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Hi there,

I just read the following:

>Marco Rota, the Italian artist with the polished style (...)
His latest story is unmistakenly inspired by Don Rosa's Life of Scrooge
series (...)
In "Last Stagecoach to Tucson" (D 98157) Scrooge tells his nephews the
story of an old stagecoach, whose wreck they find in a ghost town. "At th=
e
time", which isn't given, "I was often on business trips in the Wild West=
."
Two competing stagecoach companies are competing for the trip between
Silver
Creek and Tucson, Arizona. One of them goes through Maybilene, and the
other on a long, twisted, and dangerous route west around the mountains
into indian territory. (...)
Questions must go to Don Rosa and Byron Erickson, who must be holding the
leashes on both Don and Marco, if this is considered a genuine Lo$ story,
and if there has been any coordination between the two creators on the
story? When is this story supposed to take place? Is there, as we're used
to, any historical truth behind? And will Scrooge one day reveal if he
carved the heart on the stagecoach wall?<

As it happens I just finished translating the story TWO MINUTES AGO for t=
he
German Disney-publisher Egmont-Ehapa (God bless the Internet!). It's a fi=
ne
story, but I'm sure there is no historical truth behind it and there was =
no
coordination between the two creators as there is no real possibility to
fit it within the LO$-chronology.

By way of translating I suggested to my editor Joachim Stahl (hi there!)
to squeeze it somewhere between chapters II and III of LO$. For in my
opinion before getting to North Dakota where he met McKenzie in the
Badlands young Scrooge made a sidetrip to Tucson, Arizona, where he bough=
t
the stagecoach company Western Trip. Surely, somewhere along the way to t=
he
North of the Wild West he lost his fortune (or just his knowledge about
this business?), for there is no hint to it in the "Hero of the Badlands"
(correct re-translation? I'm not quite sure, my Gladstones are packed
away).

Or to put it the other way round: No coordination between Rosa and Rota.
Just a story that grows on an idea Rota received by reading LO=A7 III/IV.=
But
a fine story nevertheless!

See You, brothers in mind!
Michael

Last Sunday, four Dutch Disney comics fans (Duco, Roy, Angela and I) met in
Wageningen (at the home of Roy and Angela). Some photographs of that meeting
can be found at:

http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/bolderbast/fotos3.html

Probably only of interest for those who want to know what we look like (hi,
Anders), or who want to admire Roy's collection of Dutch comics (hi, Ole)...

--Harry.

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