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Harald:
> "Taler", BTW is the historical source for - tataa - Dollar...

Yeah. Wasn't it the place Joachimst(h)al that named the Taler?
(Joachim is also a Scandinavian name for $crooge!)
(And the Italian equivalent, Gioacchino, is shortened to Keno, the first name
of one of our list members - it all fits together...)

> Pleass would someone explain, what it is exactly that Don puts on page
> 1 of his comics - a D.U.C.K.? Does this mean ... in letters?

In case I'm the first one to answer this: yes, it's in letters. In the early stories
on plain visible places (signs, comics, etc.). In his recent stories the letters are
hidden in the art. Most of the time, the 'K' is the easiest to find; then D.U.C. are
in front of it.
Don also always includes the dots (always D.U.C.K., not DUCK), which is another
help in finding the letters.

--Harry.

Jacob:

The (awful) Gyro story you wrote about (I-2088) is by Caterina Mognato
(text) and Danilo Barozzi (drawings).
Although Barozzi is minor Disney artist, it is too bad that Caterina is
to blame for it, as she is also the writer of some nice and "peculiar"
stories such as those of the "Re Paperon" saga.
It is a weird fantasy sword-and-sorcery trilogy each chapter of the
which is really long, and in which a lot of Disney popular characters
act :, Mickey, Goofy, Donald, Scrooge etc., but also others such as
Jubal, Brigitta, Ludvig Von Drake (yes, he is definitely a minor
character here !), and even a strange story-teller that I cannot
remember where he come from (maybe from a Disney movie, such as "Robin
Hood" ?).
The art was by Giuseppe Dalla Santa, a Romano Scarpa clone, one of the
newest and most interesting products of the so-called "Disney Academy".
This kind of stories, although totally different from the Barks-style
stories, has always had a good popularity here (since "Mickey's Inferno"
and all the classic "Disney Parodies" on).

Arthur / Harry:

The reason why in the Italian comics the "$" sign is kept, is that they
do not pretend the action takes place in Italy (actually they did so in
a few very old stories); Duckburg is in America, therefore the local
currency is the US Dollar, very simple !
Do they pretend that Scrooge and the Ducks live in Germany, or in
Holland, in the other European comics ? This would sound really strange
to me, and I wonder how, you all strictly-orthodox Barks fans, can
accept it !

Don Rosa:

Here is my little contribution to your landmark collection:

-autodrome wdcs 166, 7/1954
-zoo wdcs wdcs 175, 4/1955
-hospital appearing in a scene of the first version of the same story,
which was then replaced by the zoo sequence.

Fabrizio

Yup, I'mnow about two weeks behind on reading my Disney digests, so pardon my
absence.

The new PREBVIEWS came out yesterday with Gladstone' solicitations for December
1996. It's not on a page opposite a page filled with half-naked women for a
change.

David's "Two in One" story is finally solicited.

But the one thing which sent me into a screaming rage of fury the likes of
which you've never seen before: (Excuse me if this is old news for all of
you..)

WDC&S is now $6.95 monthly.

If it weren't for Don's stories I'd drop it like a stone. In fact, I'm
seriously thinking of dropping it on principle. I'm already paying $8.95 twice
a month for the Uncle $crooge Adventures albums. That's over my budget. Now
they want to charge me $7 for WDC&S? If there were one complete Don Rosa story
in it, I would gladly do so. But this three-part madness is really making me
angry. I realize I may never see the stories Don produces for years until they
get reprinted in an affordable form all at one, but I have to draw the line
somewhere.

-Augie, details to follow in the next couple of days
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ARTHUR
>> "That's Donald"-sticker-Album by Panini.
>I've also seen it in the stores in Holland! I have a Panini-album
>called "Donald Story" (1991) and for that album, there were lots
>of stickers with even panels from Barks-stories. Isn't that the
>case with "That's Donald"?

Nope

>from' being an English preposition.

ACH! Ist that so? Ein preposition - ist that not der kind of word one
schould nefer end a Englisch sentence with?
(Never mind and thanks for the info, pal!)

HARRY
>(And the Italian equivalent, Gioacchino, is shortened to Keno, the
>first name of one of our list members - it all fits together...)

Gioacchino Rosa? Sounds a lot like Giacchomo Rossini - maybe we
should better file Don under "Italian artists"? (On the other hand -
he _looks_ more the Scandinavian kind...)

CHARACTER SHEETS
"Micky Maus" 40/96 features "Trudi", Pegleg Pete's grilfriend (Aries
BTW) and $crooge McDuck himself. And, surprisingly enough, the authors
took an awful lot of Rosa's history for the character as a source
(parents, siblings...) and list as his "forgotten heart's desire"
taking a money-bath with Glittering Goldie...

--- (Harald Havas) (Email removed)

Hola, amigos!

I have now returned from my trip to Spain and as I promised a few weeks
ago I have done some investigation into the Spanish Disney comics market.

I visited only the Valencia region and since I was there for only a week
and had other things to do besides, I may not have seen everything there
is to see.

It would seem, however, that there is a reason why there are no Spanish
members on this mailing list. Disney comics quite simply are not very
popular. It actually required a rather thorough search before I found any
at all.

So far as I can judge, there are no longer any Spanish Disney comic books.
What I did find was an album series which seems to be titled "Ole!
Disney".

Each issue of Ole! Disney has a theme and it would appear that the theme
of every second issue is from the Disney movies (the most recent issue
containing a comic adaption of Hunchback of Notre Dame). The issues in
between have one of the "normal" comic book characters as its theme. Note
that this is just a guess based on the four or five issues of Ole! Disney
I saw while I was there.

The albums are very nice with good printing and paper quality. "Original"
titles are always given, but sometimes these are from the language the
comics were translated from, rather than the true original. I have seen
D-, I- and F-coded stories as well as some from Marvel, all of recent
production. The cover price is ESP 395.

The address of the publisher follows (with some reservations, the address
in the ambums looks a little funny):

Ediciones B
Bailen, 84
08009 Barcelona
SPAIN

/Fredrik

HARRY:
Maybe you should leave comments like [plot:Oscar Wilde] and [plot:William
Shakespeare] in. It's quite amusing! Actually, Wilde is already an
established comic author, since his short story anthologies "The Happy
Prince" and "A House of Pomegranates" have been "illustrated" by P. Craig
Russell as "Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde." I suspect a similar series has
probably been made of Shakespeare's stuff at some point.

BTW, the S-code Goofy story "The Mysterious Stranger" that appeared in WD
Giant 4, would be in that case [plot:H. G. Wells].

From: (Email removed) (Danny Coenen)
> Gladstone's e-mail address is (Email removed) Surprise, that's of
> course Gary's address, too.

DANNY:
I think bhc stands for "Bruce Hamilton Company". (Bruce Hamilton owns
Gladstone, where, of course, Gary works.)

DON/MICHAEL:
According to the answering machine message at the Cartoon Art Museum
in San Francisco, the "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" exhibit start-
ed on Sept. 18. It should be there when you arrive on Friday.

See ya l8r.

Eric