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CHRIS BARAT:

<<The police may have difficulty arresting Magica when she uses
sorcery because there is no tangible evidence linking her to it. (When
she actually steals the dime, of course, is another story.)>>

I think another issue at hand here is the fact of what she's stealing. I
don't know of many police officers who would arrest a woman for stealing a
dime! We, of course, know of the extreme sentimental value of the 1875
dime to $crooge, but I'm not sure that members of Duckburg's Finest are
all too aware of it. This is at least the reasoning I use when pondering
why Magica has never had the law stand in her way. Of course, when little
old ladies complain about peace disturbance, it's a whole other crate of
foof bombs.

-Shaun

"You mean Canadians have computers now?"
Lt. Welsh -- "Due South"

CORD

Thanks for your info.
I've enjoyed Nervous Rex but Laffin' Gas and Possibleman were new to me.
(Why aren't these titles listed in Overstreet?)
I have also read in Carl Barks & Co that Van Horn has published in Tracker,
any input here?

does anybody know where i can get copies of the stories in this series?

Mikko Pohjola wrote:
>It is said, that in Finland Disney comics are more popular than
>anywhere else in the known world.

I allways thought Disney comics were most popular in Norway..

Does anybody have any figures?

Arild
"Would you believe all the myths on Elvis! Some people even believe he is
dead!!"

Geir Hasnes said (through Mads):
>I will add that I
>have been misquoted a number of times by journalists, and I'm not amused
>when I hear that these quotations are spread over the net."

You cannot prevent that published statements are quoted anywhere. Nor
can you blame the person(s) who put it on the net.

I hope people will not refrain from quoting on internet because they
think
there might be some mistakes in the quoted article!

--Harry.

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TO: (Email removed)

In reference to,

"I don't know of many police officers who would arrest a woman for stealing
a dime!"

That's exactly what is wrong with society ... theft is theft and should not
be judged by how much but by the actual act. Duckburg has it right ...
commit a crime and you'll pay the price.

Andrew Wiles a.k.a. Wog

Ole R. Nielsen and others here have enquired about the Russian "Mikki Maus"
magazine. I recently spent a week in Moskve [sorry, prepositionalis is
mandatory here], and of course I tried to get a glimpse into the Disney
comics situation. Bylo i trudno i slozhno (not easy). It was easier to find
a video with Shostakovich' famous 1934 opera Katerina Izmajlova (one of my
other aims, successfully accomplished) than finding a single issue of Mikki
Maus.

Why is this? A classical Russian saying holds that "Russian agriculture has two
problems: bad harvest, and good harvest". The problem is lack of a good system
or culture or habit to get whatever is produced/made/bought in one place to
another place (the desperate or interested customer). (As one professor
explained to me, as a response to one of my naive questions: "in Russia we have
had no infrastructure since 1917".) And this "good harvest problem" is relevant
for our litle question of Disney comics (and similar magazines). Somewhere this
quite nice and inexpensive magazine (e.g. 5,000 roubles, which by magic come
January 1 will be redefined and rescaled to mean 5 roubles, less than a dollar)
is printed in large numbers (the issue I found in the end says that the tirazh
is 110,000; the one I bought a couple of years ago said tirazh 250,000
ekzemplyarov) -- but very difficult to find.

Such magazines are largely found only on the assorted tables of small-level
salespersons outside and around Metro stations, that is, essentially only
in the bigger cities, and not in stores, bookshops, kiosks at all. Also, the
scene is dominated by more spectacular (and quite expensive) glossy magazines
that at this stage is multiplying in numbers and excel in quality. (Yes, it's
true; "Ogonek", for example, would outperform its Western sisters TIME and
Newsweek, to me, in appearance, quality of print and writing, choice of topics,
and so on.) The price of these other high-quality magazines, take your pick
from Cosmopolitan (not a translation, but a separately made Russian edition) to
Materinstvo, could be up to 50,000 roubles, or ten dollars (or four days'
salary for some of my highly educated hard working friends). (Incidentally,
the price is usually not fixed, it says "tsena svobodnaya", or free price, to
be determined by the seller. So the monthly Mikki Maus would cost "usually
5,000 roubles" rather than simply "5,000 roubles".)

Well, the bottom line here is that the less-than-serious mags, like our dear
monthly M.M., is in danger of vanishing from the market, _despite_ good
quality and cheap price. The one I found at last has the Barks story from
WDC&S 258, some Vicar, and at the end "Anglijskik s Donal'dom", a one-page
Barks in pedagogical original language. And it had a Rosa poster!, one side
of the two-sided version that we have seen elsewhere in Europe, with "Drus'ya
i nedrugi Skrudzha Makdaka". It's clear to the reader that there is somehow
a 50 year anniversary for Scrooge, but this would be clouded in mystery to
the Russians, whose history with Disney comics is quite short. No helpful
information is given, and the reader will be mystified by Rosa's many portraits
of friends and foes.

So, "Egmont Rossija" is doing poorly, or at least a lot poorer than it should,
imVho. The situation could be compared to "Egmont Slovenija" which puts out
the full CB Library in Color (at least they seemed to be doing this when I
visited Ljubljana two years ago), in Slovenian, in high-quality hard covers
(like the French Tintin, for example). They simply translate the American
edition, including all the articles and so on. They point is that this makes
them land, qua _books_, in all the _bookstores and bookshops_ and more
serious-looking kiosks, all over the country. I hope Donald Karla Barksa sells
well in Slovenia. And doing this in Russia would, I surmise, make good sense.
It would cost more, but not much, and they would be _visible_ to the public.
The Russians love bookstores, for good reasons, in my experience.

Nikolai Cholmik Olen' / Nils Lid Hjort