Here's what's in this month's issue of Komix:
* Cover by unknown. I've put a scan in
http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis/pics/komix152.jpg
* A two-page article titled "The Junior Woodchucks club", subtitled "a club,
members of which we would all like to be!"
* Carl Barks' "Operation Saint Bernard".
* A three-page article titled "The comics of imaginary beings", subtitled
"from antiquity to the panels of Carl Barks and Don Rosa".
* Don's "Mythological Menagerie".
* Two pages with "The News of Komix". Highlights are a reference to
Egmont's tribute to Barks, where they show Don's
draft for his plans of the 11th floor of the money bin
(http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis/pics/bin.gif), and a new Asterix album
that is to come out in March.
* Romano Scarpa's "La Perfetta Letizia"
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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Topic: 200101
(249 messages)
Kriton Kyrimis
KOMIX #152
Message 211 -
2001-01-29 at 08:46:25
Didier Ghez
Comics and members in Rio de Janeiro
Message 212 -
2001-01-29 at 13:01:56
Hi,
I will be travelling to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday and Sunday February 10th and 11th and I was wondering if :
a) I could meet some members of the list there.
b) If some members of the list know of good "gibis" (old comic books) stores in the city.
Thanks a million in advance for your help.
DidierGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
I will be travelling to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday and Sunday February 10th and 11th and I was wondering if :
a) I could meet some members of the list there.
b) If some members of the list know of good "gibis" (old comic books) stores in the city.
Thanks a million in advance for your help.
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DGE
WC
Message 213 -
2001-01-29 at 14:09:18
Hey Jyri!
>I wondered if you could
>tell me has there been any mention or panels of
>toilets in barks stories. How about ANY duck comics?
There's a toilet in a Jippes story, "Disco-Ducks".
Donald stands on top of its closed lid in order to reach the
bathroom ceiling.
And it's not a comic book, but in a recent Goofy animated cartoon,
HOW TO HAUNT A HOUSE (2000), Goofy is portrayed as a ghost, trying to scare
Donald. To aid in the scaring, Goofy darkens the room by flushing a
flashlight down a toilet.
David Gerstein
"This is gettin' silly!"
<dge at ecn.egmont.com>
>I wondered if you could
>tell me has there been any mention or panels of
>toilets in barks stories. How about ANY duck comics?
There's a toilet in a Jippes story, "Disco-Ducks".
Donald stands on top of its closed lid in order to reach the
bathroom ceiling.
And it's not a comic book, but in a recent Goofy animated cartoon,
HOW TO HAUNT A HOUSE (2000), Goofy is portrayed as a ghost, trying to scare
Donald. To aid in the scaring, Goofy darkens the room by flushing a
flashlight down a toilet.
David Gerstein
"This is gettin' silly!"
<dge at ecn.egmont.com>
Don Rosa
Digest #391
Message 214 -
2001-01-29 at 15:42:17
>>>>WWII is never mentioned in Don Rosa or Carl Barks stories. Don Rosa is
the
one who lets the Ducks make most contact with the real world, which I like
a
lot.
WWII might be too sensitive and too short ago for use in a story and there
just wasn't any need for it in Dons' storys.
My guesses are:
I think Donald and Gladstone were to young at the time of WWII. Scrooge
might have made some money out of the war.
It's not infrequent that I am asked by readers why I don't do a flashback
story about what $crooge or Donald might have done during WWII. Or also WWI
for $crooge. Similarly, more than a few times I have been asked by readers
to do a $crooge quest for the Holy Grail. And I'll say "Uh... and you mean
with the necessary flashback references to Jesus and the Last Supper and
the Crucifixion?" and they'll see no problem. But of course there are LOTS
of obvious problems. These are secular comics, for one thing! And I would
never *want* to tell a story about our Ducks and WWII (nor would anyone
allow it).
