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Hi all!

I'm translating a Renato Canini's Z? Carioca story, that Amadeu appear! Probably you all will can read it next week! Favio sad to me that he can put the scans on his site about Brazilian Disney Comics, so just wait!

The history is:

Z? Milion?rio
B 770012

Dear
Sir, (Mr. Farell I believe)

Your e-mail was erased from my files somehow. Please
send it to me again. Everybody else ignore this, but
trust me it has to do with this page. By the way, very
interesting conversations your having about Duckburk
lately! Oh, well, thanks and God bless.

F.A. Elliott.

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A tasty morsel known as... "understanding." (F.A. Elliott)

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I was reading the text piece in the back of Uncle
Scrooge #219, and was under the impression that a
scene involving Glomgold, Scrooge, Donald, and the
newphews was dropped. In the text I think Don Rosa
states he wanted to have a conversation take place
around a campfire between the boys and Glomgold, where
he's asked why he's so driven to prove himself better
than Scrooge.

At this point Glomgold would've related a tale
similiar to what Don Rosa eventually used in the Life
& Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Now I know the word count for the Son of the Sun story
was trimmed down, but I didn't think any scenes were
dropped. Now I want to read the Pertwillaby Papers
adventure Son of the Sun was based off of. Oh, well,
there's suppose to be a collection coming out for
worldwide distribution soon from Norway.

"Warning Spoiler! Don't read unless you've read it
too"

Anyway rereading the story again, I really got a kick
when Scrooge nonchalantly points out he's already
radioed the authorities and claimed ownership of the
gold. Great scene where Glomgold is running off and
then stops on a dime when learning this. Scrooge is in
the middle of fixing eggs and it's agreed on they'll
all take sunny side up.

Another great moment is when Glomgold yells at the old
guide at the end of the story, which we saw near the
beginning of the story, "Did you find the hidden
gold?" And Glomgold explodes, "Yes blast it! It's at
the bottom of that confounded lake!" "Well isn't that
what I always said," replys the guide? Just classic!

Still, Sun of the Sun is not my favorite Don Rosa
story. That one goes to Return to Xanadu. But, of
course I still have to read Last Sled to Dawson. Oh,
well, so long Scroogy! God bless.

F.A. Elliott.

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A tasty morsel known as... "understanding." (F.A. Elliott)

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Hello,

I just scanned and uploaded an old Mickey story: "Mr. Slicker and
the Egg Robbers"
(http://stp.ling.uu.se/cgi-bin/starback/dcml/story?YM+003) that
can be found on

http://digilander.iol.it/inducks/YM_003

A pretty interesting story with weird situations for today's
scripts: Mickey tries to commit suicide, Minnie is going to marry
Slicker because of her parents poverty, etc...

This story has also another couple of things that puzzle me: in
the sixth strip
(http://digilander.iol.it/inducks/YM_003/YM_003_006.jpg) on the
first panel appear a character who, IMHO, reminds a lot Oswald
the Lucky Rabbit, then in the second one there is a guy who is
"without any doubt" Cat Nipp.

What do you think about.

And again there is a character on the second panel from the
following strip
(http://digilander.iol.it/inducks/YM_003/YM_003_007.jpg) very
very strange: a sort of Mickey Mouse made of wool...

Ciao,

- Paolo

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"Ecco un papero beone, eccellenza!"
"Vedo! Ha lo sguardo dell'ubriacone inveterato!"
(Una guardia e un giudice in I TL 798-A)

Son Of the Sun is one of my favorite Duck stories ever. While the
artwork isn't the very best, it's good, and the story is one of Don's
best. I kinda like how wordy it is. It took me quite a while to read it
the first time around.

If you've never seen Last Sled To Dawson, and you like Xanadu and Son Of
the Sun you're really in for a treat. That was actually one of the first
Disney comics I ever read, and while I didn't really understand some of
the references I really enjoyed it, and I appreciated it even more after
reading Back To the Klondike and North Of the Yukon. It's possibly the
best story from Don's "early" Gladstone period.

Rodney Bowcock

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Mr. Don Rosa may tape some additional studio shots for
me to tack on to our interview, showing you a more
revealing look at his studio.

Hopefully, he may also answer a question about
fanzines that I didn't really chase after when I had
the chance. But, first he has to get back from Spain.

So I'm very thankful for the time Mr. Rosa has
consented towards me. These additional efforts will
supply us with a very thorough picture of "Don Rosa."
Thanks and God bless.

F.A. Elliott.

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A tasty morsel known as... "understanding." (F.A. Elliott)

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ARIE:

> buy an EC small series. One thing i gotta know, are they really spooky? Are
> they that good? Are they still good to read for the younger generations of
> today, especially nonAmerican??? Off-topic of course, sorry about that.

I know I'm going to speak heresy, but my feeling about EC comics, at
least those reprinted first by Gladstone and then by Russ Cochran some
years ago, is that they are *boring*. Admittedly there are some very
ingenious plot twists, but when you know that the aliens are going to
be nasty, and that when you see a married couple one of them is going to
murder the other by the end of the story, you can't help feeling bored,
no matter what ingenious way the aliens have found to be nasty this time,
or how igenious a way someone finds to murder their spouse.

Despite these negative comments, I think that you will find reading a
sampling of the EC stories quite enjoyable. I know I did at first, and it
was only after reading several stories that I started getting this feeling
of boredom. As to your worries about whether they might appeal to modern
non-Americans, although the characters in the stories are stereotypical
white Americans of the fifties, the situations in which these characters
find themselves are weird enough that this becomes largely irrelevant.

(Speaking of EC comics, are they still being reprinted? I stopped
subscribing a long time ago, and at that time the reprints weren't
doing very well, as I remember readers were being asked to buy multiple
copies(!) to help out.)

Spa fon,

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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