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RE Dutch Duckfan Down Under2012-06-01 20:23

"DD 1952-01: (org Danish AA 1949-01) Nothing weird about this, it's just out of place. They added a realistic watch and Donald is looking at nothing. (In the Scandinavian versions, he was looking at the title.)"

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The Swedish version was the first one, from the cover of the first issue of Kalle Anka in sept 1948. (The most valuable Swedish comic book)
http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=se%2FKA1948-01

It is also of some interest that they composed it of a Barks drawing of the nephews (from panel 4 page 1 WDC&S 90 ) and Taliaferro´s Donald, but they were the best Duck artists a that time so there is some logic in it.

The Swedish company Richters förlag was the publisher of Kalle Anka but it was actually a subsidary of the Swedish Hemmets Journal AB that was later (1957) the official publisher. Around 1997 the Danish Egmont took over.
What the implications are of that for how the following Norwegian och Danish editions were compiled I don´t know but since their first editions were published in December 1948 and March 1949 respectively thus with the Norwegian and Danish editions 3 and 6 months after the Swedish edition you could assume that Richters/Hemmets Journal was the "driving force" at that time and probably for many more years.

Quote from user: Gerd SyllwasschyWasn't Hemmets Journal a subsidiary of the Danish Gutenberghus company from the very start, though?
Yes it probably was according to the Swedish Wikipedia, which I had no idea of before I read your comment ! There was and is a magazine Hemmets Journal which started earlier and its sister magazine Hjemmet from Gutenbergshus began even earlier (1904) .

So why did they start with Kalle Anka in Sweden. Maybe a bigger market to test ?

While mine isn't as bizarre as some on here, I did find one that in my opinion deserves mention. I always found that Gold Key had some pretty random colour schemes for their covers, but in this one looks like what TV. Tropes describes as a Disney Acid Sequence. And while a money tree is mentioned on the cover, it STILL looks like money is coming out of thin air.
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j189/firafox/scroogeanddino.jpg
And the dinosaur. Just... just look at his face!

Quote from user: MrClevelandQuote from user: AutumnMintsWhile mine isn't as bizarre as some on here, I did find one that in my opinion deserves mention. I always found that Gold Key had some pretty random colour schemes for their covers, but in this one looks like what TV. Tropes describes as a Disney Acid Sequence. And while a money tree is mentioned on the cover, it STILL looks like money is coming out of thin air.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j189/firafox/scroogeanddino.jpg

And the dinosaur. Just... just look at his face!
Ever see some U.S. Comics from the early 80's? They just look a little off....
They didn't want to spend ANY money on producing their product. They thought that quality (in every respect) didn't matter to the very young readers. They used any colour background, any low quality of artwork and put almost no money(hours) into editing. It reulted in almost no one buying their product (until they had to "give it away" in bagsfull added to toys in toy shops. A pathetic end to a once vibrant medium. The stories were weak, the artwork cranked out with no passion and no care, and poor style. I have Gold Key and Whitman Disney Comics, which I have owned for 30-40 years, and with stories I have still yet not read, due to the ugliness of their so-called "artwork", and the horrible colouring work.

Quote from user: RunnerQuote from user: Robb_K... The stories were weak, the artwork cranked out with no passion and no care, and poor style. I have Gold Key and Whitman Disney Comics, which I have owned for 30-40 years, and with stories I have still yet not read, due to the ugliness of their so-called "artwork", and the horrible colouring work.
Even in the 1950´s there were some, not that many, more or less horrible Disney artists who draw so ugly that at least I normally never read their stories.
But during the Gold Key era it became generally worse due to poor coloring etc, even to a significant degree destroying the eye appeal of Barks comics. A few years around 1962 or 1963 or so actually some of the following Swedish editions of Barks stories were slightly less "contaminated" even if the for me the nowadays preferred reading versions are from Carl Barks Library in Color.

The here related cover with Scrooge and the dinosaur(?) monster is really a joke.
Yes, Gold key colouring policies ruined the Barks stories printed starting in 1963. When I bought US Disney Comics in the Gold Key era, I only read the Barks stories (if i had not read them first in their Dutch printing), and did NOT even attempt to read the non-Barks stories. I didn't even buy US comics during the Whitman period. I only later bought the Whitman Disney's after finding out that some later Barks cover drawings were printed. The European printings of Barks' 1963-66 stories generally had much better colour.

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