Keskustelujen arkisto

Generally the plastic toys attached with Swedish weekly
Kalle Anka & Co are total junk in the purest form, but
the latest gadget sold with KA 6/2004 has somehow more
personality, I think (he hee(?)):

http://www.geocities.com/gearlost/misc/ka200406medhj.html

(the pic isn't very good, the item was just placed under
the scanner plate.)

- Simo

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Ola Martinsson wrote:
> In the Gerber photo journal there is a picture of a WDC X-mas giveaway
> ca 1945. It has the same cover as WDC #59.
>
> I have a subscription folder from 1947 that looks like this one. It is
> simply a peice of paper folded once that gives it the same size as a
> comic showing the frontcover mentioned above. Then it is folded two
> times on the other level so it becomes one third as high as a comic.
>
> Is it this that is portrayed in Gerber ? Or is the picture in Gerber
> actually of a WDC X-mas giveaway that they didn't know exact publishing
> year of ?
>
> Does it say ca 1945 because Gerber didn't know exactly what year or was
> this WDC X-mas giveaway/subscription folder published for more than one
> year ?
>
> In that case, did it have the same cover all years ?

Per the "Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide" (I'm quoting from the 24th
edition (1994) but all previous editions I have back to the 8th edition say
the same thing)):

"Mid 1940's (45-48), 1952 (4pgs in color) (slick paper)
"Dell Publishing co. (Special Xmas offer)
"1940's version - subscription form for WDC&S - (Reprints two different
WDC&S covers with subscription forms printed on inside covers)"

As of the 25th edition (1995) of the "Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide" the
information is as follows:

"1942-1962 known (4 pgs, in color, slick paper, 7-1/3"x10-1/4")
"(folded horizontally once or twice as mailers)
"K.K. Publications (Xmas subscription form)
"NOTE: It is assumed a different mailer was printed each Xmas for at least
twenty years."

Oversteet also provides details for some of the mailers but nothing
specifically for 1945 nor 1947. From the descriptions of the other mailers
I can tell that the mailers for 1942, 1949, 1950 & 1953 had different covers
from that shown in Gerber.

My guess is that what you've got is the actual mailer pictured in Gerber and
that they probably used the same art work, just changing the year, for a few
years in the mid-1940s (this may be why Gerber states "circa 1945"). If
what you have is only one page, more than likely the back page was cut off
at some point in time.

Tom

From: Willem Hajenius (willem.hajenius at ping.be)
Subject: 'Easter eggs' in certain stories
>>>>(translation: "Man, are we a great TEAM! We'll search for kreli-oil on
Altair 4!
Search for Nebulite in the crystal mountains on Kenodon! You've NEVER seen
anything like that!"
For some reason, 'Kenodon' rings a bell! :-) Does Don Rosa's original
English text
also use that word, or was it changed by the Dutch translator/publisher?

Yes, that's almost exactly what my original script read... I think I wrote
"drill" and "dig" rather than "search" and "search". And I don't know if the
use of the term "kreli-oil" is a change or some spelling for the Dutch
idiom. My original exact English was "Krelian oil". The Krel were the
long-dead former inhabitants of the planet Altair 4 visited by the United
Planets Cruiser C57D in the greatest SF movie of all time. See, you can't
begin to imagine how many "Easter eggs" there are in every corner of my
stories -- there was one lying unsuspected in the half of that sentence you
weren't even referring to. This is how I entertain myself. I'm easily
amused.

Jonathan Gray writes:

"Was Glomgold ever used in any of the second season episodes outside of the Gizmoduck origin episodes?"

Outside of the BUBBA DUCK origin episodes, Glomgold appeared in:

SECOND SEASON
"My Mother, the Psychic."
"Ducky Mountain High."

THIRD SEASON
"Attack Of The Metal Mites."
"The Golden Goose, pt. 1 and 2."

I remember that Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys became the main villains on the show after the first season. She must have been an easier villain to write stories with.

Joseph Adorno

Don Rosa:

>>>My original exact English was "Krelian oil". The Krel were the
>>> long-dead former inhabitants of the planet Altair 4 visited by the
United
>>> Planets Cruiser C57D in the greatest SF movie of all time.

And what movie is that, pray tell? I obviously haven't seen it :(

Olivier

In a message dated 2/7/04 5:29:33 PM, dcml-request at stp.ling.uu.se writes:

<< >>>My original exact English was "Krelian oil". The Krel were the
>>> long-dead former inhabitants of the planet Altair 4 visited by the
United
>>> Planets Cruiser C57D in the greatest SF movie of all time.

And what movie is that, pray tell? I obviously haven't seen it :( >>

Forbidden Planet is the movie, and I show it to my English classes after we
read/act out Shakespeare's The Tempest. The movie is not as well-known as it
should be, or people would recognize all of the ideas that Star Trek took from
it. (Well, Forbidden Planet took ideas from Shakespeare, after all.) The
special effects, state-of-the-art for the time, were done by none other than the
Disney company--animators, I'd guess, although I don't have my facts in front of
me right now.
Alas, I read last year that the movie was being remade. However, I also heard
that Robbie the Robot (the Ariel character) would not be redesigned. Can we
at least get Leslie Nielson to play Morbius?

Overstreet #33 page 228 says: Donald Duck giveaway 1944 K. K. Publications
1944 christmas giveaway 16 pages (2 versions).
I own: Donald Duck giveaway 1944 S&L store
Donald Duck giveaway 1944 Spear
Donald Duck giveaway 1944 Wheather-bird shoes
Are they three versions?
or
It means other?
Paolo Bontempi

In a message dated 2/8/2004 6:02:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, dcml-request at stp.ling.uu.se writes:
I seriously doubt any group of three or more could agree on what "Greatest SF Movie of All Time" is, but FORBIDDEN PLANET is certainly the GRANDADDY of SF films in terms of the INFLUENCE it had on so much of what followed.
Why, it was practically the BLUEPRINT for STAR TREK -- and it influenced LOST IN SPACE with its use of Robby the Robot -- who actually appeared TWICE on LOST IN SPACE, as a co-star to the "unnamed" LOST IN SPACE Robot.
And LOST IN SPACE influenced STAR WARS insofar as the characterizations of C3PO and R2D2 were FAR TOO MUCH like Doctor Smith and the Robot to be a coincidence.
So, FORBIDDEN PLANET has influenced quite a bit -- including, so it seems, the Disney comics work of Don Rosa.
Joe Torcivia.