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Hi y'all !

Two weeks ago, Harry Fluks mentioned something which has
apparently escaped everybody's attention, since nobody reacted to
it:

> Still, I heard something new there: Don [Rosa] included a hint to
> HDL's parents in the "Return to Xanadu" story!

I'm still very curious as to what this 'hint' might be. I've read this
story several times over and I can't remember such a thing. (I don't
have it right here with me in Groningen.)

Does anybody have a suggestion? Harry, have you questioned Don
Rosa afterwards about this? Don Rosa, could you reveal it to us,
please? Or maybe such an revelation would spoil everything, so
everyone should look and find it for himself?

The only clue I can think of is that both "Return to Xanadu" and
"The Crown of the Crusader Kings" have an ending that points
forward to a possible sequel in which $crooge might return to his
ancestral castle in Scotland.

Michiel Prior.

<Ola.Martinsson at uab.ericsson.se> wrote:

> Some time ago I sent a question about the same
> issue having different types of paper on
> different copies of the Swedish Kalle Anka.
> The Swedish equivalent to WDC. I did not get
> any kind of response at all to it...

No wonder, in this group it some time seems that the easiest way to get
attention is to discuss Ebay, American comic book sizes, or by accidentally
offending somebody.

To your question: various paper-quality has been used in the covers of
enclosures to the Norwegian Donald Duck & Co the last few years. The
variation is only among various issues. I don't know if that's some kind of
experiments to see how various types of paper-quality works out, or if it's
done to make some enclosures extra special.

Sigvald :-)

I heard that Gladstone will be reprinting issues of WDC&S from #1 on ...

can anybody confirm this?

steven rowe

Rosa said that someone in Xanadu told the twins they would have returned
there in order to discover a secret who deals with them. Or something like
this, neither I have the story at hand. Rosa also suggested that Della and
his husband were something like Senior Woodchucks, adventurers, tomb raiders
and so on, and they might be considered "lost in mission" to justify
everything. Or something like this :)
bye

Mickey

In a message dated 3/26/2003 7:04:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
spe at inducks.org writes:

> That is highly unlikely since the license belongs to Gemstone, not
> Gladstone.
>

ok, how about is Gemstone doing it?

steven rowe

> From: "M.J. Prior" <M.J.Prior at let.rug.nl>
> Subject: Parents of Huey, Dewey, Louie in 'Return to Xanadu'
> > Still, I heard something new there: Don [Rosa] included a hint to
> > HDL's parents in the "Return to Xanadu" story!
>
> I'm still very curious as to what this 'hint' might be. I've read this
> story several times over and I can't remember such a thing. (I don't
> have it right here with me in Groningen.)
> Don Rosa, could you reveal it to us,
> please? Or maybe such an revelation would spoil everything, so
> everyone should look and find it for himself?

I don't want to reveal what it was (as if it's not easily guess-able?), but
at the press conference it Italy I never said these hints were IN the
finished story. The sequence I referred to was in the original *script*, but
I never illustrated that portion. Sorry if you were caused to reread and
rereread the story in search of something that isn't there.
Maybe I'll get around to it someday... but I'm not sure when or how I might
convince a publisher to accept it... or even if *I* will ultimately decide
it's a story that I have a way to tell that would make it appropriate.

> The only clue I can think of is that both "Return to Xanadu" and
> "The Crown of the Crusader Kings" have an ending that points
> forward to a possible sequel in which $crooge might return to his
> ancestral castle in Scotland.

Yes, the deleted portion in the "Return to Xanadu" script certainly did
refer to a sequel where the Ducks would again return there for "special
reason" (as the High Lama tells HD&L they are destined to do in the deleted
sequence). As for the other sequel you mention, I am now drawing that
tale -- it is the longest story I'll have ever done and features the return
of Matilda McDuck, the only one of the "missing Ducks" that Egmont will
allow me to use.
But even knowing that will spoil one of the surprises of the story, so
forget I said it!

on 3/26/03 7:08 AM, SRoweCanoe at aol.com at SRoweCanoe at aol.com wrote:

>
> ok, how about is Gemstone doing it?
>

Yes. From the ?Disney Comics Return!? interview with Steve Geppi on IGN.com
-

IGNFF: What are your current plans as far as something that
Gladstone never got around to, because I guess they were so entrenched in
the comic album format, in that there's never been Disney trade paperbacks ?
like an Uncle Scrooge trade paperback with a couple hundred pages worth of
stories?

GEPPI: Well, that's what I was just mentioning. In addition to
the pocket size, we plan to do some compilations. One project that we're
going to be doing late in the year is ? you'd probably describe this more as
a direct-market oriented project, because it's a reprint of classic Walt
Disney's Comics and Stories. We plan to do an exact size and shape Walt
Disney's Comics and Stories, starting with number one.

IGNFF: Oh really?

GEPPI: If you recall, Barks reprints ? when they did the
libraries for example, the Barks libraries ? they started with number 31,
because that's where Barks started. And even though these are strip
reprints, we feel that if we're going to be the people publishing Walt
Disney's Comics and Stories number 600 and something in an ongoing basis and
continue the tradition, there is going to be a market ? aside from the
collectors ? who'll want to go back and get, at reprint prices, a complete
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories set. So, effectively, we could put them out
like number 1, then number 2, number 3 ? then collect them again into an
archival package and a trade paperback version. For example, DC does
Superman 1, 2, 3, 4 and then 5 ? 8 in their archive editions. Well, the
difference here is we would do, in a sense, Superman 1, 2, 3, 4 in separate
issues, because they're big, thick, 64-page books, and collect them into
maybe ? and this is not all etched in stone, per se ? an expensive,
hard-cover, limited edition with the idea later of doing them in a trade
paperback for the bookstore market. That would be a variety of ways to get
revenue from those products, and packages that are more conducive to the
different audiences. For example, the collector might want that limited
edition hardcover, you know, in a very permanent looking package. The casual
buyer, who might go to a Walden's or a Barnes and Nobles or whatever, might
want that same thing, but it's the hardcover or soft cover thing that's
worked for you forever. So we feel pretty confident that there's a market
for that. It's already been established with the hardcovers ? at $50 no less
? that DC is selling. You're not going to get mass-market quantities at $50,
but then that's where the trade paperback comes in. So you can do a lot with
this, but I think that the mass market buyer ? that name, that title... Walt
Disney's Comics and Stories is just a perennial, and that's the right title
to start with, and to see if we can't get people who are picking them up
starting with number 600 and whatever, to work their way back in a nice
shelf life, archival edition ? keeping in mind that one of the perennial
ideas that has worked in the past that we're going to look at... when I was
a kid and you went to the food store with your mom, at the end of the aisle
you'd see a little stand-up display where you bought the first encyclopedia
for 99 cents. Then you were hooked, and every week when you came in you
bought the additional ones ? I'm giving my age away with the prices here. I
think that's the Disney, again, because it's Disney and that brand is
something that's got that continuity ? like a Walt Disney's Comics and
Stories ? I can see something like that that a parent, especially a
nostalgic parent, says, "Look at this, these are the same comics that when I
was a kid. I can have this whole series ..." We sign them up, so to speak,
in advance for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories for a long, long time.

-------------------
Take care,

Rob

Michiel, Don:

me> Don [Rosa] included a hint to
me> HDL's parents in the "Return to Xanadu" story!

Michiel> I'm still very curious as to what this 'hint' might be.

Don> at the press conference it Italy I never said these hints were IN the
Don> finished story.

Ah, then that's my fault. I thought Don mentioned an actual scene of the story.
I didn't take the time to look up the story, so I never checked.

--Harry.