My first exposure to Barks came sometime in the 70s, with the WALT DISNEY'S COMICS DIGEST that reprinted "The Mummy's Ring," "Luck of the North," "Ancient Persia," and "The Pixilated Parrot." I can't remember the source -- at the time, I was only interested in RICHIE RICH and certain newspaper strips (PEANUTS, POGO, KRAZY KAT). I do remember being mightily impressed with the artwork and the stories. At the time, I didn't know Barks by name; that knowledge came in 1977 when I borrowed a copy of an OVERSTREET PRICE GUIDE from the library.
Fast forward eight years... I'm now in graduate school. On a whim even more complete than GeoX's, I bought two sets of the BARKS LIBRARY. In a masterpiece of timing, Gladstone Comics debuted very soon thereafter, and I never looked back. (Well, sometimes I look back and wonder where that initial impulse to buy the CBL originated...)
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Topic: Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
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Kimba_1962
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 31 -
2013-06-01 at 17:24:32
Baar Baar Jinx
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 32 -
2013-06-01 at 17:45:37
I remember being maybe seven or eight years old and somehow procuring a set of three Whitman Dynabrite books. Must have been at a toy shop or something, I really can't recall. One of them was a Winnie-the-Pooh comic, and another was a "Mickey Mouse Album" drawn by Paul Murry, but the third collected "The Golden Fleecing" and "Billions Down the Hole". I knew then and there that Uncle Scrooge comics were in a league of their own, but it wasn't until at least five years later that I happened upon Gladstone I's Uncle Scrooge Adventures #1 (with "McDuck of Arabia"), learned who Carl Barks was, and was hooked. That issue was also originally envisioned to be DuckTales #1, and the CrossTalk column in it was where I first learned that there was a TV show in production based on the work of this wonderful creator who had just been identified to me and whom I had just rediscovered. Everything seemed to come into alignment all at once in terms of my absorption into Duckdom. I still own those Dynabrite books and that Uncle Scrooge Adventures #1.
Matilda
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 33 -
2013-06-02 at 00:58:39
I was born in 1956, and like Rosa, benefited from my older siblings' comics collection. I liked Uncle Scrooge/Donald Duck best, followed by Little Lulu. I have no idea which of the Disney comics we had in the house I read first, but I certainly read the Barks stories multiple times, recognizing "the good artist" as kids did then, without credits. Of those we owned in my childhood, my favorites were "The Phantom of Notre Duck", "Pipeline to Danger", "The Unsafe Safe", "All at Sea" and "The Golden Fleecing." (Was anyone else as a child seriously creeped out by "The Many Faces of Magica DeSpell"?) The stand-out ten-pager for me was "The Persistent Postman": the final line in that story was my introduction to how very, very funny irony could be. Plus, I loved Prof. Birdmind's upside-down house.
I rediscovered the Ducks in graduate school, when Gladstone started publishing; I think I found them by their second issue. Fell seriously in love with Don Rosa, and was delighted to discover other great Barks stories I had never seen. As I've said on another thread, the first story by someone other than Barks or Rosa which I decided to keep for life was "Ringtail van Dukke" (Geradts/Verhagen)...but now I have many dozens of issues of Disney comics (American, French, German, Dutch, Danish) which I keep for the sake of stories by other creators.
Four things in addition to Gladstone/Gemstone and the stories themselves have contributed to my becoming a committed Donaldist: (1) a grad school friend of mine was a Disney comics fan since childhood (he knew Carl Barks's name pre-Gladstone!); (2) giving G-stone subscriptions to my godson gave us a shared imaginal world to talk about (there were years when otherwise all he would talk about was Pokémon or computer games); (3) INDUCKS! INDUCKS! INDUCKS! which allowed me to track down stories I wanted to read; and (4) you all (Donaldists on the internet).
Speaking of my godson, I have to tell you that this year his nine-year-old little sister astonished her intelligence testers by knowing and correctly using the word "doppelganger." From Uncle Scrooge, of course.
