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Subjekt: German circulation figures
Frank Fabian wrote:

> One million is indeed the traditional figure for the "Auflage" of the German Micky Maus weekly. > But I don't know if this is (still) true, or has
> changed in the last years; you can't find any info about this in the weekly
> itself. Ehapa should know. They're on this list, aren't they? How about the
> current numbers?

Hello Frank Fabian,
the weekly circulation of the German Micky Maus Magazine is actually
820.000 copies (average of the last three month, printrun 1.1 Mio). But
we often sell indeed more than one million a week, depending on season
and the enclosed "Extra".
If you think, that this is not much, please consider, that we are also
publishing "Minnie", Limit", Donald Duck Sonderheft", "Walt Disneys
Donald Duck", Disney und Du", "Disneys kleine Tierfreunde" , "Walt
Disneys Lustiges Taschenbuch", "Micky Maus pr?sentiert", "Die besten
Geschichten mit Donald Duck", "Abenteuer Team", "UFF-Unternehmen
F?hnlein Fieselschweif" and "Die besten Comics aus Micky Maus". I don't
think, that you can find such a big range of Disney publications in the
US. Correct me if I am wrong.

If you have any more question, don't hesitate to ask me.

Best regards
Marion Egenberger
Public Relations
Egmont Ehapa Verlag
http://www.ehapa.de

Hi Arthur,

>I really like them. They released the first issue in Holland
>a while ago and I'm glad to see that soon the second one will
>come out. I've been reading the Phantomias comics from Germany
>and they get better and better. But it seems like they stopped
>to publish them in Germany after the 9th issue. Does anyone know
>more about that? Why did they stop?

The reason was the few selling rate, and I=B4m really happy about the
discontinuity. The only good at this comic book was the glossy paper,
that=B4s all. Graphics are too super-hero styled and the story is as
hollow as a straw. The whole comic book is childish and I have stopped
buying it after issue #4. Of course, that=B4s only my opinion but I=B4ve
read and loved Phantomias (like he=B4s called in Germany) storys 15 =
Years
ago where he was a great invention. The stories were thrilling and
Donald was always like a winner, not the usual loser.
All the more I=B4m disappointed with the new Phantomias comic books.
Reading such stories after a Rosa story let=B4s feel you very bad. Try =
it
out!

Bye, Uli
http://privat.schlund.de/HochstetterUli/
>

Hello again,
This second posting of the results from the International
Disney Survey is about the preferred author and artist.
The best story-writer resulted to be Carl Barks, for just
3 votes on Don Rosa. The complete listing follows:

Carl Barks 21 votes
Don Rosa 18 votes
Romano Scarpa 2 votes
Ted Osborne 2 votes
Bill Walsh 1 vote
Massimo de Vita 1 vote
David Gerstein 1 vote

It's interesting to see how almost all votes of this
category concentrated on 2 writers who always wrote
stories about ducks (except for a little red hat...), and
this result suites perfectly the results of the vote for
the preferred charachters. Maybe because of the high
concentration index on the preferences that the situation
in very similar in all countries:

7 votes for Carl Barks from GERMANY
7 votes for Don Rosa from NORWAY
5 votes for Carl Barks from NORWAY
4 votes for Don Rosa from USA
2 votes for Carl Barks from BRAZIL
2 votes for Carl Barks from DENMARK
2 votes for Don Rosa from FINLAND
2 votes for Carl Barks from ITALY
1 vote for Bill Walsh from ITALY
1 vote for Don Rosa from AUSTRIA
1 vote for Don Rosa from GREECE
1 vote for Don Rosa from GERMANY
1 vote for Ted Osborne from USA
1 vote for Ted Osborne from ITALY
1 vote for Romano Scarpa from ITALY
1 vote for Romano Scarpa from DENMARK
1 vote for Massimo de Vita from ITALY
1 vote for Don Rosa from SWEDEN
1 vote for Don Rosa from CANADA
1 vote for David Gerstein from USA
1 vote for Carl Barks from SWEDEN
1 vote for Carl Barks from USA
1 vote for Carl Barks from NEW ZEALAND

I like expecially the votes to Romano Scarpa from Denmark
and Italy and to Ted Osborne from Italy and USA.

