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> Overall, I'd say this book is worth the $5 Gemstone is requesting to
receive
> a copy directly. After all, I'm sure it will be hard to find...

Like I said before, You can get a free copy from me for the cost of shipping.
I will also send extra copies to groups.
Email me directly:
UNDBKB at aol.com
or
ROSABARKSFAN at aol.com

Barry.

Vidar Svendsen <vidar-svendsen at c2i.net> wrote:

>> I refer to Donald Duck & Co in general.
>> I can't remember that they have ever told
>> their Norwegian readers that Paul Murry worked
>> another way than creators like Barks and Rosa.
>> As long as nothing else is stated, most
>> readers are lead to believe that Barks is the
>> norm.
>
> I can't find any articles about Murry in
> DD&Co.

Exactly, Vidar! And together with the facts that Murry AFAIK always are
mentioned alone in the credits (obiously because the writer is unknown)
there is no way the readers could know that Murry worked an other way than
Barks!

> I've found one article about him
> (Aargangsbok 1953 I).

That's a pretty new publication so it doesn't change my argument. It's
possible that this stuff about Paul Murry was mentioned in the giant book
"Vi Mikke og Langbein" though, but as someone else previosly has staded -
those books were rather expensive and were thus not read by everyone.

Sigvald :-)

Hi all!

In the last panel on page 14 in Norwegian Doanld Duck & Co 13/1991 there is
a sign saying "Langtvekkistan, 99950 km". Using such a number in that
context seems ridiculous to me, because that distance is close to 2.5 times
the distance around the globe at equator. So unless Duckburg is located on a
giant plantet like Jupiter that distance is completely meaningless. I don't
know how that number did end up on that sign, but it shows either a lack of
basic geographic knowledge among those responsible for that story, or a lack
of respect for the readers intelligence.

Sigvald :-)

SIGVALD + more(?!) (LARS are you with me? :-):

> In the last panel on page 14 in Norwegian Doanld Duck & Co 13/1991
> there is a sign saying "Langtvekkistan, 99950 km". Using such a
> number in that context seems ridiculous to me, [...]

Well, Sigvald. Usually I am not the first in line to agree with you, but
in this particular case...

Most adults would of course reject to such a silly distance immediately.
I wonder however, to which degree you allow some kind of fantasy? I
remember an old Strobl story in which Goofy slides down by a rainbow(!)
and meets Daisy. They both face an evil witch, but by the help of a Gyro
invention (a sorta hand-held lifting device) they manage to defeat this
evil witch. (there is much more, but that would be spoiling...)

Now, do you consider such an event canon? I (personally) consider it a
beautiful example of imagination. Asking this question is due to my
conception of Disney Comics perhaps not being as imaginative as was
formerly the case. When I read a Danish Egmont weekly these days, I see
plenty of "social realism" (in the very light sense but still).
Yesyesyes, I know that Taliaferro did something similar, but what
happened to the other part; the fantasy and the unrestricted imagination?

What happened to Scamp for example?! What happened to Fethry?! I love
reading Disney comics mainly because of its variety...what happened to
Chip 'n' Dale? (O'Malley...long forgotten or what? etc...)

You know, those things concern me a lot more than the colour of money
that Don Rosa did or did not utilise in his stories. My first question
was: "Who cares" but I was about to learn otherwise... :-/

S?ren
(and Vidar, I am *not* gnasty ;-)

On Monday 05 May 2003 23:43, Sigvald Gr?sfjeld jr. wrote:
> Stefan Persson wrote:
> >> What says that both Duckburg and
> >> L?ngtbortistan are on the same planet? ;-)

We always see Donald going there by foot or car never by spaceship as far as I
can remember. On the other hand he is going in the direction that sign is
pointing, but how often does he actually state he is going to go all the way.

> 1) In Norwegian there is both "Langtvekkistan" and "Langtbortistan" so I
> won't say know if your "L?ngtbortistan" is the same as our
> "Langtvekkistan". Another such name is "Bortvekkistan".

But are they different places, not just different names for the same place.

> 3) Donald and other Duckburgians NEVER goes to "Langtvekkistan" by a
> space-rocket - how could they afford that?

They will just ask Gyro to make one.
Constructions for use in space travels does seem to be something everyone can
make though.

Claus

I'm not sure exactly what the definition of "team" would be,
but Carl Fallberg (writer) and Paul Murry (artist) did most of the
classic Mickey Mouse serials that ran in Dell's Walt Disney's Comics
and Stories in the 1950s and early 1960s.
As far as I know, Murry did not do any writing. I am
convinced that he lettered and colored the majority of the Disney
stories that he drew. (Which isn't that uncommon. Barks or his wife
Gare did the lettering in his stories and Barks could have added
color if he had wanted too. (It's mentioned that he tried it a couple
of times and ended up with "houses with pink roofs" or some such.))

best -- Merlin Haas

Merlin wrote:

> As far as I know, Murry did not do any writing. I am
> convinced that he lettered and colored the majority of the Disney
> stories that he drew. (Which isn't that uncommon. Barks or his wife
> Gare did the lettering in his stories and Barks could have added
> color if he had wanted too. (It's mentioned that he tried it a couple
> of times and ended up with "houses with pink roofs" or some such.))

This is interesting. I'd thought coloring was always done at Western
Publishing's office (or at the printing factory). In fact Barks once
complained that he sometimes gave coloring hints but the colorists at
Western never followed his instructions.

Gerd