Review or Die: I just love the fact that it was a Finn who got you into Duck comics. I agree with you that as a storyteller Barks was at his best in the 50's Scrooge stories, not the 40's (maybe those had more elaborate artwork? And "Lost in the Andes" and "The Old Castle's Secret" are of course great), and I also am very fond of some of his 60's, sillier work. Magica, for just one thing! What's the Grandma Duck story to which you refer? "Donald's Grandma Duck", where the nephews think she's going to lose the farm? Is that supposed to be the first time she meets them?
I rediscovered the Ducks in graduate school, when Gladstone started publishing; I think I found them by their second issue. Fell seriously in love with Don Rosa, and was delighted to discover other great Barks stories I had never seen. As I've said on another thread, the first story by someone other than Barks or Rosa which I decided to keep for life was "Ringtail van Dukke" (Geradts/Verhagen)...but now I have many dozens of issues of Disney comics (American, French, German, Dutch, Danish) which I keep for the sake of stories by other creators.
Four things in addition to Gladstone/Gemstone and the stories themselves have contributed to my becoming a committed Donaldist: (1) a grad school friend of mine was a Disney comics fan since childhood (he knew Carl Barks's name pre-Gladstone!); (2) giving G-stone subscriptions to my godson gave us a shared imaginal world to talk about (there were years when otherwise all he would talk about was Pokémon or computer games); (3) INDUCKS! INDUCKS! INDUCKS! which allowed me to track down stories I wanted to read; and (4) you all (Donaldists on the internet).
Speaking of my godson, I have to tell you that this year his nine-year-old little sister astonished her intelligence testers by knowing and correctly using the word "doppelganger." From Uncle Scrooge, of course.
Review or Die: I just love the fact that it was a Finn who got you into Duck comics. I agree with you that as a storyteller Barks was at his best in the 50's Scrooge stories, not the 40's (maybe those had more elaborate artwork? And "Lost in the Andes" and "The Old Castle's Secret" are of course great), and I also am very fond of some of his 60's, sillier work. Magica, for just one thing! What's the Grandma Duck story to which you refer? "Donald's Grandma Duck", where the nephews think she's going to lose the farm? Is that supposed to be the first time she meets them?
Review Or Die
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 34 -
2013-06-02 at 01:51:03
Pretty sure that's the one, yeah. I love that story. If I'm recalling correctly, it's established that they'd never met before in that story, and they're a little scared of her strictness, but when they think she's going to lose the farm, they act like little kids would think to act.
It's one of the more tender Barks moments, and all in what is essentially a gag piece.
It's one of the more tender Barks moments, and all in what is essentially a gag piece.
PhantomBlot
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 35 -
2013-06-02 at 02:55:46
As a child, I was always into superhero comics, and sought them out everywhere.
There used to be a toy store chain in the early 1980s called Kay*Bee. There was one in a mall my parents would visit once in a while, and I'd go there. I'd find some Big-Little Books for about 69 cents in the front...I would scoop up those tales of adventure with joy (I still have them). In the very back of the store on an end cap (near the swinging door to the stockroom where they put the stuff they had no other place for), I would find comics bagged in the old three-pack format. They mostly Whitman. I quickly learned to seek out the Disney books...Donald, Mickey, Scrooge. What a wonderful new world in comics I had discovered!
There was one artist whose stories were more complex, lushly detailed and drew me into the stories. Usually long adventure stories involving Donald, Uncle Scrooge and the Junior Woodchucks in search of treasure. I was always thrilled when I'd buy a three-pack and open a book to find one of his stories. It wasn't until years later, as I began to learn about comics fandom through Comics' Buyers Guide, that I knew his name: Carl Barks. In that forum I also discovered the name of the Mickey Mouse artist whose work I found so great in the Big-Little Books and comics: Paul Murry.
I can still see myself digging through that end cap for treasure...just like Scrooge and the boys. What happy memories.
