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Lars Jensen wrote:

> According to the Italian tradition, how old is Rockerduck? In some
> stories, I've seen it implied he is Donald's age (or only a bit
> older), but that doesn't seem to fit with the above text.

You're right. But in "Storia e Gloria della dinastia dei paperi" (*the*
story to be taken as base for a... "second level" of canon, a
"non-barksian" one) they're born at the very same time and at the very
same place!

--
Francesco

What's going on with the hoozoo-website?
I've noticed that all the pictures have been missing for quite some time now..

> Also, you write:
>
> > In 1928 [date of the reprint, not original], Scrooge
> becomes an
> > university student and meets Brigitta McBrigde. To
> free himself from
> > her grasp, he gifts her an expensive hat of balaboo.
>
> What's your source on this information? I like
> Brigitta MacBridge, but
> have always wondered how she and Scrooge first met.

It is reported on the story "Zio Paperone e l'ultimo balabu'"
(http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/I+TL++243-A/), when...

[SPOILER]

...in the last pages Brigitta shows up wearing a balabu' hat,
given her by Scrooge in 1898 (as reported in the original
version). Scrooge gave Brigitta that hat at the condition of not
to have her pestering around amnymore... but she didn't
maintained her promise!

[/SPOILER]

Ciao,

- Paolo

http://www.papersera.net

Hi !
I found a page on Internett about Carl Barks Estate with links to pictures of the items that were sold.
These pictures do not show up, and therefore I ask: Have you still got these pictures? Could you male them
to me? (I was so lucky this year to buy some of Barks drawing table items that were sold at this (?) auction.)

Best regards Gunnar Andreassen (in Norway)

Hi!

I've just been reading a norwegian Goofy-book with a Scarpa-story, where Goofy and Mickey goes looking for Goofys lost brother, who disappeared in the jungle many years earlier. This is the first time, I have heard about Goofy having a brother. Usually it's cousins and uncles. Is this something only occuring in the norwegian version? Is it a "brother" in the original italian story too?

"Topolino e il Pippotarzan" http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/I+TL++158-A

/Ole

As I read The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and I marvel at Don Rosa's expertise on continuity in the Barksian Duckverse, I wonder how he accounts for the number of times Donald has struck it rich without Scrooge's involvement. For example, a Norse map at the end of "Luck of the North" is supposed to be far more valuable than the gold that Gladstone removed from the Viking ship, and at the end of "The Gilded Man" he has $50,000, not a vast fortune, but still a lot to just fritter away. I know that Donald has traditionally been terrible at holding on to his money, but I hate to think that he'd just squander whole fortunes away. I hope he at least set up college funds for Huey, Dewey and Louie before finding himself having to make ends meet again.

BTW, regarding Don's sidenotes on "The Magic Hourglass", I'd say he was right to not use that to explain how Scrooge built his fortune, but I can still see it fitting into Barks continuity. It's easy for me to imagine Scrooge leaping to conclusions about the hourglass when his assets take a dip the very day he gives the hourglass away. So, even if it were only a coincidence, I can see him travelling around the world to get it back just to be on the safe side.
.

To my Euro friends..I have some items of note on eBay this week.
GLADSTONE Publishing bound file copies from
their 1st year of publishing...to name just one.

Best,

Michael

Hi,

I saw in the Inducks that Turkish comic book historian Kaya ?zkaracalar is listed as an Indexer. Would anyone on the list be in contact with him and know where I could write to him?

Thanks in advance.

Didier