix Salten _Bambi_
characters for a certain number of years, and even their film fell under this
license. Anyway, I figure Disney's going to either pay plenty to keep
producing its Bambi-related paraphernalia, or else POOF -- all Bambi
characters save those created just for Disney will not be allowed in Disney
comics and other items.
The upshot being that Thumper will probably be the only
character...who'll be appearing in Disney products...A story involving Flower
the skunk which I planned to do, for example,
will most certainly be taboo. >>
I shamefully admit I've never read the Salten novel, so I had no idea
which characters were from it and which weren't. Admittedly, the most famous
Disney characters who interact with the cartoon stars and have any literary
roots whatsoever generally come from works in public domain: "The Three
Little Pigs," "Pinocchio" (Jiminy Cricket and perhaps Figaro), "Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs," even "The Little Red Hen" (Donald Duck himself!). I
suspect Disney will just pay up to keep the rights, as they've done with
others (e.g., A. A. Milne's estate for the Winnie-the-Pooh characters, who
even had their own TV show and newspaper strip in their Disney incarnations).
But I'm reminded of the stage show I saw at Radio City Music Hall as a
prelude to "Return to Oz." (David, you know this story since I've told it on
the Ozzy Digest, but others here may not.) The plot of the show involved most
of the major Disney characters, and even the Rockettes got written in, but
the Peter Pan characters appeared only in clips from the movie. It finally
occurred to me that Disney had to do that because "Peter Pan" was the only
major Disney feature whose original incarnation had *been* a stage play
(still is, unless you count whatever "The Lion King" owed to "Hamlet," and
*that* play is in public domain). The stage rights to those characters will
be under copyright for a long, *long* time indeed (by the Great Ormond Street
Hospital for Sick Children, to which J.M. Barrie willed them, and the British
Government extended the copyright for a good cause), so Disney would've had
to make entirely new arrangements there!
Harry Fluks wrote:
<<Not that I know of. We don't know the writers of most Grandma Duck and
Daisy's Diary stories, so some of them might be written by Gregory. Maybe,
one day, we can recognise Gregory's writing style...>>
Hopefully so. I asked stylistic expert Martin O'Hearn about him and he
said he knew of only one (credited) story by him that he'd seen, but if
anyone else can get some of his stories together (in the original English),
maybe he can find others...
More later!
Rich Morrissey
TKlein28
Bambi rights
Message 216 -
1996-05-29 at 14:59:59
David Gerstein's note about Disney's rights to the Felix Salten characters
brings up an interesting point. Are Salten's books, such as "Bambi", "Bambi's
Children", "Perri", etc. still in print in Europe? I'm just curious, as I
have most of them, and enjoyed reading them as a child, though of course they
are considerably different from the Disney version.
Todd
brings up an interesting point. Are Salten's books, such as "Bambi", "Bambi's
Children", "Perri", etc. still in print in Europe? I'm just curious, as I
have most of them, and enjoyed reading them as a child, though of course they
are considerably different from the Disney version.
Todd
Per Starback
Turner, Salten, Barrie, Gregory et al
Message 217 -
1996-05-29 at 15:45:54
David wrote that
> Disney only held a copyright to use the Felix
> Salten _Bambi_ characters for a certain number of years,
and that
> The upshot being that Thumper will probably be the only
> character associated in the standard mind with Bambi who'll be
> appearing in Disney products for the time being. [...]
> A story involving Flower the skunk which I planned to do, for example,
> will most certainly be taboo.
Huh? I've only read Salten's _Bambi_, and not the sequel(s), but
surely Flower is a Disney character as much as Thumper is? There
aren't even any skunks in Europe!
--
Per Starback <(Email removed)> http://www.update.uu.se/~starback
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
> Disney only held a copyright to use the Felix
> Salten _Bambi_ characters for a certain number of years,
and that
> The upshot being that Thumper will probably be the only
> character associated in the standard mind with Bambi who'll be
> appearing in Disney products for the time being. [...]
> A story involving Flower the skunk which I planned to do, for example,
> will most certainly be taboo.
Huh? I've only read Salten's _Bambi_, and not the sequel(s), but
surely Flower is a Disney character as much as Thumper is? There
aren't even any skunks in Europe!
--
Per Starback <(Email removed)> http://www.update.uu.se/~starback
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Henri Sivonen
Disney comics Digest V96 #114
Message 218 -
1996-05-29 at 16:49:43
Vidar,
>I picked up my copy of DD (norwegian) yesterday. I knew about the new Don
>Rosa-story, I knew about the Rota-story, but I didn't know there was a
>Van Horn-story as well. It's so nice with surprises like this :)
Do you mean the Mickey story was by *Noel* Van Horn?