There used to be a toy store chain in the early 1980s called Kay*Bee. There was one in a mall my parents would visit once in a while, and I'd go there. I'd find some Big-Little Books for about 69 cents in the front...I would scoop up those tales of adventure with joy (I still have them). In the very back of the store on an end cap (near the swinging door to the stockroom where they put the stuff they had no other place for), I would find comics bagged in the old three-pack format. They mostly Whitman. I quickly learned to seek out the Disney books...Donald, Mickey, Scrooge. What a wonderful new world in comics I had discovered!
There was one artist whose stories were more complex, lushly detailed and drew me into the stories. Usually long adventure stories involving Donald, Uncle Scrooge and the Junior Woodchucks in search of treasure. I was always thrilled when I'd buy a three-pack and open a book to find one of his stories. It wasn't until years later, as I began to learn about comics fandom through Comics' Buyers Guide, that I knew his name: Carl Barks. In that forum I also discovered the name of the Mickey Mouse artist whose work I found so great in the Big-Little Books and comics: Paul Murry.
I can still see myself digging through that end cap for treasure...just like Scrooge and the boys. What happy memories.
Debbie
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 36 -
2013-06-02 at 06:31:33
Quote from user: kimba_1962My first exposure to Barks came sometime in the 70s, with the WALT DISNEY'S COMICS DIGEST that reprinted "The Mummy's Ring," "Luck of the North," "Ancient Persia," and "The Pixilated Parrot."
I no longer recall how I read them, but almost all of those stories you listed (not sure about "the Mummy's Ring", but I may have read it earlier han the Gladstone era) are the earliest Barks stories I remember reading, also one about an opal that knocked everyone out when the light hit it, as well as a few Tony Strobl stories, "The Weighted Crate Mystery", "Friendly Enemies" (about Donald and the boys going lobster fishing after reading about how Cap'n Jack made enough to retire...but not from fishing, by selling booklets!), "Adventure on Bomb Bird Island" and a story in which Donald ended up with a mechanical bird through an auction, and his nephews rode on it and used it to scare locusts away from a farmer's field. Those are the earliest Duck comics I can remember reading, as well as a Mickey Mouse story, "The Mystery of the China Santa" which had a back up about Minnie and Clarabelle feeding animals at Christmastime (both drawn by Jack Bradbury) most likely under the Gold Key/Whitman imprint. It wasn't until the Gladstone era that I became hopelessly hooked on them, and Barks and Gottfredson became two of my favorite cartoonists.
I no longer recall how I read them, but almost all of those stories you listed (not sure about "the Mummy's Ring", but I may have read it earlier han the Gladstone era) are the earliest Barks stories I remember reading, also one about an opal that knocked everyone out when the light hit it, as well as a few Tony Strobl stories, "The Weighted Crate Mystery", "Friendly Enemies" (about Donald and the boys going lobster fishing after reading about how Cap'n Jack made enough to retire...but not from fishing, by selling booklets!), "Adventure on Bomb Bird Island" and a story in which Donald ended up with a mechanical bird through an auction, and his nephews rode on it and used it to scare locusts away from a farmer's field. Those are the earliest Duck comics I can remember reading, as well as a Mickey Mouse story, "The Mystery of the China Santa" which had a back up about Minnie and Clarabelle feeding animals at Christmastime (both drawn by Jack Bradbury) most likely under the Gold Key/Whitman imprint. It wasn't until the Gladstone era that I became hopelessly hooked on them, and Barks and Gottfredson became two of my favorite cartoonists.
Runner
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 37 -
2013-06-07 at 09:24:11
Quote from user: rodneyMy first Barks story was probably Three Dirty Ducks Round Two, in Donald Duck 262. I also now have it in CBL 9.
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Three Dirty Ducks Round Two may also be the first Disney (and Barks) comic I "read". At least it was an absolute favorite when I was around 5 years old in 1960 and I urged my mother to read it to me over and over again.
