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Gilles -

Moby Duck in Mickey-Parade?!?! What kind of production is it? Reprints? Old
US comics?
Is he still spelled Moby Dick? I haven't got the latest Mickey-Parade yet
but I am waiting forward to see it. Moby represents Kay Wright's & Gil-Bao's
style to me. He is like Madame Mim. A no-character, a ghost, a zombie, a
nobody. I'm surprised you like him so much... He disappeared long before I
bought my first comics, and you are younger than me.

If Mickey-Parade is reprinting Kay Wright and at the same time refuse to
publish dozens of Scarpa and Bottaro they have never published, where are we
going?!? And then they complain they have nothing to publish? (But then of
course, you need to write a translation from scratch when reprinting
unpublished stories. I suspect that's a decisive factor when deciding which
story to use).

>I will soon help you to index all the missing PM, and all the other
magazines I told you about,
>I just need time, you know. Just warn me, if somebody already indexed them!

You're welcome, send me a mail when you have something!

>Since last two months, Mickey Parade has been changed:
>It is bigger, with more pages, more informations about the stories, and
>a new name: Mickey Parade G?ant (Giant MP). It is very good!

I have only seen the first issue. It contains as much as two Mickey Parade,
but not much more than what was in the first one in 1966... the number of
pages have diminuished a lot in the last 20 years.

>Will you change the indexing abbreviation for Mickey Parade? It hasn't
>the same name, but the number of the issues are kept...

For this reason, I would like to keep it the same. It's still "Mickey
Parade" (MP) to collectors and fans.
There is a not-so-good abbreviation for the first series (MPP =
Mickey-Parade premi?re) from the day when the number of characters was
limited. But changing it is complicate now, and... I'm not too picky on
abbreviations.

>There are also in another story from the magazine two characters I like
>who hadn't been spoken about for a long time : Gilbert and Witch
>Hazel!!! A real pleasure!

It has been a long time... Witch Hazel? Maybe a Bottaro story?

Francois

Hello world!

since this is my first posting to the ML (but I had been a curious
reader for about one year) I'd shortly introduce myself: I'm a male,
italian, 32 years old electronics engineer which recently (thanks
to all you people!) re-discovered old and new disney comics.

And now my question.
Suddendly a few days ago, it comes to my mind a story that I've
probably read into some mid-80s *topolino* (the story is written
in italian).

It was about a sort of realm (held by a queen? maybe all the
inhabitants were female?) which is located *under* the sea bed
(not far from duckburg coast).
The only communication way to the outside world is constitued
by a sort of funnel which (under some circustancies?) may appear
above the sea level: the larger end is the part appearing above
the sea level while the smaller end is directly under the sea bed.

Hi!
Moby first appears in a cartoon, I think. I have a little text about him in
my Duck Family Tree:
http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/trees/myducktree.html
Rich's site had a lot of informations about him... We really miss sites such
as his :-((
I wish I had downloaded all of his pages before it shut down :-(
He is still called Toby Dick in french. He is on the cover with Fethry!
The story is from 2001!!!
It is a new birth for him!
It is called "Les chroniques de la baie", (Le storie della
baia",topolino#2380) and is written by Silvio Camboni (text by Alberto
Savini). It has references from Corto Maltese, according to the introduction.
They say in MP that Moby first appeared in a comic in 1967, but I am sure it
is in a cartoon, believe me! I think I remember it was about 1965.

The other story I liked is from Silvia ziche and is from topolino 2030, it is
a parody of "les fourberies de scapin", and Hazel? Arizona Goof and Gilbert
are spectators, Eega is the narrator, and the other are the actors...

No, Disney comics characters aren't dead, and it is just the beginning,
believe me!

Gilles

What is the status of Uncle Scrooge comics?

I see that Gladstone and Disney have been in negotiations, but I can't find
any new Uncle Scrooge comics in US or GB.

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Alex Campbell
DSTI, 301-315-9200 x6321

From: Fabricio Grellet <fgrellet at canbrasnet.com.br>

> So, if you can help me, I need to know who created it, why, how, for
> what... and what does the Disney have to do DIRECTLY with it - not only
> because they own the company in which this product was generated (as far
as
> I know).

You can find all the data about the first issue of Witch (and the following)
in the Inducks Database:
http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/issue.php/0/it/W+++++1 for the first
issue and so on.

The main info (the story) is:
Title: Halloween (60 p.)
Plot: Elisabetta Gnone
Story: Francesco Artibani, Elisabetta Gnone
Art: Alessandro Barbucci
Ink: Donald Soffritti
Color hints by Barbara Canepa
Colors by Mara Damiani

Disney had everything to do with it, it was a project born and developed
inside of Disney (If I got your question right... no, it's not an external
thing produced by Disney by chance).

--
Sprea

Many thanks to Paolo and Eta Beta for their answer.

Eega, your site is really good: I knew it but this has been the
first time I've *really* browse it.

I've also discovered that most of my favourite Scarpa's has been
written in '76...

ciao
luigi

Eta Beta wrote:

> Hello Luigi, hi Paolo
>
> >> And now my question.
> >> Suddendly a few days ago, it comes to my mind a story that I've
> >> probably read into some mid-80s *topolino* (the story is written
> >> in italian).
> >
> >The story should be "Zio Paperone e il casco d'oro", a funny
> >story by Scarpa, the curiosity is that the plot was suggested to
> >Scarpa directly by Barks.
> >
> >Take a look at
> >
> >http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/story.php/5/I+TL+1061-A/
>
> Also, you might want to take a look at
>
> http://eega.net/magic/pocket.html
>
> Follow the links to "The Last Balaboo", Story Index, 1976, and
> you'll find the story's first page.
>
> Cheers
>
> Eta Beta
>

Is a lucky owner of "Dell Giant" #35 (October 1960) on this list?
He might help us Italians to identify a 22-pages, 3-tiers story that
appeared on issue #261 of "Topolino".
This is a remake of Barks' "Seven cities of Cibola" but begins at HDL's
school. Donald is their theacher and he announces to the class that they
won a sort of "Fullbright scholarship" ;-) to visit a faraway island.
We suspect this to be the FIRST story of the comic book (16 pages but
4-tiered) whose title is "HDL Back to school".
However the title just doesn't sound right for the plot. And the whole
story seems to be misplaced among the other, simpler, stories of that issue
35 of "Dell Giant".
So anyone who checks will do us a big favour.

Ah, I almost forgot...
In the Inducks we have a description of that "Back to school" story...
only, it's in Finnish:

>veljenpoikien matkattua koululaisvaihto-ohjelman puitteissa sumuiselle
>V?limeren saarelle, osoittautuu saari hyl?tyksi koska kerran kuukaudessa
>sammuneen tulivuoren takaa tulevat karvaiset oliot ry?st?v?t kaiken ruuan

(and we are not even certain that this describes the right story...)

Thanks!

Marco

http://www.cce.unifi.it/~marcobar/DisneyIndex
http://www.cce.unifi.it/~marcobar/Comics