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David Gerstein wrote:

> I'm glad somebody noticed our Scarpa/Cavazzano Ellsworth short
> in MICKEY MOUSE ADVENTURES 10! And Scarpa's Ellsworth will be back
> again later this month with a longer story in WALT DISNEY TREASURES.

And I see (on Amazon) more Scarpa coming on Uncle Scrooge the following
months!

Lars Jensen's "The Keeper of Babylon Gardens" on US 359
(http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/D+D+2002-002)
and
Carlo Chendi's "The Big Christmas Giveaway Giveaway" on US 360
(Certainly Paperino e il premio di bont?:
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/I+TL++369-A)

Let's see if I can sum up what I know about these months for Scarpa in
the US:

Already out:
- Mickey Mouse and the Photonic Muffler (MM 290, 06/2006)
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/XU+GEM+106
- Foxy Hunters (MMA 10, 07/2006)
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/I+TL++430-B (Original
title: Quel drittone di Gancio)

Upcoming:
The Incredibile Black Comet! (MM 292, 08/2006)
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/I+TL++339-A (Original title: Eta Beta
e la cometa al fenantrone)
The Delta Dimension (MMA 11, 09/2006)
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/IS+TL++206-A (Original title:
Topolino e la Dimensione Delta)
AKA Cormorant Number Twelve (Walt Disney Treasures - Disney Comics: 75
Years of Innovation, 08/2006)
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/I+TL++517-B (Original title: Gancio
cormorano di fiducia
The Keeper of Babylon Gardens (US 359, 11/2006)
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/D+D+2002-002
The Big Christmas Giveaway Giveaway (US 360, 12/2006)
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/I+TL++369-A (Original title: Paperino
e il premio di bont?)

Am I missing something?

Francesco

I noticed Dickie Duck's appearance in "Healthy Choice" (though it was a little surprising she wasn't mentioned by name, unlike Garvey Gull [who??]). It was also nice to see Herbert again.
Overall, the latest MMA was one of the strongest issues of that title. Kudos to Gemstone.
Chris Barat

David said:

> Thus I don't think Daisy would modify her superhero name
> with an old-fashioned feminine diminutive like "-ette"...

I understand your point (and Daisy's rationale), though my intention was only to give a feminine sounding name. And, since
Paperinika is simply a feminization of Paperinik, then the logical translation of Paperinika is... what? .... Duck Avengeress? ;-) I
hope not.

A female duck is a "hen" and I can't imagine any moniker utilizing "hen" sounding very good, without making the reader question
why Daisy thinks she's a "chicken". ;-)

RE: Huntress. Yah I've been following DC for a long, long time and knew of Huntress' former origin (the daughter of Batman &
Catwoman of Earth-2). Still, in the current post-Crisis incarnation, Batman is hardly pleased with how Huntress has turned out...
She's basically chosen her OWN path, one which doesn't include ties to Batman.

Thanks,

Rich
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OLIVIER:

> Would you be tempted to write the first American Atomo story (not
> for the sake of being the first, of course), or would you rather
> focus on Gottfredson's universe?

I don't have a lot of time to write original stories these days.
But when I do, I have absolutely no intention of restricting myself
to Gottfredson's universe. So I'd like to write an Atomo story at
some point down the line. Whether another American beats me, of
course, is his or her business.

RICH:

> As an aside, it?s nice to know Pete?s allies will be increasing!
> Will Plottigat,
> being a ?cousin? to Pete & Trudy, be making his debut sometime
> soon? And does he
> have an English name as well?

At Egmont, Plottigat's English name is Portis. Scarpa approved
its use, so I imagine we'll call him that at Gemstone if and when we
use stories with him.
I'm unsure what you mean by putting the word "cousin" in quotes.
Unless I misunderstand something, Portis is Pete's cousin, his
biological relative. Portis isn't related to Trudy.

> BTW, does Trudy?s surname have anything to do with Pete?s former ID
> as J.P.
> Diamondtubs?

Nope.
(Um, and since when was J. P. Diamondtubs Pete's "former I. D."?
J. P. is a Pete-like character who appears in an early Barks gag
story. He looks like the character we know as Pete, but doesn't act
or talk like him. We might say it's Pete playing a role in a set-
piece, cartoonlike story, but if you're trying to say that J. P.
Diamondtubs is the former Christian name of the villain Mickey Mouse
knows as Pegleg or Black Pete, I would strongly disagree.)

> As for others I would love to see revived [...]

You'll soon see some of the characters you requested. Some
(Launchpad, Tanglefoot) have already appeared in Gemstone comics and
will appear again.

> Given that, I?d much prefer to see ?Super? Daisy or rather Papernika
> debut under a much more clever name like the CRIMSON QUACKETTE

To be brutally honest, Paperinika exists to be Daisy's idea of a
self-declared feminist counterpart to Duck Avenger. She wants to
prove that she can be a better hero than Duck Avenger, and that women
can make better heroes than men.
Thus I don't think Daisy would modify her superhero name with an
old-fashioned feminine diminutive like "-ette"...

> since Donald emulates Batman in his ?Dark Knight? persona, thus
> Daisy could sync
> up with Batman?s dark prot?g? The Huntress, taking on the name
> ?DUCK HUNTRESS?

...and because Daisy is out to prove that she's better than Duck
Avenger and owes nothing to him, she would never take a name implying
she was his prot?g?. The name is funny, but the cross-reference works
against the character's reason for being.
(In earlier DC continuity, of course, the Huntress was also the
daughter of Earth-2 Batman. That could make the continuity parallels
even stranger...)

Best, David

Hello Rick (and all),

Thank you very much for infos + scans: I didn't know this foe. May be he never appeared in Italy, unless he appeared in MEGA 3000, in which new Egmont stories are usually printed.

Bye.
Blasco

Olaf Sostrand wrote,

> [Garvey Gull] is a homeless kid and a
> friend of Huey, Dewey and Louie. In INDUCKS he's described as "a sort of
> Huckleberry Finn as a birdface character who co-stars with HDL". According
> to the same database, he has appeared in fourteen stories (and I just read
> a fifteenth that's not inducksed yet). His main function, as I see it, is
> to be a wild kid which Donald thinks is a bad influence on the nephews

Aha, thanks for clearing that up. GG sounds a little bit like Freckles Friendly, the poor (but not homeless) pal of Richie Rich. Freckles wasn't particularly "wild," however.

Chris Barat
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Rich,

> I am probably wrong, but I *thought* Sonny Seagull had debuted some
> time back in
> the USA and his name was given as "Sonny Seagull" at the time.

Back when we were starting up Gemstone's Disney comics line I
remember going through a lot of Sonny Seagull stories in galley form
and never imagining the character had another name. Such a thought
never crossed any of our minds, and why would it? It's a perfectly
serviceable name for American readers.

I have no idea of another comics character exists, or ever existed,
that was named Sonny Seagull, but I wouldn't be surprised if there
were several. The name is as alliterative as they come, a real natural.

Gary

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