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Hi!

I actually have favorite Disney stories by different authors and cannot
rate which is an all time favorite.

For comedy, can't think of the title and they are all out of order now, but
the DD story by Carl Barks where he tells HLD to get rid of their sci-fi
comics. Then to teach them a lesson, he talks Gyro into letting him use
his matter transporter. DD tells the kids it is a bug hatchery. Every
time we see an odd piece of equipment anywhere Gary and I just nod heads at
each other and say, "Uh huh. A bug hatchery!"

The above story and "Mythical Menagerie" by Don Rosa never fail to have us
rolling around on the floor in laughter.

For serious adventure, we never could decide which Barks story, but the Don
Rosa story is "His Majesty, McDuck". To me is tells exactly what would
happen if Quebec ever breaks away from Canada, primarily because of its
location and heavy percentage of welfare recipients. But mostly it just is
such a well thought out story plus it has the touching moments of U$
feeding the birds from the window, then later from the piece of metal that
could have had him continue to be King. And many other reasons.

Gottfredson is our favorate MM story teller. Our favorites are the stories
with Minnie, Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow. There is a lot of
great humor exchanged between all of them.

-Kathy

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I am currently 49 (as of August 8), live in Everett, Washington State, USA,
and primarily lurk on the list -Kathy

Hi,
During the past 5 years or so I've aquired three of the slipcase
accompanied volumes of the eighties b/w hardcover volumes of the CB
Library. I got one while on holiday in Frankfurt, one while on holiday =
in
Madison in the U.S., and one here in Trondheim. I have volumes 1-3. Now=
I'd
reeeally like to try to get hold of the other 7 volumes. Does anyone on
this list have any idea where I could get them, or at least *some* of t=
hem?
Thank's for any help...

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> > One leap year every fourth year except every 100th year. As an exception
> > from the exception, every 400th year is a leap year! So that the year
> > 2000 will be a leap year like 1600, whereas 1900, 1800 and 1700 were
> > not.
>
> I recently learnt from some colleagues who had looked into the issue of
> leap years and year 2000 compliance that there is an exception to the
> exception to the exception: year 2300 *is* a leap year!!! (I'm quoting
> from memory, so check the number if you want to use this fact.)

I'm not sure but remember reading that year with doulbe zero (or more?)
is leap year *if* its dividable with two... or was it four?

well anyway $crooge's coins won't die from loneliness regardless of leap
years :-)

Teme

This week's Dutch "Donald Duck" weekly has the first part of Romano =
Scarpa's "The Flying Scot"! While we were discussing the story right =
here - coincidence?

They reformatted the story to 4-tier (12-panel) pages. Unfortunately, in =
that process, they removed some panels...

Michel Nadorp made a beautiful cover to the story.

--Harry.

Hello again!
Here are the results of my "german Micky Maus weekly search" from 1980
to 1989. I found only a handfull stories about Gyro's thinking-hat and
hammer in this period. (There *is* a hammer sometimes but it's often
used to destroy silly inventions and not to "hammer out" some new
ones...)

Gyro-stories, PART 2

Using the thinking-hat:
1. D 5110, MM 80-21g, "Udspekuleret udvej" (one-pager)
2. D 3229, MM 80-14f, "Ausgetrocknete Ideen"
3. D 4773, MM 80-08e, "Die dritte Dimension"
4. unknown, MM 89-24h, "Weckprobleme"
5. W WDC 376-04, MM 89-51f, "Ein Eifersuchtsdrama"

Using a hammer on his head:
1. W WDC 201-01, MM 84-36b, "Verhängnisvolle Verwechslung" (Barks)

Info:
Nr. 5 is a reprint of the strange story No. 9 from PART 1 (see
Mailing-List #201). This time we have a story-code.

Now on to the 90's!
To be continued...

- Claudio

DON ROSA --
What wonderful news! Thank you SO much for
sharing it!
I have no desire to press you for details -- the
fact that it happened, and went so well, is all I need.
I'm sure I speak for practically everyone here when I say
I share your joy and relief in knowing that what you call
"the Dark Age of the last 5 years" is once and for all
over.

HARRY FLUKS --
>> "why was the village in one of your recent Bucky Bug
>> stories not called Junkville?>
The only one I did in which the locale was called
anything but "Junkville" was the "Western", which took
place in Rubbish City. It was mentioned in the first
panel that they'd travelled far west of Junkville to
reach it -- no less than 100 feet, as a matter of fact.