-- ___
Henri Sivonen / \
(Email removed) WWW (renewed): | h_|
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris \__
>I picked up my copy of DD (norwegian) yesterday. I knew about the new Don
>Rosa-story, I knew about the Rota-story, but I didn't know there was a
>Van Horn-story as well. It's so nice with surprises like this :)
Do you mean the Mickey story was by *Noel* Van Horn?
-- ___
Henri Sivonen / \
(Email removed) WWW (renewed): | h_|
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris \__
Bill Wormstedt
(No subject)
Message 219 -
1996-05-29 at 23:25:59
Rich Morrisey:
> I don't see why it wouldn't be, since that's the way
>virtually every such contract is worded, including those at DC in
>years past. (When it had the rights to Tarzan, for instance, it
>not only produced new stories but reprinted material ranging from
>the Hal Foster strip to the Russ Manning stories at Gold Key).
As near as I can remember without digging the books out, the DC
Manning reprints were NOT from Gold Key, but cut up versions of the
Manning daily and Sunday strips. I might be wrong, but I don't
think so.
A buddy of mine, John Workman, was working in the DC production
department at the time, and I vaguely recall him telling me about
having to crop the art, and draw extensions. I also seem to
remember John mentioning that Manning was not too happy seeing his
strips cut up, either.
Bill Wormstedt
(Email removed)
> I don't see why it wouldn't be, since that's the way
>virtually every such contract is worded, including those at DC in
>years past. (When it had the rights to Tarzan, for instance, it
>not only produced new stories but reprinted material ranging from
>the Hal Foster strip to the Russ Manning stories at Gold Key).
As near as I can remember without digging the books out, the DC
Manning reprints were NOT from Gold Key, but cut up versions of the
Manning daily and Sunday strips. I might be wrong, but I don't
think so.
A buddy of mine, John Workman, was working in the DC production
department at the time, and I vaguely recall him telling me about
having to crop the art, and draw extensions. I also seem to
remember John mentioning that Manning was not too happy seeing his
strips cut up, either.
Bill Wormstedt
(Email removed)
Matthew Sommer
Disney comics Digest V96 #114
Message 220 -
1996-05-30 at 00:09:45
hello everyone! wow, look ma, my first disney comics m-list post! :)
anyway-- here's my question:
i've just started collecting the U$A barks library albums, and
if i remember correctly, this is supposed to contain ALL on CB's
work from his uncle $crooge title, right? I ask because
Gladstone put out 2 volumes of U$ one-pagers a few years ago,
and while i might be tempted to buy them, i WONT if that same
material will be printed in the new U$A project... anyone have
an answer?
also, just as an aside, has anyone read the book _Carl Barks and the art
of the comic book_? I saw it on the disney database, and i called
barnes&noble and ordered it <<its still in print>>. So i guess i am
already going to have to buy it anyway, but does anyone have any reviews
of the book?
thanks much...
-matt-
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anyway-- here's my question:
i've just started collecting the U$A barks library albums, and
if i remember correctly, this is supposed to contain ALL on CB's
work from his uncle $crooge title, right? I ask because
Gladstone put out 2 volumes of U$ one-pagers a few years ago,
and while i might be tempted to buy them, i WONT if that same
material will be printed in the new U$A project... anyone have
an answer?
also, just as an aside, has anyone read the book _Carl Barks and the art
of the comic book_? I saw it on the disney database, and i called
barnes&noble and ordered it <<its still in print>>. So i guess i am
already going to have to buy it anyway, but does anyone have any reviews
of the book?
thanks much...
-matt-
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Grubert, Per
(no subject)
Message 221 -
1996-05-30 at 01:49:11
Dear all
In # 107 I was asked in which countries Egmont were in with Disney
Comics. It is Norway Sweden Finland Denmark Germany Austria Switzerland
UK Bulgaria Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Russia Czeck Republic
Slovakia Hungary Slovenia Ukraine China and Turkey. Moreover there was a
question what we will do if we are copied in China. The answer is .
Report it to Disney
In # 107 I was asked in which countries Egmont were in with Disney
Comics. It is Norway Sweden Finland Denmark Germany Austria Switzerland
UK Bulgaria Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Russia Czeck Republic
Slovakia Hungary Slovenia Ukraine China and Turkey. Moreover there was a
question what we will do if we are copied in China. The answer is .
Report it to Disney
Steve Crooks
Disney comics Digest V96 #114
Message 222 -
1996-05-30 at 03:23:48
DON:
I should have been a little more specific about the figurine. I am pretty
certain it is not licensed. There are no identifying marks on the statue at
all, let alone one that says "Disney". The box it came in was a plain (but
large!) cardboard box with "Dagobert" hand written on top.
Even though it's not licensed, it is a fabulous piece of work. I wish I could
make a picture available for everyone to see.
