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I am new to the digest, but I was wondering if any one can give me so
info on the US Market. I seem to be unable to get any of the Comics
here in CT. I just moved here from AZ and the last comic's I was able
to get was in Dec 97. Can any one help??? I read all Donald Ducks and
Uncle Scrooges. I can find the Walt Disney ones and the Uncle
Scrooges that are @ 6.95 (the big ones) but not the normal Bi-Monthly
ones. Please help I'm having Duck withdrawals.

Thanks,
Donna St. John
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Katie:

> If anyone wants to know more about this book, let me know. I have my
> copy sitting in my lap at this moment.

Me too, after reading your contribution! :-))

Arthur:

> I got this book a while ago and somehow pages 81 through 96
> are missing. It doesn't look like the pages were torn out, it
> looks more like a misprint. Does anyone else have this same problem?

Can't help with much info there... mine is fine, luckily.

> > This really is a beautiful book
>
> I agree, it's really great, especially the coloring is unique.

For me, too much of this muddy orange/brown/yellow-tone is used,
especially for faces.... the duck's beaks ar that muddy as well
instead of a nice orange... so many panels are lacking brightness.
Pp 287, 261, 225 with Flinheart's hair i this orange-brown-tone as
well...
But some pags are indeed beautiful, i.e. in "Land beneath the
ground".

Soeren

Soeren Schridde
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49088 Osnabrueck
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Luca:

I wrote...

>Could you give me the issue number of that cover of "Zio Paperone"
>(showing Scrooge and a very small money bin, with a giant ant and his
>number one dime)?

Sorry... forget it! Marco already replied to that! (thanks Marco!).

Francois

Hi everybody,

I only want to publish my Web adress
http://privat.schlund.de/HochstetterUli/

where you are able to find some good Disney related links and under the
button "Gallery" you are able to see some fine Don Rosa pictures. One of
them shows Don Rosa and myself at his last Europe tour in Autumn 1997!

Sorry for this "commercial" !

Later, Uli

P.S.: Hey Archontis, what=B4s wrong with your E-mail account? All my =
last
mails are bouncing back! Please contact me in private Email...

>

Archontis:
>Blum's editorial is really inappropriate for a work that has received an
>Eisner award. I'll try to post the article in 3-4 installments, as it's
>quite lengthy.

That's great! I know I won't buy the Gladstone book, so it's good to be
able to read the article that people have been talking about!

--Harry.

Augie wrote:

>>For a grand total over $80. And just to recap:

PAGES COST
52 $9.95
80 $9.95
32 $9.95
64 $6.95

Wow, publishing is weird, ain't it?<<

I thought the same thing when I was filling out my order form. I decided to
order only WDC&S and Uncle Scrooge, along with the two Barks albums. I can't
believe Gladstone is charging $10 for 32 pages, but I'm in for the duration.
I'll have to try to go back and pick up the Van Horn collections later, when
the Barks stuff is completed. When Gladstone publishes albums by people other
than Barks, it should hold off on the Barks albums that month. I think
they're trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, meaning they're
trying to get as much money out of us few Disney comics fans as they can.
Disney comics are supposed to be fun, not wallet draining.

--your pal, Hoy

I've recently made a habit of reviewing on the list each new Gladstone issue
as I get it, so here goes with WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES 623 (which
I'm surprised hasn't been discussed here before, Don Markstein's Bucky Bug
promotions aside...):

**SPOILERS****SPOILERS****SPOILERS****SPOILERS****SPOILERS**

"All Quacked Up." My favorite of William Van Horn's Launchpad two-pagers
yet. I noticed, though, that someone (Gladstone? Egmont?) seems to have had
trouble with printing negatives--the art lines look VERY dotted and blurred.

"The Secret of the Ancient Incas" Part 2 of 3. Very enjoyable. I usually
prefer Paul Murry's earlier art, but this had great scenery. The "tbc"
cliffhanger bears a curious resemblance to a scene in Herge's LE TEMPLE DU
SOLEIL (sp?)--was Tintin known in the USA in 1963?

