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For those of you who might be interested in expanding your collection of Disney comics character trading cards beyond the Gladstone Barks cards.... I just discovered that a large set of cards has been produced in German featuring Disney comic book characters, Ducks and Mice and all. If you go to ebay.de and put "Topps Duck stars" in the search engine, you will find what I'm talking about. A number of the eBay sellers there will ship to the USA. This is a really nice and broad collection of cards. I'm not interested in the ones from the Mouseton universe myself, but there are lots of those, from Horace Horsecollar to Atomo Bleep-Bleep. I got HDL as Junior Woodchucks (there are two of these--I like the one where they're laughing), Junior Chickadees, Rockerduck (Klaus Klever), Madam Mim and Magica. (Yes, I already have the Gladstone Magica card and an Italian Magica card, but One Cannot Have Too Many Magica Cards.) And (wait for it...) Della Duck! Yes, *they have Della Duck!* Not a Rosa drawing, but compatible with Rosa's version of her.
There are also a bunch of cards picturing places in Duckburg/Mouseton (Donald's, Daisy's, Minnie's etc. homes, the money bin, Gyro's workshop, Grandma Duck's farm, etc.), and a few featuring significant objects: the JW Guidebook (but with a JW hat on the cover, not the JW logo), Daisy's diary, Magica's purse, the #1 dime, Donald's car, etc.
The exchange rate means that these are quite affordable.

Pro Set was a Dallas company which produced trading cards from 1989 to 1993 and then filed for bankruptcy. Most of their card sets were of football players and hockey players but in 1991 they released a set of The Little Mermaid trading cards. There were 110 cards. I have most of them. I prefer buying individual packs of cards. That, to me, is more fun than buying an entire set all at once. One of the cards shows the scene where King Triton is greeting all the mer-people and a tiny Mickey, Donald and Goofy are standing on the ocean floor. The Little Mermaid cards are still being offered for sale on eBay, Amazon and other sites.

Making a few of your own trading cards is a very clever idea that I had never thought of. It would help fill in a few additional characters that I would like to see in the Gladstone set. Maybe Catapult the Frog, the homing pigeon who stopped for whistles, and Dread Valley Sandy who comes into town once a month with a sackful of gold dust. Yes, definitely an American style money bin, too! I was trying to think of the best way to do this.

First thing, I guess, would be to pick out the images I want and make color photo copies. I could even increase or decrease the sizes so they would be right. Then I was thinking I could paste the pictures on some of the white comic backing board you get with comics. After that I could take them over to Kinko's and cut them to perfect trading card size on their paper cutter. Hmm... now would I want pictures on the backs, too?

Maybe I could give some of the cards numbers. If Gyro's 23 I'll number Helper 23B.

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In Barks' working notes for Gyro stories, he called Helper "Little Bulbhead," commonly shortened to "Bulby." For whatever reason, though, he never used the name in a story??maybe because it lacked that certain something? (IMHO, "Little Bulbhead" sounds like an insult and isn't as appealing as most character names created by Barks.)

Quote from user: MatildaQuote from user: Patrick HanifinMaking a few of your own trading cards is a very clever idea that I had never thought of. It would help fill in a few additional characters that I would like to see in the Gladstone set. Maybe Catapult the Frog, the homing pigeon who stopped for whistles, and Dread Valley Sandy who comes into town once a month with a sackful of gold dust. Yes, definitely an American style money bin, too! I was trying to think of the best way to do this.

First thing, I guess, would be to pick out the images I want and make color photo copies. I could even increase or decrease the sizes so they would be right. Then I was thinking I could paste the pictures on some of the white comic backing board you get with comics. After that I could take them over to Kinko's and cut them to perfect trading card size on their paper cutter. Hmm... now would I want pictures on the backs, too?
I don't know if it's the best way, but the way I've made my own trading cards is to start with scans of the desired images (front & back), make them the correct size, print them, and then laminate the two pieces of paper back-to-back. I make the two pieces of paper 2.25 " by 3.25"--that leaves room for the edges of the laminate beyond the paper, and I can still store them with standard trading cards, which are 2.5" by 3.5".

Catapult, that's a great idea! I love Catapult! Perhaps I will make a Catapult card, too. The next cards I've planned to make are of Eurasia Toft, who is appearing in this week's Mickey Mouse, and Minima De Spell. Minima is Magica's niece, created by Michael T. Gilbert for a DuckTales story, and I just finally bought myself a copy of that first Minima story, in the CartoonTales DuckTales book (Dime after Dime). Two out of the three other stories she's been in (all Italian stories) I have in the Magica "Big Black Book" (German version), with editorial essays by David Gerstein!
If you make a card for "Catapult", then you should make a series of all Donald's/His Nephews' pets, including: Bolivar, Smugsnorkle Squatty, Cheltenham(chipmunk), their alligator, their talking magpie, Bornworthy, Bernie, Tabby, their pet (organgrinder) monkey, The Fraidy Falcon, the falcon Donald's uncle sent him, Rocket Wing, etc.