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Ole:

Michel Nadorp graciously supplied us with a cover for "The Flying Scotsman"
that will be going on US 316, featuring part two of that tale. It will
replace the cover originally solicited for that issue. I'm not certain it
is the one you mentioned, but what we got is certainly very nice, much more
suitable than our original cover pic(k), and, most importantly, we got it
just in time!

Anders:

>Les autres histories (OOPS FRENCH!) The other stories are...

Strange as this may sound coming from a middle-aged American, I've been
studying French a bit these last few weeks. It's always bugged me that I
didn't know at least one other language in this world, and since my wife
already knows a little French, my father-in-law spoke it fluently when he
was growing up, and English leans so much on it anyway, it seemed the
optimum choice. And so far, so good, though that gender stuff...whoo! Talk
about brain-melt!

DON ROSA:

Very happy to hear about your meeting with Mr. Barks
or...as Lt.George from "Blackadder IV" would have said:
"Well hurrah, with highly polished brass knobs on!!!"

>Barks' original ending pretty is pretty much the end-all of any possible
>dinosaur tale. Any other ending to a donosaur story would seem to pale by
>comparison!

Ah, the ferocious donosaurs... now that's a funny typo ;-)

>Yesterday I sent in a pin-up to accompany "On Stolen Time". I sometimes
have
>trouble thinking of what scene from a story to depict in a cover or pin-up,
>and also when to twist accuracy a bit to make the scene better. What scene
>would you use from "On Stolen Time" (if you recall that story)?

Personally, I think it should be a scene with the Beagle Boys climbing on
the pigeons with Donald & HDL in the background stuck in the frozen garbage
floating in the air. Maybe someone could catch his breath whilst leaning on
a frozen cyclist or something...

Then again, maybe it could be considered cruelty to frozen pigeons...

/Martin Berglund
Malmo, Sweden (just thought I'd put that in as well now...)

Don:
Hm... not easy... First I thought of showing the Ducks on their hunt
after the Beagle Boys with the BBs in the background climbing up the
"frozen" birds. But who would understand this (or similar scenes)? And
it's even a spoiler, like most of the other things that came to my mind.

For this reason I suggest you show a large view of the money bin's
inside with the Beagle Boys standing - evil smiling - next to a stack of
money. In the background we see Scrooge (and Gyro?) blocking the door.
Perhaps Donald and the kids are running from the ladder into the Beagle
Boys direction?

Well...er... just an idea... I'm not used in creating comics :-)

(To be exact, I stopped at the age of 11 or 12 when I discovered that I
never could draw any character for a second time right the way it looked
like in the panel before... <sigh>)

- Claudio

Greetings,

Harry, David or anyone else who might know-

I've posted a one-page gag from WDC&S #16 (January 1942) which I
am currently discussing with friend. Unfortunately, because of the
quality of the ink then, the date of it's *original* newspaper
publication is blurred... I think it is 1939. Anyhow, the gag is
titled "Nuthin' Ever Happens Here" and features a visit by Mickey
to Goofy's Uncle Giddy, the Editor of the Crow County Clarion. I'm
seeking the actual publication date (DD-MM-YY) of the newspaper
strip, and any OTHER information about Uncle Giddy anyone might
know. I did check the database, but the only listings on file are:

W WDC 16-00 Santa DD treed by bulldog
W WDC 16-14 Dumbo
W WDC 16-16 How to Fish
W WDC 16-25 Hollywood Chatter
W WDC 16-31 More Kittens
W WDC 16-32 January Puzzle
W WDC 16-36 Opportunity is Knocking!
W WDC 16-40 Index

For the record, I am aware of the mostly text story featuring Uncle
Giddy & Metro (Metropolis Cottonbottom) in "Snooky's Pocket" from
WDC&S #37.

Anyone interested, the URL for the one-page gag is:
http://www.jps.net/xephyr/SCANS/UncleGiddy.gif

Thanks, Rich

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From: "=SO-8859-1?Q?Anders Chr. Sivebæk
>>>>>In Don Rosa's Sun of the Sun (AR 102) in panel
8 on page 2, the pearls from Kuku Maru (A sunken ship)
are in the background? They are in treasure-box.
Now that is of course a reference to Barks' story
W/US 37-05 Deep Down Doings [app:BB], but in that
story (SPOILERS) the treasure box is lost in the
deep sea and the pearls were sold to a jeweler?!

Whups. I can't possibly recall what I was thinking when I did that over 12
years ago. But I can squirm outtuvit: we never actually *see* U$ sell those
pearls -- that slip of paper he is carrying out of the jewelers in the last
panel is a receipt the jeweler gave him while he examined the pearls, which
U$ later decided to keep. The treasure box might have been the original
which U$ returned to salvage, or a recreation for display purposes. I can
make up lots of explanations to avoid admitting a drastic fubar. Now, if I
again showed the Crown of Genghis Khan in U$'s trophy room, THAT I could not
squirm out of (as it is lost in the sunken sea below Xanadu / Tralla La).
Yes, I showed it in that centerspread used in U$ #300, but that was a
fantasy-scene done for and designed by Michael Naiman which I never expected
would be used in print.

