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> Some information gathered from an earlier discussion on The Uncensored
> Mouse on this list is at
> <http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/notdisney.html>:

Thanks!!

> /Per (who doesn't have those books himself, unfortunately)
> "Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

Well... As an information (even to those who wanted to know the price)

"Uncensored Mouse" issue 1 and 2 went for 40 Swedish Crowns
each in a recent swedish on-line auction. They were in near mint
condition still in their original and unopened bag.

40 swedish Crowns is.. eh.. about four to four and a half dollars..

Steamboat Willie

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End of Disney comics Digest V99 Issue #76
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There's this I would add about "The Uncensored Mouse": The folks at
Eternity were not naive, and certainly not about Disney's likely reaction
to those comics. They could have hardly goaded Disney into action more
readily if they'd gone to the executive suite and dumped a load of horse
manure on Michael Eisner's desk. This does not mean that Eternity was
necessarily in the wrong, but Disney's lawsuit was no surprise to anyone,
nor was the resultant out-of-court settlement.

There are those who think this is just what Eternity had in mind. Disney is
unlikely to have overlooked this as a possibility, though whether there was
any substantiation that could have held up as "informed rumor", let alone
in court, is another matter. In the end Disney wisely offered a settlement,
and Eternity wisely accepted it...and Eternity's parent company Malibu was
bought by Marvel, which eventually published a line of Disney comics. Hey,
since Marvel has retroactively established itself as the publisher of
Malibu's "Men In Black", on that basis Marvel is now the publisher of "The
Uncensored Mouse", which means that "The Uncensored Mouse" were Marvel's
first Disney comics!

Reality. What a concept...

DISNEY COMICS WORLDWIDE NEWS UPDATE #1
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TOPOLINO MAGAZINE TURNS FIFTY
This month, Italy's Topolino weekly magazine celebrates its 50th
anniversary with a wide range of special activities. Beginning on April 15th
and running through June 30th, a big exhibit called Topolino L'eroe Delle
Tue Storie will be held in Rome, inviting visitors on an amusing trip inside
the Topolino magazine. At the same time, a one-shot entitled Top 49 will be
released, with a reprint of the very first three issues of Topolino magazine
from 1949. Following the success of The Best of Mickey Mouse, a new magazine
dedicated to Donald Duck will be released at the exhibit, comprising a
selection of his best comic stories. The hard cover Best of Donald Duck
title contains 288 comic pages and editorial pages discussing the stories
and their artists.

FINNISH COMICBOOK IN DIALECT
The huge success of the first-ever Disney comic album in a Finnish
dialect took Finland by surprise. Classic Carl Barks' stories featuring
Uncle Scrooge were re-written in Ostrobothnian. The album received
tremendous media coverage and the first edition of 70,000 copies sold out
the day the album was launched in early December.

MICKEY MOUSE GOES WEEKLY IN BULGARIA
The Mickey Mouse magazine had its start in Bulgaria as a bi-monthly
title in 1991, moved to monthly frequency in 1992, was published bi-weekly
in 1993 and, as of this year, will apear weekly. Egmont Bulgaria has updated
the magazine concepts to include more editorial content.

INSRAEL AND PORTUGAL LAUNCH NEW WINNIE THE POOH COMICS
A new Winnie the Pooh monthly magazine in Hebrew was successfully
launched by Yedioth-Egmont in Israel last February. The launch was conducted
in collaboration with McDonald's and Co-Op, a leading retailer in Israel.
McDonald's distributed more than 100,000 copies of the magazine for free in
its restaurants throughout the country. In addition Abril/Controljornal
launches a Winnie the Pooh pre-school magazine on the Portugal market this
April.

MIKI MAX ACTIVITY LAUNCHED IN POLAND
Egmont in Poland has just launched Miki Max, a quarterly activity
title based on the German Miki Activ magazine. Miki Max is full of puzzles,
jokes and games which should make it a favorite magazine for Polish
children. The Polish flagship magazine, Kaczor Donald, supported the launch
by recommending Miki Max in its 'Kaczor Donald Recommends' corner.

PRINCESS MAGAZINE TESTS IN GERMANY WITH STRONG RESULTS
German publisher Ehapa Verlag tested their version of Princess
magazine in October with success. The girls' title is based on the British
Princess magazine. The first issue of this monthly title was launched early
this year.

