Hi out there!
I bought a copy of March of Comics #74 today which contained only20 pages,
even though Overstreet claims that most issues from this period (1948 - 51)
had 24 pages. It included an entire story though and no additional stories
are listed in the database. On the other hand were the the first four pages
loose from the rest as if they had been nicely cut along the spine and the
last four had fallen off. Does anyone know if I've managed to obtain a
complete copy or not? I mean, the last pages may have contained quizes and
stuff and therefore not been indexed (?).
/Germund
Author
Topic: 199706
(255 messages)
Germund Silvegren
MOC 74
Message 76 -
1997-06-10 at 09:22:59
M. Mitchell Marmel
MOC 74
Message 77 -
1997-06-10 at 17:04:47
At 1:22 AM -0500 6/10/97, Germund Silvegren wrote:
>Hi out there!
>I bought a copy of March of Comics #74 today which contained only20 pages,
(snip)
>complete copy or not? I mean, the last pages may have contained quizes and
>stuff and therefore not been indexed (?).
You probably have a mutilated copy; all single-fold comics are printed with
page counts in multiples of fours (since four images are printed on each
sheet and the sheet folded to produce four sides) and an even number of
sheets is usually used (so eight, sixteen, twenty-four and thirty-two pages
are the norm).
No idea what might have been on the missing pages, though...
-MMM-
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>Hi out there!
>I bought a copy of March of Comics #74 today which contained only20 pages,
(snip)
>complete copy or not? I mean, the last pages may have contained quizes and
>stuff and therefore not been indexed (?).
You probably have a mutilated copy; all single-fold comics are printed with
page counts in multiples of fours (since four images are printed on each
sheet and the sheet folded to produce four sides) and an even number of
sheets is usually used (so eight, sixteen, twenty-four and thirty-two pages
are the norm).
No idea what might have been on the missing pages, though...
-MMM-
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Kriton Kyrimis
Ick!
Message 78 -
1997-06-10 at 17:58:16
GARY:
> WDC&S without Don Rosa? Ick!
WDC&S without Murry? Harrumph! ;-)
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
-----
"Excuse me, yes, hello. I'm a stranger to these parts and I was wondering if
you could perhaps remind me of the name of the nearest star."
-----
> WDC&S without Don Rosa? Ick!
WDC&S without Murry? Harrumph! ;-)
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
-----
"Excuse me, yes, hello. I'm a stranger to these parts and I was wondering if
you could perhaps remind me of the name of the nearest star."
-----
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V97 #118
Message 79 -
1997-06-10 at 19:49:24
GERMUND: (who said:)
> I bought a copy of March of Comics #74 today which contained only20
pages,
> even though Overstreet claims that most issues from this period (1948 -
51)
> had 24 pages. It included an entire story though and no additional
stories
> are listed in the database. On the other hand were the the first four
pages
> loose from the rest as if they had been nicely cut along the spine and
the
> last four had fallen off. Does anyone know if I've managed to obtain a
> complete copy or not? I mean, the last pages may have contained quizes
and
> stuff and therefore not been indexed (?).
I just went down to the "vault" and got my own copy of MOC #74. You are
missing the last 4 pages (obviously, as you can tell by those first 4 being
loose) -- those pages were 3 puzzles and the back-cover which had a Pluto
comic strip and a shoe ad.
Actually, MOC issues from those days had *28* pages... it had the 24
interior pages (being a "self-covered" comic like Gladstones of the past
few years), plus a wrap-around extra cover (of normal cover-paper stock)
which had more ads. The actual cover on mine shows a picture of kids
reading comics and the big Poll Parrot symbol, and says "POLL-PARROT'S new
monthly series of COMICS for Boys and Girls" and the stamp of a
neighborhood shoe store at the bottom. The inside and back covers are more
shoe ads. Most kids probably tore off the shoe-ad cover to expose the
interior comic-character cover, that's why so few are left with the true
outer cover intact. I keep this actual cover open and folded around to the
back to show the Mickey Mouse "faux" cover inside.
> I bought a copy of March of Comics #74 today which contained only20
pages,
> even though Overstreet claims that most issues from this period (1948 -
51)
> had 24 pages. It included an entire story though and no additional
stories
> are listed in the database. On the other hand were the the first four
pages
> loose from the rest as if they had been nicely cut along the spine and
the
> last four had fallen off. Does anyone know if I've managed to obtain a
> complete copy or not? I mean, the last pages may have contained quizes
and
> stuff and therefore not been indexed (?).
