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ARTHUR:
>HARALD HAVAS:
> > PS: I also passed the GP-stand, where three men [...]
>Huh?! Was it featuring Disney stuff? I don't get it! Why is GP on a
>German comic-convention?

Huh? myself! Arthur, you don't seem to know what Harald was writing about!
The annual Frankfurt Book Fair is certainly not a "German comic-convention",
but THE internationally most important trade fair and general event for the
whole book trade from around the globe, a HUGE event with thousands of
exhibitors and hundreds of thousands of visitors, both professional and
general public. Just about every publisher, literary agent and everybody
else who has business in the book trade that is not strictly limited to
local or regional markets goes there; about 80 % of the global licensing
business gets done there. So of course GP is present, as is Egmont with its
various branches and many other publishers.
I was there, too, on Saturday. The Egmont stand was indeed very interesting,
with comics (mainly Disney) in all sorts of languages presented, of course
the Scandinavian and German editions, but also more exotic items like the
Slovenian Barks Library albums (very nicely done hard-cover edition, at
least the two copies I saw) and Disney comics in languages I couldn't even
identify (presumably fo some Asian country, to judge by the characters used).
Overall, the annual trip to the Frankfurt Book Fai is for me something not
to be missed, not only for the German publishing world, which is almost
completely assembled, but mainly for the huge number of foreign publishers
where you can get information on what is happening abroad, get catalogues
and brochures, see for yourself foreign editions of works still to come on
the domestic market (and probably order them yourself afterwards), and ...
I could go on like that, but I think that's enough. If you want to inform
yourself about what's going on in international publishing, the Frankfurt
Book Fair is THE recommmended place to go!

Hope I didn't bore you too much ...

Frank Fabian

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Jonathan wrote:
>Few issues isn't a problem. The Colombian index on the ftp site only has
>three issues total in it (all submitted by me).

Perhaps so, but for me personally the result of a three-issue database is
not worth the effort involved. You and others are free to disagree, but I
think that a complete (or near-complete) database of a certain title,
language, country, creator, character or whatever is worth many times the
sum of its parts. A partial database, while not entirely worthless, is
much less desirable. An exception could be historically significant
issues, such as the first few Russian or Chinese issues.

In other words: I cannot at this point be persuaded to index my Olé!
Disney unless someone comes up with a much more substantial database where
I can fill in the holes.

/F

Rumour goes that Carl Barks wrote another story, and that it's not
certain yet who is going to draw the story. That's all I know.
Does anyone have more information?

--Harry.

LVD
Just today I got his picture for my Panini Picture Album: he's there,
quite literally sitting in a family-tree with DD, U$, HDL, Grandma
and Gus. The next page features Fethry and Gladstone... Byron?

Somebody owns the German"MM # 51" from 1964? Where LVD states he's
from Vienna? We need that code! (Well, I...)

STUFF
The following questions have as yet been unanswered:
1. How's the "Hunchback"-movie? Nobody dares to answer that?
2. How many Disney-comics-stories ARE there? Excluding gag-strips,
including one-pagers. Any idea? My estimate stands at 200-250.000...

Harald
--- (Harald Havas) (Email removed)

Having contributed to the list with a vengeance until long after my messages
became unbearably long and annoying, I considered shutting up a few days
ago. But after receving Donald Duck Adventures 41 today, I just had to write.

The fact that the sailboat cover (by Al Hubbard) of this issue contained a
box with the story's title was misleading, and caused me to think this was
another adventure-on-the-high-seas story. When did this cover first appear,
anyway?

"Bruce McDuck" was a bit clich?d and predictable (actually it reminds me of
"Southern Hospitality"), and the English script seemed weak in a few places,
but it was still an enjoyable read. The credit seems wrong--the art looks
like Bartholomew Esteban, not Branca. Esteban apparently drew "On the Ball"
as well, rather than Tino Santanach (more on this later).

"The Duck Who Cried Wolf" was much better! Vicar isn't usually this good,
but the panel at the bottom of page 4 looked like Barks! The plot was also
great (excellent beginning!), as was David Gerstein's script. (I can hardly
wait for Uncle Scrooge Adventures 44!)

