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Geir J. Netland remins us:
> The term "Hi-Fi" was even used by Barks in the Gyro-story: "The Cat
> box" (U$ 15, September 1956, page 3, last panel)
> I guess that proves that Donald could use the term even in the "Rosa
> universe"

Barks' useage of "Hi-Fi" is a lot more typical of the mid-1950s than
Donald's useage of "Hi-Fi Stereo" would be. Hi-Fi was all the rage
in the 1950s, but it was still in monophonic sound. Stereophonic
sound had been pioneered in the 1930s, but it made no commercial
impact until the 1950s, and then it was in selected movie theaters,
not in homes. Stereophonic long-play (LP) records weren't standard-
ized and introduced to the public until 1958. If Donald was so excited
by "Hi-Fi stereo" that he shouts it out, then it must have been on
the basis of having experienced it in a movie theater rather than at
home (assuming that the story takes place in 1955 instead of 1958).

However, note that Donald (for all his trouble in holding a job!) is
in fact a much more prosperous consumer of entertainment systems than
95% or so of all other homeowners in the mid-1950s: he owns a **color**
TV set! So we can assume that, in 1955, he was in fact excited at the
prospects that within 3 years he would be able to own a stereo, too.
Donald Duck - a man at the leading edge of the electronic era!

Wilmer Rivers

WILMER:
>However, note that Donald (for all his trouble in holding a job!) is
>in fact a much more prosperous consumer of entertainment systems than
>95% or so of all other homeowners in the mid-1950s: he owns a **color**
>TV set!
Are we sure about this? Remember that plenty of Barks stories have
been recolored on reprint so that an originally black-and-white TV has
easily become a color one, with no art changes necessary.
Donald *was* ahead of many Americans in owning a TV per se. He's
shown having one on Walt Kelly's cover of WDC&S 66 (1946). Maybe earlier?
I've seen some 1930s British tea set that shows long-billed DD watching the
tube -- Britain had commercially-available televisions as early as
mid-1930s, although they had tiny, square screens (as portrayed here).

GARY:
Good job on WDC&S 610... the Rosa story was lettered very nicely,
and of the other items, the 1940s Bucky Bug was particularly choice.
What's the source for your proofs on those? They actually look clearer
than the _first_ printings of the stories.
Did you get the private e-mail I sent late last week?

David Gerstein

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I yam a published Dizzy author once more all over again!
A six-page Woodchucks story I wrote just turned up in
print in the Danish weekly Donald Duck comic (Anders And
#7 for February 13, '97). It's story D-95190. Unfortunately,
that's going to be the last of them for a while, due in
large part to the press of other activities (and due in
even larger part to my favorite of the Seven Deadly Sins,
Sloth).

Anyway, the story has to do with Gyro inventing a high-tech
"rescuecopter" that makes the Woodchucks' rescue and lifesaving
skills look old-fashioned and obsolete -- until Gyro crashes
the thing in a snowstorm and the Woodchucks have to use their
old-fashioned, obsolete skills to find him. Best line in it:

GYRO: We're doomed!
HUEY: Maybe _you're_ doomed, but we're Woodchucks!

--Dwight Decker

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CHRISTER:

> a brand new story scripted by Carl Barks! It's about the Jr. Woodchucks and
> some honnie-tree.

This must be the story "Maple Sugar Time" from Junior Woodchucks 10 (early 70s),
in the version Daan Jippes redrew. If the story code will be H 9401, you'll know I'm right.

Probably the editor used the phrase "brand new" because he thinks the story has never
been published in Norway before. Or maybe he even thinks that Barks wrote the story
in 1994 (in stead, Jippes redrew the story around that time).

--Harry.

Hi!

> For a Don Rosa index, to be published in an Italian book, I'm looking for the
> D.U.C.K.'s (if any) on the following covers:
> Donald Duck Adventures 21 (August 1993; The Secret of Hondorica)

On the snout/mouth/beak or whatever of the third crocodile on the right!

> Uncle Scrooge Adventures 27 (July 1994; Guardians of the Lost Library)

There's no DUCK in here, cuase I can't find it! ;-) It is clearly
visible on the Aku Ankka comic of the same story, but
I can't find it on USA27!

Bye!

Arthur

Dwight ((Email removed)):

> I yam a published Dizzy author once more all over again!

Congratulations!

> A six-page Woodchucks story I wrote just turned up in print in the
> Danish weekly Donald Duck comic (Anders And #7 for February 13, '97).

Those six-pagers are tough. Longer stories allow one to stretch out and
work with more complex ideas (Pat McGreal and I wrote a 129-page duck
story years ago and we also did the 240-page story of Da Vinci for
Vertigo), but the shorties are hard because not much is left over after
the essential story construction rudiments are in place. I always
thought Barks was at his most clever in the Gyro stories because the
addition of the little helper meant two parallel stories could be told
in the space of one.

I haven't seen the printed comic yet, but I think the same issue of
Anders And that has your story also has a six-pager of my own, a Daisy
story called Rosie the Riveter. I look forward to seing yours when it
arrives.

--
riverrun past Eve's and Adam's from swerve of shore to bend of bay
(Email removed) -=*=- http://users.aol.com/dcrawson/home.htm

Hi!

Think I can help with the second question

> 2. I just saw an DD 50th anniversary book in a local comicshop. I
> don t remember the exact title, but it was from threeduck or
> something like that,

An alias of Justin Knowles in the UK, who later went on to produce a book
on Mickey Mouse merchandise 1928-1938, the vintage years, by Abrams in NY.
The standard edition of the Donald Book was a hardcover with a grey
dust jacket, and was translated in dutch and perhaps in other languages
as well.

> the edges of the book (approx 120 pages ?)
> were gold plated (or appeared to be so).

And the book should be contained in a slip cover as well (rendering the
gold plating useless, as this is intended for preventing dust from
descending into books resting on a shelf)

>
> Does anyone know how much this book is worth, or how much it costed
> as it was issued?????
>

I don't know, I only came aware of its existence when I saw a pile of them
in a 'modern antiquariat', it then cost about hfl 70,-. And do check for
the slip cover!

Hans Crezee
collector

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