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Hello,

At the moment I can't recall who wrote
>About living in Italy; I went to Italy
>(Acquasparta/Terni) last year,and it really seems to be
>beautiful place, *however*, don't expect (like I did)
>to find a second hand shop stuffed with old Topolino
>issues on every corner.

But what I can tell you is that living in small towns
like Acquasparta, is not the top in order to find some
back issues, but in the greatest cities you can find
Disney stuff almost anywhere: some years ago, for my
personal use, I wrote down a list where to find OLD
Disney comics where I live (Rome), and this (surely
incomplete) listing counts about 30 comics-shop...
it's not on EVERY corner but surely on MANY corners! ;-)

About Zio Paperone it's surely possible to subscribe,
even from foreign countries, in order to contact the
editor there is a phone number (useless, I suppose,
since it costs a lot): +39 39 20 20 350 or there is a
p.o. address: "Zio Paperone C.P. 340 - 20101 Milano,
Italia".
About I Maestri Disney I don't think that at the moment
it's possible to have a subscription.
Hope this will be useful!

Ciao,

- Paolo
http://www.confor.it:2222/disney/

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Luna Storta wrote:

> At the moment I can't recall who wrote
> >About living in Italy; I went to Italy
> >(Acquasparta/Terni) last year,and it really seems to be
> >beautiful place, *however*, don't expect (like I did)
> >to find a second hand shop stuffed with old Topolino
> >issues on every corner.

I wrote that! But I was expecting more from Terni!All I did there was
loosing my glasses and missing
the bus and got 'home' to Acquasparta with 3
not very old issues.

> But what I can tell you is that living in small towns
> like Acquasparta, is not the top in order to find some
> back issues

No, and English was not really a language around there...

> but in the greatest cities you can find
> Disney stuff almost anywhere: some years ago, for my
> personal use, I wrote down a list where to find OLD
> Disney comics where I live (Rome), and this (surely
> incomplete) listing counts about 30 comics-shop...
> it's not on EVERY corner but surely on MANY corners! ;-)

Astonishing! I or should I say *we* (my girlfriend Marianne and I)simpl=
y
avoided every main street in Roma to track down any
shops without luck. Unfortunately we didn't have the time.
Marianne insisted on seeing the Chapel and I insisted on
seeing every backyard coming up, you can imagine how that
went... ;-) versus :-(

S=F8ren

Hi there,

Don Rosas comic "The Last Lords of El Dorado" was published in the
Swedish "Kalle Anka & C:o n:o 5 to 6 1998 with the titel "El Dorados
siste härskare". This is coaded as D 97xxxl, but there it was
something with D 96???. It was the 2-part version which was published.

Even "W.A.D.A.L.O.D.A.J.A.R.G.O.N." (maybe the spelling is not correct),
named "H.O.K.U.S.P.O.K.U.S.T.U.G.G.", has been published in Kalle Anka &
C:o (in no. 97-42).

Some comic story called "De tre steglistornas tecken" (DR, D 974??) was
published in Kalle Anka & C:o 98-04

Stefan Persson, Stockholm, Sweden

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So - - let's see if I can answer Marco's 25 questions - - or, at least, =
most of them...

1) Xmas Parade 4 GD story has 8 pages.

2) Xmas Parade 7 The Good-Deeders has 7 7/8 pages. The last panel is in =
fact occupied by the Dell Pledge label, although that panel is 3/4 the =
size of a normal panel.

3) In DD 133, The March of the Giant Termants was drawn by Tony Strobl =
and Steve Steere.

4) DD 192 has a new cover by Bob Gregory (pencils), and reprints DD =
60-02, MM 47 All Burned Up text illustration page (Murry art), WDC =
234-01, and WDC 226-01.

5) DD 229 reprints WOS 282-01, MM 48 The Big Splash text illustration =
page (Murry art), and MM 48-05 (Goofy gag page by Strobl).

6) DD Fun Book 2 - Bird Watchers is the only titled story.=20

7) DG 55-09 has 9 pgs. in the WDCD reprint because it was reframed with =
6 panels a page instead of 8.

8) March of Comics 258 - The Sword in the Stone should only be 14 pages =
long, with six panels a page.

9) WOS 49 - As far as I know, the SW & the 7 Dwarfs reprint occupies the =
whole book (51 pgs.) except for the front cover. But I will check again, =
since I don't personally own this book.

10) WOS 272 - The Cinderella story (drawn by Dan Gormley) is 48 pgs.; on =
covers 2 and 3 there are frames from the film. Cover and back cover (the =
latter is painted) are by Gormley. The back cover is not a gag page, but =
a full-page illustration of Cinderella and the Prince on the day of =
their marriage.

11) WOS 279-02 has 25 pages.