>> "it seemed to me that some of the rhyming was messed
>> up, probably because some sound effects were removed or
>> changed?"
Yes, in the "Flea Circus" story, a couple of bits
of lettering were missing. My guess is that the small
paste-ups fell off on the way to the printer. I guess I
should have mentioned it here, for clarity, but didn't
because after all, there isn't much anyone can do about =

it at this point. Still, it throws off the meter and rhyme
scheme, which would seriously affect the reading of it;
so I guess it would have been better to say something.
Okay, so I'm saying it now. In the Bucky Bug story
in WDC&S #627 (Aug 98), page 1 panel 2, there should have
been a "FOOD" sign right under the one that said "Flea
Circus". In the last panel of that page, Bo, upon being
roared at by the Grimp, should have uttered a heartfelt
"YIPE!". And on the final page, panel 3, I had the Grimp
say "Grawwwr!"
Other minor differences between the published
version and my script occurred in panel 6 of page 2. I
had Bucky call the Soldier Ants "dorks", not "dopes";
and the Ant answer "Oh, so?", not "Oh, no?" My guess is,
both of those changes were ordered by Disney -- the first
because "dork" is considered mildly obscene by those who
happen to know where its use as an insult comes from; and
the second because the people at Disney don't know any
better, and think "Oh, so?" is an example of poor
diction, rather than a catch phrase.

"Just curious: where is he referred to as the richest
>> *man*?"
Right there in the Maharajah story, for one --
since they aren't of the same species, "man" is the only
word that covers both.

KRITON KYRIMIS --
>> "The reference to kitchen sinks refers to the American
>> idiom "everything including the kitchen sink", which
>> means "everything", in an emphatic way."
That American idiom is more frequently heard in
the form "Everything BUT the kitchen sink." My favorite
use of it in comics is from a 1960s story about the
superhero Dynamo. For several panels, Dynamo dodges as,
from off-panel, chairs, tables, kitchen appliances, etc.
hurtle past him. As he dodges, he thinks, "Got to end
this soon. He's thrown everything at me but the --" Just
then, WHAM! Dynamo is knocked flat by a kitchen sink.

OLE REICHSTEIN NIELSEN --
Not quite my second-ever story in the Egmont
weeklies (there was a Grandma Duck story, D97043, before
the "New Look" Scrooge story, and some Launchpad McQuack
stories several years earlier). But it was my FIRST to
appear since credits began! (I have another Mickey story
in three weeks, then a Gladstone Gander one a few weeks
after that, and a bunch more that aren't scheduled yet.)
>> "would it be related to Egmont's new market in Eastern
>> Europe that the common cultural frame of reference is
>> fairy tales, and not as we see it in Italy, litterary
>> classics (the reknown "parodies") or the "TV America"
>> we all know so well?"
I wasn't really thinking about Eastern Europe
when I wrote it -- just figuring I could safely tell a
story about that particular set of characters because
they were probably known in most of the places where
Egmont publishes.
Sorry you recognized the big guy right away -- I
was hoping it wouldn't be quite so obvious. But it's good
to know I managed to surprise you at least a little bit
with the little guy.
Anyway, I'm glad you like the story. Thanks for
mentioning it.

KATIE SULLIVAN --
>> "Scrooge is referred to as both the richest duck and
>> the richest "man" in the world. (We can assume that
>> "man" refers to all the anthropomorphic critters in
>> the Duck universe.) But is Flintheart ever referred
>> to as anything but the 2nd richest duck?"
Good point. I hadn't thought about that. Of
course, that has no bearing on the Glomgold/Rockerduck
question, since "duck" includes both of them, but maybe
there's someone out there who isn't a duck, who comes
between Scrooge and Glomgold. (I wonder if we'll ever
find this out, tho -- it strikes me as rather a fine
point to base a story on, so it seems unlikely it'll be
mentioned.)

DANIEL VAN EIJMEREN --
The origin of the Santa Claus character's name
might have something to do with a Catholic saint, but
much of the character himself is borrowed from Northern
European mythological figures associated with winter
festivals that predate Christianity. In Japan, he's more
strongly identified with a figure of ancient mythology
that has eyes in back of his head (for keeping tabs on
naughty children). Anyway, to the extent that he's a
saint, he's the world's only SECULAR saint.
By the way, I just took another look at your
"Carl Barks Guidebook" Web page. Amazingly enough, part
of it STILL reads like it was taken verbatim from a
press release sent out by the slimebags who made such a
concerted and, for a time, effective attempt to control
not just his business dealings, but also his relations
with other members of the Disney Comics community. In
view of Barks's own repudiation of those sleazeballs,
why is that?

Quack, Don

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HARRY:
>This week's Dutch "Donald Duck" weekly has the first part of Romano
>Scarpa's "The Flying Scot"! While we were discussing the story right
>here - coincidence?

Definitely. We've been talking about it for years! :-)
But it means that Gladstone and the Dutch editors are doing double
work - why didn't they just wait for the US version to be published?
That has often been the obvious reason for Danish reprints.

>They reformatted the story to 4-tier (12-panel) pages. Unfortunately, in
>that process, they removed some panels...

Reformatting a 3 tier story to "comic book" 4 tier format isn't as strange
as reformatting 4 tier (Bradbury usually) stories to 5 tiers. Several stories
have experienced that treatment by the Dutch editors. Are they just not
considered worth spending too much space on, I wonder.

>Michel Nadorp made a beautiful cover to the story.

It's a shame there are so many good covers for the classics (like Rota's
Zio Paperone covers) that there's no way we're going to see them all in
any onee country. But lucky me: I'm looking forward to Nadorp's cover,
and I've got the Danish pocket version of "Il Scozzese Volante" too.

Ole