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First, some news from Holland:

The Dutch DD weekly opens this year with a Gerstein story
(D 95060), the story with Abbot McGoon. Though the story
involves animals 8-), it is quite enjoyable!

AUGIE:
> Every Duck publisher around the world
> would love to be the publisher of a new Carl Barks story. And we know there
> is one extant.

If *every* publisher would love to publish it, it would have been
published by now! Two publishers in Europe rejected the story
("Somewhere in Nowhere").

BTW, I'm convinced that the Barks Studio had the condition
that they get the art back (thus breaking any Disney "rule").
How else would they make big money out of the story?

ETA BETA:

> Taliaferro strips are where all this started. We wouldn't be here,
> probably, chatting about a Mr. Donald Duck, if it wasn't for those strips.

You can also look at it from another angle: Carl Barks would never
have started making Duck stories if the editors at that time found
the Taliaferro strips suitable enough for reprint in the comics!

DANIEL van E.:

> 81-38a D 3687 10 VR DD Als popzanger [origpg:11]
> BTW. Strange that the database mentions no German reprint.

It does in the current (not-yet available) version. It was in Germany
in Micky Maus 7, 1979.

> There is a panel in "The Golden Fleece" which original
> looked butchered if you looked closely at the background. In the CBL this
> is retouched, possibly throwing away a proof that more has happened to this
> story than we actually know! (Or maybe it's only in the Dutch reprint?)

The Dutch reprints of that story are a mess. You cannot "analyse" the
story by (just) looking at a Dutch reprint.

> In the past (earlier this year?) I've written an e-mail with more details

Unlikely. The year is only 3 days old... 8-)

AUGIE:

>> About "Donald Duck Tells About Kites" again: Still you haven't answered
the question if there will be a fascimile reprint of the story in a
WDC&S [..] <<

> WDC&S is not a reprint service.

Then why did we get a full reprint of MM Magazine #1? And why
did we get that many "The Year That Was" pages with reprints
of (rare and less rare, interesting and less interesting) material?
To me, an important part of WDC&S *is* a reprint service.

--Harry.
"I heard y'were lookin' for a teller!"
"Sorry! You're not the man we want! The teller we're
looking for is the one who skipped with $60,000!"
(1938)

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Hi!!

A couple of years ago the Swedish Kalle Anka & C:O printed fascimile
editions of the first issues of KA&C:O, originaly published in 1948. Have
the same thing been done in america or any other english speaking country?

Have any early strips with Donald/Mickey been republished(in english)
outside the regular comic books? In any "I books", or something like that?

DAVID:
> My question: could someone tell me what stories are in the other two
> issues (no.s 1 and 4)? If I have an opportunity to pick up one or both
of
> the other 2 sometime, I'd like to know whats in them. Some stories I
may already have.

No.1: "Son of the Sun"
"Cash Flow"

No.4: "His Majesty McDuck"
"The Curse of Nostrildamus"
"Fiscal Fitness" (writ: Gary Leach)

Happy hunting!!

Best,
Per-Erik
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WILMER:

> the use of "!" to end sentences is probably more nearly due to the
> ease of seeing that symbol instead of the much smaller ".")

As Gladstone explained in one of their "year that was" reprints, sentences
end with exclamation marks because periods can be mistaken for dirt
specks and be eliminated by the printer. In that particular reprint,
Gladstone had restored one such eliminated speck, without which the
corrected panel did not make sense!

Of course, I don't remember where I saw this! :-(
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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On Jan 3, 3:46pm, Per-Erik Malmström wrote:
> Subject: RE: Gladstone US DR Albums

> A couple of years ago the Swedish Kalle Anka & C:O printed fascimile
> editions of the first issues of KA&C:O, originaly published in 1948. Have
> the same thing been done in america or any other english speaking country?
>
I don't think so.

