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OLA:

> In one of the latest issues of the Swedish Kalle Anka there is new
> character. Morty and Ferdie has a mom !!! Yes a mom that they live at.
> Not an aunt or uncle !! Incredible.

Right. I asked the same question on the indexers list some three weeks
ago...

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> I've just read the new D 99290 written by Paul Halas and drawn by
> Rodriques. In that story we are introduced to Morty and Ferdie's
> mother(!)
>
> I find that quite odd. Can we expect her to be Mickey's sister then,
> or...???

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...but I should of course have addressed this mailing list. Ole replied
with:

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> But let's just gather all the info first: on the Swedish list
> Joakim Gunnarson first announced the new "concept" and then
> replied to a similar "?!" thusly:
>
> >Hon dök upp för första (och enda?) gången i de amerikanska
> >dagstidningarna söndagen den 18 september 1932.
> >"Mrs. Fieldmouse" Överlämnade sina barn för barnvaktning till
> >grannen Musse Pigg.
> >Och där blev de kvar...
>
> I.e. along with MF's first appearance we also met mrs. Fieldmouse
> for the first time. Inducks lists several reprints of the strip,
> so most of us should be able to find a copy. Not me though, so
> a scan would be appreciated.

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I have just recently indexed D 99290 with the appearance of a "Mrs.
Fieldmouse". Perhaps Paul Halas read the old strip and got inspirred,
still we don't know if she's Mickey's sister or otherwise related.
Perhaps David has a few words to add here... :-)

Søren

Hi,

Could an Argentine list member living in Buenos Aires contact me by private
mail ?

Thanks a million in advance.

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I find it very interesting to learn that Somewhere In Nowhere is being
released in English by Disney Italy. Hopefully, sales of the English
version will be high enough for them to realize that people here in the
US are willing to pay the price for English copies of Disney comics. I
know I would certainly be willing to pay for English versions of Zio
Paperone.

By the way, is the US license still in limbo, or has Diamond given up?
It seems awful for me to say this, but I wouldn't blame them if they did,
at this point. I'm amazed that Disney honored Carl Barks with a piece on
the Disney Channel, yet they won't even allow stories with the characters
that he created to be published here. But, I guess that's just more of
the same stupid games that Disney has been playing for the last 10 years
or so.

Rodney Bowcock

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Anders Heger, among the chief executive officers
of the major Norwegian publishing house "Cappelen",
and a journalist/debater/writer/essayist of recent
increased fame because of his highly praised book
on Agnar Mykle, writes a column every Sunday on page 2
of the "Dagsavisen". His pen is free and his themes are
wide-ranging, and the collective heading of these
essays is "Free thoughts".

Well, last Sunday Heger devoted his half-page to
Carl Barks, "Uncle Carl" at age 99-and-a-half,
quoting parts of a message from our Disney Comics
mail-list concerning Carl's deteriorating health.
Heger uses the opportunity to praise Barks and
his work in general, and the power and spellbinding
aspects of his stories for children in particular.
Anders joins the long list of grown-ups claiming
to have been taught to read by Barks, and explains
that having read Barks helps a reader to jump into
other and more "grown-up" stuff like (e.g.) Dostoyevski.
This boss of modern literature goes on to say that Barks
is among the very greatest adventure writers of our times.

Heger ends this Sunday contribution with a quote
from Uncle Scrooge #8 (1955), where the professor
obsessed with inventing smell-free cabbage says,
"There are too many masters of the world. And too
few good friends." In the context in which this is
quoted, the reader sees Barks as a good friend
and Disney as among the masters...

Heger's essays are always accompanied by high-quality,
original drawings, by Tor Bomann-Larsen, himself active
on the comic book market, and known in Norway for his
wonderul and long comic book story about Nansen and Amundsen.
I understand the drawing made for the Dagsavisen column
on this occasion portrays Dostoyevski with a "Donald Duck & Co."
under his arm. [I haven't actually seen the final thing;
I have only seen Heger's pre-pubication draft and heard
from another about the Dostoyevski drawing.]

Nils Lid Hjort

For those interested and who knows Norwegian. The article can be found here:

http://www.dagsavisen.no/kommentar/fritanker/2000/07/489918.shtml?string=barks

Unfortantely, no drawing...

Trygve

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Does anyone know the exact comic book issue that "Christmas on Bear
Mountain" appeared in? I get confused when it comes down to all that
Four Color business.

Thanks, would they have titled that one Donald Duck Four Color?

Botto Armando wrote:

> John:
> > Does anyone know the exact comic book issue that "Christmas on Bear
> > Mountain" appeared in?
> "Christmas on Bear Mountain" first appeared in Four Color # 178, December
> 1947.
>
> Ciao,
> Armando

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Elena wrote:
>> Does anyone know who is going to publish this 'Somewhere in Nowhere'? and
is it going to be in two languages in the same book or is it going to be in
two volumes?

Rumour has it that "Somewhere in Nowhere" will indeed appear next Fall, in
the third volume of the Disney Italia "Tesori" ("Treasures") series. The
book will contain both the original English version of the story and its
Italian translation, together with a few other Barks stories. It's almost
certain that it will be possible to order the book from abroad, too.
The "Tesori" books are hardbacks, printed on quality paper. The first 2
issues of the series had 128 pages, and cost little less than $15. If you're
curious about their contents, have a look at the Inducks database:
http://members.xoom.com/bolderbast/
and
http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/inducks/

Ciao,
Armando