"New Year's Revolutions" (WDC&S 173). It's great to see a Barks story I
haven't read before, with a neat ironic ending. I caught an interesting bit
of trivia which you diehards like Daniel van Eijmeren probably already
know--at the bottom of page 9, Barks spells "Duckburg" wrong!

"Hole-in-the-Wall at Hoodooyadoo" Part 1 of 2. When I first saw it I thought
it was "part 3" to last issue's "Fossil Hunters." I can see Pat McGreal has
a fondness for sequels--have we yet another established recurring cast to
keep track of in the Mouse Universe? The Ferioli art is great, too--I love
the giant skull face in the last panel. Still, Gladstone's serializing
pattern seems flawed--**TWO** serials of EQUAL CHAPTER LENGTH running
CONCURRENT in the SAME comic book? If all three stories had to be printed in
WDC&S, I don't see why Gladstone couldn't have just printed "The Secret of
the Ancient Incas" as a one-shot in 622, "Fossil Hunters" in 623, and
"Hole-in-the-Wall" in 624.

"Donald Duck daily and Sunday strips." I see the Taliaferro Transition from
DONALD DUCK to WDC&S has been made--and Donald hasn't changed. DD at the
movie theater, DD's car breaks down, DD and an animal, etc. Fortunately it's
only 5 pages!

"The Money Pit." A Rosa story! Great stuff, but I've seen it before :-(
Still, it gives me the opportunity to reminisce--panels 6.1 (the Money Bin
strip mine) and 7.5 ("FLOOMP!") are some of the most breathtaking in-Bin
images I've seen in Duck history. I noticed two details I hadn't
before--first, in panel 2.3, HDL are holding a "1955 double-die penny".
Given Rosa's timeline, that coin must have been fresh off the mint when the
boys were polishing it! Second, is that a name written in the wastebasket in
the story's last panel? One flaw is present: Rosa's mistaken reference to
the "Sacramento" mint (where "San Francisco" should substitute) is left
unchanged in WDC&S 623, whereas in the Wal-Mart-distributed DONALD AND
SCROOGE comic book 1 (where I first read this story) it is corrected.

"Commandoes." Another boring Lil Bad Wolf story, although again, an "ironic"
ending made it somehow different than most.

"Country Cousin." Another adaptation of a Disney animal-fable cartoon.
Luckily it's only 8 pages.

"The Flood." Bucky Bug. At least it's only 3 pages! The process by which
Donald D. Markstein "rescripted" this story has been discussed on the list
before, and judging by the results the story doesn't seem to have been
harmed much, although the beginning and ending rhymes seem a little forced.
(Note that I don't have the original for comparison, though.) I'd be curious
to see more of these, however, before handing down my final judgement.
Correction to the credits: the story was written by Ruud Straatman and drawn
by Bardon, first appearing in Dutch DONALD DUCK WEEKBLAD 11 van 1997.
Gladstone's credit makes it seem as if Markstein is the sole author.
Furthermore it is not Oberon, but instead De Geillustreerde Pers, that
publishes Disney comics in Holland.

***END SPOILER******END SPOILER******END SPOILER******END SPOILER***

--Jonathan Markoff

"They spend their lives building a meaningless collection that they only
plan to someday SELL...to a buyer who only plans to RESELL it! It's all so
SILLY!"
--Don Rosa, "The Money Pit"

Several things in the last digest triggered me to reply...
First, Nils wrote:

> Ooit gehoord van Professor Nils Lid Hjort? Wij eerlijk gezegd niet.

Well, we *did* hear about that professor, but we didn't know about
his love for skating... 8-)
But I shouldn't have been surprised, since skating has always been
mostly a Norwegian and Dutch business...

Talking about Norwegian and Dutch:

In Gladstone's WD's COMICS #620, there's a photograph of
Norwegian Gaute Kongsnes (always nice to see how people
really look like!), with the text: "Dutch reader Gaute
Kongsnes [..]"

Well, Gladstone people: "Dutch" means "from the Netherlands",
and Norway is NOT one of the Netherlands... 8-)

This brings me to JONATHAN, who wrote:
> here goes with WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES 623 (which
> I'm surprised hasn't been discussed here before, Don Markstein's Bucky Bug
> promotions aside...):

That is because we Europeans cannot get those comics that fast!
Only last week, I got a batch of Gladstones from my shop in
Amsterdam. The most recent issues were WDC 622 and U$ 308,
so the ones you talk about in teh USA will probably arrive here in
a few months...

