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>From: "Becca Ridout" <skyrat13 at hotmail.com>
>I can think of one exception to this. He wrote a christmas story where HDL
>wanted a steam shovel and actually drew Santa Claus and showed him using
>magic to get down the chiminey, with no explaination to spoil it's
>magicalness. (There was an editors note in the copy I have mentioning how
>unusual this was for Barks).

Thanks you Olaf, Don, Ari and Becca for your interesting responses. This
last one confirms my perception that this kind of facts was uncommon in
Barks' stories. He tried to put things together so there could be always be
a rational explanation (even if it seemed as sci-fi). So, we could say his
scenarios were full of facts we may tell 'improbable' but not fully
'impossible' ;-)

Don:

>Yeah, but I'm not sure how Harpies/Larkies or Terries or Firmies or
>Gneezles or Valhalla or many other such characters figure into that
>explanation. After all, he did use magic, but just not witches... not
In my point of view, they are in fact 'rare' living beings but they behave
under natural laws: No superman-style superpowers. Even the people in
Valhalla deny they being gods.

>But I don't mind using an occasional ghost, though only in Castle McDuck
Neither do I. This kind of ghost might be understood as an allucination
Scrooge -or the Whiskervilles- have. And the same about the Heaven scene,
when the McDucks read the Destiny book to Scrooge: it might be seen as
Scrooge dreaming. I think it all has been made in a pretty way.

FABIO BLANCO:
>Obligatory Quote: Why a duck? :)
:-D

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OF COURSE, I meant
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Sorry about that, and thanks to those who corrected this!

Gilles

>> Say , if that devoutly hoped for Geppi/Disney deal
ever happens , do you think that they might have Dark
Horse handle the newsstand distribution , as was the
case with the 90s Gladstone/Marvel setup ??????? Only
trouble is , Dark Horse is , itself , pretty marginal
, at best , as far as newsstand distribution goes ,
especially for " traditional " newsstand distribution
, I think .<<

That's a pretty good idea, I'm thinking. Dark Horse does newsstand distribution for some of its other licensed titles like Star Wars. Distribution of Disney comics to those outlets should be just about as easy.

--your pal, Hoy

Wes Andersen wrote:
> I seem to
> remember a Barks' story about Donald doing some fund raising.
> Can anyone help me identify it.
> I believe the one I'm thinking of is a Christmas story
> and that $crooge offered to match $50 if Donald could raise it.

It is one of my favourites: "Donald Duck: A Christmas For Shacktown"

http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/story.php/0/W+OS++367-02

Ciao,

- Paolo

--
http://digilander.iol.it/inducks mailto:p.castagno at libero.it

'Inaudito! una Secolaria Granficiosa! Senza contare queste
Schifobiacee che...'
(Professor Radikis in I TL 1548-A)

>Any story with real supernatural-facts which I forget?
What about the zombie in Voodoo Hoodoo?
Oyvind

> And, off-topic, but someone mentioned Tolkien in a recent mailing. I
>teach his books to my high-school students & I've been wondering if much
>cross-over exists between the fans of ducks & hobbits.

Here's one, and I know several others.

>There *is* a Duck/Tolkien crossover.
>It's "A World Beyond"- D 97572, a 73-page Egmont pocketbook story
>published last year. "Sandalf" the wizard chooses Donald to lead a bunch of
>hobbit-like characters on an adventure.

>There is another one too. I TL 2081-1, I TL 2082-4 (Paperino
>e il signore del Padello, Lord of the Pot) by Giorgio Pezzin
>and Franco Valussi.

:-D
I have to get those stories!

Oyvind

Isn't this supposed to be a G-rated ML? ; )

(Answer below...)

Olivier

"Hearts of the Yukon" (WDG 1, Sept '95 / D 95044A), p 2 panel 5-- and you added some detail...
Personally, I don't consider this story as part of the L&T saga; it doesn't even have the L&T logo.
It is a "Young Scrooge in the Klondike" story-- and a great one, too! I love the running gag with
Colonel Steele & Jack London.

Just curious to know, what you (especially the Italians on this list)
think about Enrico Faccini's art. I think he simply becomes better and
better--one of the very best "newer" Italian artists IMO. I like the
way he is inspired by the classic tradition (esp. Scarpa) but in
contrast to others (Dalla Santa, Del Conte and more) this is so full of
dynamic. He even writes stories as well.

S?ren