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MARCO:
I think that Jim Hanley's Universe is the best of the Manhattan
comic shops Mike listed for you. They get enormous quantities of
Gladstones (about 25 of each, not counting those they're saving for certain
customers) and do an excellent business in them... so they told me when I
was last there in April.
They have recently moved, BTW. Any New Yorker on this list oughtta
be able to give you their new address.

David Gerstein
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AUGIE and everyone:
>* DONALD DUCK #300
> "Donald's 300th Triumph" by Mau Heymans
This is the Dutch "Donald's 2000th Adventure" story, appropriately
retitled. I was going to call this "Donald Duck: Modern Day Legend" until
some Digest members suggested it would be good to have a numerical title
like the original did. That said, I hope you enjoy it!
> "Ring of the Vikings" by Marco Rota (Andold Wild Duck)
For some reason, this has been solicited under a title I
inaccurately remembered from the German when asking Gladstone to order the
story. In its final form, the story is going to be "Andold W-D and the
Runestone's Curse."
> "Disco Ducks" (!) by Fred Milton and Daan Jippes (10-pages)
Ah, and here we have Dwight at work! I'm waiting for it!
> Cover by WVH
Very nice cover as I see it in Previews, with Donald as Bruce Hamilton.

>* UNCLE $CROOGE ADVENTURES #42
> "The Dragon's Amulet" by Tony Strobl
> unnamed backup by Vicar
> Cover by Carl Barks (from U$ #63)
Gladstone is still in negotations for the Disney license (their
former one was extended, hence the current issues) so can't afford to
commission many new covers, mainly because (logic tells me) they'd lose a
lot of money from that if they don't end up PRINTING the covers. Hence a
Barks cover illustrating a non-Barks story with a similar theme...
...but that's not the half of it. After scheduling and soliciting
this "Amulet" story with the cover to U$ 64 (_not_ #63, as mentioned),
Gladstone was informed by Disney that Strobl's tale was banned. Gladstone
is thus presenting "Treasure of Marco Polo," the Barks story that really
_should_ go with the cover they've got. This will be the CBL-edited
version.

ELON:
For whatever it's worth, "Plastic Mickey," the GREAT Michael T.
Gilbert Mickey story that was originally to have been in DDMM 8, will
instead be in WDC&S 508, a few months down the road.

DWIGHT:
>["Disco Ducks"] may be the first appearance
>of a toilet I've ever seen in a Disney comic, by the way. I'll
>be curious to see if Disney Burbank allows _that_ to go through
>in an American-published story.
Hey, remember when Disney Burbank suggested the word "Barf" be put
in a story? I think gross-out humor is considered legit now in a way it
was not ten years ago, whereas the opposite is true of depiction of
foreigners and so on.

PER:
Gladstone's official pages will be tied in with mine and share some
features with it, if not eventually incorporating it completely. Both are
company-approved.
On the other hand, mine (which got to be very out of date while I
spent a few weeks on a secluded vacation) seem COMPLETELY inaccessible
right now along with all other Williams-related pages. Must be some
problem in Massachusetts. Gary Leach's Gladstone pages will link to mine
whenever that problem is solved.

ALIPIO:
Do you mean that one of these Latin stories showed us Donald's
parents before Don Rosa's Life of Scrooge? Sure sounds like it.

David Gerstein
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I just picked up the new WDC&S, and naturally I noticed
that one of the stories in it was "High-Tech Havoc,"
which I translated from Dutch. One of the headaches of
that story was several background gags illustrating
Dutch puns about money, and I struggled manfully to
come up with English equivalents to match the pictures.
One was used (the one for "Mad Money," although I'm
not sure if that term is well-known any more), but
mysteriously, two were left out, leaving cryptic drawings
without any captions. One gag involved a coin set up like
a tiny gong with musical notes coming from it; I forget now
what the Dutch original was, but since the coin conveniently
had "25" on it, I labelled it "Quarter Notes." I think the
gag I had for the anchored coin was "Floating Currency."
Anyway, Gladstone left the captions off.

Oh well...