I just went down to the "vault" and got my own copy of MOC #74. You are
missing the last 4 pages (obviously, as you can tell by those first 4 being
loose) -- those pages were 3 puzzles and the back-cover which had a Pluto
comic strip and a shoe ad.
Actually, MOC issues from those days had *28* pages... it had the 24
interior pages (being a "self-covered" comic like Gladstones of the past
few years), plus a wrap-around extra cover (of normal cover-paper stock)
which had more ads. The actual cover on mine shows a picture of kids
reading comics and the big Poll Parrot symbol, and says "POLL-PARROT'S new
monthly series of COMICS for Boys and Girls" and the stamp of a
neighborhood shoe store at the bottom. The inside and back covers are more
shoe ads. Most kids probably tore off the shoe-ad cover to expose the
interior comic-character cover, that's why so few are left with the true
outer cover intact. I keep this actual cover open and folded around to the
back to show the Mickey Mouse "faux" cover inside.
Eric Chun
Disney comics Digest V97 #118
Message 80 -
1997-06-11 at 01:23:22
Sarah wrote:
> ... I would love to purchase an encyclopedia-like set of all
> Carl Bark's duck comics.
You'd probably want to purchase the "Carl Barks Library in
Color" volumes (from Gladstone / Another Rainbow), which will
reprint all of Carl Barks' duck stories. (I'm still purchas-
ing these too.) They still available from Gladstone and comic
stores.
There is another 10-volume set, "the Carl Barks Library," which
had already reprinted all of Carl Barks' duck stories (in
black and white). But most of these volumes are out of print,
and are hard to find.
See you later.
Eric
> ... I would love to purchase an encyclopedia-like set of all
> Carl Bark's duck comics.
You'd probably want to purchase the "Carl Barks Library in
Color" volumes (from Gladstone / Another Rainbow), which will
reprint all of Carl Barks' duck stories. (I'm still purchas-
ing these too.) They still available from Gladstone and comic
stores.
There is another 10-volume set, "the Carl Barks Library," which
had already reprinted all of Carl Barks' duck stories (in
black and white). But most of these volumes are out of print,
and are hard to find.
See you later.
Eric
Leonardo C. Aquino
Gladstone comics.
Message 81 -
1997-06-11 at 04:00:32
Rik wrote to the posting of yesterday:
>" Gladstone magazines are not easily found in stores."
Aren't they??? So, how come I can buy Gladstone's comics every month and I
am here, in a far away country that most Americans think is a jungle?
I think you should contact your distributors, or dealers...They are
probably having problems receiving the comics in your city.
Seems like distribution here in Brazil goes better than in the USA...
Leonardo C. Aquino, leaving to the U.S.A.
>" Gladstone magazines are not easily found in stores."
Aren't they??? So, how come I can buy Gladstone's comics every month and I
am here, in a far away country that most Americans think is a jungle?
I think you should contact your distributors, or dealers...They are
probably having problems receiving the comics in your city.
Seems like distribution here in Brazil goes better than in the USA...
Leonardo C. Aquino, leaving to the U.S.A.
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V97 #118
Message 82 -
1997-06-11 at 07:14:55
EVERYONE:
I have been asked by an Egmonter in Germany: what Duck story, Barks or
otherwise, involved the famous "Blue Mauritius" stamp??? ("The Gilded
Man", of course, dealt with a British Guiana "Magenta" stamp.) Please send
me private e-mail if anyone knows... the Egmonter has reason to have the
answer as soon as possible.
Thanks!
I have been asked by an Egmonter in Germany: what Duck story, Barks or
otherwise, involved the famous "Blue Mauritius" stamp??? ("The Gilded
Man", of course, dealt with a British Guiana "Magenta" stamp.) Please send
me private e-mail if anyone knows... the Egmonter has reason to have the
answer as soon as possible.
Thanks!
David Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V97 #107
Message 83 -
1997-06-11 at 11:12:08
J=DCRGEN:
>Take a look at page 9 of D95119, "Dichterfreud, Dichterleid" in
>MICKY MAUS 4/1997, another of your stories that was drawn by Ferioli.
>In the third panel on this page Mickey is writing. Turn the page on its
>head and look at what Mickey wrote: "Sylv; Stal'ne is god"
[SPOILER AHEAD!]
Nope. The poem Mickey's writing begins, "Sylvia Sloth is glad to
boast/the trash she owns is near the most..." Ferioli just put a little
more of the actual English into the art than he usually does.
[END OF SPOILER]
More to come...
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Also <(Email removed)>
>Take a look at page 9 of D95119, "Dichterfreud, Dichterleid" in
>MICKY MAUS 4/1997, another of your stories that was drawn by Ferioli.
