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Hi everyone! Haven't been able to post to the list in a while.

I found the sales stats for US 320/WDC 635.

209. Uncle Scrooge #320 6,421

216. Walt Disney's Comics&Stories #635 6,025

274. Walt Disney's Comics&Stories #634 2,522

Kind of mixed news. On one hand, WDC is up from 4,000something that it was in
June. On another, US is down from 8,000something from June. DDA#1 didn't show
up in the top 300(though I'm not sure if it had been out long enough to have
a chance or not). Not sure what to conclude as far as progress for the overall
Disney line is.

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I'm not sure if it's been already mentioned/asked, but what stories will be
in DDA#2?

Derek Smith

Hi all!

You can now see character study for Mark O'Polo here:
http://www.geocities.com/timoro2/markopolo.html
I think this one was in eBay long time ago.

Timo

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Lars:
> Anybody else have any ideas?
>

Speaking of Oona - in D 2001-077 (from the latest Scandinavian weekly), we meet
a caveman named Fred. Donald even ponder over this - "Huh? A caveman named
Fred?"

I'm willing to eat a bucketfull of sparkel if it turns out that Kari Korhonen
has never seen the Flintstones. :-)

But that is too also just a name (and profession).

Olaf

Sigvald:
> OK! But you must have failed to read the title of the story though (or have
> Gemstone really messed this up?).

Gemstone has not "messed this up", no. The title printed in WDCS is "The Three
Caballeros Ride Again". (but hey, what's the big deal - everybody understood
what story we're talking about, right?)

> Please don't make more confusion than
> necessary when it comes to the titles of Don Rosa's stories.

Uhm... I hate to say this, but... look who's talking? Sigvald, didn't you just
a few weeks ago mention Italian characters by their Norwegian names because you
thought that names sounded better? Then we're talking CHARACTERS, and sure - if
one's a good guesser, one may understand that you're thinking of Battista when
writing "James" and Trudy when saying "Petra" - but those are guesses. In this
case... Well, thinking of how popular Don Rosa is, I don't think there's ANY
doubt of what story Hoy was talking about here. So, Sigvald... I don't mind at
all that you want people to write titles and character names etcetera
correctly. But as long as you don't do that yourself, I find it a LITTLE
annoying.

What I _guess_ happened in this case is that Hoy didn't have his magazine next
to his computer, and since he just wanted to say how great the story was, and
everybody would understand what story it was anyway, he didn't bother to check
it up. Frankly, I don't mind.

> This is a
> friendly advice to our friends at Gemstone too.

Speaking of which, a couple of questions to "our friends at Gemstone":

-- I noticed that a few stories in the July issue of US (or was it June?) did
not have the same titles as in INDUCKS - and as I assume the titles in INDUCKS
are the original titles from Egmont, I get the impression that these titles are
CHANGED by Gemstone. Am I wrong, or is that the case? If so, why?

-- Another similar question: In Gemstone publications, Miss Typefast's name is
changed to "Quackfaster" because that's her name in American. But when it was
said a month or two ago that Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow lived in
Duckburg, that was not changed to Mouseton (which I assume is their hometown in
American). Why not?

(I haven't really been paying attention to DCML the last few weeks, so I'm
sorry if any of this has been discussed earlier. With the amount of messages
here nowadays I'm too lazy to check the archieves for that.)

Best,

Olaf the Blue

Sigvald:> OK! But you must have failed to read the title of the story though
(or have> Gemstone really messed this up?).

Olaf: Gemstone has not "messed this up", no. The title printed in WDCS is
"The Three Caballeros Ride Again". (but hey, what's the big deal - everybody
understood what story we're talking about, right?)
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Exactly. How many Three Caballeros stories has Don Rosa made? :) Not too much
room for confusion as far as understanding what one is talking about.

I missed WDC 635(currently ordering it), so I haven't read Part 1 of the
story, but the centerpiece of Part 2 for me was when Donald, Jose and Panchito get
up on a bar room table and sing. It made the whole story that much better and
fit really well. And how Jose and Panchito look up to Donald at times. That's
a change from the usual Duck story. I also liked the references to "Treasure
of the Sierra Madre" and Monty Python.

About US 321: While "Attaaack!" is not the usual(nowadays) Don Rosa story,
I'm always glad when he makes these kind of comedy stories. They may not be
filled with historical detail like his usual stories, but I think stories like
"Attaaack!" are just as good because it shows Rosa's creativity being used in a
different direction. Long story short: It's a nice change of pace. :)

And Carlos Mota's art on 'Dime and Dime Again Part 1': Let's just say that
the two female office workers at the end wrere drawn rather attractively. It
reminded me of how Carl Barks and other artists of that age may have drawn them,
so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I found out that Barks had
something to do with the plot (how much I don't know since Geoffrey Blum wrote it
and I don't know the history behind the story). I wonder if Barks' style may
have provided any inspiration to Mota or if he usually draws in that manner.

Derek Smith

This information is taken from an e-mail by Christopher E. Barat, sent
to the Disney Comics Mailing List on 18 August 1998:

> [...] there were a few sequences in other [DuckTales] episodes that
> were clearly adapted from Barks stories, such as the use of the
> money-dam scenario and the "movable money bin" from "Only a Poor Old
> Man" and the backup story in Uncle $crooge No. 15 in the first part of
> the "Gizmoduck" serial.

Which DuckTales episode is meant here, containing both the money-dam
scenario (OS 386-02) and the movable money bin (US 15-05)?

I think it could be one these episodes, though I'm not sure:
1st Season (1988-1989) - #027 A Drain In the Economy (Part 1)
2nd Season (1989-1990) - #066 Marking Time (Part 1)
2nd Season (1989-1990) - #079 The Golden Goose (Part One)
2nd Season (1989-1990) - #081 Liquid Assets (Part 1)

List of DuckTales episodes, with part-identification of the serials: http://www.pazsaz.com/ducktale.html

List of DuckTales episodes, with original air dates:
http://www.geocities.com/supreme182/Duck-Tales.html

--- Dani?l

DANIEL WROTE (08-SEP-2003):

> TREASURE OF MARCO POLO - ORIGINAL DIALOGUE
> Please report any errors/omissions.

Hi Daniel!
Just one small correction:

> 20.6
> Wahn: "So you sneaked back to reunite Unsteadystan, prince? Well, the
joke is
> on you! Ha, ha!"

The correct panel reference is 20.7.

Best,
Are Myklebust

P.S.
Does anyone have a scan of the cover of the first Disney comic book ever
published, the Italian "Topolino" from December 31, 1932?

Are:
>Abbeville also published a special edition with "Mickey Mouse Joins the
>Foreign Legion". (I have actually only seen this book offered on ebay and
>I don't know if there where other similar books.)

I've seen a special version of Barks' Magic Hourglass. It's size is half of
the bigger DD-book, but I didn't bought it because it's the same mutilated
version as in the big book. No good... :-(

Timo

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