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Jaki Ellenby
Hi, again !

DON:

Joachim Butz, as I was saying, just sent me a lot of fascinating material about
you. It included copies of two comics you have drawn in your pre-duck years, one
called Tagdenah and the other Phalanx. You never discuss them in the interviews
I have seen to date.

Can you give me a little background about them and also tell me if there were
other comics you have worked on in the past apart from those, CK and PP ?

Didier Ghez
Marco Barlotti
Hi, everybody! I'm back on Cyberspace (and to work), so be prepared to lots
of questions for the next days...
I start with an easy one for you Yankees there. My daughter came back from
New York (all comics shops closed at Mid-August, BTW!) telling me that she
had eaten a "Monterey-Jack-burger" at a fast-food. Aha, said I, it must be
called so after the character in Rescue Rangers. No, replied she, "Monterey
Jack" is a cheese: it was listed among the INGREDIENTS of the burger!!!
So the question is: was the mouse in "Rescue Rangers" called after a cheese?
Or was the burger called after the cheese which in turn was called after the
mouse? Or....

Marco

<Of course I need you, Dale. If I hadn't you, I wouldn't have anybody to put
the blame on!>
(from the 100 min. trailer of the serial "Rescue Rangers". Well, that's a
translation from the Italian translation. Anybody knows the right quote?)
Geir J. Netland
Hi all!

Just wanted to tell you that Erik Hoerthe does not have access to this
list for the moment. When will he be back? Well, nobody knows, including
him. (If you have a really important message, you can mail me,
and I'll deliver it to him)
Bye!!

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SRoweCanoe
In a message dated 96-08-31 22:03:47 EDT, I wrote:

<< I'm gone to the beach for a week; so no comments from me (here or e-mail)
till I get back. I do plan to read some Disney at the beach. Best
>>

No, I didn't spend 3 weeks at the beach (American vacations are 1 or 2 weeks-
for my job one is generally considered too long). However we were evacuated
due to Hurricane Fran. It mainly missed us in both locations, the wind did
remeind me of Hurricane Hugo (not that I wanted any reminders). No damage to
us here. (now my brother got strongly hit).

Just a few comments (hopefully I'll get caugt up this week)

Hi to Mark Mayerson. How long have you been here?

John A. Kazos: Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers lasted 19 issues. Other stories
appear in Disney Adventures.

Rich M: I don't think that Jack and Russ Manning are related.

Only two more weeks to catch up. Although I'm tempted to talk about those
time-traveling stories that Tony Strobl did , and the stories that Dick
Moores told me about, and the stories that Ken Hultgren did... and
Best Steven Rowe
Jacob Sparre Andersen
"Mickey Mysteries"

I scanned page one from "n for olie og olie for ?n" (D92033) this weekend.
The page shows the building, where Mickey has his detective office in the
Mickey Mysteries series. I've put the drawing on my web site, so you can get
feeling of the stage for these stories. When I looked at the picture this
morning, I was reminded of V. I. Warshawski (Chicago detective).

URL: http://fys.ku.dk/%7Esparre/Tegneserier/D92033.en.html

Can anybody (at EPS) tell me who writes and draws these stories.

Jumbobog 183: "Kuk i tyngdekraften"

The cover story in the most recent Jumbobog (should we call it "Messy
Gravity"?) is also (you all know what I'm referring to!?) about playing around
with gravity. This time it's Gyro who's behind. A nice story where U$ finds a
treasure, BB steals the money bin, U$ gets his money back (kind of) and DD
gets in trouble (_big_ trouble!).
I've scanned the cover. Story summaries are in the pipeline.

URL: http://fys.ku.dk/%7Esparre/Tegneserier/Jumbobog-183.en.html

Greetings,

Jacob
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Harald Havas
DON
I was referring to hao thsi particular page (5 creators!) came to be.
But you answered it anyway. Thanx.

HARRY
I guess I will index them - one by one. It may take time - I'm not an
indexing kind of person. But I think it would be "cool" having some
strange titles like "MNKKN MAYC" (Russian Mickey - the Ns should be
mirrored of course) on the list - especially since it happens to be
the first "Mickey" ever printed there.

JAKOB
Sure, "pantomim" might be a part of the joke in "Phantomime" (what's
her English name BTW, "Super-Duckess"?) But mostly an "e"-suffix, and
even more an "ine"-suffix indicates female gender in German and
French. For example in names: "Paul" - "Pauline"
This is also the reason why most of the women in ASTERIX end on
"ine". The chief's wife e.g.: "Bonnemine" (fr.) - "Gutemiene" (ger.)
or to be more spectacular, the fishmonger's wife "Yellowsubmarine".
So, the "Phantomime", even while ending rather on "ime" than "ine"
SOUNDS female. How's that in Italian? Donald is "Paperinik" which is
a pun on the old Italian pulp-comics hero/villain "Diabolik" - what's
Daisy's name? "Paperinika"?
Speaking of puns - are they more common in translated
Disney-characters' names than in the English original - somehow it
seems that way..

