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From PREVIEWS p. 258

UNCLE $CROOGE AND DONALD DUCK #1
Another $15-TPB for $9.95 format. Includes "The Pixilated Parrot," "All At
Sea," and a bunch of Junior Woodchucks stories.
8x11, 80 pages, $9.95

WALT DISNEY'S COMICS IN COLOR
Same format as above. This time featuring Donald Duck in "Secret of Honorico,"
"Go Slowly Sands of Time, and "the famous 14-page Grandma Duck story from the
$1500-collectible _Vacation Parade_ - a story that will not be reprinted in the
Carl Barks Library in Color series.
8x11, 80 pages, $9.95

UNCLE $CROOGE ADVENTURES IN COLOR #43
"Lost Beneath the Sea" and "The Lemonade Fling" from U$ #46
8x11, 32 pages, $9.95

UNCLE $CROOGE ADVENTURES IN COLOR #44
"The Thrifty Spendthrift" and "The Many Faces of Magica De Spell" from U$ 47
and 48
8x11, 32 pages, $9.95

[And how wrong does it look to list boks back to back with the same price point
- one containing close to 50 pages more than the other? Sheesh]

UNCLE $CROOGE #310
"The Sign of the Triple Distelfink" by Don Rosa (starring Gladstone Gander)
"The Spider Yarn" and "A Sticky Story" and "a classic Barks' Scrooge tale in
which Donald and U$ learn that a treasure of their piratical forebears is
buried on a desert isle." Cover is detail of Barks' painting based on
"Treasure Island."
6 4pages $6.95

WDC&S #625
WVH cover
"Mummery's the Word" by WVH
"The Egg Collector" - Mickey Mouse by David Gerstein and Ferioli
"Worst Class Mail" by Carl Barks
"Goofy and the Reluctant Dragon" from Summer Fun #2
"Gyro and Gladstone" by Barks from Four Color #1095
"Bucky Bug" by our very own Don Markstein
Daily Donald Duck reprint strips! Whoo-hoo!
65 pages $6.95

Now, I know better. I know and understand all the reasons why things with
Gladstone are as bas as they are. (Well, maybe not "all," but you get the
point.)

But it just looks incredibly bad to see this:

Page Count - Price
------------------
32 - $9.95
64 - $6.95
80 - $9.95

It looks incredibly wacky.

-Augie
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Re: Uff da and variations thereof:
Thanks everyone for the information!

Re: Fethry on DuckTales...
I was mistaken. It was a hat with ear flaps. But I still thought he
looked rather Fethry-ish.

Katie

Kriton Kyrimis <(Email removed)>:
> > 27% of adults in the United States still believe the Sun revolves
> > around the Earth!
>
> It's probably the same kind of people who do so because it says so in
> the bible.

I don't think so. Very, very few people take the Bible literally,
choosing instead to simply pick and choose what they wish to
bolster their own pre-existing convictions.
Fundamentalist-Chrisitan financed polls show that folks who share
self-described fundamentalist *belief* don't differ in any
substantial way from average American *behavior*.

Regardless, I think it's more a matter of *forgetting* (when
polled) the Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than denying
that it does, or choosing to believe otherwise. I think it's more
that it's just not important for folks to know as far as their
daily lives are concerned.

It's appalling ignorance, but I don't think it's willful
ignorance.

> If only these people would take the bible as the allegory that it is,

Different folks have different needs and different ways of
achieving emotional understanding, or conviction. I think there's
room for religion to appeal at a lot of levels. One's ceiling is
another's floor.

> rather than take it literally,

Few do. Even among self-described fundamentalists. Only the truly
Orthodox Christian or Jew observes all the Levitical injunctions
regarding health and hygiene. (If you ever want to make a
foam-at-the-mouth judgementalist blanch, question them in quoted
detail about the degree they observe the rules for dealing with
the menstruating women in their households.)

> they'd be surprised to find how much modern science is in accordance
> with the bible--in fact, they're in total agreement!

That's my experience. I find one of the outstanding qualities of
Truth is that it withstands anything.

--
riverrun past Eve's and Adam's from swerve of shore to bend of bay
(Email removed) -=*=- http://users.aol.com/dcrawson/home.htm

While I can't say too much about that F guy (I.m not sure that I've read many
of his stories), but I can respond to <<Seeing that F. was a hippy/beatnik
type of character, drawing from my own
language experiences from the late 60s...does this indicate that Fethry was
, as we used to say, "getting a buzz-on?" ...imbibing or otherwise???>>

I think that this was a case of the writer using outdated 40s slang. "What's
buzzin" Cousin", was apparently hep talk 20 years earlier (tip of the hat to
Tex Avery cartoons which include that phrase).