But, as for my own feelings on the topic, the stuff in my "private mental
notes" pertaining to my personal view of the Barks Duck Universe: I've said
that $crooge retired for 10 years until 1947 (though I hear that that time
period was shortened to only 5 years in some translations). My idea there
was always that $crooge, being disgusted with the world situation and
certainly NOT wanting to make a penny profit off the war or wartime
economy, retired and closed down his businesses in 1937 when he saw it
coming. In WWI he was busy traveling the world and still having his own
adventures in remote areas, prospecting or such, and was perhaps able to
avoid any involvement with that war...?
As for Donald, my timeline says he was born in 1920, so he would certainly
have been the perfect age for WWII -- and with his furious temper and
Everyman All-American patriotism, I'm certain he would have volunteered for
combat on Dec. 8, 1941. But don't expect me to ever tell a series of
"Lo$"-type stories titled "Sgt. Duck and His Quacking Commandos" about how
the ill-tempered and bungling non-com Donald succeeded in killing equal
numbers of the enemy and his own men throughout WWII. Yes, there's an
almost irresistible opportunity for loads of slapstick bloodbaths and zany
mass-murder hijinx there, but I'll pass.
By the way, I've said that Egmont's official decree is that Fethry is dead
(along with Moby Duck and Ludwig Von Drake), but I am referring to the
comic books, not the Italian and Italian-styled "pocket book" stories --
those are two different Duck Universes, and I am only involved in the
former. This comics series of "forgotten characters" being referred to also
features Rockerduck in the same fashion -- he is non-existent in the comic
books, but part of the Italian pocket-book Universe.
the
one who lets the Ducks make most contact with the real world, which I like
a
lot.
WWII might be too sensitive and too short ago for use in a story and there
just wasn't any need for it in Dons' storys.
My guesses are:
I think Donald and Gladstone were to young at the time of WWII. Scrooge
might have made some money out of the war.
It's not infrequent that I am asked by readers why I don't do a flashback
story about what $crooge or Donald might have done during WWII. Or also WWI
for $crooge. Similarly, more than a few times I have been asked by readers
to do a $crooge quest for the Holy Grail. And I'll say "Uh... and you mean
with the necessary flashback references to Jesus and the Last Supper and
the Crucifixion?" and they'll see no problem. But of course there are LOTS
of obvious problems. These are secular comics, for one thing! And I would
never *want* to tell a story about our Ducks and WWII (nor would anyone
allow it).
But, as for my own feelings on the topic, the stuff in my "private mental
notes" pertaining to my personal view of the Barks Duck Universe: I've said
that $crooge retired for 10 years until 1947 (though I hear that that time
period was shortened to only 5 years in some translations). My idea there
was always that $crooge, being disgusted with the world situation and
certainly NOT wanting to make a penny profit off the war or wartime
economy, retired and closed down his businesses in 1937 when he saw it
coming. In WWI he was busy traveling the world and still having his own
adventures in remote areas, prospecting or such, and was perhaps able to
avoid any involvement with that war...?
As for Donald, my timeline says he was born in 1920, so he would certainly
have been the perfect age for WWII -- and with his furious temper and
Everyman All-American patriotism, I'm certain he would have volunteered for
combat on Dec. 8, 1941. But don't expect me to ever tell a series of
"Lo$"-type stories titled "Sgt. Duck and His Quacking Commandos" about how
the ill-tempered and bungling non-com Donald succeeded in killing equal
numbers of the enemy and his own men throughout WWII. Yes, there's an
almost irresistible opportunity for loads of slapstick bloodbaths and zany
mass-murder hijinx there, but I'll pass.
By the way, I've said that Egmont's official decree is that Fethry is dead
(along with Moby Duck and Ludwig Von Drake), but I am referring to the
comic books, not the Italian and Italian-styled "pocket book" stories --
those are two different Duck Universes, and I am only involved in the
former. This comics series of "forgotten characters" being referred to also
features Rockerduck in the same fashion -- he is non-existent in the comic
books, but part of the Italian pocket-book Universe.
Kriton Kyrimis
WC
Message 215 -
2001-01-29 at 16:22:01
JYRI:
> I checked out the bins plans and I instantly noticed
> that there was a WC installed.
I guess it's a case of Disney comics going where not even Star Trek has
gone before!!!
> I myself have not noticed the ducks having some of the
> bodyly functions of humans.
