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>The first one can be answered by anyone : In my opinion , Alexander the
>Great terminated his march in the river Ydaspis
>( a branch of river Indus ) because his men protested that they were too
>tired to move on to a new , unexplored world.
>Alexander was overambitious but reasonable , and he agreed .So , did
>Don "alter" the facts ( and I know he never does)
>or did he find a source proving that Alexander's men were frightened of
>something not in Ydaspis but in Sarasvati ???

I couldn't agree more with Don Rosa about the Historian's Truth.
The well known researcher and historian U.Wilcken said that "every historian
has his own Alexander"
But it is very difficult to believe that Alexander's men were afraid of
anything after 8 year of marching to the unknown.
Here is how another historian, N.Hammond ,describes the ending of
Alexander's expedition:
"Alexander and his men were believing that after the river they would meet
the end of Asia and the Ocean.
They learned the truth from the natives. There was the Ganga's valley with a
great number of oversized elephants.They showed their impatience with their
behavior.Alexander was decisive to go further up to the Ocean after Ganga's
valley. He called his army top officials for conference and consultation.His
speach caused a long silence.Coinus ,an eminent general ,spoke on behalf of
the army.They wanted to return home. Alexander's anger was obvious.
Next day called again for conference and said that he decided to go further
only with volunteers.He waited for three days.But the attitude of his men
didn't change.He sacrificed to see Gods' wishes.But the signs and auspices
were not good. Through his faithful friends made known that he decided to
return. His soldiers went out of his tent to show him their joy.
Alexander failed to impose his wish. But he avoided a collision with his
army.The Ascension,the marching to the East was ended."

Georgios Balanikas

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In a message dated 9/21/99 10:08:58 PM, (Email removed) writes:

<< (Email removed) >>

Complete runs of all Gladstone to Disney to Gladstone titles from 1986
inception to 1996. All are in M/NM condition. Also avaliable, a limited
number of Golden Age Dells and Goldkeys. In addition, many "reader" DC's and
Marvels from 60's and 70's. I can no
longer store these comics due to lack of space and commitment. I will
consider any and all serious and reasonable offers for the whole lot. I do
not wish to sell individual comics from complete sets. I would be willing to
trade for issues of The Carl Barks Library (all titles) to complete my
collection. E-mail me for a complete list.

Contact:
(Email removed)
Jeff (909) 621-0746

Hi Nisse answered this too, but I have to comment anyway

Mike Dumas 164:
> From: mdumas <(Email removed)>
> To: (Email removed)
> Subject: Re: Disney comics Digest V99 #125

> What's this about the "Danish Yearbook 1950"?
reprints, as Nisse says

> Is that part of a retrospective of
> all the old Walt Disney Comics and Stories, or what?
It's danish, so it's erquivalent to those, the first years will be reprint.

> And if not, why don't they
> just put all this stuff on a CD and soak us a hundred or so for it,
> so we can affordably relive childhood once and for all, then move
> on to new obsessions? --
What kind of a (excuse me) sick attitude is that? Of course comics
will be on cd sometime, if they don't die before, but shouldn't we
keep that away for some time? Overmore I believe, in this case,
Egmont *also* made the books to please the fans, cause it's the
real classics, and the old forgtten ones (This is what happens
when one answers to late... sorry that I'm repeating you a bit Nisse)
Also there's a big saving to make, if one just wants to read the stories,
you see it would of course cost a lot to buy those 10 first issues, also
because they are so good, so it's cheaper to buy those books (and 50
kroner cheaper yet if you subscribe...). I'm looking forward to march,
cause
I only have 5 issues/reprints from 1951, and one of them costed 250 which
is the same as the book, so I'll save something there... and have a
book with very nice reprints.

Nisse:
> It is a very nice reprint of the dansih 'Anders And & Co." from 1950. The
first issues from > 1949 came half a year ago, and the series will continue
to the year 1954.
Is that a fact? I thought they would take 1955 too, while they're at it?
You know 1956 was the year when they went bi-weekly so that would
be a too big book or two books, but 1955 was a normal 12-issues year...
Did you read the 1954-thing somewhere, where I could look too?

> I don't know if there will be a new comicbook twice a year until they
> are finished.
They do promise that, but maybe they'll think it's fun to keep us
waiting...
remember they had to wait one months each time, back then...
and when they went bi-weekly, an expression was invented: the wrong tuesday

(they came on tuesday then, and then in 1958 it was finally: every tuesday.
)(since then it's been monday or thursday...

> Along with the great original Barks-stories, there are the almost
> forgotten stories with less known characters. They are also great.