>In the third panel on this page Mickey is writing. Turn the page on its
>head and look at what Mickey wrote: "Sylv; Stal'ne is god"
[SPOILER AHEAD!]
Nope. The poem Mickey's writing begins, "Sylvia Sloth is glad to
boast/the trash she owns is near the most..." Ferioli just put a little
more of the actual English into the art than he usually does.
[END OF SPOILER]
More to come...
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Also <(Email removed)>
Deckerd
Gladstone comics.
Message 84 -
1997-06-11 at 18:26:17
On Jun 10, 10:00pm, Leonardo C. Aquino wrote:
> Subject: Gladstone comics.
> Rik wrote to the posting of yesterday:
> >" Gladstone magazines are not easily found in stores."
>
> Aren't they??? So, how come I can buy Gladstone's comics every month and I
> am here, in a far away country that most Americans think is a jungle?
> I think you should contact your distributors, or dealers...They are
> probably having problems receiving the comics in your city.
> Seems like distribution here in Brazil goes better than in the USA...
>
> Leonardo C. Aquino, leaving to the U.S.A.
>
Uhm...if you're "leaving to the U.S.A.," you'll find when you get
here that the situation isn't quite as simple as "problems receiving
the comics" in a city. There are two separate comic-book distribution
systems in the US: one for regular stores (drugstores, supermarkets,
newsstands, etc.) and one for specialized comic shops. Gladstones are
caught in a squeeze: real-world distribution is drying up (I noticed
just last week that a local supermarket had removed its comic-book
racks), while specialized comic shops cater more to the Marvel/DC
superhero crowd. For people new to the ML who aren't hard-core
collectors, Disney comics can be hard to find in the places
they'd expect them (the aforementioned drugstores, supermarkets,
newsstands, etc.), while such people might not be aware that comic
shops even exist or haven't thought to look in the local one for whatever
reason (like it looks like a hangout for teenage boys into roleplaying
games, or it has all the customer-friendly ambience of a sidestreet
porno shop). Still, at least a comic shop can order Gladstone comics
through the distributor's catalog for you if it doesn't already carry
them. (Approaching a drugstore or supermarket manager might be a
different story entirely. "What -- you crazy? You think I care about
those funnybooks? The distributor stocks those racks, I don't have
nothin to do with 'em!")
Sad to say, the comic-book business is going through meltdown in the
United States. American comics are better distributed overseas, I
sometimes think, because there is still more interest in the product
there than here.
--Dwight Decker
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> Subject: Gladstone comics.
> Rik wrote to the posting of yesterday:
> >" Gladstone magazines are not easily found in stores."
>
> Aren't they??? So, how come I can buy Gladstone's comics every month and I
> am here, in a far away country that most Americans think is a jungle?
> I think you should contact your distributors, or dealers...They are
> probably having problems receiving the comics in your city.
> Seems like distribution here in Brazil goes better than in the USA...
>
> Leonardo C. Aquino, leaving to the U.S.A.
>
Uhm...if you're "leaving to the U.S.A.," you'll find when you get
here that the situation isn't quite as simple as "problems receiving
the comics" in a city. There are two separate comic-book distribution
systems in the US: one for regular stores (drugstores, supermarkets,
newsstands, etc.) and one for specialized comic shops. Gladstones are
caught in a squeeze: real-world distribution is drying up (I noticed
just last week that a local supermarket had removed its comic-book
racks), while specialized comic shops cater more to the Marvel/DC
superhero crowd. For people new to the ML who aren't hard-core
collectors, Disney comics can be hard to find in the places
they'd expect them (the aforementioned drugstores, supermarkets,
newsstands, etc.), while such people might not be aware that comic
shops even exist or haven't thought to look in the local one for whatever
reason (like it looks like a hangout for teenage boys into roleplaying
games, or it has all the customer-friendly ambience of a sidestreet
porno shop). Still, at least a comic shop can order Gladstone comics
through the distributor's catalog for you if it doesn't already carry
them. (Approaching a drugstore or supermarket manager might be a
different story entirely. "What -- you crazy? You think I care about
those funnybooks? The distributor stocks those racks, I don't have
nothin to do with 'em!")
Sad to say, the comic-book business is going through meltdown in the
United States. American comics are better distributed overseas, I
sometimes think, because there is still more interest in the product
there than here.
--Dwight Decker
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Juergen Gebhardt
Sylvia Sloth is god
Message 85 -
1997-06-12 at 03:02:18
DAVID GERSTEIN:
> JUERGEN:
> >Take a look at page 9 of D95119, "Dichterfreud, Dichterleid" in
> >MICKY MAUS 4/1997, another of your stories that was drawn by Ferioli.
