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Looks as if I have awakened some fans in Europe...keep sending those cards
and letters for Carl's Birthday!

Michael

It might be of some interest particularily to the Scandinavian members of
this list that last Saturday brought the sad news of the death of the
legendary comic strip author Lee Falk.
Lee Falk (whose year of birth varies depending from sources between 1907
and 1917) was the creator of two classic adventure strips, Mandrake the
Magician (which began in 1934) and perhaps even more notably the Phantom
which began two years later. The Phantom has been at times suggested to be
the very first superhero in comics, but since he does not posses any
specific supernatural powers he might just be noted as a particularily
succesful addition to the long line of costumed pulp fiction crime
fighters. The character is very popular all over the world (even perhaps
more so abroad than in the United States) and original stories have been
produced at least in Scandinavia, Italy, Australia and South America.
Lee Falk remained active writing both of these strips until his death.
Still recently the artists currently working on the strips have remained
quiet as for the possible future of the strips without the original
creator doing the writing. After all, sixty-three years worth of writing
on two daily strips done uninterrupted by a single author is quite a
unique achievement.

---Jyrki Vainio, Finland

I'm sure someone on this mailing list can answer my question: I know that
Carl Barks used the character Ludwig von Drake only once, in a one page gag.
What was the gag, the title, and what number (#) Uncle Scrooge was it in? If
somebody can answer this, I'll appreciate it.

We've passed the "50" mark....but it would be nice to get a grand total of
98 birthday greetings, yes??

Keep them coming...wake up you lurkers!!!

Michael

Ola:

> When I look at the publication data of this story by Paul Murry I see
> that it has been reprinted in something that is coded as=20
> DYN 51 in USA

Whitman's "Dynabrite Comic 11351" from 1978.

> MPS 98 in Sweden.

"Musse Pigg 70 =E5r", from October 1998.

--Harry.
http://here.is/inducks

>DYN 51 in USA and MPS 98 in Sweden.
MPS Musse Pigg 70 =E5r [min:98] [max:98]
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Actually, Lee Falk's death made the newspapers here in America, even though I would not think that there's an American in 10,000 who knows who he or The Phantom is. But this does have a spot on the Disney Comics ML, as I would like to point out... as a looooong-time comics collector, I am certainly familiar with who Lee Falk is/was, but I also thought the world had forgotten him until I started visiting Europe, and (even moreso) hearing from comics fans in Australia. The Phantom is second in popularity to only Donald Duck in many countries, and surely THE most popular comic hero Down Under. It seems pathetic that hardly any Americans will think twice about his passing, yet to Europeans & Australians it might be tantamount to what the death of a Jimmy Stewart or a John Wayne would be to us. Falk was possibly (correct me if I'm wrong) the last remaining name from the golden age of newspaper comic strips (which have been pretty sorry junk for the last 40 years with not more tha!
n !
a half-dozen exceptions, and those still not being of the calibre of the great adventure strips of the days when Falk came on the scene).
I have been asked at a Euro-convention to draw Donald Duck dressed as The Phantom on more than one occasion, and more than any other hero! That should tell you something.