Um, when was it the last time you went to the zoo? :-)
(Actually, from what I remember from high school zoology, ducks, being
birds, and humans, being mammals, do have an important difference in
this kind of bodily function. Look it up!)
BTW, isn't it "toilet" or "bathroom" in American English, rather than WC?
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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> I checked out the bins plans and I instantly noticed
> that there was a WC installed.
I guess it's a case of Disney comics going where not even Star Trek has
gone before!!!
> I myself have not noticed the ducks having some of the
> bodyly functions of humans.
Um, when was it the last time you went to the zoo? :-)
(Actually, from what I remember from high school zoology, ducks, being
birds, and humans, being mammals, do have an important difference in
this kind of bodily function. Look it up!)
BTW, isn't it "toilet" or "bathroom" in American English, rather than WC?
Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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François Willot
5 fingers in Christmas for Shacktown ?
Message 216 -
2001-01-29 at 17:25:09
>Do you mean panel 27.7 in which Donald points at Scrooge having
>breakfast? I've checked the Carl Barks Library but I see only
>four fingers. Am I looking at the wrong place or has this 'error'
>been 'corrected' by the CBL editors?
Well, it's right there are only four fingers. But the way they are drawn, it
is clear that none of them can reasonably be the thumb (or Donald would have
something horribly broken). In fact the thumb can only be somewhere behind
the three folded fingers and that means he has "five" fingers in this
particular panel.
Francois
>breakfast? I've checked the Carl Barks Library but I see only
>four fingers. Am I looking at the wrong place or has this 'error'
>been 'corrected' by the CBL editors?
Well, it's right there are only four fingers. But the way they are drawn, it
is clear that none of them can reasonably be the thumb (or Donald would have
something horribly broken). In fact the thumb can only be somewhere behind
the three folded fingers and that means he has "five" fingers in this
particular panel.
Francois
Fluks, H.W.
Daniel: new site
Message 217 -
2001-01-29 at 18:08:32
Dani?l:
> > This mailing list is about Disney comics. Not about the basics of
> > designing a web page.
> This mailing list also isn't about attacking other people's sites,
> neither about spelling correcting.
The spelling correcting is one of my annoying habits, which I can't suppress
sometimes. I think a website (and an e-mail message) should at least have
*some* level of readability. In Kenneth's first mails, it was way below what
I consider the minimum for readability.
(I ddon't mind typos or spelling mistakes if they keep the message readable!
As the previous sentence shows. 8-)
About attacking other people's sites: I really felt insulted. So I attacked
the thing that attacked me.
There have been some schools where they had lectures about the internet. The
teacher taught the children to make a web site and get as many visitors as
possible.
One trick to get many visitors is first to complain on a mailing list "why
don't people get answers to their mails", and then post a link to your site
on that mailing list "go visit this, it's interesting".
When Kenneth did just that, and also admitted that he is not going to use an
HTML editor or won't start learning HTML, I could only conclude that he was
doing what I described above.
Fortunately, I noticed that Kenneth's recent mails are on-topic and
improving. So his website may grow to an interesting site too...
> Best wishes,
Are you sure?
--Harry.
> > This mailing list is about Disney comics. Not about the basics of
> > designing a web page.
> This mailing list also isn't about attacking other people's sites,
> neither about spelling correcting.
The spelling correcting is one of my annoying habits, which I can't suppress
sometimes. I think a website (and an e-mail message) should at least have
*some* level of readability. In Kenneth's first mails, it was way below what
I consider the minimum for readability.
(I ddon't mind typos or spelling mistakes if they keep the message readable!
As the previous sentence shows. 8-)
About attacking other people's sites: I really felt insulted. So I attacked
the thing that attacked me.
There have been some schools where they had lectures about the internet. The
teacher taught the children to make a web site and get as many visitors as
possible.
One trick to get many visitors is first to complain on a mailing list "why
don't people get answers to their mails", and then post a link to your site
on that mailing list "go visit this, it's interesting".
When Kenneth did just that, and also admitted that he is not going to use an
HTML editor or won't start learning HTML, I could only conclude that he was
doing what I described above.