> > Speaking of Gyro - dont you all agree that Doc Brown in "Back to the
> > Future" was heavily based on him?

>No. Maybe a *little*, but he's just the "Mad Scientist" we all love to see
>in movies.

Yeah - but he has a think-cap kind of gadget with blinking lights on
his head upon first appearance (in his 50ies self I mean) which seems
like direct a Barks-ripp-off to me...

CU

Harald

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Don Rosa
JONATHAN:
Oh. I must have been reading too fast! I misunderstood Kriton's question.
You gave the best answer for it.
Actually, as you might know, Disney told Gladstone that they COULD use my
Peeweegah story if they redrew all the Peeweegahs into elves and colored
them blue (Smurfitized them), removed all the Indian stuff from the
background and rewrote all the dialogue. But naturally there'd be no reason
for me to do that since it would ruin the point of the story... and it
really makes no difference to me whether Gladstone uses one of my stories or
not since there are no royalties paid in this system... I was just hoping to
someday get a copy of my Peeweegah story that I could READ. But... the
political-correctitude scare will end eventually, and we'll see that story.
(There's not seriously any danger a Native American would dislike that story
-- it's more likely they would LOVE it since the Peeweegahs are the heroes
and the evil-white-eyes are the villains who lose out in the end. But the
objections to that story would only be usual reasons for this
political-correctness attitude -- the attention given to form over
substance, a common American disease.)

JOACHIM:
Yes, I was a member of APA-I for a few years after I stopped writing/drawing
my Information Center columns for RBCC, COMIC READER, TBG, CBG and AMAZING
HEROES. APA-I was a magazine of indexes of old comic books showing titles,
authors, artists, etc. My contribution was a feature about my favorite old
comics after Barks' Ducks. Hm? Other "funny animal" comics? No... horror
comics! My feature was titled "INDEX INTO TERROR... a disinterment and
post-mortem of all those AWFUL horror comics of the 1950s". That was fun.
Did THE COMICS JOURNAL really give me a 1978 award like the one you mention?
That's logical since I always was an oddity in comics fandom -- someone who
obviously loved collecting ALL comics and loved writing about them and
writing/drawing comics... yet I wasn't the slightest bit interested in being
a comics professional. And I never would have changed if Gladstone hadn't
come along.

DIDIER (who everyone calls Jaki Ellenby due to the name on the Internet
account):
I hope you do this extensive "Don Rosa" indexing by private e-mail, and
don't fill up this Digest with it. This is getting to be a bit much to
stand, even for ME (and that must be a LOT!).
(I also have been telling Didier and Joachim that I'd think a simple article
will certainly fill the world's needs... they'll probably never find a
publisher for such an entire book! So, it's flattering, but I hope no one
thinks I encourage this sort of thing.)
Dan Shane
DON (and in fact all other list-members):

I've crawled out from under my rock to make what is probably an unnecessary
statement about how $crooge himself views his Number One dime. While I
agree completely that $crooge got his fortune through hard work, and I
believe that Barks has always presented the old duck as having earned his
wealth, I also think that $crooge himself tends to forget that in his
worries about Magica's pursuit of the dime. Certainly to Magica the coin
is lucky, if only because $crooge has handled it so much. I get the
impression that $crooge really knows that every penny he has came from work
and moxie, but there is that niggling little worry every time Magica shows
up that there just might be a little magic in the dime after all.

I'm not saying my impression is correct by anyone else's standards, but it
does appear to me that Barks' later reference to the dime as "lucky" can be
explained by $crooge's attitude that the dime has taken on that attribute
in spite of the fact that he really knows better.

It's just like the folks who say, "I'm not superstitious, but why take
chances?"

Okay, Don, blast away. I'm safely under my rock again.
Troschke
Hi!

This is the first time I'm contributing to this mailing list
and therefor I think, I'll say some words about me first, so
that you know

WHO'S TALKING:
My name is Sven-Oliver Troschke, I'm 29 years old and work as
a statistician at the University of Dortmund trying to write
my Ph.D. thesis.

Immediately after my girl-friend and some sports my biggest
hobby is, you guess what, comics, especially Disney comics.
Beside reading comics and being interested in everything sur-
rounding comics I have no other connection to comics. So I'm
a pure fan of comics and not an artist or so. If I don't read
Disney comics I mainly read other funnies like Asterix or
Lucky Luke, but I also like some of the (Manga-) work the
Japenese artist Rumiko Takahashi does, especially her Mermaid
saga. Another topic I'm keen on is Indiana Jones.

