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Gary Leach wrote:

>>This might be of interest: about three years ago we 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.

By the way, we're not dead certain of the fate of those Eek the Cats. If
anyone out there *has* seen any of them, please let us know!<<

Those three Eek the Cat comics were distributed in four packs (the fourth
comic was a Hamilton adaptation of the Freaky Friday movie) through Wal-Mart,
at least in my part of the country. I had bought a set for my daughter. A
few months later, one of the writers, Nat Gertler, mentioned on CompuServe he
had a couple of stories in the comics but had never seen them and didn't know
if they had been distributed. I bought another set and mailed them to him.
They still turn up occassionally in the comics bins at Wal-Mart, along with
Marvel packs and some loose Hamilton Power Rangers comics.

--your pal, Hoy

ALIPIO:

> France: Only in one stand I saw a Disney Comics.

I was in France two weeks ago and I've seen different Disney Comics on
EVERY newspaper stand. - Ok, I couldn't get backissues because the Comic
shops has mainly series like Tintin or Mangas.... but new magazines...
yes, everywhere!
Alexander
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"La Repubblica", Italy's second-leading newspaper, has (unfortunately for us
poor readers) a weekly add-on which on Fridays rises by 50% the cost of the
newspaper. I usually take it and immediately throw it away, but...

This week's magazine has a large essay dedicated to $crooge's 50th
anniversary! With a large and beautiful cover by Marco Rota clearly inspired
by a Rosa drawing ($crooge in his dressing gown flipping a coin with old
photographs in the background of himself as a young lad and of his
parents...). And a 11-page essay inside with many drawings and pictures, the
full reproduction of Don's Duck Family tree, a resumee of $crooge's life as
told by Don (with strange add-ons: $crooge's mother dies "after a long
illness"...?), and much more! (Even an essay by Lidia Cannatella!)
Since this magazine is printed in several hundred thousand copies, it's not
bad for $crooge and Don, is it?

Marco

...by the way: although far too dark, the picture taken at Rome of Lidia
Cannatella together with Don Rosa and with your Evil mailing list member is
ON LINE!
Check at

http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it/Comics/ExpoCartoon.html

Steve and Hoy:

Thanks for your info on Eek the Cat. Up till now we've had to sidestep
mentioning them (and Freeked) as part of Hamilton Comic's portfolio of
publications, since making any noise about undistributed material is both
pointless and silly. But now..ha! ha!...that's all gonna change.

Gary

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I'm often the first one in the family to read "Topolino", but this week my
9-year old son Iacopo, who's the <official> subscriber, got hold of it first
and started reading while we were dining.
"Hey, there's a ***good*** story in this issue!" He called out after a
while, "too bad I'll have to wait a week before I see the end!"
"A to-be-continued?" I was surprised. You must understand that serializing
in a weekly is **not** like in a bi-monthly. It gives you the right amount
of suspense, without being too distracting. And anyhow... well, I WAS
accustomed to serialized two- and three- part stories in my youth, and I
LIKED them! But nowadays "Topolino" doesn't do any more to-be-continued
stories! I don't know why! So it was a pleasant surprise. And a ***good***
story too! (Unfortunately, there are not too many in these last issues of
"Topolino"...)
"So, who are the authors?" I asked my son. He is, of course, well trained in
looking at the authors and even in recognizing many of the artists...
"The art is by Cavazzano", he said, "but the script... it's a strange name,
someone I've never heard of!"
So I looked and... there! It was the long-awaited (at least by me) $crooge
50th anniversary story by Byron Erickson!!!!

Of course I wanted to read it immediately, and it IS good!

Well, since (you have well understood this) I am a polemicist, I'll say that
IMHO Cavazzano is not at his best in this story (sort of... how can I say...
thrown away art... like he was in a hurry...) but of course he IS good. And,
to be even more polemical... well, they shouldn't have published just a
month ago Don's "Son of the sun" story which is somehow similar... but, this
is because I'm never fully satisfied with things, because this WAS a great
story, and I'll even say that it should have been more advertised!

And now let's come to QUESTIONS. Which of course this time are for

BYRON:

(1) What's the English name of a BADANGA? I mean, that root which is
poisonous when eaten raw?

(2) How will this story be published in the US&A? I mean, in the same
two-by-three arrangement as in Italy (a little blow-upped of course) or in a
different arrangement of panels? And how? Are there two versions by
Cavazzano? (So maybe the Italian one is really hurried up?...).
And will it be published also in the "Egmont countries"? When? In what version?

Thanks for answering!

Marco

http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it

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Like Joe Torcvia, I've also been lurking too long. To answer a few quick
comments:

Eirik, freelance police asked:

<<Did Barks ever state, directly or indirectly, what was Scrooge's and/or
Donald's birthdate ?>>

Not that I remember. However, THE THREE CABALLEROS (1945) took place on
Donald's birthday, which was said to fall (that time) on Friday the 13th...so
it might be worthwhile checking to see which months of (presumably) 1944 had
the 13th fall on a Friday.

Gary Leach wrote:

<<Thanks for your info on Eek the Cat. Up till now we've had to sidestep
mentioning them (and Freeked) as part of Hamilton Comic's portfolio of
publications, since making any noise about undistributed material is both
pointless and silly. But now..ha! ha!...that's all gonna change.>>

I didn't even realize Eek the Cat was a Disney character, but I know
Disney's doing some very offbeat stuff when it comes to cartoon characters
these days...Shnookums and Meat (which I *know* was Disney) isn't exactly cut
from the same cloth as Mickey and Donald, either. But it's long overdue for
Gladstone to do something with the more recent characters now that Marvel's
(finally!) let the license lapse...as someone pointed out, there's more to
Disney than funny animals. Yes (and regrettably), it no longer has the rights
to Zorro...but why not a Gargoyles comic book?

A COUPLE OF QUICK NOTES...

I've missed a few Disney Digests so forgive me if this has been
addressed...but why is Grandma Duck referred to in "The Terrified Tamer"
(DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES #45) as Elvira Coot? As the very title of the strip
(not to mention Rosa's "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck") indicates, her
last name is Duck, since she's the mother of Donald's father Quackmore and
hence (appropriately) Donald's grandma. Or is she using her maiden name for a
"professional" role...making her, perhaps, a descendant of Cornelius?

A BIT OFF-TOPIC...

Has anyone else bought the recordings McDonald's has been offering of
Disney songs? I've got the first two so far ("Buddy Songs" and "Rascal
Songs") and have quite enjoyed them, but wonder about the choice of songs.
Most of them are good, but a few don't really fit the themes...why, for
instance, is "God Help the Outcasts" on the Rascal Songs tape, when, as far
as I can tell, it's neither sung by nor about a rascal? And some excellent
songs that fit the themes seem to have been inexplicably passed over...why,
for instance, couldn't the tape have replaced "God Help the Outcasts" with
"Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee," sung by one of the all-time-great Disney rascals in
PINOCCHIO? Or even "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

Rich Morrissey

It's about Scrooge, who works as a farmer, and keeps all his money in a bin
with no lid on it. Then there's a tornado or something, and all Scrooge's
money is spread all over town. Donald and Gladstone find themselves with a
million dollars falling into their lap, and they decide to travel around
the world for the money. However, everybody else got a million as well, and
so Donald and Gladstone doesn't get very far. They can't get gas since the
gas station owner also is travelling around the world for his million and
stuff like that. The story ends with Scrooge getting all his money back by
still working while everybody else is trying to spend their money. He sells
like eggs for half a million, and pretty soon everything is back to normal.
So, can anybody identify this story ? Is is a Barks story ? Are there any
recent reprints of it ?

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