Here's a short review, mostly with short and unrelated comments, of
the comics I got:

Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck #2: Rosa cover taken from German
Christmas special. Does this mean that Gladstone will reprint
all the "rare" stuff that Don did (and is still doing) for Germany, France,
etc.?
I agree with Geoffry Blum (!) that the contents of this comic is not
much worth writing about.

Uncle Scrooge #308: Again Gladstone fails to give the right
credits to European stories. The opening story, "Winifred's
Revenge", was written by Jan Kruse. It's one of Heyman's
first stories, and I must say I quite like it.
Interesting detail: in Kruse's original script, the witch is
smoking a pipe from the first page, through the entire
story. The (Dutch) editors had Heymans change this, so
she only has a pipe when it's needed, near the end of
the story!
Backup story: a good and funny Branca. It's disappointing
that Gladstone even fails to credit Branca!

Donald Duck #307: Jippes cover and Milton/Jippes story,
both reprints, and both very good.
I even like the Taliaferro strips. Mainly because they are not
*only* dailies, but also sunday strips.

WDC #620: The Van Horn story with "Wanda Sue
Buckgrab" comes on an appropriate moment, with
all the lawsuits going on...
A detail about the Murry story "The Idol of Moaning Island":
in the first page of part II, Goofy recognises the chauffeur.
But when you look at part I, the chauffeur is a totally
different person!
Mickey in "Hocus Pocus Hypnosis": I always thought Goofy
couldn't be hypnotised because of his ..ehm.. certain amount
of brains... 8-)

WDC #621: A *very* nice cover, especially the colouring!
This is, for once, a Rosa cover *without* background and
without details, and it works fine!
Van Horn's "Room and Bored": good to see WVH is still
improving. This is one of his best stories I have read!
Li'l bad Wolf: when will they start printing the *good*
stories? (The Dutch ones, I mean! 8-)

WDC #622: Cousin Bertie is interesting, as a curiosum.
The Ferioli Mickey story was quite nice, and beautifully
drawn (as always with Ferioli).
"An Eye for Detail": for once a *new* Rosa story! A quite
simple story, with some good gags. I like it!

The Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck #2 (the shop
owner was getting very confused with all those similar
comic titles. Fortunately, I now only have to say I want
"the expensive ones"... 8-)
"A Little Something Special": I already had the European
version of this story, and I must say that the story
has improved by the extra page added. This time, Don
did not add a lot of panels with a lot of extra details,
but he enlarged some of the existing panels, adding
a character here and there. This makes the pages more
balanced, and the story less crowded.
I think Don could do this to other existing stories as well,
for instance the "Columbus" story would improve this way.
Maybe some editor would try an album series with
44-page Rosa stories? I would buy them!

Talking about Rosa:

The Dutch monthly "Donald Duck Extra" #4 will reprint
Rosa's "Hideous Space Varmints" (but the 3-part version!)

Because of the great success, the albums series "Oom
Dagobert" continues to print Rosa stories. Album #59
will be issued in week 18, and contains "Last Sled to
Dawson" and other stories.

Talking about Dutch comics:

"Donald Duck Extra" #5 reprints the Lustig/Van Horn story
"The Amazon Queen", with beautiful new colouring!
At last!

Back to the Digest, DONNA wrote:

> I seem to be unable to get any of the Comics
> here in CT. I can find the Walt Disney ones and the Uncle
> Scrooges that are @ 6.95 (the big ones) but not the normal Bi-Monthly
> ones. Please help I'm having Duck withdrawals.

Don't look for the normail ones anymore: they have been cancelled!

Arthur, about "U$, His Life and Times":

> I got this book a while ago and somehow pages 81 through 96
> are missing. It doesn't look like the pages were torn out, it
> looks more like a misprint. Does anyone else have this same problem?

My copy has all the pages. Which version do you have, the hard-cover
or the soft-cover?

That's all for today...
--Harry.
Harry Fluks, Leidschendam, The Netherlands
(a.k.a. Holland, where the Dutch live)