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Hello,

falkenberg wrote:
> A little bit off-topic: few years ago I found on a fleamarket
> a Disney-pocket in arabian language.

I also have a Disney comic from Egypt, and I'd like to add it to
the I.N.D.U.C.K.S. but I can't read anything on it, so if this
list has among its members someone with some skills in arabic
(or, better, someone from Egypt), could you tell me the name of
the comic (or whatever else that red and yellow writing means)
whose cover is at

http://www.confor.it:2222/disney/images/appo/egypt.jpg

thanks,

- Paolo
htpp://i.am/castagno

Its now been more than 2 months since Bruce Hamilton wrote this to the
subscribers about the possible future of Disney comics in the US:

>We will write you with the full details of the final chapter in this
on-going saga very soon! I give you my word.

Has anyone heard anything yet??? Gary?

-Poul Frokjar, Denmark

At 09/08/99 14:22 +0200, Nils Lid Hjort wrote:

>In order to be psychologically prepared for tomorrow's
>solar eclipse [check www.eclipse.org.uk] I wanted to re-read

In order to be even better prepared I think you should expect the eclipse
to happen on Wednesday 11th, not tomorrow (Tuesday 10th)... ;-)

Frank (http://i.am/filologo.disneyano/) http://www.uk.research.att.com/~fms/

> > - "Ode to the Disney Ducks" by Carl Barks (with a translation)
>
>This ode was published on Italian Zio Paperone last month, I
>think it deserves a code to be inserted in I.N.D.U.C.K.S.

Is this the same as the one sent to DCML some month(s) ago?

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> >This ode was published on Italian Zio Paperone last month, I
> >think it deserves a code to be inserted in I.N.D.U.C.K.S.
>
> Is this the same as the one sent to DCML some month(s) ago?

Yes!

Sprea

Fellow Quackeroos:

I'm back on-line after a 3-week summer vacation. Part II consisted of a
4-day trip to Athens; early August is surely the best time of the year to
visit Athens, as it's nearly deserted from its island-fleeing denizens.

I will spare you the archaelogical part of my visit and I shall concentrate
on the comics-hunting part that gave me the chance to meet once again with
our Kriton (I had met him for the first time earlier this year when he
visited Thessaloniki), and to also meet with another member of our list,
Dennis Tzavaras.

In the second day of my visit, I met with Dennis at an electric train
station, and recognized him by a Topolino issue he was holding! :-) (It
turned out to include the most recent M. De Vita story!). Our first stop was
the Monastiraki district, in Plaka, just under the Acropolis. Monastiraki is
chock-full of shops selling old stuff that they call "collectibles" so they
can charge a corresponding price. Dennis took me to a shop selling old
magazines and comics and he directed my attention to a couple of boxes full
of "Miky Maus" and "Klasika" back issues. I spent more than an hour going
thru the stacks of old comics, armed with two indexes of Scarpa's and M. De
Vita's stories. The search proved out to be quite fruitful: I managed to
locate and eventually buy a total of ~50 comics re-printing great stories by
Scarpa, Carpi, M. De Vita, and Cavazzano. I even found a couple of old,
French "Mickey Parade" issues re-printing the above mentioned artists'
stories. I was really ecstatic to locate a Carpi story I've been searching
for some time now, "The Trompets of Jericho" from back in 1961, which I had
read as a kid many years ago. When Kriton showed up some time later, he was
green with envy ( :-)) when I told him of my find (you see, he's also been
looking for that same story). I told him that I'd send him the comic after
reading it, or I'd make photocopies for him. That's called comics
comradorship and solidarity! :-)

Kriton didn't have much time on his hands as he had just taken some time off
his work, so we all strolled to a couple of nearby stores looking for more
comics. We went thru more piles of "Miky Maus" and "Klasika" issues,
unearthing more and more precious "gems"! A store even had a few old
"Picsou" and "Topolino" issues, and I grabbed a few interesting ones. Dennis
found for me a copy of a volume priting "The Seven Wonders of the Ducks",
but the store owner took it back claiming it was reserved for somebody else!