Obviously as early as that I liked the theme of the kids wanting to decide on there own how they should look etc and not be restricted by dumb stiff rules :-)
The comic book was the Swedish Walt Disney's Serier #13 1956 which was a complementory comic book series to Kalle Anka.
At that time there also were Disney Television shows broadcasted in Sweden which I liked when they featured Donald Duck etc, but not the real life shows.
My brother had received subscriptions for Kalle Anka and Walt Disney's Serier since many years back but had lent most of them out to our cousins and only (nearly 100 ) 1960 and 1961 comic books were salvaged and given to me, and after that my grandfather & grandmother transferred the gift subscription to me in 1962.
So Kalle Anka # 1 1962 was the first new comic book that was bought to me. It contained the first part of the Barks story Land of the Pygmy Indians. Back to the Klondike was published in Kalle Anka 1960 so I had probably read that story somewhat earlier and it has always been one of my Uncle Scrooge favorites..
After that I have continued to systematically collect Disney comics for another 50 years or so, and in 1972 I expanded my interest to get a complete collection of Carl Barks comics first USA editions and later diversified to also collect other Disney comic book artists from 1930's - 1960's in USA comic books.
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Three Dirty Ducks Round Two may also be the first Disney (and Barks) comic I "read". At least it was an absolute favorite when I was around 5 years old in 1960 and I urged my mother to read it to me over and over again.
Obviously as early as that I liked the theme of the kids wanting to decide on there own how they should look etc and not be restricted by dumb stiff rules :-)
The comic book was the Swedish Walt Disney's Serier #13 1956 which was a complementory comic book series to Kalle Anka.
At that time there also were Disney Television shows broadcasted in Sweden which I liked when they featured Donald Duck etc, but not the real life shows.
My brother had received subscriptions for Kalle Anka and Walt Disney's Serier since many years back but had lent most of them out to our cousins and only (nearly 100 ) 1960 and 1961 comic books were salvaged and given to me, and after that my grandfather & grandmother transferred the gift subscription to me in 1962.
So Kalle Anka # 1 1962 was the first new comic book that was bought to me. It contained the first part of the Barks story Land of the Pygmy Indians. Back to the Klondike was published in Kalle Anka 1960 so I had probably read that story somewhat earlier and it has always been one of my Uncle Scrooge favorites..
After that I have continued to systematically collect Disney comics for another 50 years or so, and in 1972 I expanded my interest to get a complete collection of Carl Barks comics first USA editions and later diversified to also collect other Disney comic book artists from 1930's - 1960's in USA comic books.
Robb_K
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 38 -
2013-06-19 at 07:38:55
Quote from user: DebbieQuote from user: kimba_1962My first exposure to Barks came sometime in the 70s, with the WALT DISNEY'S COMICS DIGEST that reprinted "The Mummy's Ring," "Luck of the North," "Ancient Persia," and "The Pixilated Parrot."
I no longer recall how I read them, but almost all of those stories you listed (not sure about "the Mummy's Ring", but I may have read it earlier han the Gladstone era) are the earliest Barks stories I remember reading, also one about an opal that knocked everyone out when the light hit it, as well as a few Tony Strobl stories, "The Weighted Crate Mystery", "Friendly Enemies" (about Donald and the boys going lobster fishing after reading about how Cap'n Jack made enough to retire...but not from fishing, by selling booklets!), "Adventure on Bomb Bird Island" and a story in which Donald ended up with a mechanical bird through an auction, and his nephews rode on it and used it to scare locusts away from a farmer's field. Those are the earliest Duck comics I can remember reading, as well as a Mickey Mouse story, "The Mystery of the China Santa" which had a back up about Minnie and Clarabelle feeding animals at Christmastime (both drawn by Jack Bradbury) most likely under the Gold Key/Whitman imprint. It wasn't until the Gladstone era that I became hopelessly hooked on them, and Barks and Gottfredson became two of my favorite cartoonists.
