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> From: Rune Kristian Viken
> When reading through Don Rosa's excelent "Battle of Sampo" story, I
noticed,
> in the first chapter, than Donald digs Scrooge's "walking stick" (that
blue
> "stick" Scrooge keeps hitting Donald with) down into the gold.
> Four "images" later, Scrooge does have his stick again. How did he find
it?
> No reference to how he found it whatsoever.>
> "Bug"?

I know that my stories are replete with over-detailing and explanations,
but sometimes I let you use your imagination as to what's going on in those
background gags. How $crooge found his cane again is unimportant, and I
leave it to you: A) he dug it up. B) One of the nephews dug it up. C)
Donald decided to dig it up for a reward D) $crooge beat Donald senseless
with his fists until he told where it was. E) ... (well, you get the idea.
It doesn't matter).
But the main reason I reply is that you remind me how I will be forever
disappointed that Europe has screwed up one of Barks' most basic jokes...
one of the "great truths" behind the entire idea of the Money Bin: that is
NOT gold! The entire point of the "gag" of $crooge having a huge bin of
cash that he wallows in is that it is *not* precious coins -- it's all
simply common *pocket change* -- pennies and nickles and dimes and
quarters, etc. ... all copper and silver. A few old gold coins from common
American usage of the 19th century, sure, but that's still just common
pocket-change. Europe has always colored it as if it were all gold, which
is quite wrong... but I guess it's a tradition now and there's no changing
it.
(Oh, and by the way, his cane is not blue -- another weird Egmont notion.
Who ever heard of a blue cane?)

>When reading through Don Rosa's excelent "Battle of Sampo" story, I noticed,
>in the first chapter, than Donald digs Scrooge's "walking stick" (that blue
>"stick" Scrooge keeps hitting Donald with) down into the gold.

>Four "images" later, Scrooge does have his stick again. How did he find it?
>No reference to how he found it whatsoever.

Maybe he simply beat it out of Donald. There's a lot of beating in the story already. (which is why Donald digs the walkingstick down in the first place.) It's a bit weird, really, 'cause I always thought Don Rosa would go back to that joke later in the story... Oh well.

From
Oyvind Schei

In a message dated 12/13/99 6:00:59 AM Eastern Standard Time

Poul wrote:
> Just a thought: Ebay selling prices on Disney's are often about 50 - 70% of
> Overstreet. That could mean that the next edition would list US #179 at
> about $2K in NM !!! Isn't that about the same as some of the rare Barks
> giwaways from the 40's ??? I just don't believe it ! I mean, when did you
> last time see one of *these* in Vf/Nm ??

I have seen copies of all of Barks giveaways, I have never seen US 179. It is
extremely rare. (maybe not $2000 rare, but extremely rare).
US 179 is probably even rarer in fair to good, than it is in VF!

Steven Rowe

Georgios Balanikas wrote:

> This [VACATION BRAKE] is one of those excellent stories that are
> published and sometimes have passed unnoticed .These fascinating autumn
> colors and trees drew my attention and I wrote my comment. The idea of
> this story is exciting and unusual, touching contemporary ecological
> problems. I believe you and senior Ferioli did a wonderful work. Yes,
> the closing scene is an apotheosis of the colors of the Indian summer.

Well, thank you for all those kind words, Georgios. I'll pass them
on to Senor Ferioli as I may.

ANDERS CHRISTIAN:

> They then have a problem with the name Don Rosa. which i never
> understood, not even when they explained it to me...
> They spell it Nt (D) - o - v (n) R-o-sigma-a - I think. the sigma is
> the o with a small line with it, when the letter is small.

(O with a small line in it?)

The "official" greek version of Don's name is spelled Nu-tau-omicron-nu
Rho-omicron-sigma-alpha, which sounds like "Don Rossa". I would think
that a better rendering would have been to use a zeta instead of a sigma,
which would have made the name sound like "Don Rozza" (with a plain "z"
sound, i.e., *not* as in the word "pizza"). Both renderings get the "o"
wrong, but trying to do something about it would have made the name look
strange in Greek, with the result being hard to pronounce and still not
quite right.

I once suggested to Don that he hellenize his name to "Donios
Triantafyllos", like 19th century scholars used to do. (The first name
is just his name with a greek suffix, while the last name is a male
greek name derived from the greek word for "rose".)

Kriton.

> From: "Anders Christian Sivebaek"
> Subject: question for Don about Kalevala-cover, plead to finnish friends
> Don, could you tell us what the story is about that cover for the
> Kalevala book?
> The cover shows the ducks with other weapons that on the half-page of
> page 20 of the story. Also the folks from kaelvala are sitting in the
> top right corner of the drawing, where Magica is in the page 20. Was
> this page done on another time, or is it on purpouse so the buyers will
> know that these charecters apeear in the book?
> And what does it say on the Kantele on Gyro's stick? Don Rosa after
> Galleian Kalleia 1999? What would the last part mean? any ideas?

