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VIDAR SVENDSEN, 3 FEBRUARY 2001:

> I'm currently working on a page about hearing difficulties and
> Sign Language in comics (Norwegian only). I've found references
> to this in Tintin, Gaston Lagaffe, Lucky Luke and of course
> Donald Duck (Barks and others).

Interesting! Which Disney stories did you find so far?

Here are some Barks stories I'm thinking of:

OG 23
Barney has an headache and tries to get rid of a noisy Benny by
saying he's hearing bees somewhere faraway. (I don't know if
you also need stories about hearing ability in general, because
this one is not about hearing difficulties but rather the opposite.)

U-WDC 64 (previously unpublished)
Donald singing Christmas carols for Jones' deaf friend.

WDC 178
Donald moving to a silent neighbourhood, ending up with a
hearing aid.

WDC 203
The sleeping owner of a lion doesn't hear anything of the noise
inside and outside his house. Even though I don't remember
a comment about him having hearing difficulties, I think the
owner must at least has become deaf for the noise his lion is
making. (The nephews are not the first having difficulties
with their delivery.)
I don't know if there's a name for this 'deafness', but what I mean
is the rather common situation in which one hears a certain sound
so regularly (traffic near the house, for example), that he/she
doesn't consciously hear it anymore after some time.

OS 1047 The Gab Muffer
The Ducks not being able to talk with each other.

JW 10 Bottled Battlers
Being locked up in a giant bottle, the nephews can hear the
curious passengers but the opposite is impossble.

JW 14 Duckmade Disaster
Though not identified by name, Daan Jippes' version of this story
shows Carl Barks with an hearing aid throwing eggs at Scrooge's bin.

I think there must also be some Gyro stories in which Gyro
communicates with the dumb Helper.

In some Gyro stories (or stories containing Gyro) there is an
invention which translates animal talk to human talk.

There are stories in which Scrooge uses his ears to find/recognize
riches. I'm thinking of a scene in which Scrooge hears oil under
the ground, hoping it was water instead. "The Golden Nugget Boat"
(US 35) also shows this good hearing ability.

Maybe there are also stories in which the Woodchucks use sign
language? Do smoke signals and light signals count?

> In WDC 60-02 Donald is able to read HDL's lips even though he
> only sees their silhouette. I must say I'm impressed!
> (wonder if Don Rosa's Donald could have done anything like
> that, btw.)

Don Rosa's "Eye For Detail" is about Donald's ability to keep the
identities of the nephews apart, giving Scrooge the idea that
Donald's detailed sight may be of use in a professional way.

Best wishes,

--- Daniel

>
>Don Rosa's "Eye For Detail" is about Donald's ability to keep the
>identities of the nephews apart, giving Scrooge the idea that
>Donald's detailed sight may be of use in a professional way.

Hey! I wanna read that!!! It's a wonderful idea, like all Rosa's... He have
"eye for detail" too... That hability of Donald was always present but we
need a Don Rosa for be realized...

I read the delayed numbers of Picsou that came to Buenos Aires, and beyond
my love for Unca Carl, I am ever expected some one from "Unca Keno" Quack!

Fabio Blanco
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Bonvolu postu al: longtom at oeste.com.ar

A large and very well known company, the Swedish ASEA, nowadays known as
ABB, actually had a swastika as their symbol. The swastika was read and
the four letters ASEA was placed one in each field of the swastika. The
swastika was not rotated. That is, there was no point pointing upwards.
The symbol was changed after or during the war, I don't know which.

Ola in a cold Stockholm -18 and just a little wind

CANDICO at AOL.COM says:

> I was reading the Don Rosa timeline a few days ago and he mentioned the
> depression or the collapse of the stock exchange in Duckburg. In real
life,
> during that time thousands of people lost their whole fortunes and that
time
> was at the peak of Scrooge's fortune. Just one year later he became the
> worlds richest duck. If Don or anybody else knows how Scrooge could have
> maintained his vast and humongus fortune during the depression, I would
like
> to know how. Thank you.
>

And I reply:

Hi Candico (what is your real name, anyway?),

I assume the timeline you're referring to is the one on the Duckhunt web
site. Are you only relying on information documented on web pages and in
people's private archives for your search for Scrooge history? The comics
themselves are a better source than anyone's memory. I'm curious myself if
you have read (or tried to find) those original comic stories?

I certainly understand your interest in Scrooge's fascinating "life".
Everyone on this list shares that interest. But you'll notice that I put
the word "life" in quotes, as he isn't a real person. You questions (and
the one above is typical of most if not all of them) suggest that Scrooge
was more than a fictional character, and that he actually existed in our
real-world 20th century. Admittedly, Barks and Rosa have made him a
larger-than-life character that SEEMS real, but most of us can draw the line
that separates fantasy from fact.

Do you have a specific purpose for the information you seek, such as a term
paper or fan site of your own? Since you are asking questions like a
newspaper reporter might, and we are supplying the answers, could we ask
what use you are going to make of your "research"?

Dan Shane
(danshane at bellsouth.net)

Dani?l,
> > About attacking other people's sites: I really felt insulted.
> > So I attacked the thing that attacked me.
>
> Unless I missed an attack to you on the site, I also don't understand
> why you felt attacked. Please explain.

Kenneth already said that these fights were "annoying". Why do you continue
this subject?

BTW, I suspect Kenneth is much younger than I thought at first. An opening
message "Hi, I'm Kenneth, I'm from x and I'm y years old" would have helped
in that case.

Let me say the following to round up this discussion.
Messages on this mailing list are read by more than 200 people. It is no
more than polite to write messages in such a way that most of the people can
read them without too much extra effort. If a message is clearly written
without that intent, I (as one of the readers) indeed feel insulted.
I don't consider this mailing list a chat box.

--Harry.

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Here's a colour drawing of "Unit #4 Bambi Dec 22, 1938":

"http://www.seriesam.com/barks/bambi_unit4_381222.jpg"

Is was sent to me with the comment that it was found in an animation
store and with the question if Carl Barks is among these persons.
Or, in case I misunderstood the question, if the drawing itself is
by Carl Barks.

I think the person in the center of the drawing looks like Carl Barks,
but maybe it could be someone else as well?

Does someone know the names of the Unit #4 people?

Has this colour drawing ever been published? Who's the artist?

Best wishes,

--- Daniel