Don, if you are still interesting in obtaining one, I can possibly act as a
go-between and have my friend in Boulder try to get another. The clerk at the
shop seemed to indicate they could get more. And if you'd like to see a
picture of it just out of curiosity I'd be happy to mail you one. I don't
think I'd trade it for anything very reasonable because it was a gift and it
looks *very* good sitting in my dining room.
HARRY:
Apparently I'm missing the last 16 pages of that first Life of Scrooge album!
I could have figured that out if I had read the table of contents a bit more
closely. Now I get to see if the comic shop owner can replace it, or if he
wants me to deal directly with Gladstone. Unfortunately, a casual reader of
the album would probably never notice the problem. I hope not many more
escaped the printers in this condition!
[ I'm going to lose my lurker's license if I don't quiet down again... :-) ]
--
--Steve Crooks (Email removed)
composed on 29-MAY-96 4:43 pm
I should have been a little more specific about the figurine. I am pretty
certain it is not licensed. There are no identifying marks on the statue at
all, let alone one that says "Disney". The box it came in was a plain (but
large!) cardboard box with "Dagobert" hand written on top.
Even though it's not licensed, it is a fabulous piece of work. I wish I could
make a picture available for everyone to see.
Don, if you are still interesting in obtaining one, I can possibly act as a
go-between and have my friend in Boulder try to get another. The clerk at the
shop seemed to indicate they could get more. And if you'd like to see a
picture of it just out of curiosity I'd be happy to mail you one. I don't
think I'd trade it for anything very reasonable because it was a gift and it
looks *very* good sitting in my dining room.
HARRY:
Apparently I'm missing the last 16 pages of that first Life of Scrooge album!
I could have figured that out if I had read the table of contents a bit more
closely. Now I get to see if the comic shop owner can replace it, or if he
wants me to deal directly with Gladstone. Unfortunately, a casual reader of
the album would probably never notice the problem. I hope not many more
escaped the printers in this condition!
[ I'm going to lose my lurker's license if I don't quiet down again... :-) ]
--
--Steve Crooks (Email removed)
composed on 29-MAY-96 4:43 pm
SRoweCanoe
Short comments from Steven Rowe
Message 223 -
1996-05-30 at 14:32:38
John Lustig:
No, the Lusting was a simple typo. I'm sure you got all the Lusting jokes
you ever needed, back in Junior High School.
Rich M.:
I'm not sure, but I don't think that Archie has the rights to the
MGM/Turner. Harvey had them until they went under ... Of course, Archie
does have the rights to Hanna-Barbera, a division of Turner.
I would imagine that almost all of the comics in Donald and Daisy were
written by Gregory. Of course, like all guesses, I'm sure it would be proved
wrong. Has anyone asked him what stories he wrote? Or would that be unfair?
Maybe we need to run a list of Uncle Scrooge writers ...
Torsten Adair wrote >>Wouldn't it be ironic if Hurricane Hortense just
*happened* to hit the
Orlando area? <<
I don't think that the death and the destruction would be worth a gag
that only 20-100 people would get. Now, a hurricane Daisy is another story.
No, the Lusting was a simple typo. I'm sure you got all the Lusting jokes
you ever needed, back in Junior High School.
Rich M.:
I'm not sure, but I don't think that Archie has the rights to the
MGM/Turner. Harvey had them until they went under ... Of course, Archie
does have the rights to Hanna-Barbera, a division of Turner.
I would imagine that almost all of the comics in Donald and Daisy were
written by Gregory. Of course, like all guesses, I'm sure it would be proved
wrong. Has anyone asked him what stories he wrote? Or would that be unfair?
Maybe we need to run a list of Uncle Scrooge writers ...
Torsten Adair wrote >>Wouldn't it be ironic if Hurricane Hortense just
*happened* to hit the
Orlando area? <<
I don't think that the death and the destruction would be worth a gag
that only 20-100 people would get. Now, a hurricane Daisy is another story.
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #115
Message 224 -
1996-05-30 at 16:08:00
ARTHUR:
Are $crooge figurines rare? After reading this List for this long, you must
KNOW how rare $crooge toys or other items are to an American! If you
eliminate the "DuckTales" and "Mickey's Xmas Carol" scare of
"col-yecch!-ibles" of about 3-5 years ago, when those sorta people made all
manner of high-priced junk featuring those counterfeit $crooges... if you
only counted the American toys or items that have been made based solely on
the (now virtually forgotten) American $crooge comic books, there have been
less than 10 $crooge toy-figurines in the past 50 years. I have a glass case
filled with $crooges -- but the bottom shelf is all "Xmas Carol" stuff, the
middle shelf is all "DuckTales" stuff, and the top shelf where I keep the
REAL $crooge items is 95% European stuff. Maybe I'll make a lil' list of all
the true comic-book $crooge (non-"col-yecch!-ible", non-"limited-ughdition")
toys there have ever been in this country and post it here, and you'll see
how few there've been. So, YEAH, to me $crooge figurines are RARE.