The preferred artist is definetively "our" Don Rosa, who
resulted the first with 9 (!) votes more than Carl Barks:

22 votes for Don Rosa
13 votes for Carl Barks
4 votes for Floyd Gottfredson
3 votes for Giorgio Cavazzano
2 votes for Romano Scarpa
2 votes for Silvia Ziche
1 votes for Luciano Bottaro
1 votes for Marco Rota
1 votes for Noel Van Horn

A very excellent result is the one gained by Silvia
Ziche, with 2 votes from Germany. Silvia is a young
italian artist who is doing very good stories expecially
with ducks, and, IMHO, her stories are now between the
few good things still appearing on "Topolino".
The total success of Don Rosa is greatly due to his
scandinavian friends who gave him 13 votes in total. The
complete list of votes discriminated for country follows:

9 votes for Don Rosa from NORWAY
4 votes for Carl Barks from GERMANY
4 votes for Don Rosa from USA
2 votes for Carl Barks from ITALY
2 votes for Carl Barks from NORWAY
2 votes for Floyd Gottfredson from USA
2 votes for Silvia Ziche from GERMANY
2 votes for Giorgio Cavazzano from ITALY
2 votes for Don Rosa from SWEDEN
2 votes for Don Rosa from FINLAND
1 votes for Carl Barks from AUSTRIA
1 votes for Don Rosa from GERMANY
1 votes for Romano Scarpa from ITALY
1 votes for Romano Scarpa from DENMARK
1 votes for Noel Van Horn from GERMANY
1 votes for Marco Rota from DENMARK
1 votes for Luciano Bottaro from ITALY
1 votes for Floyd Gottfredson from NORWAY
1 votes for Floyd Gottfredson from ITALY
1 votes for Don Rosa from NEW ZEALAND
1 votes for Don Rosa from GREECE
1 votes for Don Rosa from CANADA
1 votes for Don Rosa from BRAZIL
1 votes for Carl Barks from USA
1 votes for Carl Barks from BRAZIL
1 votes for Carl Barks from DENMARK

Well, that's all for now, expect soon the third
posting...

Ciao,
Paolo Castagno alias Luna Storta

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OFF-TOPIC

As a follow up on the discussion on second hand prices of old comics I see
an opportunity to sneak in a little off-topic request.

A friend of mine has suddenly found himself the lucky owner of a pretty rare
beast: Whiz Comics issue 2, Feb. 1940 in a Fn-Vf condition. According to
price guides this should be worth thousands of dollars.

I will take this opportunity to ask: Can anyone give him an idea what to
do/where to go for selling such a comic at the best price (-like it or not but
he is NOT gonna sell it for half the cover price). Please answer me in
private mail.

Before Dons blood pressure reaches boiling level I will say that both me
and my friend agrees that such a price level is ridiculous but never the less
he sees an opportunity to pay out the IOU on his house. Fair? Maybe not,
but I think I would do the same if I struck gold.

Poul Frokjar ((Email removed))
(The guy that wish he had spend more time at Danish flea markets...)

Hi!

> The reason was the few selling rate, and I m really happy about the
> discontinuity. The only good at this comic book was the glossy paper,
> that s all. Graphics are too super-hero styled and the story is as
> hollow as a straw.

But there are already so many 'normal' Disney comics story. Why should
a series like this be discontinued? I disagree with you that the story
is too hollow, because some stories were very good, in my opinion.

Bye,

Arthur

Some "dogfish" wrote:

> This was a good Digest!!

about the message

> MAIL DELETED BECAUSE OF LACK OF DISK SPACE

that was sent out to the digest subscribers a week ago. Sorry about
that, for those who didn't think that was a good digest. Many were
wondering if the error was on their end or my end, but as you noticed
you were not alone in getting a message like that. Disk space here
was low and a lot of things weren't working because of that, including
mail. I resent that digest "manually" after fixing things up, but I
didn't bother to add a note explaining what had happened, as I was
quite in a hurry to get on the plane to London, where I've been the
last week. Now back to my backlog of mail...

DISNEY & STAR TREK:
I, too am a fan of Science Fiction, and like the others I am really enjoy
Star Trek. However, I have enjoyed ALL of it's incarnations and currently
enjoy Deep Space 9 the best. I really liked Babylon 5 and am saddened by
its ending (though it is my understanding that the Sci-Fi Channel will be
picking it up for a few made-for-TV movies with all-new material. I grew
up reading Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, etc. I also enjoyed
some of the better Sci-Fi TV programs like "The Starlost", "The Invaders",
"Fantastic Journey", "Space: 1999", "Battlestar: Galactica" and others.

So as not to allow this subject not to drift entirely "off-topic" (or should I
say, to be "Lost in Space"?) here is my Disney Comics-based contribution:
http://www.jps.net/xephyr/rich/adventures.gif
It is a beautiful cover featuring some Disney comics characters as they
might look if they were members of Starfleet attached to the starship
Enterprise (under Jean-Luc Picard of course).
(source: Disney Adventures Magazine, Vol. 3/6 April, 1993)

APRIL, MAY & JUNE:
BTW, since we're back on the topic of April, May & June and their first
appearances, here is what I have:

First Appearance: "Walt Disney's Comics & Stories" #149 in the
"Donald Duck" Flippism story (Dell, Feb. 1953);

First named: "April" was named first in "Huey, Dewey and Louie, Back
to School" #35 in "The Course in Confusion" (Dell Giant, Oct. 1960);

But when were all three nieces were finally named?

And, has there ever been a sighting of the ficticious "Julie" (niece-clone)?

-Rich (xephyr)
http://www.jps.net/xephyr/rich/disney.html