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In a message dated 5/26/2002 7:34:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
frankbubacz at hotmail.com writes:

> What the hell does the abbreviation COA stand for???

usually Change Of Address

Hi all

OT first - Denmark is know kicked out of the eurovision song contest
for next year.
Congratulations to any lativan members here (and do buy me a latvian
Duck comic ;-)

OLAF:
> Subject: 313
Interesting about the article - but are you aware of the
one-shot-fanzine, called Duckmobiles about
this car and cars in Duckburg and Barks' stories in general. Thanks to
friend and fellow donaldist Kalle Hermannson I got the book some years
ago - it was send to Kalle from the swedish donaldist society.
It would overwhelm me me to scan from the 'zine right now, as I will be
bit exam-stressed for a few weeks still. - Afterwards I can scan from
the magazine, if it hasn't been done already. The info about this real
life-action 313 could be fitting on your own page and on Gilles page
about cars in Duckburg.

Swedish donaldists who are in the kansli (main office) - do you still
have extra copies of this magazine - Duckmobiles - or do any norwegian
donaldists have doubles?

God point. No vacum tubes are fitted with screwsocket. A lamp it is.
/ Michael

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Fr?n: "Rob Klein" <bi442 at lafn.org>
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Skickat: den 26 maj 2002 17:33
?mne: Gyro's Helper's head

> Congratulations to the man who built the full-scale operating REAL Donald car!
> he is one serious fan! It looks perfect! And he drives it on the streets!
> Amazing! I wonder if Al Taliaferro ever knew about it?
>
> For Francesco and Theresa: For reasons I stated in yesterday's digest, I
> believe that it is clear that in Carl Barks' versions, Helper had an common,
> ordinary light globe (bulb) for his head. Vacuum tubes all had a solid
> cylindrical cover around the bottom fitting of the tube, with prongs sticking
> out. ALL of Barks' illustrations of the "heads" and "replacement heads" when
> not screwed in to Helper's body, included a THREADED base connection ((for
> spiral groove tightening into the lamp fitting)(old North American system).
> I cannot remember if Bradbury, or any other US artist drew Helper with his head
> off, or drew any stored replacement heads. Perhaps another member with a
> better memory, or better access to his or her comics than I can inform us
> whether or not Bradbury or another US artist used a vacuum tube as a model?
> At the same time, they could also check stories of European, and South American
> artists' stories. I seem to remember a few stories by Branca and Vicar? in
> which Helper had to replace a "head". My guess is that it is quite likely that
> these artists would have used a model from the European or South American
> electronics systems, whose bases will differ from the style that Barks used. I
> am sure I remember several that resembled vacuum tubes.
>
> Rob
> Klein
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Frank Bubacz schrieb am Samstag, 25. Mai 2002 um 15:48:

> Hi,all!

> I've come across the cover of VP2 recently, which can be seen here:
> http://eega.net/covers/pag_us/pp.html
> I am sure that I saw this drawing a long time ago, when I was a kid. So I'm
> also sure that it must have been published in Germany sometime.
> Unfortunately, INDUCKS doesn't work temporarily, but, anyway, I can't
> remember to have read about a German publication there. The drawing appeared
> in Germany most probably as an illustration (not a cover), probably in Micky
> Maus sometime in the seventies. I'm searching desperately for the item in
> which it was included (chilhood treasures - you have it!). Is there any
> German Micky Maus fanatic with a photographic memory who can help me?

> Frank

Hi.
This illustration has been published in Germany, but I think you're
right that it was never used as a cover - but I don't know exactly
when and where it has been used.
What I know so far is that there was standing something like
"Micky Maus geht stets voraus" on the banner. Maybe they used it
for advertisement in other Disney magazines.

--
Greetings,
Arne Voigtmann

At 17:50 25.05.02 +0000, Rob Klein wrote:

>For Theresa, regarding Gyro's Helper's head:
>....
>The light filament is the squiggly line
>inside the tube (which is supposed to be a thin copper? wire conductor).

The wire is made of wolfram, which can withstand the extreme temperature in
the wire without melting. Provided of course that there is vacuum inside
the light bulb to make sure it won't burn.

Another evidence of the head being a light bulb is in the Barks' story
where Gyro invents a firefly tracker that does not impress anyone. But
when it proves to be able to predict meteors and Gyro prevents a train from
crashing into one, he becomes the hero. And what did he use to warn the
locomotive driver in the dark?
He waved helper with the head fully lit. Only a light bulb can do that. Not
a vacuum tube. But then again, a light bulb is really a vacuum bulb.

Regards
Halsten

Hello folks.

I just picked up a couple of issues of DONALD DUCK FUN
LIBRARY, a digest sized comic book reprinting
Italian(?) duck and mouse strips from the seventies. I
was pleased to get a chance to read some European
strips in English (a rare opportunity). Does anybody
know how many issues this ran for? I used to have them
a long time ago (they were sold off cheap in
Woolworths in my dim distant childhood) but bunged
them out in my foolish teenage years. Each copy also
featured a free sticker, incidentally.

One of them features a very good weird Uncle Scrooge
strip called "MacWatchit's Will" with the number
I-1055-A. Does anyone have any information about this
story? Also an unusual Mickey Mouse story called "The
Ice Cream Parlour" is odd and interesting. Reference
number is S-74025.

I'd like it if we had regular digest titles in the UK
nowadays. I'd buy them. But no-one else would, I
suspect.

Any information much appreciated. Thanks chaps.

VIC

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Rob Klein (and others):

Thanks for the thorough description and explanations to why it should be
a light bulb and not a vacuum tube - it makes sense from that information
that it is a light bulb... Even though the "nerdy" part of me still thinks
that a vacuum tube would have been quite cool...

I haven't had time to check old comics now (in the middle of the end of
the semester in school, lots of exams to concentrate on, so I never dared
starting checking, I think it would have been a mistake...)

(but I'll take time later on and do some research myself! :)

--
/Theresa, who btw really longs for a good spacebound adventure starring
$crooge now - it was a long time since the last one, and it's about time
now... anyone else who agrees?