Keskustelujen arkisto

Now that I've gotten so many other people's viewpoints on the Prestige
books I guess I see the point. Honestly, I didn't buy the prestige WDC&S
when they were being released. I was busy with other interests and
bought very few comics during this time (I think all I bought was the
Penny Pincher books). So now I find myself scrambling to get as many
issues as I can and I do love them, but they are especially expensive now
on the back issue market, and some issues are a little hard to find, even
though they came out so recently. Maybe Gemstone would see it profitable
to say, reprint 3 months worth of issues in a quarterly album. Sounds
good to me, but I'm no marketing whiz.

rodney bowcock

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OLE:

>Re: the recent discussion on Gold Key/Whitman comics I've just noticed
>some Disney books with the label "Top Comics" on eBay auctions.
>
>They appear to be parallel to contemporary Gold Key issues, but what is
>the story behind these?

I'm sure someone here can fill you in with more details than this, but I
remember the Top comics as an early attempt to sell certain titles in
bagged assortments. It was the summer of 1967, I believe, and I don't
think they lasted much beyond that.

Tryg

"More hay Trigger?" "Not thanks, Roy, I am stuffed!"

Thanks Don, Stefan & all for your responses. It's clearer now.

STEFAN DIOS:

>>>These are economic and marketing-related decisions, not editorial, and have nothing to do with the contents of the supplement.

(I think I remember now, those "KA Extra"s eh? Seems like ages ago I last saw one of those)

> An inveterate Donaldist might argue that a supplement with a
> new Don Rosa story still could sell so many extra copies as to make up for
> the higher costs, but I'm not sure that the marketing people would accept
> such an argument... and they might be right, at that...

I agree, I guess the majority of the Swedish Don Rosa fan base are subscribers...
Maybe it would have worked if there was some sort of public advertising for KA&co
(but that would only have worked with the Barks & Rosa stories, since they are the only
Disney artists mentioned in newspaper articles these days)

However, I know that Don's stories have resulted in more subscribers
(at least two more that I know of, heh)

> However, don't despair, Swedish readers! Keep your eyes open the next few
> weeks! Some summer supplements of Kalle Anka & C:o are coming up soon, and
> sometimes we may make a decision to use some stuff we missed out on before...!

Hurrah with highly polished brass knobs on!!!

DON ROSA:

>>> Somebody asked why Sweden does not use my stories like "Lost Charts of Columbus" and "Treasure of the Ten Avatars". "Avatars" was a one-part, unserialized near-30 pager. Sweden does no supplement issues and doesn't want to use up that much space in their weekly with one story. That applies to their non-use of "Avatars", "Last Lord of Eldorado", "Master of the Mississippi"...... but NOT to "Lost Charts" which was a normal 3-parter. They didn't use that? Maybe it was because the story featured an Irish/Celtic style Christian CROSS... I was told that upset some publishers.

With Stefan's comment in mind it didn't seem to be the reason it was dropped from Sweden,
but if it was the reason for it not appering in some other country, it's strange to imagine ENTIRE story would be dropped...
Oh well, can't say much about it since I haven't read it...yet

Martin Berglund
Malmo, Sweden

>Last February I saw a display in a Disney Store in a mall (I think it was
>Woodfield) around Chicago which was a scene from the Ducktales episode
>"Earthquack", based on the 1956 Barks story "Land Beneath the Ground". It
>was pretty big, situated above the register. Of course all Disney Stores
>have something like that, but this had Scrooge in it, three nephews in the
>mine cart and even some Terry Fermians!! :oO

Aye. 'tis true! The Disney Store in a local mall here in Baltimore, MD has
the same scene. I was quite impressed when the store opened.

>>HOYMURPHY wrote:
>> Every time I go to the local Disney store I ask for anything
>> with $crooge on it, and I either get a blank look or an apology
>> for not having anything.
>>
Arthur replied:
>Last February I saw a display in a Disney Store in a mall (I think it was
>Woodfield) around Chicago which was a scene from the Ducktales episode
>"Earthquack", based on the 1956 Barks story "Land Beneath the Ground". It
>was pretty big, situated above the register. Of course all Disney Stores
>have something like that, but this had Scrooge in it, three nephews in the
>mine cart and even some Terry Fermians!! :oO

The Disney store in Syracuse,NY has the same display hanging above the
inside entrance. The store in Utica has a large window display with HDL
drawing and painting at an artist's desk. I was even bold enough to ask
about the fate of these. I was told they do not change displays, so these
stay until such time as the store closes and then nobody knows what will
happen to these figures.

As long as I've de-lurked and things seem a little slow on the ML of
late, I have a question. I have started to get comic books from various
countries and usually the $ sign on Scrooge's bin is changed to reflect
the currency symbol of the country. When the "Euro-dollar" becomes
common, will an "E" be used on the bin by any publishers?
Gary Pantzer
Oneida, NY

Kriton:

>I suspect that I somehow missed the joke, however, and that Don did >not
>mean to say that Donald was sixty in that story, but that the >museum guy
>*thought* that he was sixty.

Well, at least I got the impression that Donald really is 60, judging by the
last page of the Finnish version of the story, which includes the following
dialogue: (sorry for the poor translation)

The museum guy: Yes! The retirement begins at 65. But you're only 60!
Daisy: Sixty!!!
Donald: Of course! Was that new for you?
Daisy: Oh, I see! It was a joke! Very, very, funny!
Gladstone: Did you hear? Donald is sixty! Haha! Add some extra candles to
the cake!
Everybody: HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY, DONALD DUCK!!!

So, the museum guy isn't the only one who thinks Donald is sixty...
I've only seen the Finnish version of the story, though, so I don't know if
the Finnish editors have made any changes to the original.
Maybe the other versions don't mention Donald's age as clearly as that?

But you're right, maybe Don didn't mean to say that Donald is sixty. After
all, if he really was 60, there wouldn't be any need for that little
incident with the upside-down sheet, right? But the last
page being the way it is, it's difficult to say. So, Don, what's the truth??

By the way, what does the museum guy say in that new Picsou version? How did
they solve that problem? "The retirement begins at 70"? I guess not...

Juha

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From: "Fluks, H.W."
> "Lost Charts of Columbus" [..] in Sweden [..]
> They didn't use that? Maybe it was because
> the story featured an Irish/Celtic style Christian CROSS... I
> was told that upset some publishers.

>>>Why would that upset anyone?

Because some Disney publishers (and readers) are hyper-sensitive to religious matters and firmly believe in the "separation of church and comics". I think that's a good idea, myself, but I don't carry it as far as not even showing a cross, especially in an historical context. Remember how even Barks depicted his "Notre Duck" as some sort of secular museum or something unspecified. But I do put crosses on steeples and so forth... I'm not sure if you see that in any other Disney comics...?
I sometimes get messages from nice Duckfans offering me ideas, and one of the most popular ones is to have $crooge go in search of the Holy Grail. I can't imagine how the suggest-er thinks I could do that story without going into a complete discription of Christian beliefs, most of which are considered simple myths by many people, while the rest considering them SO precious that they would be highly offended to see them dealt with in a Duck story. I can just see me doing a flashback to the Last Supper with Jesus Christ and all the apostles sitting around the table with dog-noses and Duckbills. Judas could look like Lawyer Sharky or Porko DeLardo. That would go over big.

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Juha:

> By the way, what does the museum guy say in that new Picsou
> version? How did
> they solve that problem? "The retirement begins at 70"? I guess not...

It's even more silly: "Retirement begins at 650". Really!

--Harry.