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Hi everyone!

Hope everything is fine for you.
I am sorry I can't take part in discussions as much as I would like to.

Sigvald:
>> Can anyone tell me the name used in the US-edition for the Turkish "Villain" in Don Rosa's
>>"The Treasury of Croesus"?

Sure...
(p3 panel 4): "Very good! I am Prof. Owatta Pigayam! [...]"

In case you're wondering about him too, the Prof who's busy cataloguing the British Museum's
treasures is Prof. Fothring-Smythe (p 5 panel 4).

All the best,

Olivier

Lots of Questions from Sigvald today.

1. Villian in Rosa's Croesus story? The pig-faced
Professor Owatta Pigayam. The pronunciation is "Oh, what a pig I am".

2. L&TofSMcD, part 3 "Buckaroo of the Badlands", where are the badlands?
The map in the first panel shows the badlands in the western part of
the Dakota territory, extending a few miles into the eastern part
of Montana
and Wyoming. The Dakota territory of 1882 is now split into 2 states,
with non-imaginative names "North" and "South" Dakota.

3. Where is the "Land of the Pigmy Indians"? In the third panel of Barks'
story (US18), Sidewalk Sam shows Scrooge a map of "the region north
of Lake Superior." That's the western part of Ontario province,
Canada,
far from its largest city of Toronto. Ontario is a very large
province.

4. In "The Universal Solvent" what river in Duckburg has the tunnel under
it that the ducks escape into?
It's the Tulebug river. In the fifth page before the end, fifth
panel, Scrooge
realizes "I know where we are---in the tunnel under the Tulebug
River."

----------Larry Giver.

On Sunday, November 17, 2002 4:58 AM Don Rosa wrote:

> Anyway, I ask all of you who think the thing to do is to
> write to Egmont or anyone else on my behalf to please NOT do so. If I
> can't work this out by simple ethics and honor and fair play among
> friendly people, there's no reason to try any other means. But thanks for
> the thought.

I hope ethics and honor and fair play will be enough then, because, for
instance, today I read "Forget it!" on the new issue of Zio Paperone, and it
would be a great loss for all of us if you stopped writing such good
stories!

(I really liked this one, just as much as I liked "A matter of gravity"... I
love it when you put Scrooge and Donald in situations like these, and even
though they seem absurd they still have a strict logic and work out
beautifully.)

Anyway, if there's anything we can do to help you with this matter, just
tell us.

--
Francesco
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
"From Beneath You, It Devours"

hi!!!
I put the story I promised to Sonia online!
you can see it at :

http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/stories/LVD3.html

bye!!!
Gilles

For Kai Saarto: The vast majority of the Artists and writers that work for
Egmont, Hachette, Sanoma, Sanoma/VNU, Disney Italia and the other Disney Comics
publishers are and were free-lance, not in-house employees. Therefore, most (if
not all) of us would really have no access to official figures that could tell
us whether or not the cost of royalties should require an increase in the price
of the comics. David Gerstein, Gary Leach and Bob Foster, on this list (plus
one or two others, worked in-house, as employees. They may be able to answer
your question with some authority. We free lancers can only guess. I am afraid
tht Gary was probably correct when he stated that the publishers, if required
by law and court order to pay such royalties, would claim that that would raise
their costs, significantly. At first, they would use that as an excuse to
overturn such a decision. Then, if that failed, they would use it as an excuse
to raise prices. Remember, however, that they can only charge what the market
will bear. There are some people that would pay double or triple the price for
weekly, monthly and special Disney comics and books; but, there are vast
numbers who would choose not to and/or could not afford to. They would have to
be careful to not raise them too high. We might have experienced this
phenomenon with Gladstone (hypothetical), if they had had enough sales at a
given price, but then had to increase prices 10-fold after their paper costs
skyrocketed, to make their sales high enough for a small profit margin over
costs. Of course, in actuality, they may have had too small a sales base to
stay in business even at the lower cost. My own personal feeling is that the
publishers could probably pay royalties and yet stay in business, selling the
weeklies and monthlies at current prices, or only slightly higher prices per
unit. They would then only reprint stories in "luxury" formats, so enough could
be charged to make their desired profit (or at least a "reasonable" profit).
This might mean that the readers of the weeklies would only see a few Barks
reprints and almost no others. I'm guessing that if readers wanted to obtain
older stories, they would have to find them second hand, - or pay much money
for the "fancy" re-issues. I am interested to hear what David Gerstein, Bob
Foster, Gary Leach, and some of our other members who have connections with the
publishers and more knowledge of the industry think about this subject.