> Have any early strips with Donald/Mickey been republished(in english)
> outside the regular comic books? In any "I books", or something like that?
>
There have been US editions of the "I books" (if you mean "Io Paperino,"
etc.). If I remember right, the Donald Duck one was a retranslation back
from Italian, not Barks's original text. The US publisher was Abbeville,
mostly known for art books. I wrote a review for a comics magazine at the
time, called "Mess of the Abbevilles" (a tortured pun on the title of a
novel by Thomas Hardy, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," that probably went
right past everyone who read it).

--Dwight Decker

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> From: "David B. Fenske" <(Email removed)>
> My question: could someone tell me what stories are in the other two
> issues (no.s 1 and 4)?

Gladstone's US Adeventures in Color by Don Rosa (TPB):

#1 - Son of the Sun
Cash Flow

#4 - His Majesty McDuck
The Curse of Nostrildamus
Fiscal Fitness

- "Blasted kids must think I'm a whelcher!"
S. McDuck (US3 - OS 495)

Carey Furlong; Huntington Beach, California;
(Email removed); (Email removed)

Hi Danny,

> In the last issue of Donald Duck Adventures (#48), it was announced
> that the next issue would have a Don Rosa Junior Woodchucks story. Is
> that issue coming out, or was that one of the ones that was cancelled by
> the Gladstone implosion? Have the last newsstand comics come out, or are
> there a couple more to come?

It'll be in the first deluxe edition of UNCLE $CROOGE in March.

-Augie
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I wrote:
>> A couple of years ago the Swedish Kalle Anka & C:O printed fascimile
>> editions of the first issues of KA&C:O, originaly published in 1948.
Have
>> the same thing been done in america or any other english speaking
country?

DWIGHT D. answered:
> I don't think so.

Then it might be a good idea for Gladstone to print fascimile editions of
the first issues of US, WDC, DD, etc. I'm sure many colectors would like to
buy a cheap newprinted copy of US #1, instead of paying thousands of
dollars for an original. What do you think Gary? Could it be done?

Best,
Per-Erik
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STEVEN ROWE --
>> "the story (true or not) being told is that Western was
>> lloking for someone to do new Duck stories because they had
>> allready printed all the Taliaferro strips and were reprinting
>> them for the second time in WDC&S."
I only have three pre-Barks issues of WDC&S, #s 11, 24
and 30. All together, they have 37 pages of Donald Duck. In the
absence of other samples, I'll take them as representative. They
usually did two daily strips per page, tho occasionally, by
cropping the art a lot, they'd do three. I didn't see any
Sundays, but from the way the "Little Hiawatha" Silly Symphonys
pages were arranged in #30 (and from standard practice in other
comics), a page per Sunday would likely be right.
Do the arithmetic yourself. Even with a very large "fudge
factor" (to accommodate the pages with three dailies), the
newspaper strips were piling up faster than they were being
reprinted. After 30 months, there were more unreprinted strips
than at the beginning.
Personally, I think they -- like other comic book
producers right about then -- were becoming aware of the
possibilities of producing a new type of comics -- longer,
unbroken narratives -- and, characteristic of the Disney
organization of the time, moved to exploit it more fully. They
continued to get value from the newspaper strips (also
characteristic of Disney -- keep exploiting the already-paid-for
stuff), running them at least as fillers right up into the 1960s
-- but when others were producing new comics material, better
suited to the new format, Disney wasn't the sort to let itself
fall behind.

DWIGHT DECKER --
>> "I wrote a review for a comics magazine at the time, called
>> "Mess of the Abbevilles" (a tortured pun on the title of a
>> novel by Thomas Hardy, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," that
>> probably went right past everyone who read it).
Went past me, at any rate. I was trying to fit it to
"Hound of the Baskervilles".

EVERYBODY WHO ARGUES ABOUT TALLIAFERRO VS. BARKS --
The reason the Talliaferro strips Gladstone reprints
don't go over very well is, if you ask me, because we get
"saturated" reading them, not because they aren't good strips
(because they very clearly are). It's like watching Tex Avery
cartoons for two hours. They were meant to be enjoyed one at a
time. After looking at two or three in a row, you need to look
at something else for awhile, to reset your brain so you can
enjoy a few more.

Quack, Don
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