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KRITON:

And furthermore: at least in Finland gifts are distributed on Christmas
Eve, and in America children don't get them until the next morning!
Hmm. I think someone should point now how this all is related to Disney
comics? (well, at least this: the Santa we see around here nowadays is
quite like the American version - and Disney comics and films, etc are a
major reason for this. The TRADITIONAL Finnish Santa looks quite
different)

--- Jyrki Vainio ---

In a message dated 96-12-20 08:22:33 EST, Byron wrote:

<< A side note -- I don't know about Archie Goodwin, but the only
*non*-Disney writer I've ever worked with who did scribbles was Mike
Baron. Everyone else actually wrote picture descriptions (and you
haven't understood the word "complicated" properly until you've read an
Alan Moore script -- check out the collected "Watchmen"). >>

Include Jim Shooter as a "Scribbler" (at least early in his career). I see
that the curent folks at DC list his early Legion of Super-Hero titles as
writer/layouts.
John Stanley was another "scribbler" whose layouts were excellent to the
point that many folks think he was a penciller (but Irving Tripp <- Disney
artist) was paid for pancils and inks. Stanley even scribbled work for Tony
Tallarico.

<<And by the way, Wessler wrote full
scripts. So did Al Feldstein, although he did it differently than anyone
else--but if you want to know more about that, find an EC discussion group>>

Yeah, for EC, Wessler did full scripts, but for Harvey he did "scribbies" on
the official Harvey scribblie sheets. Wessler started out as an
arrtist/writer .

I have seen 'scribbles" for the foreign Looney Tune titles, and therefore I
am surprised that only 13% of Byron's folks write this way.

thanks Steven Rowe

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Silly Thought:
Gee, it's nice that Scrooge would write us at this digest; it struck me
while reading this : would Scrooge post "$ez money" messages on usenet
groups? I know he wouldn't "invest" the $5 himself, and would list himself
in all the slots. I can imagine him doing it (particuarly in a Tony
Strobl drawn story). the last panels would have him deleting it when HD&L
tell him it's illegeal (he'd do so with tears in his eyes).
Steven Rowe Gee, it'll be 1997 soon

MICHAEL:
> Is there an index to the Gold Key Digests that featured the Disney line of
> characters and stories?

You mean "Walt Disney's Comics Digest"? We have some very incomplete
information about those (under the code "W WDCD"). Most reprints from
old Western comics are mentioned, but new work isn't.
Do you mean you want to index them for us? If so, I can send you the
information we have in the database now.

--Harry.

A happy 176-167 - er.. 1997 to all!

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BUT..........the more I think about it after sending that message this
morning, Reddy Kilowatt doesn't look ALL that much like Gyro's helper. Reddy
was a stick-figure, but he was shaped out of electricity ziggy-zaggy
lines... and his head was just a ball with a lil' lightbulb for a nose. And
who knows if he was helper size of human-size. I'm pretty certain that Reddy
predates the helper by 10 or more years, but they really aren't very similar...

Lo$: PIZEN BLUFF
Part 6b of Lo$ looks great and promises a very interesting adventure
to come in the next two weeks. In the Finnish version at least the carrot
is in it's place with the '?' and it even looks like the '?' is in Don's
handwriting instead of the terrible one the Finnish letterer uses in
sound effects etc. However in the seventh panel of the fourth page there
is a mouse saying "Mrr!" (Finnish equivalent of "Grr!" in a balloon about
the size of 'o'. And it is typeset in the font they use in Egmont. It took
myt quite a while to even notice it was there. Also the balloons where
Angus talks Indian have been left untouched.

And a bit of a mistake in the ninth panel of the second page, but
not by Don, but by the cororer. I'm pretty sure they didn't know how to
print four color pictures in the 1890's.

And somebody asked if the D.U.C.K. was in the first splash panel.
Yes, it is. And not even in top ten hardest places to find.

Goklayeh is a name I, too, don't recognize (I even cheated and tried
to find him in my dictionary, but with no luck). And Phineas T. Barnum
is another one of whom I know nothing. (btw, was Moby Dick published
just before the adventure took place?) And Annie Oakley... I didn't know
she was a real person, I've only ever heard of her as a character of the
musical. And in the walls of P.T.Barnum's office there are two pictures
other one with two men and signed by Chang and Eng (sic?) and the other
one with a picture of an elephant and signed by J.

DON:
I was just reading the hard-cover book of 1954 Aku Ankkas and
noticed a Barks story about an old family mansion of the Duck family.
I could see no serial number in the story, but it's the one about Donald
trying to sell the mansion and HDL trying to stop him. Finally a man buys
it to turn it into a boys' vacation house. Have you mentioned anything about
this house in your Chronicles of the Duckburg of the past or do you intend
to do so?

ALL:
My parents told me about an old couple who had been married for
over fourty years. Every day they'd go to a restaurant and always they
talked about something. They had known each other for almost half of a
century, and they still had lots of stuff to discuss together. Everybody
was amazed by this, and one day somebody went to ask them WHAT was it they
kept talking about, and the answer was, that they told each other about
the adventures of Donald Duck they'd read in the weekly Aku Ankka. It can
even save marriages, and this is no urban legend - my mom told me my
grandmother actually heard this one from a woman who knew the couple!

BYRON:
As an editor, which do you prefer, written or scribbled scripts?
I'd imagine that a scribbled one is easier to read and to 'see' the rhythm
and the pacing of the story, but are there any good sides in the written
ones?

Häpi nyy jiör tu juu ol!

--

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

>
> BUT..........the more I think about it after sending that message this
> morning, Reddy Kilowatt doesn't look ALL that much like Gyro's helper. Reddy
> was a stick-figure, but he was shaped out of electricity ziggy-zaggy
> lines... and his head was just a ball with a lil' lightbulb for a nose. And
> who knows if he was helper size of human-size. I'm pretty certain that Reddy
> predates the helper by 10 or more years, but they really aren't very similar...

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Mike Pohjola wrote:

> And in the walls of P.T.Barnum's office there are two pictures
> other one with two men and signed by Chang and Eng (sic?)

Chang and Eng Bunker, the siamese twins from Siam, who were the
origin for the word "siamese twins". Actually they were joined to
each other from the chest instead of pelvis as shown in the story.

> I was just reading the hard-cover book of 1954 Aku Ankkas and
> noticed a Barks story about an old family mansion of the Duck family.

Not actually Duck (Ankka) family, but Quackly (Ankkala). So Donald
is not related to the owners. He was just hired to sell the house.

The code is W WDC 154.

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