> >In the third panel on this page Mickey is writing. Turn the page on its
> >head and look at what Mickey wrote: "Sylv; Stal'ne is god"
> [SPOILER AHEAD!]
> Nope. The poem Mickey's writing begins, "Sylvia Sloth is glad to
> boast/the trash she owns is near the most..." Ferioli just put a little
> more of the actual English into the art than he usually does.
> [END OF SPOILER]
Okay, so it was just my hyperactive imagination playing tricks on me!
But ever since I found Marco Rota's name hidden in one of his stories
(in a newspaper somebody was reading if I remember correctly) I've been
looking for hidden clues in Disney comics.
Actually, I'm a little bit relieved that there's no allusion to Sylvester
Stallone because he's just not my cup-of-tea.
Thanks for clearing this up!
Juergen Gebhardt
> JUERGEN:
> >Take a look at page 9 of D95119, "Dichterfreud, Dichterleid" in
> >MICKY MAUS 4/1997, another of your stories that was drawn by Ferioli.
> >In the third panel on this page Mickey is writing. Turn the page on its
> >head and look at what Mickey wrote: "Sylv; Stal'ne is god"
> [SPOILER AHEAD!]
> Nope. The poem Mickey's writing begins, "Sylvia Sloth is glad to
> boast/the trash she owns is near the most..." Ferioli just put a little
> more of the actual English into the art than he usually does.
> [END OF SPOILER]
Okay, so it was just my hyperactive imagination playing tricks on me!
But ever since I found Marco Rota's name hidden in one of his stories
(in a newspaper somebody was reading if I remember correctly) I've been
looking for hidden clues in Disney comics.
Actually, I'm a little bit relieved that there's no allusion to Sylvester
Stallone because he's just not my cup-of-tea.
Thanks for clearing this up!
Juergen Gebhardt
Rik Pierce
Gladstone comics.
Message 86 -
1997-06-12 at 12:37:16
"Leonardo C. Aquino" <(Email removed)> wrote:
|Rik wrote to the posting of yesterday:
|>" Gladstone magazines are not easily found in stores."
|
| Aren't they??? So, how come I can buy Gladstone's comics every month and I
|am here, in a far away country that most Americans think is a jungle?
|I think you should contact your distributors, or dealers...They are
|probably having problems receiving the comics in your city.
|Seems like distribution here in Brazil goes better than in the USA...
|
Well, Leonardo, since I've only just very recently been looking for
them I may be wrong. I've not *seen* Gladstone comic books on stands
before, but a couple of weeks ago I happened to see a Donald Duck and
a Scrooge Adventures in the rack at the supermarket here on Nantucket.
I then checked the three other places on the island where they sell
magazines and comics and found none. I am now subscribing to them all
so starting next month I won't care.
-----------
Rik (on the Road)
(Email removed)
|Rik wrote to the posting of yesterday:
|>" Gladstone magazines are not easily found in stores."
|
| Aren't they??? So, how come I can buy Gladstone's comics every month and I
|am here, in a far away country that most Americans think is a jungle?
|I think you should contact your distributors, or dealers...They are
|probably having problems receiving the comics in your city.
|Seems like distribution here in Brazil goes better than in the USA...
|
Well, Leonardo, since I've only just very recently been looking for
them I may be wrong. I've not *seen* Gladstone comic books on stands
before, but a couple of weeks ago I happened to see a Donald Duck and
a Scrooge Adventures in the rack at the supermarket here on Nantucket.
I then checked the three other places on the island where they sell
magazines and comics and found none. I am now subscribing to them all
so starting next month I won't care.
-----------
Rik (on the Road)
(Email removed)
Alipio D'Oliveira Coelho
Disney comics Digest V97 #119
Message 87 -
1997-06-12 at 23:43:07
>Sad to say, the comic-book business is going through meltdown in the
>United States. American comics are better distributed overseas, I
>sometimes think, because there is still more interest in the product
>there than here.
>
>--Dwight Decker
Yes! And I think that in more countries of Europe it is difficult to
find Comics.
I have travelled recently thru Europe and this is my impression:
England - You don't see stands with comics. I couldn't find one
single issue;
Netherland - I found a few comics, most Disney's one.
Danmark - Finally! There are more comics in the stands: Tom & Jerry,
DC comics and Disney Comics.
France: Only in one stand I saw a Disney Comics.
Switzerland: Well, you can see Disney Comics in Italian and German.