Barks and Gottfredson were always the best for me, as well-Right from my introduction to almost ALL of the 1940s comic books and comic strips. I picked them out of the bunch as being of excellent quality, and far better than most, and somewhat better than their nearest pursuers.
I no longer recall how I read them, but almost all of those stories you listed (not sure about "the Mummy's Ring", but I may have read it earlier han the Gladstone era) are the earliest Barks stories I remember reading, also one about an opal that knocked everyone out when the light hit it, as well as a few Tony Strobl stories, "The Weighted Crate Mystery", "Friendly Enemies" (about Donald and the boys going lobster fishing after reading about how Cap'n Jack made enough to retire...but not from fishing, by selling booklets!), "Adventure on Bomb Bird Island" and a story in which Donald ended up with a mechanical bird through an auction, and his nephews rode on it and used it to scare locusts away from a farmer's field. Those are the earliest Duck comics I can remember reading, as well as a Mickey Mouse story, "The Mystery of the China Santa" which had a back up about Minnie and Clarabelle feeding animals at Christmastime (both drawn by Jack Bradbury) most likely under the Gold Key/Whitman imprint. It wasn't until the Gladstone era that I became hopelessly hooked on them, and Barks and Gottfredson became two of my favorite cartoonists.
Barks and Gottfredson were always the best for me, as well-Right from my introduction to almost ALL of the 1940s comic books and comic strips. I picked them out of the bunch as being of excellent quality, and far better than most, and somewhat better than their nearest pursuers.
Germund
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 39 -
2013-06-27 at 21:45:43
This is a topic close to my heart. I know exactly the story which made start collecting Disney comics when I was 8 years old and thus led to my current job as comic book editor. I know though, that my mom had given me some issues of the Swedish Donald Duck weekly earlier in 1980/81, among them an issue with one part of Barks?? Cibola story, which I still remember as fascinating. Several of those first books are actually still standing in a box here in my study, read to pieces but obviously loved. And in February 1983 my grandma gave me a Donald Duck weekly (Kalle Anka 6-1983) containing one part of a Mickey Mouse story by Murry, which may be the first story that made me love Murry??s artwork. However, in the summer of 1982 we had visited some relatives who had piles of Disney comic books and one rainy day I happened to lie down on a rug with Kalle Anka 41-1979, with Daniel Branca??s The Mysterious Garden (reprinted in the US a few years later in Uncle Scrooge #221)! That was it! We went to a flea market the following day and I managed to find parts 1+3, which was the actual start of decades of, well, obsessive collecting, studies and checklists of Barks and Murry and Gottfredson etc. That story has it all: a mysterious house, Magica de Spell, a magic wand controlling plants, man-eating plants, the nephews acting brave and full of initiative etc. And: glorious artwork by Branca! It??s still great! Objectively! Absolutely stunning!
A few years later I bought a copy of Uncle Scrooge #62 from a Norwegian collector, since I wanted to read Queen of the Wild Dog Pack unedited, and it became my first US Disney comic. And soon, at the age of 13 or 14 in 1987/88, I forked out $710 for a subscription to the complete Carl Barks Library, which I have also kept here next to my working desk for all those years. It??s odd ?? already then I appreciated reading comics in black and white, and this was long before I got fascinated with 1930s/40s comic strips. Then followed lots of work with the Swedish Disney fanzine NAFS(k)uriren, years of research about Paul Murry (and other artists), a lifelong fascination with Carl Barks?? world and today I??m an editor of Disney comic hardcovers myself?¦ But it all began with Branca??s The Mysterious Garden, a rainy day more than 30 years ago. It??s fascinating how one single story could change my life - and it was, surprisingly enough, not even by Barks or Gottfredson?¦
