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TWAdair
Okay, since I don't have the schedule yet, what I'd like to do is propose a
new tradition.

Now, I don't know when you all will be arriving, but I will be in San Diego
on the Second to actually see some of the city before moving to the
convention. So, if this is like most conventions, it will open around Noon?
If so, how about we all meet for breakfast the morning of the Fourth, then
mosey, stroll, meander, waddle over to the convention center for the start of
the con? Maybe we could even organize a movement, to show the comics
community how strong Disney readership is! Maybe, as the tradition
continues, we could hold a breakfast banquet, to feed anyone who wants to
have breakfast before the con?! Yeah!!

Torsten Adair (Email removed) Washington, DC, USA
(Thank you, RFK!)
REZTNAP
ALL: As long as things have been a little slow on the list lately, I thought
I'd
de-lurk for a moment.

I am hoping to meet Don Rosa this August at a show in Niagara Falls
("Slowly I turned...step by step"). I was wondering if anyone on this
list
is planning on being there?

Back in Digest#124, Matt Sommer mention an interview of Don in a
comics journal. Can someone tell me what the title is? Can I get a
copy
of the article(s) somewhere? Thanks for any reply.
Gary Pantzer (e-mail:
(Email removed))
AlĂ­pio D'Oliveira Coelho
I think this is very important to all us.

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>
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>_________________
Alipio O. Coelho
Rua Alexandre Gastaud, 01
Pelotas RS CEP 96020-130
BRAZIL
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Jacob Sparre Andersen
HARRY:

>The Dutch have a new pocket book series (as an addition to the still
>ongoing series): "Dubbel Pocket". It's over 500 pages, and hence the
>chance to see a good story is bigger.

Sounds like Serieforlaget's "Mammutbog".

>Number 1 of the series had some bad to average Italian and Egmont
>stories. But also a few actually GOOD stories:

This seems to correspond to Mammutbog 2. The stories are generally ok.
Should I spend some time writing comments on the stories? - or doesn't
anybody care?

>"The haunted Hollywood hotel", B 910348. This is a Brazilian story!
>Donald works in a hotel and solves a mystery there. Fethry has a minor
>role in the story. Fethry asks Donald to come back to the newspaper,
>so this is actually a follow-up to the "newspaper stories" by Strobl in
>the 70s.

There seems to show up a few "Donald and Fethry works on U$'s newspaper"
stories every year.

Greetings,

Jacob
--
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Per Starback
Time to be the stern list administrator again... Here we go:

* The "Good Times" virus is a hoax. There is no such thing. (But
this warning itself is sort of like a virus. Warnings about it has
been spread around the net since 1994. For more information see the
"Good Times" FAQ at <URL:http://www.cityscope.net/hoax1.html> on the
World Wide Web.

* The Trojan horse in PKZIP300 is for real, even though the quoted
material about it wasn't absolutely accurate. But this is also somewhat
old. The more authorative warning about it from CIAC (Computer
Incident Advisory Capability) is from June last year and can be seen
in <URL:http://www.nha.com/ciac6165.html>.

Warnings like these can easily get out of hand and be spread in
mutated versions long after they were intended to be spread, causing
much unneeded anxiety, not to speak of all the repeated mail that
they, just as any chain letters, tend to generate. Be especially wary
of warnings that have no dates on them. How do you know if they still
are current?

But really it doesn't matter much if they are hoaxes or how correct
they are -- they shouldn't be on this list anyway. No message that
urges you to spread it to "as many as possible" should be here, and
the same goes for almost any mailing list. And it doesn't matter how
important or well-meaning the issue is.

The mistake is understandable, and I don't hold it against you,
Alipio! I just want to nip it in the bud, to try to stop further
spreading of this as well as take this opportunity to clarify the list
policy on this. (And also to console anyone who got worried about the
Good Times.)
--
Per Starback <(Email removed)> http://www.update.uu.se/~starback
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Matthew Sommer
GARY PANTZER::

re: the don rosa interview in the comics journal... it was VERY long, broken
into three parts. the first part is in #183, and chronicles Don's work as a fan
artist, before he did any work for gladstone, and right up to his early beginnings with
the ducks. part #2 is in issue 184, and talks about how don was shafted by disney,
how he had to give up doing comics and work in hollywood for a while, and ends
right before he goes to work for egmont. part #3 in issue 185 is current, after
the L&ToU$McD has been out and don is finding out what its like to have fans :)

ish #183 also has a back cover drawn by don, with the ducks as we havent seen
them before!! :)
RMorris306
Per Grubert wrote:

<<We are going to celebrate 3 birthdays in 1997. Daisy in januar. Can
anybody tell me .What the first comic of Daisy was. As to all 3 birthdays all
relevant remarks will be welcome>>

I'm not even sure about Donald's. Somebody gave him a birthday of April
5 (?? No, I think that's Batman's, not Donald's) at Gladstone. The only one I
remember was that THE THREE CABALLEROS gave it as "Friday the 13th," which
(since that was an early 1945 movie) would seem to narrow it to the 13th of
whatever months fell on Friday in 1944.