STEVE:
Wow! How could you not have noticed that already VERY thin album was missing
16 pages? I've heard of misprints that have left pages misprinted or
blank... but I didn't know a press-error could occur which would leave pages
completely out. How could 16 pages be missing from the back of the album
without the same number of pages being missing from the front? I guess
albums aren't bound like comic books are, or that wouldn't be possible.
That's odd. And odder still if the missing pages just happen to be right
where one story ended and another was to begin.
And, no, thanks, if that $crooge figurine isn't a licensed item, I wouldn't
want it for my collection. However, if you were willing to send a photo of
it, I'd still like to see it! It's hard to imagine that a bootleg, amateur,
un-approved carving of $crooge would look as good as you say, but if it
really is a great job, I might make an exception. However... if it's a
bootleg, how could there be another? Surely someone hasn't set up shop
turning out such illicit items... unless he was protected by being in China
or somewhere.
ERIC:
Thank you for the cute Jr.Woodchuck award!
Are $crooge figurines rare? After reading this List for this long, you must
KNOW how rare $crooge toys or other items are to an American! If you
eliminate the "DuckTales" and "Mickey's Xmas Carol" scare of
"col-yecch!-ibles" of about 3-5 years ago, when those sorta people made all
manner of high-priced junk featuring those counterfeit $crooges... if you
only counted the American toys or items that have been made based solely on
the (now virtually forgotten) American $crooge comic books, there have been
less than 10 $crooge toy-figurines in the past 50 years. I have a glass case
filled with $crooges -- but the bottom shelf is all "Xmas Carol" stuff, the
middle shelf is all "DuckTales" stuff, and the top shelf where I keep the
REAL $crooge items is 95% European stuff. Maybe I'll make a lil' list of all
the true comic-book $crooge (non-"col-yecch!-ible", non-"limited-ughdition")
toys there have ever been in this country and post it here, and you'll see
how few there've been. So, YEAH, to me $crooge figurines are RARE.
STEVE:
Wow! How could you not have noticed that already VERY thin album was missing
16 pages? I've heard of misprints that have left pages misprinted or
blank... but I didn't know a press-error could occur which would leave pages
completely out. How could 16 pages be missing from the back of the album
without the same number of pages being missing from the front? I guess
albums aren't bound like comic books are, or that wouldn't be possible.
That's odd. And odder still if the missing pages just happen to be right
where one story ended and another was to begin.
And, no, thanks, if that $crooge figurine isn't a licensed item, I wouldn't
want it for my collection. However, if you were willing to send a photo of
it, I'd still like to see it! It's hard to imagine that a bootleg, amateur,
un-approved carving of $crooge would look as good as you say, but if it
really is a great job, I might make an exception. However... if it's a
bootleg, how could there be another? Surely someone hasn't set up shop
turning out such illicit items... unless he was protected by being in China
or somewhere.
ERIC:
Thank you for the cute Jr.Woodchuck award!
Per Starback
Short comments from Steven Rowe
Message 225 -
1996-05-30 at 18:04:08
Steven Rowe to John Lustig:
> No, the Lusting was a simple typo. I'm sure you got all the Lusting jokes
> you ever needed, back in Junior High School.
Besides possible junior high embarrassments John's lusty last name
also has had the peculiar effect of making the WWW page
http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/disney-comics/creators/Lustig-index.html
containing a Lustig index inaccessible to some web users.
It's one of those systems that are there for parents or superiors or
whatever to install to assure that the users they have control over
don't find any "bad stuff" on the Net when surfing around. Evidently
this system suspected any file having "lust" as part of it's name,
regardless of the contents. It wouldn't let the same user look at
http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/disney-comics/chars/humphrey.html
either! I feel sorry for those who have to use such a stupid system!
--
Per Starback <(Email removed)> http://www.update.uu.se/~starback
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
> No, the Lusting was a simple typo. I'm sure you got all the Lusting jokes
> you ever needed, back in Junior High School.
Besides possible junior high embarrassments John's lusty last name
also has had the peculiar effect of making the WWW page
http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/disney-comics/creators/Lustig-index.html
containing a Lustig index inaccessible to some web users.
It's one of those systems that are there for parents or superiors or
whatever to install to assure that the users they have control over
don't find any "bad stuff" on the Net when surfing around. Evidently
this system suspected any file having "lust" as part of it's name,
regardless of the contents. It wouldn't let the same user look at
http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/disney-comics/chars/humphrey.html
either! I feel sorry for those who have to use such a stupid system!
--
Per Starback <(Email removed)> http://www.update.uu.se/~starback
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"