Italy: Like Brazil. At any stand you will find a lot of comics, not
only from Disney, but from DC too. (Unfortunately, I was in Rome two days
after Don Rosa and I could not found the book Don Rosa e il rinascimiento
disneyano).
Here in South America you will not find Disney comics as easily as
in Brazil in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguai.
Alipio.
>United States. American comics are better distributed overseas, I
>sometimes think, because there is still more interest in the product
>there than here.
>
>--Dwight Decker
Yes! And I think that in more countries of Europe it is difficult to
find Comics.
I have travelled recently thru Europe and this is my impression:
England - You don't see stands with comics. I couldn't find one
single issue;
Netherland - I found a few comics, most Disney's one.
Danmark - Finally! There are more comics in the stands: Tom & Jerry,
DC comics and Disney Comics.
France: Only in one stand I saw a Disney Comics.
Switzerland: Well, you can see Disney Comics in Italian and German.
Italy: Like Brazil. At any stand you will find a lot of comics, not
only from Disney, but from DC too. (Unfortunately, I was in Rome two days
after Don Rosa and I could not found the book Don Rosa e il rinascimiento
disneyano).
Here in South America you will not find Disney comics as easily as
in Brazil in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguai.
Alipio.
Vidar Svendsen
Sylvia Sloth is god
Message 88 -
1997-06-13 at 00:17:45
At 02:02 12.06.97 +0200, you wrote:
>But ever since I found Marco Rota's name hidden in one of his stories
>(in a newspaper somebody was reading if I remember correctly) I've been
>looking for hidden clues in Disney comics.
You can find Rota's name (and other names) in several Rota-stories.
Keep on looking
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vidar Svendsen http://home.sol.no/vsvends
One good thing about getting old is that people belive you when you say
"I don't remember"
>But ever since I found Marco Rota's name hidden in one of his stories
>(in a newspaper somebody was reading if I remember correctly) I've been
>looking for hidden clues in Disney comics.
You can find Rota's name (and other names) in several Rota-stories.
Keep on looking
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Vidar Svendsen http://home.sol.no/vsvends
One good thing about getting old is that people belive you when you say
"I don't remember"
Bjørn Are Davidsen
Value/worth of Barks' prelimenaries
Message 89 -
1997-06-13 at 00:49:23
Extremely busy the last months with several projects at work and
private, so no comments on history this time...
However, time for a short question: Anyone knows the present price of
the Barks prelimenaries (signed, motives like e.g. "Return to Plain
Awfull") from 1989 and later made into litographs?
Bjorn Are
(Email removed)
private, so no comments on history this time...
However, time for a short question: Anyone knows the present price of
the Barks prelimenaries (signed, motives like e.g. "Return to Plain
Awfull") from 1989 and later made into litographs?
Bjorn Are
(Email removed)
SRoweCanoe
What's Eek the Cat doing in a Disney ML?
Message 90 -
1997-06-13 at 00:57:56
In a message dated 97-06-10 10:11:46 EDT, you write:
<< This might be of interest: about three years ago we <<Gladstone>>published
a non-Disney
story drawn by Noel. It appeared in an Eek the Cat three-issue mini-series
that we produced under our Hamilton Comics imprint. The reason few folks
knows anything about this is that the series came about under an
arrangement that granted one distributor an exclusive to the books (it was
not Diamond, by the way). The books were printed and shipped to the
distributor, but the distributor, for reasons known only to itself, just
stuck 'em in a warehouse where, to the best of our knowledge, they still
languish. As we had (and still have) no rights to circulate these books in
any fashion ourselves, that was the end of that story, just one more
chapter in the rather star-crossed saga of Hamilton Comics.
>>
Not all of them are in that warehouse. I have a set (purchased at
Books-A-Million).
Steven Rowe
<< This might be of interest: about three years ago we <<Gladstone>>published
a non-Disney
story drawn by Noel. It appeared in an Eek the Cat three-issue mini-series
that we produced under our Hamilton Comics imprint. The reason few folks
knows anything about this is that the series came about under an
arrangement that granted one distributor an exclusive to the books (it was
not Diamond, by the way). The books were printed and shipped to the
distributor, but the distributor, for reasons known only to itself, just
stuck 'em in a warehouse where, to the best of our knowledge, they still
languish. As we had (and still have) no rights to circulate these books in
any fashion ourselves, that was the end of that story, just one more
chapter in the rather star-crossed saga of Hamilton Comics.
>>
Not all of them are in that warehouse. I have a set (purchased at
Books-A-Million).
Steven Rowe