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Quote from user: Thomps2525Well, I guess I can spend my $2.25 on something else. Yeah, I knew the 1962 offer was no good now---but I wish it was. When I started collecting comics, they cost 10¢. Here in Los Angeles County we have a 9% sales tax rate. On a $3.99 comic, I'm forced to pay another 36¢ in tax. At one time, that 36¢ would have gotten me three comics and left me with six cents change. When I buy a comic now, the sales tax is three and a half times more than what I used to pay for an entire comic! What would Uncle Scrooge say?
Yes, you have a good point. The 10¢ we spent on standard-sized comic books in 1962 was a better deal than the $4.35 you'll spend on them in 2015, as the buying power of one 1962 US Dollar would be worth $7.83 2015 US Dollars (7.83 times greater), while the inflation of $0.10 to $4.35 has inflated 43.5 times! So, paying 10¢ for the standard comic in 1962 was about 6 times as good a deal as buying a US Walt Disney Comic today.

When we bought the 64-page "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in 1953 for 10¢, it was an even better bargain, as $1.00 in 1953 had the same buying power as $ 8.79 does in 2015, BUT, that book had TWICE as many pages! So, getting 64 pages for 10¢ in 1953 was TEN times as good a bargain as paying $4.35 for 32 pages now.

IDW is using much better paper than the old Dell comics. Nicer colors, too. They look like they're painted on instead of consisting of thousands of tiny little dots. I miss the ten-cent cost but I don't miss the cheap newsprint and poor coloring.
My local comics shop today had ten copies of each of the three main Donald Duck covers (along with the insides, of course) and two copies of the Disneyland-themed cover. I bought the issue that shows Donald tailing the mysterious chef. There is also a fifth cover design showing Mickey and Donald browsing through bins of comic books. To get a copy of that issue, you'll probably have to attend the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con in July...or have a friend attend and get a copy for you...or hope that some copies will be offered for sale online after the convention ends. Details of the event are at:
http://www.comic-con.org/frontpage

The copy my shop held for me was the Derek Charm variant cover! Do they know me or what? It's a beautiful cover.
Really enjoyed the lead story for this first issue. As a Barks/Rosa devotee my first reaction to Uncle Gideon was to deny his very existence, but after reading (half) a story with him I like the guy. He's got Scrooge's drive and work ethic, but points it at a different direction.

Almost ALL (but a handful) of the many hundreds of the 1953 "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" I've seen had at LEAST 3 ad pages, with a "Wheaties" ad endorsed by a sports star or foreign auto license plates or railroad signs facsimiles, on the rear outside cover, and various ads on the inside front cover (BB Guns, bicycles and toys of children's interest), and on the inside rear cover as well as one side of an inner newsprint page with an ad for a a subscription to that magazine, and most had all 4 ads. I've only seen few copies that had blank inside front covers.

Quote from user: DebbieI got this comic today, and it is fantastic! Not only is the story in the Barks tradition, with Donald's attempting to make a name for himself as a reporter, but it is also plotted very much like a Floyd Gottfredson serial, with its alternating cliffhangers and gags from page to page. You can really see Gottfredson's influence in the art itself as well. The story looks quite a bit like one would expect a Gottfredson Donald Duck strip to look like. Uncle Gideon McDuck is a very interesting character in his own right, and I'm glad that we finally get to see him, even if he does clash with Don Rosa's Life of Scrooge (which, after all, is not written in stone). I also enjoyed all of the little in-jokes in the script, with call outs to Mighty Mouse, The Simpsons and Taxi (to name just a few). And that's just the first half of this comic...I will enjoy reading the rest of this one tomorrow.
So is "Gideon McDuck" confirmed to be the official english name for Gedeone, right? It was originally a unofficial name that was used by some fans until it was finally used in an official magazine.

Quote from user: ramapithYep. He's Gideon McDuck??informally "Uncle Gid" to Donald and "Unca Giddy" to the nephews.
Thanks for answering me, David! It's interesting to see that Gideon McDuck finally made his American debut.

Quote from user: Robb_KQuote from user: Thomps2525I just opened one of my many boxes of Disney comics and pulled out a comic at random: Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #262 from July 1962 .... [snip] A one-year subscription was $1.25 and a two-year subscription was $2.25. Foreign subscriptions were $2.25 per year. There is no expiration date but I'm sure the offer is no longer valid, especially when a single comic is now selling for $3.99!
The main reason why the offer is no good is because K.K. Publications and Western Publishing no longer exist. And even if Whitman Publishing still exists, it no longer has the rights to publish "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories", as IDW has those rights. IDW is not even required to honour Boom's agreements or deals, let alone going back, past Gemstone, Disney Comics and Gladstones' to honour Whitman's/Western's.
Roger, why were you posting through Robb's account?

Perhaps Robb's account has been affected by the Baar Baar "jinx." :)
Back on topic, in what year did the Donald Duck "Shellfish Motives" story first appear? Donald uses an old-fashioned dictaphone, something which was been pretty much obsolete since the 1980s. The Dictaphone company went bankrupt in 2000 but it survived and is now a division of Nuance Communications in Burlington, Massachusetts. The word has become a generic term for any dictation machine but Dictaphone is actually a trademark. Dictaphones were developed in the 1880s. They recorded onto a wax cylinder and were manufactured by the Columbia Graphophone Company (now Columbia Records). Eventually the cylinders were replaced by reel-to-reel tape and then by cassette tapes and then by digital storage. Donald's old-fashioned Dictaphone appears to be from the 1950s. The cars, airplane, telephones and tv camera all appear to be from the 1950s too!