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Hi all!

After a long time ago, I'm back again in the mailing list! First thing i'm
going to do is to post a message with the contents of the latest Komix
issue.

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SRoweCanoe at aol.com wrote:

>I seem to recall hearing that Western-Whitman did provide royalties throughout the 1950s and provided Barks and others with insurance coverage. Of course this is when sales were in the two million or higher range, and they ended it with sales dropped in the late 1950s.
>
>
>
I thought they just paid monthly wages instead of just per page. That
would explain the insurance? I am probably wrong, but I got this
impression from on line in Carl Barks Conversations -book. I have no
idea why I even remember something this obscure.

Hello everyone!

I am considering ordering seveal Disney back issues (both Gladstone,
Gemstone, Disney) from Mile High Comics, but I would like your opinion
first-- service, shipping (to Europe in particular), ... It does seem quite
serious.

Actually, I think it is someone on the DCML who recommended me this store,
some time ago (a year at least). Possibly Kriton-- in which case, no
problem, I trust your judgment. It's my memory I do not trust; it may have
been on another discussion board.

Other recommendations are welcome.

Olivier

Dan Shane wrote:

>You forgot to mention that while American non-comics readers are
fuming
>about the increasing price of gasoline (or petrol to our enlightened
>European friends) they continue to shell out 4 times the amount for
bottled
>water. Water! In a country where most residents can turn on the tap
and
>receive just about the cleanest, best tasting H-2-O on the planet!

And Sverre:

>I live in Houston, and our tap water taste like it's straight from
the
>swimming pool. It's just plain awful! First time I tasted it I was
>gagging. So for a long time we got the huge 5 gallon bottles of
water
>delivered on our door from Ozarka. The bill would vary between $30 -
$80 a
>month. I tried the carbon based water filters that attaches to the
faucet,
>and it marginally improved things, but you could still taste the
chlorine.
>I finally spent $250 on a reverse osmosis filter (the one with a
tank
>under the sink), and I've never been happier. Bottled water is now a
thing
>of the past in my household.

Sorry, but since I'm working in a water company, I really have to
reply to this... tap water can be good, but in no way it can taste as
well as bottled water coming from source. Bottled natural water is
incomparably better than tap water, as each source of water has a
unique arome that you can't find in tap water. Surely you can also
get good water without bottled better, but not as good. Wether the
price is too much, or delivery not easy, then... this is another
problem.

Please, please, excuse me for this entirely off-topic mail!

Dan Shane wrote:

>You forgot to mention that while American non-comics readers are
fuming
>about the increasing price of gasoline (or petrol to our enlightened
>European friends) they continue to shell out 4 times the amount for
bottled
>water. Water! In a country where most residents can turn on the tap
and
>receive just about the cleanest, best tasting H-2-O on the planet!

And Sverre:

>I live in Houston, and our tap water taste like it's straight from
the
>swimming pool. It's just plain awful! First time I tasted it I was
>gagging. So for a long time we got the huge 5 gallon bottles of
water
>delivered on our door from Ozarka. The bill would vary between $30 -
$80 a
>month. I tried the carbon based water filters that attaches to the
faucet,
>and it marginally improved things, but you could still taste the
chlorine.
>I finally spent $250 on a reverse osmosis filter (the one with a
tank
>under the sink), and I've never been happier. Bottled water is now a
thing
>of the past in my household.

Sorry, but since I'm working in a water company, I really have to
reply to this... tap water can be good, but in no way it can taste as
well as bottled water coming from source. Bottled natural water is
incomparably better than tap water, as each source of water has a
unique arome that you can't find in tap water. Surely you can also
get good water without bottled better, but not as good. Wether the
price is too much, or delivery not easy, then... this is another
problem.

Please, please, excuse me for this entirely off-topic mail!

> From: Hans Schmidt <hansschmidt at bluebottle.com>
> Subject: Water
> Sorry, but since I'm working in a water company, I really have to
> reply to this... tap water can be good, but in no way it can taste as
> well as bottled water coming from source.

Off-topic, yes, but since this comment was sent to the ML four times, I must
reply at least once:
Our tap water in Louisville tastes as good as any bottled water I've ever
tried.
Also, if I am to believe the consumer reports articles I've read or the TV
reports I've seen, most of these bottled "spring waters" are simply treated
tap water. They are very nice, but they don't really come from a lovely
sparkling natural spring in the snowy mountains as shown on the label.
However, if you don't live in Louisville, maybe they are a good alternative.

Don Rosa wrote:

> They are very nice, but they don't really come from a
> lovely sparkling natural spring in the snowy mountains
> as shown on the label.

Coca Cola's "Dasani" water sold in the U.K. was recently found to be
nothing but bottled tap water
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3523303.stm)

Quote: "Figures from independent beverage research company Canadean show
that at least two out of every five bottles of water sold around the
world are, like Dasani, "purified" waters, rather than "source" waters
which originate from a spring."
(http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0304-04.htm)

A comprehensive study here in Germany a few years ago found out that our
tap water is in fact (on average) _better_ than our bottled water.
Bottled water often has ingredients which are supposed to be good for
year health - but in higher dosages can do harm. In addition the laws
for tap water are stricter than for bottled water. Beats me why, though.

Kim Basinger accepts nothing but bottled "Evian" water - to wash her
hair :-)

In a desperate attempt to make this thread on-topic: We can assume that
Duckburg gets its water from a dam. At least if it has been rebuilt
after dam disaster at money lake.

It is really hot, right now. I think will go and drink some tap water
:-)

Cord

Joe Torcivia wrote:

> I've had repeated dealings with Mile High Comics,
> and they have all been good. Of course, my shippings
> have all been to New York -- not Europe, so I can't
> speak to that.

As a customer of Mile High Comics for over twenty years I can add: Great
selection (5.000.000+ issues, everything is online!), reliable service,
sturdy packaging, strict grading.

But rather high prices!

My tipp: Wait for one of their sales and go for the lower grades! I for
myself could not distiguish Mile High's back isses graded as "fine" from
the supposedly "near mint" copies I buy from the comics store around the
corner. Even Mile High's "good" issues are more than sufficient for
reading pleasure.

Cord