Any ideas? Me? Well, yeah, I mean, I wasn't on drugs or something when I
drew it. You've made some incorrect assumptions in your efforts to figure
out what's going on. But I see I was quite right when I suggested to the
Germans (who needed a Kalevala cover to go with this story when they use it
as the special feature of their #1-2000 issue) that they not use that book
cover inasmuch as it was designed to only be understood by Finns and art
historians. (Note: for those who care, that means that the German MICKY
MAUS #1-2000 will have a different Kalevala cover that I drew just for that
issue... I guess it won't appear anywhere else. Well... maybe it might be
used when the Finns reprint the Kalevala story in their AKU ANKKA weekly
next year... and, another note -- at that time I will *add pages* to the 33
page story to flesh out the parts that I unavoidably had to truncate to fit
into that page-count. I estimate it will end up at just below 40 pages.)
But back to the Kalevala book cover. No, I'm not sure what you mean by the
characters in the upper right being the Kalevala characters who appear in
the book -- that's not the idea. That is a Duck-version of the most famous
Kalevala painting of "Defense of the Sampo" by the most famous Finnish
painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Everything there is traced directly from an
image (they would not lend me the original!) of that painting except that
the Kalevala heroes are replaced by Ducks, fighting the original Louhi and
her warriors. Louhi makes a reference to this battle in my story, and it's
that battle which Magica recreates using Louhi's old wing-and-talon-costume
conjured from the ruins of her longship. That half-page panel in my story
is another recreation of that painting, a panel which will have no special
meaning whatsoever when seen outside of Finland, but which hopefully will
not seem odd.
(There was another Gallen-Kallela painting-recreation in my story as the
Ducks are watching the Sampo reform inside Gyro's forge.)
As to "the Kantele on Gyro's stick"... that's a kantele, okay, but it's in
the sea beyond the "stick". (If it looks like it's on Gyro's spear, I'll
blame Akseli, that's how he painted it!) But that's how Gallen-Kallela
signed his painting, on Vainemoinen's pike-jaw kantele that had just been
lost into the sea. He had written "Gallen-Kallela 1896" on his painted
kantele, so when I copied it, it seemed appropriate that I sign "Don Rosa
after Gallen-Kallela 1999" in the same spot.
By the way, I publicly apologize for sticking a Beagle Boy in with the
crowd of Louhi's warriors. I did not intend for them to color him so
*brightly* as compared to the warriors -- he was supposed to be hidden in
the crowd, not stand out like a sore prune.
(Also, apologies to all of you that do not have this book, to whom all the
above seems like gibberish.)( But then, no one apologizes to *me* when I'm
in Finland and *everything* is gibberish!!!)

Some days before there was a question about "The Complete Daily Strip
Adventures of Mickey Mouse 1930 - 1955". Here's some additional information: This
was an edition published somewhen in the late 70s by the "Comic Buch Club
Germany" (i.e. Peter Orban, who at this time also published a kind of
complete Carl Barks Disney Ducks collection, a precursor of tha Carl Barks Library
- that project was stopped eventually when it became clear that the CBL was
going to the market in 1982. Both objects were heavily overpriced items for
a very exclusive circle of collectors, mainly in Europe, hence these never
were wide spread: By luck I got my Gottfredson edition in 1984 from a friend
for painful 3600 Swiss Francs - about 1900 US-$ then - , and I still lack
any of the Barks issues). The publication indeed contains ALL Mickey Mouse
dailies, from Jan. 13, 1930, to Dec 31, 1955. Format is 26 volumes (1 per year)
of 30 x 21 cm (horizontal). Usually 3 strips are printed on each page. Most
volumes are loose sheets in a slipcase, some volumes are bound - noone
knows why. There are about 3000 pages altogether, full of Gottfredson Mice.
The number of editions is limited to not more than 500 copies, according
to the loose slipcase imprints, and no more than 300 as printed on bound
volumes (although a sheet inside some volumes claim the copy number to be 20!).
Interesting information: At least the bound volumes seem to be printed and
manufactured in the GDR ("Verein Kultur der Völker Leipzig"). Not only were
the late Seventies deep frozen cold war, but among the stories reprinted
theres also was the anti-Soviet "The Treasure of Moook" spoof. Anti-communist
propaganda printed in the GDR, made for capitalist market ... there goes my
mind again.
Perhaps more interesting: I am not sure but I think the collection is
still available: A German trader is rumored to have bought the remainder of the
collection and selling it at some "reasonable" price (whatever that
means?!). Unfortunately I have no further information. Perhaps anyone from Germany
on this list can confirm this or has additional knowledge?

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Russell wrote:
<< I was hoping someone might be able to help identify a story. I read this
story as a kid in the late sixties (Australian series published by W.G.
Publications) and have never seen it reprinted. The storyline involved Uncle
Scrooge forcing Huey, Dewey and Louie to go to Summer School. As a result of
this extra education they became fabulous tycoons and ended up taking over
Scrooge's fortune. He was turned out into the street. It was of course only
a dream but Scrooge did relent on the Summer School notion. >>

I guess the story you're looking for is "Il ripensamento di Zio Paperone",
published in Italy in "Topolino" # 721 in September, 1969. 11 3-tiered
pages, art by Tony Strobl (probably), script by the Disney Studio Program.
The original storycode *might* be S 68135, and the original title "Higher
Education". Currently, the Inducks Database does not list any known reprint
of the S 68135 story.
I have no scanner available, unfortunately... maybe some other Italian on
this list can be so kind as to provide a scan of the story's first page, so
that you can check ?

Ciao,
Armando