Just got the Disney Magazine. Interesting article on
Winnie-the-Pooh...does Disney now own all rights to the character, or only
the cartoon rights? How much does the Milne estate own at this point? (Not
that Disney seems to be quite as uptight about copyrights as they once were;
they didn't seem to object to "Bambi Meets Godzilla."

As for the question of to what extent the characters in later stories
fit into those of their original movies, the most extreme instance has to be
TAIL SPIN. Anyone who tries to fit Baloo's adventures in those before, during
OR after those in THE JUNGLE BOOK would have my sympathy.

Finally, although it has nothing to do with Disney comics, I think the
loss of another veteran artist from another favorite series of my childhood
should be noted. Curt Swan, whose work on Superman spanned almost half a
century (from SUPERMAN #51 in 1948 to #114 (of the second series) in 1996)
died last week at his home. He was a favorite of many baby-boomers, myself
definitely included, and will be greatly missed. Thankfully, Carl Barks and
others of his generation are still with us.

Rich Morrissey
Harry Fluks
Alipio:

Welcome to the non-lurking list society! 8-)

> Brasilian Disney Comics are kid stuffs.

We see very few Brazilian stories in Holland. That's why I was so
surprised to see a *good* Brazilian story in that pocket book.

> He will send me more information and I will send for
> the digest, or for you, if you want.

Great!

> I dont know how many brasilian people are on this mail list (Helo,
> everybody! Help me!)

We had a few Brazilians on the List (are you still there, Paolo?).

Jacob:
> This seems to correspond to Mammutbog 2. The stories are generally ok.
> Should I spend some time writing comments on the stories? - or doesn't
> anybody care?

The codes of the stories in Dutch giant pocketbook #1 are:
I 2079, I 2034, D 92122, D 92181, B 910348, I 2076, I 1969, D 91262,
I 2046, I 2049, I 2044.
I'm curious why you think they are "generally OK", while I said they
were "bad to average", except the good ones which I mentioned explicitly.

--Harry.
Netherlands - England: 0 - 2 (at the moment...8-[ )
Harald Havas
PER
Daisy's first appearance in comics was on the sunday-page
dated 12/15/1940. It was reprinted in Ehapa's "Donald Duck
Sonntagsseiten" (sorrily I dont know if #1 or #3) - she's sitting on
a bench and Donald passes by.

Harald

---Harald Havas (Email removed)

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End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #130
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David A Gerstein
ARTHUR:
As far as I know, the "international Disney-licensee politics"
started and ended with 'what division was going to do the LO$'. The
decision to publish the LO$ in albums began with both Gladstone and
the Germans deciding to do them independently, and now it looks like
everyone's jumped onto the bandwagon.
More soon as I read the week's digests...

David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Dan Shane
ALL:

I just wanted to let everyone know that the bigger and better $crooge
McDuck Page has been moved to:

http://www.win.net/~homebrew/scroohome.htm

Please update your bookmarks and pay us a visit. Don's added more
previously unseen art, and I've posted some tips on saving the images to
your own computer.
Per Starback
Rich Morrissey wrote:
> THE THREE CABALLEROS gave [Donald's birthday] as "Friday the 13th,"
> which (since that was an early 1945 movie) would seem to narrow it
> to the 13th of whatever months fell on Friday in 1944.

Only October then. In other places Donald's birthday is given as
March 13. (Presumably still a Friday -- then there are not many
possible years[1].)

But this is about Donald's birthday "inside the frame". Outside the
frame it's clear that he was "born" June 9, 1934[2], and nowadays it's
customary to use that date (without the year) also as Donald's
birthday inside the frame. (Or was that September 6? :-)

[1] The years in the first half of this century where March 13 was a
Friday are 1903, 1908, 1914, 1925, 1931, 1936, and 1942.

[2] As he made his debut in the cartoon "The Wise Little Hen" then.
--
Per Starback <(Email removed)> http://www.update.uu.se/~starback
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
Marvel Property Management
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End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #131
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Michael Naiman
I believe her first appearance was November 4, 1940 in the DD daily entitled
"Plowed Under" HD&L run in to tell Donald that a moving van has crunched
his hedge...Donald runs out into the yard angry (what else is new?) and
sees Daisy driving the van...he runs to get his clippers and mows down the
hedge for her...last panel has Don sighing with a "love heart" in a balloon
over his head.
TWAdair
Okay, on the evening of the Fourth, Friends of Lulu will be hosting a
reception for Marie Severin, so I can't meet anyone then.

However, I'd like to do the breakfast before the con, at Eight AM, so as to
allow enough time to relax, eat, talk, and then walk down to the convention
center.

Let me know if anyone here wants to do this, and I'll work out the logistics.

Torsten Adair (Email removed) Washington, DC, USA
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