From: "Berglund
>Barks' original ending pretty is pretty much the end-all of any possible
>dinosaur tale. Any other ending to a donosaur story would seem to pale by
>comparison!
>>>>Ah, the ferocious donosaurs... now that's a funny typo ;-)

No, that was a Freudian Slop.

>What scene would you use from "On Stolen Time"
>>>Personally, I think it should be a scene with the Beagle Boys climbing on
the pigeons with Donald & HDL in the background stuck in the frozen garbage
floating in the air. Maybe someone could catch his breath whilst leaning on
a frozen cyclist or something...

You are so close to the fact that I'll tell you what I did do: yes, I show
the BB's climbing the pigeons -- there was no room to show the frozen
garbage, so instead I show DD colliding with the butterfly (inaccurate,
chronologically) and a nephew "catching his breath whilst leaning on a
frozen".... popcorn kernel!

From: Vidar Svendsen:
>>>Does anybody know anything about the relationship
between the Norwegian and the Danish comics?
For how long has the "Norwegian Donald Duck" and
the "Danish Anders And" been the same (except the language).

I assume you knew that all Egmont branches are fed the same stories and
covers, etc., each week and they decide how to use them. This resulted in
the various Egmont issues all being very similar on a given week, though not
exactly. But for about the last two years Egmont decided to consolidate
operations and combine the Norwegian and Swedish editions under one
editorial staff... and I believe the Danish edition was added to this in the
past year or so, as well. So these three editions should now be identical in
contents (or close to it, I don't lay them side by side and scrutinize
'em).

From: Claudio Eckert
Subject: "On stolen time" - Cover
>>>>Hm... not easy... First I thought of showing the Ducks on their hunt
after the Beagle Boys with the BBs in the background climbing up the
"frozen" birds. But who would understand this (or similar scenes)? And
it's even a spoiler

I figgered it's *not* a "spoiler" since the scene makes absolutely NO sense
until the reader reads (!) the story for the explanation.

And, last but far from least, thank you, Francesco, for those nice
thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, all!

- To Paolo Castagno and others interested on The Blot:
Two scans (the first page and a half-page 20) from "O Campeao
Faixa-Preta" (the "mysterious" Blot story) can be seen at:
http://www.sulminas.com.br/somell/arthur/Camp_01.jpg
http://www.sulminas.com.br/somell/arthur/Camp_02.jpg

- Francois Willot:
>In France, many were published in the Journal de Mickey, re-formated to
>5-tier format (is the 3-tier layout, the "usual" format for Brazilian
>stories?)

Hi, Francois! Yes, it's 3-tier since mid-80s. Before that, it was normal the
4-tier format.

>-in Picsou Magazine in the late 80s, some stories from the series "Os
>Adoloscentes" (teenagers) with the Italian character Paperetta Ye'-Ye'
>(?)

Those teens are known here as "A Turma da Pata Lee" (Paperetta
Ye'-Ye's friends) and I wrote several stories with them. Matter of
fact, I proudly wrote their first story: "B840090 - "Ai, Meu Idolo",
1984), drawn by Euclides K. Miyaura. I really liked that crazy
Aracuan bird (one of the teens, known here as "Foliao"): he is
a very funny character, a mixture of Bugs Bunny with Woodpecker
(IMHO).

>-in the beginning of the 90s, many Daisy stories, featuring Daisy as a
>"modern" (liberated) woman.

The first story with that "modern" Daisy was published here in 1985:
"Uma Nova Margarida" ("A New Daisy"), written by Gerson Teixeira
(if I'm not wrong) and drawn by Euclides Miyaura. This new
Daisy made great success here! :-)

>New credits or any new information about the Brazilian
>production would be very interesting of course!

Just wait. I'm preparing a list of B-coded stories. Not
a complete list, though...
And thanks for the Blot stories that you've listed. I'll
take a look at the DcD.

-- Arthur F.

"Let's add two more cat hairs to the solution and give it another test!"
(Prof. Mollicule).

Hello everybody,

in WDC 148 you can find another second-rich man/duck.
In this story Donald is dress as a South-American tycoon
to mistake Scrooge Mc Duck to get a roast goose in the
Grant hotel. At the launch Donald unintentional eat his
moustache, so Scrooge regcognized him and said - now
I regcognize you from the newspaper - you are the second-rich
man/duck in the world.(this are not the exact words from the
original, but in the same sense.)
But neither Scrooge nor Donald will pay the bill in the hotel.
At the end Scrooge bought the hotel and Donald must make the
washing-up in the hotel kitchen.
In german comics you find this Barks-story in Donald Klassik no. 26.
(for example).
What does the original say about this South-American tycoon ?
with regards

Helmut Falkenberg