--Dwight Decker

Hi EVERYONE:

I think Danny and I making trouble in the list because our messages looked
so damaged. As far as I noticed it had to do with our German keyboard
settings ( charset="iso-8859-1" instead of charset="us-ascii" the other
members use). Some special characters are converted to an equal sign
followed by a number (e.g. =20). But I really don't know. Sorry all other
member's! I try to solve the problem.

DANNY:

Well, let the other members decide, if they wanted to hear more about the
German Donaldists. A very non-uniform group with different branches and a
great discussion about Rosa and his work yet. But I agree, we won't do this
sort of Donaldistic discussion in this ML.

DD # 96 isn't out yet.

Bye

In a message dated 96-08-07 22:13:21 EDT, Rich M. write:

<< 101
DALMATIANS may be the first Marvel adaptation of a LIVE Disney movie in I
don't know how long (though they've had a few individual Disney contracts
like ZORRO over the last couple of decades), and the first NEW live Disney
>>

Well, no. Zorro is no longer under Disney control, aparently; and Marvel
got the rights from the original owners.
Plus Marvel has done several Disney live action adaptation. The Last
Dragonslayer (which may not count), and the Three Musteteers.
Steven Rowe

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MICHAEL:
>A recent auction at the Howard Lowery Gallery had the CBL Volumes #1-9 sell
>for $1,265.00 (buyers premium included) that's $140.55 each! Whew!!

Not quite correct, that's $140.55 per set of three volumes,
i.e. $46.85 per volume. High, but still reasonable.

DAVE:
> Many, many thanks to Frank for the delightful resource on Cavazzano

Thank you very much for these kind words, I'm glad you appreciated
it. I hope that other fans will like it as much. I look forward to
putting more of these pages online.

>And to all you others, as well, who fill this mailing list with such
>useful and entertaining information and insights.

I'd like to join in on this one, with special thanks to Per for his
daily work on the mailing list and the main web site!

Frank (Filologo Disneyano) http://www.cam-orl.co.uk/~fms

JOACHIM:
I don't think Gladstone will be using "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad"
anytime soon. But you're slightly mistaken when you say the one-part version
is "longer" -- as with all such versions, it's the same number of pages as
the 3-part version (24), but it does have more panels since the splash
panels are replaced by normal page halves.

DANNY:
How much fanmail do I get? Thankfully, not too much since so few people know
where I live. I am happy to get mail, but I consider it a "sacred duty" to
reply to 100% of it, and I hope I never start getting so much that I'll be
sadly forced to stop answering it. I get about 5 - 10 pieces of e-mail per
day, and I'm often pleasantly surprised to see a message coming from a new
area of Duckfans such as Cyprus or Greece or New Zealand... but e-mail gets
my first attention, and I reply to all of it within a day or two. Then I
still get letters sent to my home; sometimes the writer has located my
address in the Internet, sometimes a publisher forwards it to me, sometimes
it's simply addressed "Don Rosa - Louisville" and it finds me. That mail I
answer slowly -- I take a few days off in between doing stories and get
caught up on answers. And as part of that mail (and in answer to your other
question), I often receive comics to sign and return to the sender, which
I'm delighted to do... so send yours on.
As for the LAST story I might someday write/draw, I'd hate to be thinking of
that so soon. But I think I know what the subject might be...

JONATHAN:
Why do you call Egmont cranks just because they have certain requirements
among their 20-25 publishers? That's where the problem lies -- they are so
BIG. Stories must be done to fit the needs of the greatest percentage of
their publishers, and the 3-part 8-page/part system is what they've decided
is most useful. There's not much I can do about it, and not everyone at
Egmont may like that system either. But they do their best ... one change
they've made is to allow me to do one 28+ one-parter per year. That's a good
deal, considering they know that some publishers won't be able to use the
story. I'm lucky to get that chance!

ERIC AND ANYONE ELSE WHO CARES:
We're slowly making firmer plans on the reception for my art exhibition in
San Francisco. I'll be in SF on September 27 & 28 (leaving early on the
29th), that's Friday-Sunday. I'll be at a reception at the Museum of Comic
Art and also at several comic store signing sessions and whatever else
anyone wants me to do. I'll give you definite times and places later.