After Kriton went back to work, Dennis and myself took a brief brake from
this hard labor and sat at a cafe for a cool frappe coffee. We talked about
our favorite Ducks and of our collections, and he told me that if I'm
interested we could walk (it's only a 30-minute walk, he said) to another
comics store where we could find more goodies, even some of the "specials"
I've been looking for (volumes printing "Il segreto del totem decapitato"
from 1973 and "Alla ricerca della pietra zodiacale" from 1990). He had
already found there a copy of "The Ice-sword Trilogy" he had sent me a few
months back, so the venture was promising. The noon trek thru the scorching
streets of Athens lasted more than an hour and upon reaching the store,
disappointment reigned all over: the store-owner had left for his summer
vacation! I stoically realized that I was doing exactly the same thing, so
we slowly made our was back to the nearest bus stop, and made plans to meet
again the next day for a visit to a comics....warehouse!

The three of us met once again the next day in Omonoia Square, which is
dead-center Athens, early in the evening. At a kiosk while waiting for
Kriton to show up, my eye caught the sight of an album featuring Mickey
Mouse on its cover. Closer inspection revealed that it was a French
hard-cover album, and next to it there were more, featuring Donald Duck and
Uncle Scrooge. Dennis told me that he had never seen these albums before and
that I must have brought good luck along! The Scrooge albums printed Barks
and the Mickey ones Paul Murry. I ended up buying a Mickey album featuring
Murry's "The Secret of the Swamp", MM #66, and "The Phantom Fires", WDC&S
#200-202, and paying $6 for it. The album was originally published back in
1980 by DARGAUD in collaboration with Grande Diffusion Livre.

We then boarded a taxi that took us to Nikaia, a suburb near Peireaus.
Dennis knew of a man nearly 80 years old who had once owned a store in
Monastiraki, that housed a huge collection of comics in a warehouse! Dennis
had called him in advance that we were coming and he was waiting for us. The
place was an incredible sight to see: a room filled with rows of old comics,
most randomly placed. Not just Disney comics, but all kinds of comics old
and new. It was musty and humid and a foul odor permeated the room. I had a
hunch that under these conditions my mild asthma would probably be acting
up, but I took the chance. I went for more than a hour thru as many piles of
"Miky Maus" and "Klasika" I could, and I managed to locate ~30 issues I
finally bought. Kriton was able to locate quite a few as well. I found for
him a copy of M. De Vita's "The Ice-Sword Trilogy", and I hope he'll like
it--he said he'll hold it against me if he doesn't! :-)) Dennis was able to
unearth a copy of the volume printing all 12 chapters of "Il segreto del
totem decapitato" drawn by people like Capri, Cavazzano, and M. De Vita, and
was kind enough to concede it to me as I were a guest--thanks much Dennis!
The only volume I didn't find was "La pietra zodiacale", but life wouldn't
be too much fun if you get everything at once!

We could have stayed in that place all day long--but we couldn't. I had to
be back by a certain hour and my asthma was starting to act up not liking
the environment too much. We took the trolley back to Omonoia, said good-buy
to Kriton and took another bus along with Dennis for our destinations. We
parted half an hour later promising to do it AGAIN!

A big THANKS to Dennis for taking the time (and the walking!) to show me
around the comics places in Athens! The comics I bought should provide for
plenty of ammunition for those silly columns of mine called "Story of the Week".

Cheers,

Archontis

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End of Disney comics Digest V99 Issue #136
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NILS (and everyone):

Another story to read in preparation for the eclipse is ITL 337-B,
"Gastone e l'eclissi di fortuna", written by Rodolfo Cimino and drawn
by Romano Scarpa, which is one of the stories I bought in the "warehouse"
that Archontis described.

---BEGIN SPOILER---

Gladstone's luck stops working during an eclipse, and we get to see him
suffering a series of incredible accidents, instead of the usual series
of impossibly lucky events. After the eclipse is over, the accidents turn
out to be in Gladstone's favor, but at least we get the satisfaction
of seing Donald thrash Gladstone within an inch of his life for having
tried to gain Donald's sympathy for his supposed bad luck.