12) WOS 328-03 (Sleeplessness) as well as the 3 gag pages in that issue =
were drawn by Bob Moore.

13) In WOS 537 the only Pluto gag (by Murry) is on the back cover (lower =
half), with Pluto chasing a butterfly. Murry also drew Pluto on covers 2 =
and 3, but these are not gags - - these are full-page illustrations (the =
Stormy part of them was drawn by Sgroi) with accompanying text.

14) WOS 539 - Ben and Me is, if you will, a remake of the syndicated =
version. In fact, I'd rather consider it an autonomous, legitimate =
comic-book version (drawn by Hubbard).

15) WOS 726 - Yes, the 7th entry (on cover 3) is the continuation of the =
introduction on cover 2, thus the conclusion of the "framing story".

16) WOS 795-02 (The Castaway...) has 8 pages.

17) SC 3 (GK) - Covers reprint cover to SC (Dell) 9, and was again =
reprinted in SC (GK) 32.

18) SS 2 - The Pelican and the Snipe was drawn by Phil de Lara.

19) SS 4 - Dumbo has 39 pgs.

20) US 41 - Jim Fletcher drew no stories in this issue. He drew "Kingpin =
for a Day" in US 40.

21) US 51 - Let Donald Do It - It is possible that this is an S-coded =
story, although I can't check at the moment. It happened a few times =
that S-coded stories were also printed by GK in U.S. comic books. See A =
Case of Too Many Sea Monsters in US 49.

22) WDC 5 - Alas, I have no access to this issue.

23) WDC 59 - Bucky Bug is neither by Buettner nor Don Gunn. The artist =
might be Jim Pabian, but it's just a guess.

24) WDC 118 - Murry inked by Strobl? I don't think so. Although there's =
something strange about some of the inking. Lettering is by Murry, so I =
guess he inked it himself (as usual). Yet somebody (why Strobl?) might =
have retouched some parts of it...

25) WDC 316 - Between Goofy Jokes (02) and theMM serial (09) there is a =
page which reprints 6 Merry Menagerie panels (by Bob Karp & Bob Grant) =
from 1957, 1959, 1956, 1957, 1961 and 1958 (in that order). After MM =
there is a Mad Madam Mim story entitled Genius Go-Getter (featuring =
Gyro), 3 1/2 pgs., drawn by Tony Strobl & Steve Steere.

The two German fans who have been waiting patiently (for 6 weeks) for me to
mail them two Gladstone books, will be relieved to know that I finally mailed
them . However I see I didn't keep one of the e-mail address to tell you I
did.
Sorry to the list (and digest) for this note. The six-week gap does explain
why I said I'd help if you had no other resources... Steven Rowe

DONALD D. MARKSTEIN:
> There's also gnash, cache, slash, crash, flash, trash,
> smash, clash, thrash, sash, calabash, and, of course, ash.

Wow! Look at all those -ash words! Although I only offered my (much
shorter) list of -ash words as an answer to a puzzle, and not as an
accusation, this should put to rest any suggestions that you didn't rack
your brain to come up with all possible -ash words before deciding to
change "splash" into "sploosh". (I even got to learn a new English word
today, having had to look up "calabash" in the dictionary!)

On a related topic, I remember using an electronic dictionary back in the
'80s (I think it was on a NeXT computer), which allowed you to find all
words with a particular suffix, and using it to find the third English
word ending in -gry. (It's "aggry" [or "agry", I don't remember the
exact spelling].) Such a tool wood be very handy for making rhymes!
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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My Mom has been in the hospital so I did not have time to send something
for Carl Barks birthday. So I will do it symbolically:

A Very Happy Birthday To Carl Barks
The joy of my reading
My forever source of laughter
Creator of classic stories
Painter of the time period I grew up in
Capturer of how the world once was
Like Samuel Clemens
You have said it all
In the most delightful way
So we can read over and over
And learn
And laugh
And go out to face the world
Renewed and Recharged
With a SMILE
Thanks
Carl Barks
Enjoy your Special Day!

-Kathy Fitzpatrick

Until now I thought that Gilbert, Goofy's smart nephew, first appeared
in a Goofy detective story drawn for Western by Bill Wright in 1955 or
1956. But I just found a MM sunday page were Goofy presents to Mickey
his nephew (at least a relative) called "Napoleon". "Napoleon" looks
very much like Gilbert in this MM sunday drawn by Bill Wright (and if
it's not Gilbert, it's certainly a "first version" of Goofy's nephew).
This page was drawn in the 40s I guess, such as most of the MM sunday
pages that Bill Wright did.

Is it a well-known fact that Gilbert was not created in the mid 50s but
earlier? Does someone know the date of that strip? It was published in a
Danish reprint of Anders And & Co. #50-09.

Best to all,

Francois.