DISNEY ADVENTURES REDESIGN
Disney Adventures in the USA rose it's ad pages and revenues with 26%
in 1998 over the prior year. An editorial and graphic re-design are
effective as of this month.

INTRODUCING THE EURO TO FRENCH CHILDREN
Disney Hachette Presse in France printed 3.3 million copies of a
special issue of the Journal de Mickey weekly magazine for the BNP, a major
French bank and Disneyland Paris partner. The 20-page special issue was
created by DHP to explain the new Euro currency to children using a comic
story featuring the Junior Woodchucks.
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Hello,

Next thursday (29-04-1999) in Rome will start a exhibition
celebrating the 50th birthday of the main Italian publication:
"Topolino". It will last two months, but I think I'll be there
for its opening. Is there someone else who'll be there?

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

PER (and everyone):
You quote the following info from the dcomics pages...
> _Uncensored Mouse_ was a reprint from Eternity Comics of very
> early Mickey strips, that supposedly were in the public domain.
> It seems like some of the earliest strips actually are, but two
> of those published by Eternity had been printed in 1930's
> _Mickey Mouse Book_ before appearing in newspapers, and thus
> were registered for copyright differently, and are still
> protected. Hence the demise of their series.

As the contributor of the info, I should update it to say that
_Mickey Mouse Book_ actually appeared *late* in 1930, when the strips were
already in newspapers. But the important thing is that as a part of the
book, the strips were still copyrighted less than a year after their
creation, and this protected them effectively.
As to whether there are more than two issues of UM, no more than two
were ever printed, but galley proofs to #3 exist.

IMHO, the tragic thing about UNCENSORED MOUSE is that it had a noble
goal: to do justice to Mickey Mouse. Unfortunately, in an attempt to make
the stuff sell, it played up its nature as "forbidden fruit... the stuff
you're not supposed to see." The marketing tactic extended all the way to
selling the comics sealed in plastic, so you couldn't even open them in the
shops. Eternity gave people the impression that the early Mickey was a dirty
comic; something that had *rightfully* been suppressed. To quote a
description from someone's eBay auction that's going on now... "This has
graphic action! More brutal and shocking than what you'd expect from Mickey.
Bagged individually, to prevent destroying the dreams of the Mickey fan that
may happen upon it!"
Oh, sure. Did they destroy the dreams of last year's readers of
WDC&S 626 and 627 (when much of the same material, minus cannibals but with
Mickey's harmlessly mischievous behavior unchanged, was mostly reprinted)? I
think not.

UNCENSORED MOUSE, genuinely containing some great strips and
articles and intended as a tribute to Gottfredson, was packaged in such a
way that it only dirtied his reputation. What a shame.

David Gerstein

I think I once read a few lines in an old issue of the Danish fanzine "Carl
Barks & Co" that Barks himself had probably cut down the Horse-Radish
story down from a larger number of pages. Has others heard / read the same?
If it has been altered this might also have influenced the horse-radish
lettering.

I can't remember whether it was just one guys own idea about the story or
something that should have come from Barks himself. I'll try and dig up the
fanzine if this is "news".

-Poul Frokjar, Denmark

From: Jakob Soederbaum:
>>>Two Rosa-related questions:
>>>* Does anyone know whether the Rosa-cover with U$ riding a giraffe (Lo$ 6)
was published outside of the collected Egmont edition of Lo$, I mean --
as a real cover?

Two Rosa-given answers:
The giraffe cover was ordered by accident by the German Rosa-album editor. He'd already had me do a cover using the other story in that particular album. So the only place that art has appeared so far is in the European "Lo$" hardback, and never as an real cover.
Speaking of that German Rosa-album series... looks like during the next few issues they will have caught up to my current (sloooow) rate of story production. So sometime next year I guess it will hafta switch from being 4-times-per-year to only twice-per-year. At best.

>>>*And where was the picture of U$ getting a birthday cake from his sisters
*first* published (I have it as a cover for the French fanzine CBD #84)?

I think that's the only place it appeared. I drew it for... was it you, Didier? Maybe you can answer?

Jakob,

The drawing of $crooge being offered the birthday cake done by Don
Rosa was originally created as a cover for the UK fanzine Magical
Moments and Memories to illustrate the interview of Don included in
the issue.

It was then republished as a cover of the CBD to illustrate the same
interview translated in French.

Didier

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