Fortunately, I noticed that Kenneth's recent mails are on-topic and
improving. So his website may grow to an interesting site too...
> Best wishes,
Are you sure?
--Harry.
Thierry Fernand
WWII
Message 218 -
2001-01-29 at 18:13:32
> >>>>WWII is never mentioned in Don Rosa or Carl Barks stories.
I think there is an indirect allusion to WWII in Barks' "The Icebox Robber" (1/45).
In the last or next-to-last page, Donald talks about a "Jap attack" while dreaming.
Favio
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I think there is an indirect allusion to WWII in Barks' "The Icebox Robber" (1/45).
In the last or next-to-last page, Donald talks about a "Jap attack" while dreaming.
Favio
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Stefan Diös
Service
Message 219 -
2001-01-29 at 23:57:35
>WWII is never mentioned in Don Rosa or Carl Barks stories
Well, Barks gives more than a slight hint in WDC #56 (May 1945), where a
sleep-walking Donald mistakes some firecrackers for machine guns and, still
in his sleep, proceeds to chase the nephews shouting:
"It's a Jap ambush! -- I see you, you little slant-eyed nips! I'll skewer
you on my bayonet like mutton chops! -- Jump in the ocean and swim back to
Japan!"
When the story was published in Sweden in 1959, this belligerent dialog
actually was translated more or less literally. I was involved in the
reprint in 1988 and decided it was time to tone it down ever so slightly...
What happened in other countries?
Stefan Dios
Malmo, Sweden
Well, Barks gives more than a slight hint in WDC #56 (May 1945), where a
sleep-walking Donald mistakes some firecrackers for machine guns and, still
in his sleep, proceeds to chase the nephews shouting:
"It's a Jap ambush! -- I see you, you little slant-eyed nips! I'll skewer
you on my bayonet like mutton chops! -- Jump in the ocean and swim back to
Japan!"
When the story was published in Sweden in 1959, this belligerent dialog
actually was translated more or less literally. I was involved in the
reprint in 1988 and decided it was time to tone it down ever so slightly...
What happened in other countries?
Stefan Dios
Malmo, Sweden
Candico86
Home
Message 220 -
2001-01-30 at 01:16:54
When I was reading an Uncle Scrooge comic, Scrooge calls Donald and tells him
to bring the kids (HD&L) and come over to his bin. Before that, I always
thought that HD&L lived with Scrooge. Who do they live with? We never even
see Scrooge at a house, does he live in his money bin? If anyone is aware of
the answers to where evrnyone in the duck world lives, I would appreciate it
very much. Thank You
to bring the kids (HD&L) and come over to his bin. Before that, I always
thought that HD&L lived with Scrooge. Who do they live with? We never even
see Scrooge at a house, does he live in his money bin? If anyone is aware of
the answers to where evrnyone in the duck world lives, I would appreciate it
very much. Thank You
Fabio Blanco
Service
Message 221 -
2001-01-30 at 02:05:41
Stefan Di?s did write
>"It's a Jap ambush! -- I see you, you little slant-eyed nips! I'll skewer
>you on my bayonet like mutton chops! -- Jump in the ocean and swim back to
>Japan!"
>
>When the story was published in Sweden in 1959, this belligerent dialog
>actually was translated more or less literally. I was involved in the
>reprint in 1988 and decided it was time to tone it down ever so slightly...
I really can't celebrate that decition... Sound like censorship to me... I
think the Donald Speech is an ironic (or cinical) one that remember the
dialogues from the WWII strips... like Buzz Sawyer, par example...
(Caution, Charlie is listening!)
Fabio
(from the far, far Buenos Aires)
Bonvolu postu al: longtom at oeste.com.ar
>"It's a Jap ambush! -- I see you, you little slant-eyed nips! I'll skewer
>you on my bayonet like mutton chops! -- Jump in the ocean and swim back to
>Japan!"
>
>When the story was published in Sweden in 1959, this belligerent dialog
>actually was translated more or less literally. I was involved in the
>reprint in 1988 and decided it was time to tone it down ever so slightly...