CARL BARKS LIBRARY:
The first question I want to put to the list is the following:
As I understand, Gladstone is currently running the final part
of the Carl Barks Library, namely 'The Carl Barks Library of
Uncle $crooge Adventures in Color'. I would like to know, if
Gladstone has covered all the Carl Barks material then, or if
there is some more material left; and if so, if Gladstone is
planning to publish this as well.

SUPER-DUCK:
I saw that Super-Duck or Phantomias, as he is called in Germa-
ny, was a topic on this mailing list in the last few digests. I am
quite a fan of this alter ego of Donald, although I have to say
that his latest adventures are on a far lower level than they
were at the beginning. I especially liked the very first stories,
where Donald starts leading his double life, and where this
new character was exposed. If anybody is interested I could
offer an index of all Super-Duck stories which have been pub-
lished in Germany (at least as far as I know). Somebody would
only have to tell me where to send it.

That's it from here for today
Sven
Deckerd
On Sep 16, 11:12am, Marco Barlotti wrote:
> Subject: Monterey Jack

> So the question is: was the mouse in "Rescue Rangers" called after a
cheese?
> Or was the burger called after the cheese which in turn was called
after the
> mouse? Or....
>
The cheese came first. According to the dictionary, it was
named after Monterey County in California, where it was
first made. I recall using the name "Monterey Jack" for
a grizzled old prospector character in one of the first
science-fiction stories I ever tried writing, circa 1974.
The question is why the name was given to a character with
an _Australian_ accent in the Disney TV show...

--Dwight Decker
Joachim Butz
ERIC wrote
>Also, there's supposed to be another edition (w/o Carl Barks signature).

Oh, thats good news, because a cheaper version is what I want. For me it is
important what is IN the book, not WHO has signed it.

MIKE:
> Did you miss my mail about The Treasure of the Ten Avatars sent about
>a week ago or why haven't you answered to the thousands of questions it
>contained?

Why don't ask here in the list? Perhaps some other readers will be
interested in more infos about Rosa's stories! - And everything you asked in
the list, another guy hadn't to bore Don with the same stuff again. So Don
has more time for doing new stories I (and I believe a lot here more)
impatiently waiting for!
Don Rosa
I just received a call from the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco asking
me if I had anyone to whom I wished them to send an invitation to the
reception for their exhibit of original pages from "The Life and Times of
$crooge McDuck" on September 28. I thought I would also ask if there are any
members of the Disney Comics Mailing List (including its lurkers) who would
like such an invitation (which I assume might be those of you who live in
that area who might be interested).

Please send me your mailing address by private e-mail, and I'll send it to
the Museum right away. And obviously you shouldn't hesitate a moment, since
they will hardly have time to send such invitations to you... I would have
asked something like this of you much sooner, but I didn't presume to meddle
in their invitation process until I was asked to do so just about an hour ago.
Deckerd
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On Sep 16, 10:51pm, Jakob Söderbaum wrote:
> Subject: Re: Disney comics Digest V96 #199

> >> Tsk, tsk. "Med plutonium och Gottfredsonstrippar far vi dansken
pa kna!" :-)
> >
> > Saa var der den om Svenskeren som taendte radioen og skreg "Jeg
er blind!" :)
>
> Vet du varfor Dansken tar med sig ett sandpapper ut i oknen da? Jo,
for att
> "Det var den enda karta over stallet jag kunde hitta". Heh-he! ;-)
>
"Then there was the one about the Swede who turned the radio
on and screamed, "I've gone blind!'"

"Do you know why the Dane took a piece of sandpaper out into
the desert? 'It was the only map of the place I could find.'"

Uh oh! Trouble ahead! The Scandihoovians are telling insulting
ethnic jokes about each other!

--Dwight

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Stefan Printz-Pahlson
STEFAN'S "LOST" MESSAGE

Don said:
>Speaking of lost messages, there seem to have been two empty-messages in
>the last Digest... one from Stefan and one from Mike Prochaska<

Well, *my* lost message was actually writen by David Gerstein when he was
staying with me in Malmo last week. Unfortunately I managed to ruin the
thing upon sending it, so now I'm not even sure what David actually wrote.
Anyway, it was really good to have you here, David, and if you see this
when you get back to the US, well, perhaps you can re-mail your
e-mail...(er)... :-)
Markoff
Carl Barks wrote three stories which he did not draw for DONALD DUCK in
1967-1970:

"Pawns of the Loup Garou" (DD 117)
"Officer of the Day" (DD 126)
"A Day in a Duck's Life" (DD 138)

None of these stories has been reprinted since the waning days of Whitman, so--

GLADSTONE:
How 'bout changing that?

GEILLUSTREERDE PERS (spelling?):
Or perhaps that's a job for you, who have Daan Jippes, Mau Heymans, etc. as
candidates for redrawing?

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