For Sigvald: The area north of Lake Superior is, indeed, the far west of
Ontario. It is the land of the Ojibway Tribe. If Minnesota is "The Land of
10,000 Lakes", then, the area in question would be "The Land of 100,000 Lakes".
They definately have giant sturgeon there, and the forests there are so very
thick, that pygmy Indians MIGHT go unnoticed. Barks did a good job of
portraying the area.

For Cord Wiljes: I'm quite surprised that a German is announcing we have
unlimited time to exchange our Deutschmark und pfenning for Euro. I was sure
my business partners warned me that we only had a certain number of months to
turn the money in to receive Euro in exchange. I can't remember if it was less
than one year, or slightly more. If I remember correctly, they were warning us
of this months BEFORE the switch was to be made. Perhaps such a deadline was
proposed but then later dropped? Also, I thought I remember hearing the same
in The Netherlands (a number of months or one year and a few months? I don't
have any more old currency, but I'd still like to know. Perhaps some other
members can clarify this for us.

Rob Klein

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ROB:

> I'm quite surprised that a German is announcing we have
> unlimited time to exchange our Deutschmark und pfenning for Euro.

There are a couple of different dedalines.

The first deadline was the end of the period when the old currency was
being withdrawn, to be replaced by the new currency, with both types
of currency being in circulation. Each country adopted a different
deadline, which had to be before, or at February 28. It was no surprise
that in Greece, where we like do things at the last moment, the deadline
was February 28. I believe that the Germans, being a slightly more
disciplined people than Greeks, chose the earliest possible deadline,
January 1, with no interim period. From what I saw on TV, however,
there was a period when both kinds of currency were, informally, in
circulation in Germany, as well.

The second deadline is much later, again different on each country, when
the old currency will become worthless paper or metal. This deadline
is years into the future, with the deadline for coins being shorter than
that for bank notes, but the catch is that you can only do the exchange
at your country's central bank. When I went to the bank of Greece,
this summer, e.g., there was still a line of people waiting to exchange
their drachmas for euros, long past the February 28 deadline.

This has always been the practice in Greece (and I assume elsewhere)
whenever new coins or notes were issued: do most of the conversion within
a short period, then provide a means for those few who still have old
style money in their hands to convert at their leisure for several years
after the conversion.

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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"One always has choices. Whether one chooses to see them or not is,
in itself, its own choice."
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Re: Harry's note on Grandpa Duck:
"The Good Ole' Daze" story (Anders And Nr. 5, 1993?) -
I no longer reside part-year in Danmark, and haven't visited there in 2 years.
I have no access to that story. Was the Grandpa Duck in that story married
to "Elvira (Elviry)" Duck "The Grandma Duck"?

Is this the same grandfather of Donald that was referred to in Barks' 1943 10-
page Donald story with the "reverse race", in which the last one to cross the
finish line is the winner? Donald borrowed Grandpa Duck's old horse.

I always assumed that that grandpa Duck was Donald's father's father (hence the
name "Duck". However, as Grandma also has the surname "Duck", THIS Grandpa
could also be Grandma's husband, and yet be Donald's sister's husband's mother.

But, then we also have the problem of the generations,-(e.g. whose Grandmother
Grandma is). Is she Donald's grandmother, or that of donald's Nephews. Is
Grandpa the Nephews' grandfather, or great grandfather???

Rob Klein

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Hello everyone:

I think the fact that $crooge has invalid currency-coins stored in his bin
is ASSUMED. In several Barks' stories this is a spot on the story: For
instance, at the beginning of 'Lost beneath the sea' (I think that's the
title), Scrooge pays Donald with an invalidated coin (but Donald realizes
lately, and then he goes to sell it a to a money collector, and then
Scrooge breaks down, etc).

So IMHO Scrooge takes care about all and everyone of his coins: he knows
which of them to use for swimming (all) and which for paying (the
invalidated ones) ;-)

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To Italian artists (and Don Rosa too):

All my respect and my support for you. You're doing right. Never cheer
down!

Santiago.