I really can't celebrate that decition... Sound like censorship to me... I
think the Donald Speech is an ironic (or cinical) one that remember the
dialogues from the WWII strips... like Buzz Sawyer, par example...
(Caution, Charlie is listening!)
Fabio
(from the far, far Buenos Aires)
Bonvolu postu al: longtom at oeste.com.ar
Kevin Clark
Censorship?
Message 222 -
2001-01-30 at 03:06:22
>From: "Fabio Blanco" <longtom at oeste.com.ar>
>Reply-To: "Fabio Blanco" <longtom at oeste.com.ar>
>To: "DCML" <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
>Subject: RE: service
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:05:41 -0300
>
>I really can't celebrate that decition [to tone down Donald's WWII-inspired
>comments]... Sound like censorship to me... I
>think the Donald Speech is an ironic (or cinical) one that remember the
>dialogues from the WWII strips... like Buzz Sawyer, par example...
It's neither ironic nor cynical. It's just dated. Some things simply do
not age well.
If the period of the story in question is important, then keep the dialogue.
The humor of that sequence derives from there having been a war on.
Perhaps the story itself could be put aside, and the gag repeated -- say, in
a story involving war with aliens?
This isn't censorship, by the way. That would involve keeping the artist
from drawing it, or trying to keep him/her from getting published. This is
just revisionism.
>(Caution, Charlie is listening!)
Reminds me of the time I toured the wartime propaganda exibit at the
National Archives -- a nice lesson in dehumanization techniques :)
Yours,
Kevin Clark
_________________________________________________________________
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>Reply-To: "Fabio Blanco" <longtom at oeste.com.ar>
>To: "DCML" <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
>Subject: RE: service
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:05:41 -0300
>
>I really can't celebrate that decition [to tone down Donald's WWII-inspired
>comments]... Sound like censorship to me... I
>think the Donald Speech is an ironic (or cinical) one that remember the
>dialogues from the WWII strips... like Buzz Sawyer, par example...
It's neither ironic nor cynical. It's just dated. Some things simply do
not age well.
If the period of the story in question is important, then keep the dialogue.
The humor of that sequence derives from there having been a war on.
Perhaps the story itself could be put aside, and the gag repeated -- say, in
a story involving war with aliens?
This isn't censorship, by the way. That would involve keeping the artist
from drawing it, or trying to keep him/her from getting published. This is
just revisionism.
>(Caution, Charlie is listening!)
Reminds me of the time I toured the wartime propaganda exibit at the
National Archives -- a nice lesson in dehumanization techniques :)
Yours,
Kevin Clark
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Fabio Blanco
Censorship?
Message 223 -
2001-01-30 at 04:01:42
Kevin said:
>If the period of the story in question is important, then keep the
dialogue.
> The humor of that sequence derives from there having been a war on.
If you modify a text, for fixing it to a more P.C. world (maybe I would say
a
world under the influence of a powerful nation with a protestant mentality)
is
censorship for me...
But O.K., call it "revisionism". Is the same thing in my opinion: you keep
out the
real word of the artist...
>Perhaps the story itself could be put aside, and the gag repeated -- say,
in
>a story involving war with aliens?
I don't understand... But Buck Rogers in the XXV Century (1929) bring to my
mind...
>
>>(Caution, Charlie is listening!)
A bad joke, o.k. (buy a war bond for me)
>Reminds me of the time I toured the wartime propaganda exibit at the
>National Archives -- a nice lesson in dehumanization techniques :)
A lesson at last... I prefer remember with Donald a humorous speech about a
sad time than drink for ever in the Letheus River and have no more memory...
Hey, I live in a country where the last dictatorship kidnapped people (men,
women, children) for kill them sistematically previous torture...
I can't forget...
Fabio
*****************
Bonvolu postu al: longtom at oeste.com.ar
>If the period of the story in question is important, then keep the
dialogue.
> The humor of that sequence derives from there having been a war on.
If you modify a text, for fixing it to a more P.C. world (maybe I would say
a
world under the influence of a powerful nation with a protestant mentality)
is
censorship for me...
