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On 7/16/2010 5:13 AM, dcml-request at nafsk.se wrote:
>
> Tony Leopold reported that 1,000 readers were lost for /Uncle Scrooge
> /in less than half a year.
> Are the stories not very good? Re-re-re-re-reprints? I cannot find
> copies around my city to peruse. If /Darkwing Duck /is selling, one
> would assume its stories are stronger.
> Perhaps an heir to the Carl Barks/Don Rosa dynasty needs to be found!
> L. Schulte

I've purchased every copy of /Uncle Scrooge/ that Boom Kids has
published (I believe). For me personally--and at 37, I recognize I'm
not the target demographic--the story telling in the title has been
extremely disappointing. I read each issue, but I never go back to it,
it never hits me emotionally, and it never makes me laugh. I don't
especially care for the art style (I know that others do), but I /think/
I could by that if the words meant something to me. They don't.
Honestly, as someone who's spent much of the past 15 years working with
children and adolescents, I somewhat doubt the target audience is
finding much to love about these books as well. (In fairness, there
have been a few stories in /Comics and Stories/ that pleasantly
surprised me.) Anecdotally, it seems to be getting harder to find the
titles as well. Their distribution was better than Gemstone's at first,
but not I am seeing several (non-comic book) stores that carry Boom's
non-kids line and that used to carry the Boom Kids Disney stuff, no
longer carry the Kids line. (But maybe they're selling out super
quickly, just something I've noticed here in the American midwest.) So
there remains that whole chicken and egg problem of distribution and sales.

The kicker for me was in the first issue of Boom Kids' /Uncle Scrooge/
wherein Duckburg was spelled Duckberg. (I was told it was because that
was how it was spelled in the European script of the comic.) It's one
thing to want to move past reprints of Barks and other past greats, its
another to (seemingly) not have basic respect for your source material.

What strikes me as interesting is that when my copies of /Picsou/, the
blessedly humongous French edition of /Uncle Scrooge/ for any who don't
know, arrive (mangled thanks to international mail), I see a plethora of
reprints in a title that is clearly geared to kids. Of course, I don't
have its circulation figures, so maybe it sells poorly also.

Carl

Do anyone know Lily and Tim?

(Lily and Tim) The hunt for Durango
http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_339_08.jpg

Link to the magazine containing this story:
http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=be/MMN+339

--- Daniel

these sales figures are for Diamond direct sales comic shops,
- which never had good sales for most non-superehero comics.
How are the newstand and non-Diamond sales?

sr

In a message dated 7/16/2010 3:03:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
schulte at teacher.com writes:
Greetings!

Tony Leopold reported that 1,000 readers were lost for Uncle Scrooge in
less than half a year.

Are the stories not very good? Re-re-re-re-reprints? I cannot find
copies around my city to peruse. If Darkwing Duck is selling, one would assume
its stories are stronger.

Perhaps an heir to the Carl Barks/Don Rosa dynasty needs to be found!

Best Wishes!

L. Schulte

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Infamous only because it's the most expensive issue to (try to!)
buy. I've seen it go for $200 (US) on ebay. Like many other people
(it seems) I had stopped buying it regularly at the time, so I don't
have a copy. I don't think there was anything 'new' in that issue,
so it's no great loss....just an annoying gap in my collection :-)

I guess the bigger question is will the current issues ever skyrocket
in value if there is a resurgence in Disney comic collecting, with
people wanting to fill in the gaps with (what are now) current issues?

Cheers,
Mike.

>From: schulte at teacher.com
>
>Greetings Again!
>
>Mike Devery wrote:
>
>"By comparison, how many copies did the infamous Uncle Scrooge no. 310 sell? "
>
>Can you or anyone explain why this issue is "infamous"?
>
>There seems to be some consensus that the quality of Uncle Scrooge
>comics under Boom Publishing is not the best: can anyone specify the problems?
>
>Best Wishes!
>
>L. Schulte

Carl Lund wrote:
> What strikes me as interesting is that when my copies of Picsou, the blessedly
> humongous French edition of Uncle Scrooge for any who don't know, arrive
> (mangled thanks to international mail), I see a plethora of reprints in a title that is
> clearly geared to kids.? Of course, I don't have its circulation figures, so maybe it
> sells poorly also.

Picsou Magazine in France has a monthly print run of 185,000 (source:
http://bit.ly/b35YN6).

I too am unmoved by the current stories that BOOM! selects for their
comics. The only stories I've really enjoyed so far are those by Casty
in WDC&S. To think that Barks and Rosa stories would be unsuitable for
a young audience is in my opinion illogical, because in other
countries these same stories still do well among kids and they were
originally written for kids in the first place.

I think that BOOM! has shot itself in the foot by picking these long
multi-part stories. Sales can only go down when you have a multi-part
series like Ultraheroes or Wizards of Mickey as people who originally
purchased the first few issues lose interest and others don't want to
start in the middle. Add to that the reprinting of these stories in
paperback format that people can just wait for instead of buying the
monthly comics.

IMHO, BOOM! would be better off selecting a variety of short stories
in U$ and WDC&S, with some classics and more traditional stories to
please old fans like us, and keep the long Italian adventure stories
in the trade paperbacks.

Regards,
Arthur

D.M. van Eijmeren wrote:

> Quiz! :-) Here's a list of stories I would like to see identified.
> They're published in 1955 or earlier.
> Can anyone help?

> Mickey Mouse - The city under water
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_225_03.jpg

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=YM+123

> Brer Rabbit - The fox walks into the pit
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_225_05.jpg

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=ZB+49-12-11

> Donald Duck - The journey to the moon
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_225_06.jpg

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=W+DD+++32-02

> Mickey Mouse - The war of the robots
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_225_07.jpg

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=W+WDC+133-24P

> Goofy - Be aware of auction bargains
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_225_12.jpg

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=ZM+54-02-14

> next week: Mickey Mouse in Africa. Stan Livingstone is missing.
> Mickey and Goofy search for their friend, helped by the berries
> of the bottomless lake.
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_230_03.jpg (bottom)

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=YM+124

> Goofy - What a night
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_230_05.jpg

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=ZM+48-09-26

> Donald Duck - The heritage of Pal
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_230_06.jpg

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=W+DD+++30-02

> Goofy - Orientation of profession
> http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Magazine_Vlaams_230_14.jpg

http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=ZM+49-11-27

-- Arthur.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:35, Jesse O'Reilly <everydaymick at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If the BOOM! comics had good stories, I'd keep them on my monthly list, but after the first few issues, I gave up on them.

Walt Disney Comics & Stories has EXTREMELY good stories. You shouldn't
miss that.

Francesco

>
> From:
> Francesco Spreafico <francesco.spreafico at gmail.com>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:35, Jesse O'Reilly<everydaymick at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> > If the BOOM! comics had good stories, I'd keep them on my monthly list, but after the first few issues, I gave up on them.
>>
> Walt Disney Comics& Stories has EXTREMELY good stories. You shouldn't
> miss that.
>
> Francesco
>
>
There is no criteria that I could use to describe C&S's current crop of
stories as EXTREMELY good. Some of them, as I said earlier, have
pleasantly surprised me...because they weren't, well, awful. I'd give
those a solid C. But I don't blame Jesse at all for giving up on BOOM!
If I were buying based on quality, there is no way I would ever pick up
an issue. I just fear that this is the last dying gasp of Disney comics
in the U.S., yet I hope (against huge odds, I know) that if they can
survive at all someone, someday will take them to back to their former
glory much as Gladstone did after Western.

Carl