In that story, everybody is watching the eclipse using smoked glass,
and there is no note that this is dangerous. Perhaps, during the sixties,
this was considered to be a safe practice.

---END SPOILER---

ARCHONTIS:

> When Kriton showed up some time later, he was
> green with envy ( :-)) when I told him of my find (you see, he's also been
> looking for that same story).

I offered to buy the issue for no more than cover price (which would be in
the area of a couple of drachmas). For some reason, Archontis refused. :-)

> It was musty and humid and a foul odor permeated the room.
...
> I found for
> him a copy of M. De Vita's "The Ice-Sword Trilogy", and I hope he'll like
> it--he said he'll hold it against me if he doesn't! :-))

If I don't, I'll hold it against you--literally. (Phew!)

Let me add a few more things about that place: the guy seemed to care
little about the stories themselves, talking about issue numbers, and
charging amounts that were inversely proportional to the issue number. He
had no idea what the "Zodiac Stone" was, demanding that we tell him what
issue number it was (it doesn't have one--it's a special), so that he
might try to locate it for us. He also charged me 2000 drs. for a MM
issue in the 400's range, which contains a reprint of one of the stories
that I remember reading as a kid: the one where Scrooge fakes his death,
and Donald has to find Scroge's first dollar, following a series of
clues, before he can inherit his uncle. An interesting fact was that
after we had found those Topolino issues that Archontis mentioned, we
realized that they were among a bunch of adult books. I'm not sure that
our eyes's being drawn by the Disney characters rather than the contents
of the other books is a healthy reaction...

Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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he couldn't have his doctor, his dentist, his favorite carpenter, or his dog
groomer at his side if he wanted to, security clearance or not."
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Someone was asking today about the Gladstone situation. As coincidence
would have it, here's what came in the mail today, in a letter postmarked
August 3:
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An Important Announcement to
Gladstone Comics Subbscribers

An Open Letter from John Clark
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Dear Subscriber,

Bruce Hamilton has asked me to jot this note to you since I'm more
familiar with the current situation concerning discussions between
Stephen A. Geppi of Gemstone Publishing, Inc., and the Walt Disney Company
relating to Steve's quest for a new license to publish the Disney comic
books in the U.S. and Canada.

Here's the good news: both sides are now negoiating specifics and I
believe I'll be writing to you in *August* that Letters of Intent have,
indeed, been exchanged. Should that happen -- and Steve's said he hopes
it will -- I'll be sending off the first new issues of *Uncle Scrooge*
and *Walt Disney's Comics and Stories* for final film and printing, ASAP!

Every subscription with _six months or less_ before expiration will
receive a *free* extra $6.95 comic as a thank you. Every sub with
_seven months to one year_ remaining will receive *two free* extra $6.95
issues! And so on... for those with longer subs!

Gary leach and I plan to announce some exciting new concepts and goals
in the new books. We'll all be looking forward to your letters, as before!

A sneak peek to the left of the first cover layout for the first new
*WDC&S*... with the first *ever* Floyd Gottfredson art!

Be talking to you again, real soon!

John
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The sneak preview shows mickey riding Tanglefoot. The cover has a "Walt
Disney's Comics" (no "and stories") title, and a Gladstone logo.

So, the good news is that it appears that U$ and WDC&S will be resuming
publication soon, by what it appears will be Gladstone in all but
(including?) name. The bad (or, at least, dubious) news is that they'll
continue with the prestige format, so these new books will be addressed
again mainly at collectors. Let's hope that the "exciting new concepts
and goals", to which John refers, will include new titles aimed at a
more general audience that is more interested in reading the stories
than in collecting expensive publications.

On the reverse side of the letter there is another letter by John Clark,
about a new Carl Barks Fan Club, endorsed by Barks himself, with Ed
Bergen as President and Treasurer, and John Clark as Vice President and
Secretary. Suffice it to say that I won't be joining: overpublication
has ruined Barks' stories for me, and promoting them would be the last
thing I'd want to do.
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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BBC producers..."
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