But O.K., call it "revisionism". Is the same thing in my opinion: you keep
out the
real word of the artist...
>Perhaps the story itself could be put aside, and the gag repeated -- say,
in
>a story involving war with aliens?
I don't understand... But Buck Rogers in the XXV Century (1929) bring to my
mind...
>
>>(Caution, Charlie is listening!)
A bad joke, o.k. (buy a war bond for me)
>Reminds me of the time I toured the wartime propaganda exibit at the
>National Archives -- a nice lesson in dehumanization techniques :)
A lesson at last... I prefer remember with Donald a humorous speech about a
sad time than drink for ever in the Letheus River and have no more memory...
Hey, I live in a country where the last dictatorship kidnapped people (men,
women, children) for kill them sistematically previous torture...
I can't forget...
Fabio
*****************
Bonvolu postu al: longtom at oeste.com.ar
Paolo Castagno
Home
Message 224 -
2001-01-30 at 12:13:19
Hello,
Candico86 at aol.com wrote:
> When I was reading an Uncle Scrooge comic, Scrooge calls Donald and tells him
> to bring the kids (HD&L) and come over to his bin. Before that, I always
> thought that HD&L lived with Scrooge. Who do they live with?
I think that HD&L live with US only in Ducktales series. In all the comic books I know of (quite a lot, I'd say) they live with Donald.
> We never even see Scrooge at a house, does he live in
> his money bin?
Well, in his first appearance Scrooge lives in an house (there isn't any money bin yet), and also in the very first Italian stories he lives in a great house.
Now I think he lives in his money bin, as much close as possible to his beloved money!
- Paolo
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Candico86 at aol.com wrote:
> When I was reading an Uncle Scrooge comic, Scrooge calls Donald and tells him
> to bring the kids (HD&L) and come over to his bin. Before that, I always
> thought that HD&L lived with Scrooge. Who do they live with?
I think that HD&L live with US only in Ducktales series. In all the comic books I know of (quite a lot, I'd say) they live with Donald.
> We never even see Scrooge at a house, does he live in
> his money bin?
Well, in his first appearance Scrooge lives in an house (there isn't any money bin yet), and also in the very first Italian stories he lives in a great house.
Now I think he lives in his money bin, as much close as possible to his beloved money!
- Paolo
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Paolo Castagno
Don, US and WWII
Message 225 -
2001-01-30 at 12:18:16
Don Rosa wrote:
> >>>>WWII is never mentioned in Don Rosa or Carl Barks stories.
> the stuff in my "private mental
> notes" pertaining to my personal view of the Barks Duck Universe: I've said
> that $crooge retired for 10 years until 1947 (though I hear that that time
> period was shortened to only 5 years in some translations). My idea there
> was always that $crooge, being disgusted with the world situation and
> certainly NOT wanting to make a penny profit off the war or wartime
> economy, retired and closed down his businesses in 1937 when he saw it
> coming.
And, for what it is worth, I agree 100% with Don's point of view on this subject: it is nice to think of a Scrooge with his own political ideas, but it is also good to think of a Scrooge who doesn't make profit from the dramatic situation the world was running into.
An excellent plot for a great story, Don... too bad there will never be a chance to see it!
- Paolo
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(Topolino in YM 003)
> >>>>WWII is never mentioned in Don Rosa or Carl Barks stories.
> the stuff in my "private mental
> notes" pertaining to my personal view of the Barks Duck Universe: I've said
> that $crooge retired for 10 years until 1947 (though I hear that that time
> period was shortened to only 5 years in some translations). My idea there
> was always that $crooge, being disgusted with the world situation and
> certainly NOT wanting to make a penny profit off the war or wartime
> economy, retired and closed down his businesses in 1937 when he saw it
> coming.
And, for what it is worth, I agree 100% with Don's point of view on this subject: it is nice to think of a Scrooge with his own political ideas, but it is also good to think of a Scrooge who doesn't make profit from the dramatic situation the world was running into.
An excellent plot for a great story, Don... too bad there will never be a chance to see it!
- Paolo
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