>I enjoyed the BONGO-stories in the 1949-issues very much!
Me too, he's i a nice charecter, and it's great to see him knock
that big bear down with his wit and cleverness. What's the bear's
name in english?

> These early issues have a kind of innocence when you look at them.
> I think it is the true danish disney-spirit
Hear hear!

> I remember from reading my first comics when I was 3 and 4 years old -
> just reading the pictures - and making the stories up for myself.
:-) Did that too. and then the happiness when one could finally read
them...
not the usual readingbook stuff from school but a real classic....
I know I'm not that old that I can have experienced that, but they did
reprint
some barks-classics in the 80'es when I grew up...

Looking forward to see if they do print the two years of bi-weekly years
is AC

DON:

>KOMIX says they will be using many of my stories in 1999. I'd been
>wondering what had happened there -- they almost *overused* my stories in
>KOMIX while doing my "Life of $crooge" series, but then they stopped using
>my work since then except for the "Guardians" story (and one Dutch one that
>I didn't write).

Don must mean "in 2000", as there has been very little Rosa in KOMIX during
1999.

It seems that KOMIX has a "wave" pattern of which stories/artists it
features. It seems to features particular artists in "waves"--lots of Barks
or Rosa or _______ (fill in the blanks) for a series of months, and then a
long pause as another "wave" comes in.

>But now they
>finally have several, I think "Super Snooper Strikes Again", "Last Sled to
>Dawson" and "A Little Something Special"

From what I hear, "Something Special" will be printed in the special "Year
2000" KOMIX issue, cover-dated January 2000, that will also print the
much-requested here in Greece "The Lentils from Babylon", by Romano Scarpa.
My sources at KOMIX also tell me that 10 out of 12 issues in 2000 will print
Rosa stories. Wasn't I saying something about "waves" above?

On another front, I read that Carl Barks has undergone blood transfusions.
Does anyone know more about the welfare of the beloved Master?

Cheers,

Archontis

SANTIAGO:

>Archontis & Italian contributors:
>May I ask you if is that address right? Isn't there any other way for
>getting in touch with them (www, email or telephone number)? I'm very
>interested.

Yes, the address is correct; again, it's:

Walt Disney Servizio Abbonamenti
Casella Postale 340
20102 Milano
ITALIA

You could also write to:

Via S. Sandri, 1
20121 Milano
ITALIA

phone # only for subscriptions: 039/2020350

phone # on back issues: 02/29085191

fax #: 02/29085190

I now subscribe to a total of 5 titles from Italy: the weekly "Topolino",
the monthlies "Zio Paperone", "I Classici Disney", and "I Grandi Classici",
and the bi-monthly "I Maestri Disney". The P.O. Box address above has always
worked for me. For subscription payment they accept CARTA SI, VISA, AMEX,
and DINERS.

Here follow the subscription (European only?) rates:

TOPOLINO (52 issues): L. 195,000
MINNI&COMPANY (12 issues) L. 64,200
CIP&CIOP (12 issues) L. 67,200
I CLASSICI DISNEY (12 issues) L. 55,000
PAPERINO (12 issues) L. 61,200
MEGA 2000 (12 issues) L. 61,200
I GRANDI CLASSICI (12 issues) L. 74,000
ZIO PAPERONE (12 issues) L. 69,000
GIOVANI MARMOTTE (12 issues) L. 63,200
PAPERINIK (12 issues) L. 61,200
PK (12 issues) L. 59,000
I MAESTRI DISNEY (6 issues) L. 42,500

Hope that was of help,

Cheers,

Archontis

For some reason I sen this to the wrong address. (I did send a mail to per
at the same time, maybe they were send wrong...)

> > Sitting here finding equivalents from my foreign pocketbooks to those
in my
> > own language I stumbled over a cover fro a norwegian pocket no. 105, it
> > very clearly carries a cutting from Barks's Story All at Sea (US 31).
> > Sometime ago, I went through one of the newest weeklies and found a few
> > clippings from The Quiz Show story by Barks (which was a radio-show...
no
> > TV-.cameras... I'm saying that because some, apart from that good,
danish
> > newsppaper stated that at the jubilee in march...)
> > I know others who can just look at a little drawing on the cover of a
> > weekly and say exact what story it is (mostly Barks-stories they do
that
> > with). I'm starting to have that ability too, I guess, cause I hadn't
> > notiuced that about the norwegian cover...
> > Did anyone index the norwegian pocket-books?
> >
> > Anders Christian Sivebaek
> > (Email removed);

Hope you hadn't seen it before, if yes, sorry