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Harry Fluks wrote:

> This week's Dutch weekly (#34) has the first episode of a Mickey horror story.
> It starts with Mickey playing a computer game(!) and Minnie thinking
> Mickey takes her on a cruise to Hawaii. When Mickey tries to earn
> some money to finance it, he is captured in the spooky house of
> Dr. Frankenollie (Disney fans might detect the pun in this name).
>
> Mickey wears his shorts. The art looks VERY good (I could even be
> Jippes 8-).
> The problem is, the story has no code. It could be one of the new Mickey
> stories from Egmont (David announced them some time ago). But the art
> looks neither Noel van Horn, nor Ferioli.
>
> Any fan or editor can give more information?

Ah, a question I can half answer off the top of my normally empty head!
The great art is by Ulrich Schroeder! FYI he works for Disney's European
Creative Center in Paris. I can't remember his official title, but he's
basically in charge of making sure Disney artwork is up to standards in
Europe. Personally, I think this story shows the boy knows what he's
talking about when he comments on other people's work!

The story was done for the French Disney weekly, Le Journal de Mickey. I
wish I could remember the name of the writer (see empty-head comment
above), but if no one else posts it in the next couple of days, I'll
actually (gasp!) look it up and let you know.

I hope Ulrich won't mind my spilling the beans, but he and I have been
talking about doing a Mickey adventure together (along with Daan Jippes)
-- a pirate yarn. It'll be done for EPS and I'm supposed to be writing
it now instead of typing this, but we want to make sure the details are
accurate so we're holdng out for a "research" trip to the Carribean. All
expenses paid, of course.

Seriously, I have a self-imposed deadline of finishing it in September,
and I'm a mean (insert non-Disney-approved characterization here) when
deadlines are missed, so...

Byron

PER:
My thanks for fixing the list and for adminstrating it, too. Great
work and always a pleasure to read!

USERPRO:
>Anyone from Europe or England want to make a trade?

How about some details, huh? Trade what for what? (but in general,
I might be interested)

MARC:
>FYI to all, I wrote earlier that I was interested in copies of the Don Rosa
>drawings although I do not (YET!) have one to contribute.

I have one drawing by Don Rosa signed to me and to copies I got from
another list member. I'm interested in this.

JONATHAN:
>AR 139 is "Coin of the Realm" which was printed in Ducktales 6 (Gladstone
>numbers) and just reprinted in U$ 300. Not one of Van Horn's better stories
>by my choice. D 92209 doesn't ring a bell, in fact I can't find it in Per
>and Harry's database.

D92209 was a story about Gyro hypnotizing Lunchpad to think he was
an eagle and as all eagles can naturally fly and land well (although they
usually don't use aeroplanes) Lunchpad flew superbly for a while and then
landed on a tree because that's where birds nest.

Come to think of it, it probably wasn't by WVH, since the story
code begins with a different letter than in his stories. Yet, I can't
quite understand that he's such a valued artist and writer if he makes
stories like "Coin of the Realm"!

>different stories: Baron Itzy Bitzy and Rumpus McFowl. What are the European

I know of Uncle Rumpus, but who's the Baron? Is he a pic-looking
villain who flies a plane? Anyway, I don't think they have any sort of
official name in Finnish and most other non-English countries since the
translators don't always notice if a character has been used once before
or hasn't. I don't know if there's been more than one story of either one,
actually. (and I don't recall their Finnish names, sorry)

--

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

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TO THE GLADSTONE FOLKS:
Could you improve your paper quality? In recent issues it became gray and
gloomy, and has ruined some otherwise great issues, not the least of which
is UNCLE $CROOGE 300.

>> Subject: Dwight Decker / 'A Matter of Some Gravity'
>>
>> >I just got my
>> >subscription copy of Anders And 1996/32 (8/8/96), the...... and the
>story is
>> >printed complete as one 16-page unit, without being continued.
>> ========================
>>
>>
>> Oh, You lucky, lucky Danish readers!!
>>
>> joachim
>>

>Those Danish readers are lucky all right, but I'm not one
>of them. I'm an American frying my brains out in the Arizona
>desert who just happens to have a subscription to Anders And.

Well, so You're lucky too. I have been happy about four weeks ago when a
friend sent me a 'Anders And' containg Don's D 95153 as a one part summer
gift. But in the German weekly 'Micky Maus' there doesn't appear this story.
Neither as one part nor as more part version. It's a real tragedy with this
German part of Egmont. Not only with Disney stuff. Else with French and
Belgian non disney stuff too.

So it is the real truth:

Oh, You lucky, lucky Danish readers!! - And one lonesome but lucky reader
far in the american west.

>I hope Gladstone figures out a way to run the story in one
>piece rather than breaking it up into serialized parts.

I hope this too. And I hope they will do it fast.
Joachim Butz
Ruggerstr. 27
70569 Stuttgart
GERMANY

Hi Harry,

I know this horror story. I saw it at the Erlangen Comic Convention. The
art is done by Ulrich Schroeder who is an art director at Disney/Paris yet.

Ulrich was at the EHAPA booth. He is member of the D.O.N.A.L.D. too and so
we talked to him about his current work. He mentioned a Micky story he' ve
done and showed us fotocopies of the story. We looked at the story noticing
an unfamiliar horrible Disney-story. Ulrich showed us the story short after
a discussion dealing with 'What is allowed in a Disneycomic'.

DON: correct me if I tell something wrong:
Originally this discussion was announced as a discussion between Don Rosa
and Freddy Milton. Ulrich sat in the audience but was involved in the
discussion by Rosa and Milton. The question 'What is allowed in a
Disneycomic' was given to Milton. But Milton delegated the answer to Ulrich
because he is one of the men who had to look for these 'Disney-rules'.

Ulrich explained what things could be in a Disney comic and what not could
be in a Disney comic. He explained that special sorts of brutality and
horribility or stuff like drugs shouldn't be done in a Disney comic.

Well, and only half an hour e showed us this Mickey horror story. And this
story his far from what he explained in the discusion. Why did he do this story?

Ulrich explained: He is very unhappy about this story. But this story isn't
scripted by him. It is the adaption of a french animated cartoon (about 18
minutes long as I remember) which is more horrible than the comic version.
He had to do the comic book adaption and he tried to eliminate the wildest
things.

The art really looks VERY good.

>BTW: The Dutch made a BEAUUUUUtiful cover to the story!

Are You sure that the cover is Dutch made? Ulrich did a cover for the story
because in French they don't wanted to print it in the periodicals (because
of its horror). The cover shows a frightend Mickey. He is frightend about an
evil ghost threatening Mickey. A very well done drawing.

BTW: Ulrich gave me a copy of this cover and done a sketch for me showing
this scene (har, har).:-1

I had been very shocked and disappointed of the scene with Petleg Peg being
tied to this horrible chair surrounded by lightnings. It looks like an
execution done on an electrical chair and suits in this form in most of the
regular US-Comics (this modern superheroe stuff - uuurrrgh). But NOT!! in a
Disney comic!!

Joachim Butz
Ruggerstr. 27
70569 Stuttgart
GERMANY

Back to the eternal question of "Does the list have members in such-and-such
country?" Canada imports USA Disney comics, but what about the
French-speaking parts? Do they make their own, or import them from France,
or what else?

PER:
To make easier the task of finding out who are members of the mailing list,
do you have a list somewhere of all the current list members' names and/or
addresses?