How many writers of the Disney overseas 60s crew are still around?

Steven Rowe

MARCO:

>> How about one googolth or one googolplexth of an inch? :-)

>Hey, don't cheat: that's metric! One googol equals ten to the 100th power,
and one googolplex equals ten to the googolth power, so that's
a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y metric!!!

Not quite: please note I'm referring to one googol(plex)th of an *inch*!

Just to follow the custom of dividing the inch in negative powers of
2, so to make it less metric, we can talk a 2^-googolplex of an
inch... more or less how high are my hopes to see the U.S. abandoning
the traditional English measures.

> By the way, Paulo (real reason why I'm writing this), you haven't told us
yet about the Fethry-king-of undersea-world subject! Is that too a spin-off
in $crooge's newspaper?

I can't say a thing about him. I've read a number of Pena Kid and
Pena das Selvas stories, but the Fethry-undersea-king stories are
completely unknown to me (except for the ML discussion, of course).

SOEREN:

> In Denmark we would say: "Uha da"

Ok, but what does it really mean?

[]s
P.C.Barreto
(Email removed)

DAVID G. [& others interested]:

I finally found a copy of DD#106 which you'd mentioned to be one of
FETHRY's early American appearances [a story which, if I understood
correctly, you haven't seen]. Well here's some info you might want
to add to your Fethry Datafile you say you're developing:

No storycode displayed, but I'm sure you'll know how to find it.
Series: Donald Duck
Title: Jungle Journey
Page Count: 10 (though page 9 is only half a page since the rest
is filled with the legal jargon of "Statement of Ownership" for
"Walt Disney's Donald Duck" comic book).

Fethry's physical appearance is similar to the "Buzzin' Cousin"
and "Ducky Date" ones, except Fethry is wearing a dark blue
or dark purple stocking cap and sweater (the sweater has a broad
white stripe around the center) instead of the yellow ones.

**************SPOILERS***************
Synopsis & Notes: This tale begins with Fethry startling Don by
barging into his house while Don is reading a book about the Jungle.
No indication as to whether this story is concurrent with "Donald's
Buzz'n' Cousin" and "Ducky Date", but since it is written during the
same time period, that is certainly a possiblity, so Fethry could still
be on an extended visit to Duckburg and staying with Donald, which
would explain why he didn't knock before entering. Anyhow, Fethry
gets a wild idea to drag Don on a Jungle Safari and books free
passage on a freighter signing both of them on as crewmen (actually
"swabbies"), but Fethry manages to sweet talk the First Mate into
upgrading their passage to "first class." In Africa Fethry relates how
he made friends with many jungle animals when he was in Africa
before, and after a few *close calls* with animal strangers, they
hook up with "Goochuck" a Gorilla Fethry knew. After a few more
harrowing close calls Donald buys airplane tickets back to Duckburg.
Fethry is disappointed by Donald's lack of enthusiasm, while Donald
is content with returning to just reading about the Jungle. The final
gag involve an off-the-cuff comment Don makes about his druthers
for visiting old friends, "I'd much rather just give them a "call" and
have them drop over and stay a while!" To which Fethry responds
by inviting Chipchew (an eskimo), a polar bear and seal he'd
once met in Alaska to stay a while (at Don's expense of course).
****************END SPOILERS*******************

BTW, Tabby doesn't appear in this tale either, so I guess "Moutain
Magic" is still the best contender for his First American appearance.

Now I just need to find a copy of WDC#509 to own all the American
appearances of Fethry. Hopefully this Saturday I will be able to make
my way to Hayward, CA to get my hands on some more of the Gulf
Oil comics ("El Nino" notwithstanding).

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

I just read the "Triple Distelfink" story that Don Rosa did to commemorate
Gladstone Gander's 50th anniversary (it recently ran in ANDERS AND, the Danish
Donald Duck weekly, along with the Barks story that had Gladstone's first
appearance). Don's story has a flashback showing Little Donald and Little
Gladstone and their respective mothers as well as Little Donald's father at a
family gathering (to say more would be spoiling things) -- but there's no sign
of Little Donald's twin sister, Della, the future mother of Huey, Dewey, and
Louie. If her parents and brother were at the family gathering, shouldn't Della
have been there, too? Or was it to be assumed that during the story she was
there but simply off-panel the whole time, and Don and/or Byron decided not to
show her because it would have been thought confusing/distracting/irrelevant?
Or did I miss something? Darn, Don would have to go into lurk mode about now...

--Dwight Decker