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I've an issue of Donald Amca that apparently is not in Inducks.
How can I identify the issue number?
See: http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Donald_Amca_unknown_cover.jpg

One of the stories is:
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=D+93483

--- Daniel

"Keep ringin', bud! There's nobody home!"
(which Barks story?)

D.M. van Eijmeren wrote:
> I've an issue of Mickey Jeux that apparently is not in Inducks.
> How can I identify the issue number?
> See: http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Mickey_Jeux_unknown_cover.jpg

Next to the barcode it says "num?ro hors s?rie du Journal de Mickey",
meaning more or less "special issue, without an issue number, of the
Journal de Mickey"... so I guess it really doesn't have one. In order
for it to get indexed in Inducks, an indexer would have to make one up.

--

Frank Stajano http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/fms27/

>
> From:
> Francesco Spreafico <francesco.spreafico at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:07:36 +0200
>
> To:
> DCML <dcml at nafsk.se>
>
>
> Personally, I only care about the quality of the stories, not where
> they're published. WDC&S currently prints the best stories created in
> maybe the last 20 years. So, with that, Boom is doing an excellent
> job. Of course I'm just talking about WDC&S here, starting with issue
> 703. If you're not buying you're missing something you should be
> buying, if you like Disney Comics.
>

Wow. If I were unfamiliar with Disney stories from the past 20 years--I
assume you're limiting the criteria to those--and looked at the quality
of C&S my thought would be "No wonder Disney comics are in such bad shape."

Since I am a little familiar with those stories, I think instead that I
whole-heartedly disagree with that assessment as the quality of the
stories selected. While some have their charms, as a whole there is
nothing in the same realm of excellence as Don Rosa's work. For that
matter, Daan Jippes' re-drawings of Barks' Junior Woodchucks stories are
far better. Personally, I was never a fan of William Van Horn, but his
stuff was far better than what I'm seeing in BOOM's C&S as well.

The stories in C&S remind me a little bit of the stories in some of the
Western Publishing "funny animal" comics from my childhood (and older
copies from my dad's childhood). They're interchangeable. In the
Western days, even as a kid, I thought that there were stories that
featured, say, Bugs Bunny. Those same stories could've (and sometimes
were) been retold with Porky Pig or Woody Woodpecker or, for that
matter, Mickey Mouse as the lead character without being significantly
changed. They were all about plot and not about character (not that I
necessarily could explain the importance of characterization and
character development as a pre-teen). Now an entertaining plot is
important, but without attention to character everything ends up reading
pretty similarly or at least pretty dryly. That is probably the key
problem I see in all of BOOM's current stuff--including C&S which has
some stories that are entertaining, but I would never want to hold them
up as exemplars of the best Disney comics has had to offer in the past
twenty years.

Carl

> How can I identify the issue number?
> See: http://mcdrake.nl/temp/Donald_Amca_unknown_cover.jpg

The text at the top right says "Year: 4 Number: 10" in Turkish.

Looking at cover scans at coa, year 3 number 1 is January 1997, so this is
probably the October 1998 issue.

Kriton.
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"I'm allergic to decapitation; It's bad for the circulation."
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Many thanks to the people helping with answers to my identification
questions!

ARTHUR FARIA, 17-07-2010:

>> 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

The Dutch editor who helped, says it must be 'The Impossible Berries' by
Jack Bradbury.
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+MM+++35-02

--- Dani?l

"Keep ringin', bud! There's nobody home!"
(which Barks story?)
hint #1: "Who said that?"

>>>> "Keep ringin', bud! There's nobody home!"
>>>> (which Barks story?)
>>>> hint #1: "Who said that?"

I'm surprised nobody has answered it yet; must be the summer vacations & the
heat.
Without any hint, I knew it was from the story in which Donald wants to
spend his time in bed but keeps being bothered by salesmen-- WDC&S # 83,
August 1947.
Great story !

As for Boom's comics, thank you to all who comment on them: I haven't seen a
single issue yet (no distribution through amazon, unlike Gemstone, makes it
harder & more expensive for me to get those), and I value your input
greatly.

Olivier

> From:?Chris Barat <kimba_1962 at verizon.net>
> To:?dcml at nafsk.se
> Date:?Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:45:13 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject:?[SPG:rpd=10] Some Boom! Thoughts
>
> Re?the rest of the Boom! output, the decision to discontinue HERO SQUAD and WIZARDS OF MICKEY

Those titles aren't really being discontinued, are they? They are
coming to natural ends because the (rather long) stories they are
reprinting are over, right? In other words, those two series were
always limited series from the start (even though they weren't
advertised that way) because the material they are reprinting is
finite...

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