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Many thanks to several ML members for info on Picsou #333
(which does contain the "Coin" story). There was also some
questions on the time delay with my subscription. The only
cost-effective way I found to get Picsou here in the heart of
New York state was from a company across the border in
Canada, where French is a second language...and in some
areas, by law, the primary.

These Picsou obviously come via 'surface' , which explains
the 3 month wait. This allows the subscription to be at a very
reasonable price. They arrive double sealed in mint condition
with the 'premiums' so I know they are not being read by the
mailman on the way here. :-)
Gary Pantzer

Ugo Dell'Arciprete:

>Hi all!
>If it works, this will be my first message on the list, after a few mo=
nths
of lurking. I tried already once with no result, I
>don't know why.

Well, welcome then :)

>I have a request mainly for Italian members (but who knows ... :-)). A=
round
years 1960-1965, when I was a boy, I >vaguely recall to have read two
stories that I'm not able to find in the INDUCKS database or similar :
>- the first one had a title like "Topolino e la setta delle sette", th=
e
plot beeing about Mickey and Goofy fighting a secret >sect inspired to =
the
number seven (for non Italian members, sette is both the plural of sect=
and
the number seven)

I don't remember at all.. but, searching in the FSB I find:

I AO 55039-1 (02-10-1955)
Topolino e la setta di settembre
/?/Perego/
31/avventura gialla, matto/Topolino; Pippo, Basettoni

No other "setta"... might it be this? (AO sta per Albo d'oro) I guess i=
t has
never been reprinted.

>- the second one had a title like "Paperino e il mastino dei Baskervil=
le",
and was a parody of Conan Doyle's "The
>hound of Baskerville", a famous Sherlock Holmes story.

It's probably this:
Taken from Marco's site( http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it/Comics/BarksIndex=
.html
see also a message of his a few days ago:)

466 [W US 29-04]
UNCLE SCROOGE 29, 3-5/1960, 36 pp., C
Uncle Scrooge "Hound of the Whiskervilles"
7 tavole e 3/4 (11 luglio 1959)
Il clan di Zio Paperone
TL 243; AR 609; Anaf 39A; ZP 11 ("Il cane dei Whiskervilles"); ZP 70 ("=
Il
clan di Zio Paperone")
Giunto in Scozia con Paperino e i nipotini alla ricerca del tartan del =
suo
clan, per dimostrare le sue illustri origini ai ricchi paperopolesi che=
lo
snobbano, Zio Paperone deve affrontare il mastino dei Whiskervilles, ch=
e a
suo tempo aveva indotto i suoi avi a fuggire dal paese.
Sin dal titolo la storia si ispira al romanzo di Arthur Conan Doyle con
Sherlock Holmes "Hound of the Baskerville" (Il mastino dei Baskerville)=
; lo
spunto sar=E0 ripreso anche in "Le Giovani Marmotte e il mistero del
maxi-cane" (677).

Hope I've been of some help:)

Sprea

SPREA + UGO:

> >I have a request mainly for Italian members (but who knows ... :-)). A=
round
> years 1960-1965, when I was a boy, I >vaguely recall to have read two
> stories that I'm not able to find in the INDUCKS database or similar :
> >- the first one had a title like "Topolino e la setta delle sette", th=
e
> plot beeing about Mickey and Goofy fighting a secret >sect inspired to =
the
> number seven (for non Italian members, sette is both the plural of sect=
and
> the number seven)
>=20
> I don't remember at all.. but, searching in the FSB I find:
>=20
> I AO 55039-1 (02-10-1955)
> Topolino e la setta di settembre
> /?/Perego/
> 31/avventura gialla, matto/Topolino; Pippo, Basettoni

What about Bramante's I TL 340-B (+ 341-A) "Topolino e i malefici sette"
(1962). Marco's description about the story sounds correct; "malavita
organizzata"!?

S=F8ren

Think of how any other comics (not to
> mention other things) you could buy that could compensate for your clidhood
> memories! :-))

Ouch! Shouldn't of let Don read that one!

Personally, I don't think that "speculators" are entirely the problem. I
was not fortunate to be around when many of my favorite comic books were
first published. For example, I am a huge fan of Curt Swan's silver-age
Superman comics, but I think that the modern Dc comics are terrible.
Many of these comics I love so much were not nicely reprinted like all
my beloved Donald duck comics so there is no way that I can read the
stories without finding the original copies (Metal Men is another
example of this). I am often willing to pay far more for a comic book
than it is actually worth simply because I want to read the story in it
so badly. I could care less about my collection's value and I am
perfectly happy to buy a "worthless" reprint of something rather than
the original because all I'm really interested in is the enjoyment of
the story. In fact, reprints are better in this respect because the
color is nicer and I don't have to worry about the book disintegrating
as I read it. My collection is probably hardly worth any money at all
because I've read my comic books so many times that they are not in very
desirable condition. I don't care though cause I'd have to be thrown out
in the street and starving before I'd part with them.

~Rebecca Ridout

Hello,

"Gerstein, David DK - ECN" wrote:
> Regarding Donald's family tree, you cite:
> >the "missing" relatives...

> Glittering Goldie isn't related to the rest of the ducks (and so by
> extension, neither is Dickie Duck).

Uhm.... are you sure? Remember: we don't know all the detalis
about the time Glodie spent with US on White Agony creek.... This
can make Dickie Duck more related to US than DD himself... ;-)

> >Though, I always felt that Magica's
> >castle was closer to Italy. Maybe even an island off the coast
> >of Sicily?

> Magica De Spell's sorcery shop (a medium-size shack full of magic
> doodads, not a castle) is on the side of Mount Vesuvius in Italy, according
> to countless stories. No guesswork necessary.

I confirm it is on Vesuvio, but I'm also sure it isn't a sorcery
shop, she doesn't allow tourists around her house, neither
postman...

- Paolo

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please note my *new* e-mail address: (Email removed)

How scarce is U$ #179 ??
Let's find out.
How many of the ML participants own a copy of UNCLE SCROOGE #179 ??
Please let me know privately by email.

ARCHONTIS:

> For *ANY* amount of money?! Are you sure there, Kriton? *ANY* amount of
> money literally means sums like trillions (Uncle Scrooge would say
> "fantasticatillions") of dollars! Think of how any other comics (not to
> mention other things) you could buy that could compensate for your clidhood
> memories! :-))

So *prove* me wrong and make me an offer I can't refuse!!! :-)
(I'll tell you when to stop stapling pages with zeroes on your check.)

I'd definitely wouldn't sell it for the current list price, or for the $510
price that other, rarer, comic book got at the recent auction.
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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