Anyone own these? I just got them on ebay for a pretty nice price. Really looking forward to reading them :)
First printed in German as a series of six albums. UK only got the first two...
German: http://coa.inducks.org/publication.php?c=de/AODS
English: http://coa.inducks.org/publication.php?c=uk/FCPSA
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/WALT-DISNEY-2-BKS-HIGH-JINKS-ON-MATTERHORN-THE-RAIN-GOD-UXMAL-1985-London-Ed-/00/s/MTAwMFg3NDY=/z/JisAAOxy6-tSBYbf/$%28KGrHqN,!rEFH5KDVP%29VBSBYbfC8VQ~~60_57.JPG
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Topic: Full Colour Picture Strip Adventure
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Garbanzo
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2013-08-17 at 02:32:52
Matilda
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2013-08-17 at 05:58:18
The two stories, by Miquel Pujol, are fairly highly rated on Inducks: 2279 and 1687. Let us know what you think! I hope the English script is *way* better than the horrid translation-by-numbers in the British Disney Literature Classics. Two others in that same "Treasure Chest" series by Pujol are *very* highly rated on Inducks, including the only one published in the USA, "The Great Paint Robbery" in U$ 353 (rating 859).
Charlie Brown
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2013-08-17 at 13:01:28
I have them in German from the 80s. Great stories. I loved them as a child and read them regularly still today. Another story from this series is The Great Paint Robbery - published in Uncle Scrooge #353 in the US.
Garbanzo
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2013-08-17 at 13:16:48
I just read The Great Paint Robbery - what fun! Such a different mode of storytelling than the Barks and Rosa stories that I am so familiar with. The climax was a bit bonkers, but that's not a bad thing. Now I'm really looking forward to getting these in the mail :)
GeoX
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2013-08-17 at 15:55:47
The scripts aren't as bad as the worst of the DLC, but they're still the usual fairly indifferent British thing. Honestly, I found the stories pretty dull; I wasn't a big fan of "The Great Paint Robbery" either, but it was undeniably pretty and the story at least went places. I remember "Rain God" and "High Jinks" as pretty inert.
Matilda
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2013-08-23 at 04:53:04
"The Great Paint Robbery" does indeed go places--cool places, well drawn. The other two things I liked about it were:
1) Chris Barat's English script. Heck, "Maidy McDuck" was worth the price of admission, all by itself!
2) Mercedes Pujol. Could someone tell me how much of a role she gets in the Grand Canyon story? If it's notable, I may have to buy the French comic in which that story was printed.
Another question, on "Paint Robbery": are the members of the boys' choir (p. 36) identified as Junior Woodchucks in the original script, or was that Chris Barat's contribution? I'm curious, because I keep a mental list of the stories where JWs are encountered around the world. (Easter Island--Wejp-Olsen & Kenner, Peruvian Andes--Carl Fallberg, Turkey--M. De Vita....)
1) Chris Barat's English script. Heck, "Maidy McDuck" was worth the price of admission, all by itself!
2) Mercedes Pujol. Could someone tell me how much of a role she gets in the Grand Canyon story? If it's notable, I may have to buy the French comic in which that story was printed.
Another question, on "Paint Robbery": are the members of the boys' choir (p. 36) identified as Junior Woodchucks in the original script, or was that Chris Barat's contribution? I'm curious, because I keep a mental list of the stories where JWs are encountered around the world. (Easter Island--Wejp-Olsen & Kenner, Peruvian Andes--Carl Fallberg, Turkey--M. De Vita....)
Charlie Brown
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2013-08-23 at 12:53:59
Mercedes Pujol has a small (5 pages, only a few panels) but funny part in the story.
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