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Mickey wrote:

> a) Is it possible that Donald lived in Mouseton (or in the same city
> of MM, considering the recent thread about this) in the Taliaferro
> strips, at least before the arrival of HDL?

It's possible -- Taliaferro let Donald interact with Morty and Ferdie,
Horace Horsecollar, Pluto, Clarabelle Cow and Goofy. In fact, the latter
three made appearances in the strip even after Huey, Dewey and Louie had
been introduced.

Lars

Just to follow up on a previous mail...

Rich Bellacera wrote:

> The other 11 are: [...] Nipper [rat], [...] & Kevin [chicken?].

I emailed the editor of the Riverside Rovers stories about the species
of the various characters -- Kevin is a cockerel and Nipper a mouse.

Lars

While watching the "Yuppy Ducks" episode of Duck Tales today on Toon Disney
- One of Scrooges's executives mentioned that Scrooge bought one of the
major baseball teams in thier home state of Calisota. This surprised me as I
dont think I've ear heard them mention the name of the Duck's state in
Ducktales before (its been YEARS since I've seen some of these episodes) Out
of curiosity has something like that been mentioned before in passing?

Jonathan H. Gray

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KRITON WRITES IN REPLY TO OLA:

> > I just found out that shamrock is a kind of Irish clover. Why is the
> > character Shamrock Bones named after this ? I can't see any Irish
> > connection to him.
> > Or is this some kind of English words play that I as a Swede fail to
> > understand ?
>
> My guess is that it is a humorous reference to the name of an obscure
> character called Sherlock Holmes, but one wouldn't expect anyone, other
> than
> the handful of Holmes fans, to figure it out. :-)

AND I RESPOND:

Sherlock Holmes is hardly obscure, at least not in English speaking lands.
He has appeared in more movies than any other fictional character (Tarzan is
second), and is very well known as the first novelized consulting detective.

He has another Disney connection, serving as the model for the Disney
animated film THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE, also known as BASIL OF BAKER
STREET.

Dan

DAN:

> Sherlock Holmes is hardly obscure, at least not in English speaking lands.
> He has appeared in more movies than any other fictional character (Tarzan is
> second), and is very well known as the first novelized consulting detective.

I assume that you forgot a smiley or two in the above paragraph! While I do
not expect anyone to remember my mentioning that I am a Holmes fan in an
earlier posting this summer, I hardly think that there is anyone in the
western world who is not even marginally aware of who Sherlock Holmes is.
(Recognizing distorted versions of his name, such as "Shamrock Bones", is a
different matter, of course.)

Kriton.
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Lars:
>In "Uncle Scrooge" #13 (1956) Barks has Morty and Ferdie casually walking
up to Gyro Gearloose, which implies they live >in the same city -- at least
in this story. So no, there's no clear border between the two eras.

I know. But the twins could be in Duckburg for a trip. The idea of the same
city could be attractive, but I think it's narratively inconsistant: DD and
MM never meet each other since Gottfredson :) (I'm talking about barksian&co
stories, obviously)....

Mickey

Mr. Rosa, have you ever considered to write a story and make it drawn by
someone else? We love your artwork as you love to draw... but it could be an
interesting experiment! Think about a story of yours pencilled by Cavazzano
(the opposite of your style)!

Mickey