And in the same package, I received The Gladstone Gazette 8,
containing----letters!! But before the letters, they had a note apologizing
for past miscredits of stories. Here is what they listed:

US 299 cover: art by Jos? Cordona (that should be Jose with an accent), not Branca
"The Cash Register Mystery" (US 299): story NOT by Mark Evanier, art by Jack Manning
"Circus Clown" (DDA 40): art by Oscar Maximo Fern ndez (Fernandez), not Vicar
"On the Ball" (DDMM 7): art by Esteban, not Branca

AUGIE:
Wanna hear a good one? Good, even though pathetic? One part of my letter in
this issue of the Gazette said:

"I'm less than pleased with the abundance of the 'Year That Was' pages. The
first few you published were interesting, but they don't really have much to
do with the stories in the issues where they are printed, and lately as many
as five have been in one issue."

Their reply was:

"Most of our readers indicate a large approval rate for the 'Year That Was'
pages, ergo our inclination to use them as much as possible."

But now for the real icing-on-the-cake: I looked at that part of my letter
and noticed it seemed strange. So I went back to my word processing program
and sure enough, they had left out the last sentence of that paragraph! That
was:

"With all these text pages, why don't you just use one (better yet two!) as
a letter column?"

I don't know about these Gladstone folks...

--Jonathan Markoff

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One thing I noticed during my 10-month stay in America was that in many
movies the bad guys are German and the scientists are Austrian. I don`t
know why, but it`s easy to identify by their accents and the German words
they mix in sometimes. Since 99.9% of the movies coming out in the German
speaking countries are dubbed, you can`t hear this difference any longer,
since everybody speaks German. If so many scientists in American movies
are Austrian, why wouldn`t a comic character scientist be Austrian, too?

HARALD:

I remember there was an square egg extra in the Micky Maus quite a while
ago, probably in 1988. If you want me to, I can look it up, but it was
definetively right before Easter in whatever year it came out. It was
pretty neat on the one hand, sometimes pretty messy on the other hand.

DON:

Now I understand why your Indian story seems to be somewhat different from
most of your others. I have to admit that I was bored when I first read it,
but now that I know about your intention I think you did a good job,
at least concerning this. Maybe you are lucky and the story will come out
even in the USA, once the "Don Rosa Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in
Color" comes out, probably when you`ll be in your mid-nineties... :-)
Don`t give up hope, consider how long it took that Milkman story by Barks
to get published in America...

Have a great day, everybody!

-----Danny Coenen

"Morgenstund ist ungesund!"- Donald Duck

Danny Coenen
Kopernikusstr. 18 Tel. :
(049)2461/56129
D-52428 Juelich
Germany EU e-mail :
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Sometimes I stumble upon an old story which somehow impressed me in my
youth, and of course now that I've come to know our impressive database I
try to find out some information about it. The point is, I guess I can't yet
use well the database, so here I come again and ask for your help.
But this might be an opportunity for someone to explain more in detail how
we should use the database.
The story this time is an US one, and I happen to know that it appeared in
"Dell Giant Comics" #33 (September 1960). But can I deduce from these
information THE CODE of the story? Or maybe such old stories do not have a
code at all and can be searched only by their title? Now, I don't know the
original title, so am I doomed?
Well, so much for the query facilities, so I browsed the ftp-site. I didn't
find any "Dell Giant Comics" but I still wonder if that was because none are
indexed or because I wasn't able to look in the right directories...
So let's get to the story.
The Italian title is "U$ and the Polynesian pepper", and it's all about a
new recipe $crooge wants to try out on his relatives which needs freshly
ground pepper on it. There follows a desperate search for the pepper which
hadn't arrived by plane as scheduled; the final pun is that only the hungry
ones found the serving delicious ("especially the crust", i.e. the cardboard
plate...). It was clearly drawn by Tony Strobl, but what I would like to
know is: who wrote the script?

Thanks for your help...
Marco