A few years later I bought a copy of Uncle Scrooge #62 from a Norwegian collector, since I wanted to read Queen of the Wild Dog Pack unedited, and it became my first US Disney comic. And soon, at the age of 13 or 14 in 1987/88, I forked out $710 for a subscription to the complete Carl Barks Library, which I have also kept here next to my working desk for all those years. It??s odd ?? already then I appreciated reading comics in black and white, and this was long before I got fascinated with 1930s/40s comic strips. Then followed lots of work with the Swedish Disney fanzine NAFS(k)uriren, years of research about Paul Murry (and other artists), a lifelong fascination with Carl Barks?? world and today I??m an editor of Disney comic hardcovers myself?¦ But it all began with Branca??s The Mysterious Garden, a rainy day more than 30 years ago. It??s fascinating how one single story could change my life - and it was, surprisingly enough, not even by Barks or Gottfredson?¦
Robb_K
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 40 -
2013-06-27 at 22:38:09
Quote from user: germundThis is a topic close to my heart. I know exactly the story which made start collecting Disney comics when I was 8 years old and thus led to my current job as comic book editor. I know though, that my mom had given me some issues of the Swedish Donald Duck weekly earlier in 1980/81, among them an issue with one part of Barks?? Cibola story, which I still remember as fascinating. Several of those first books are actually still standing in a box here in my study, read to pieces but obviously loved. And in February 1983 my grandma gave me a Donald Duck weekly (Kalle Anka 6-1983) containing one part of a Mickey Mouse story by Murry, which may be the first story that made me love Murry??s artwork. However, in the summer of 1982 we had visited some relatives who had piles of Disney comic books and one rainy day I happened to lie down on a rug with Kalle Anka 41-1979, with Daniel Branca??s The Mysterious Garden (reprinted in the US a few years later in Uncle Scrooge #221)! That was it! We went to a flea market the following day and I managed to find parts 1+3, which was the actual start of decades of, well, obsessive collecting, studies and checklists of Barks and Murry and Gottfredson etc. That story has it all: a mysterious house, Magica de Spell, a magic wand controlling plants, man-eating plants, the nephews acting brave and full of initiative etc. And: glorious artwork by Branca! It??s still great! Objectively! Absolutely stunning!
A few years later I bought a copy of Uncle Scrooge #62 from a Norwegian collector, since I wanted to read Queen of the Wild Dog Pack unedited, and it became my first US Disney comic. And soon, at the age of 13 or 14 in 1987/88, I forked out $710 for a subscription to the complete Carl Barks Library, which I have also kept here next to my working desk for all those years. It??s odd ?? already then I appreciated reading comics in black and white, and this was long before I got fascinated with 1930s/40s comic strips. Then followed lots of work with the Swedish Disney fanzine NAFS(k)uriren, years of research about Paul Murry (and other artists), a lifelong fascination with Carl Barks?? world and today I??m an editor of Disney comic hardcovers myself?¦ But it all began with Branca??s The Mysterious Garden, a rainy day more than 30 years ago. It??s fascinating how one single story could change my life - and it was, surprisingly enough, not even by Barks or Gottfredson?¦
A similar story of fascination with Disney Comics at a young age could probably be told by most,if not all of us. I used to stack them in piles, and toss them up in the air and let them hit me on the head. I always wanted more, More, MORE!
A few years later I bought a copy of Uncle Scrooge #62 from a Norwegian collector, since I wanted to read Queen of the Wild Dog Pack unedited, and it became my first US Disney comic. And soon, at the age of 13 or 14 in 1987/88, I forked out $710 for a subscription to the complete Carl Barks Library, which I have also kept here next to my working desk for all those years. It??s odd ?? already then I appreciated reading comics in black and white, and this was long before I got fascinated with 1930s/40s comic strips. Then followed lots of work with the Swedish Disney fanzine NAFS(k)uriren, years of research about Paul Murry (and other artists), a lifelong fascination with Carl Barks?? world and today I??m an editor of Disney comic hardcovers myself?¦ But it all began with Branca??s The Mysterious Garden, a rainy day more than 30 years ago. It??s fascinating how one single story could change my life - and it was, surprisingly enough, not even by Barks or Gottfredson?¦
A similar story of fascination with Disney Comics at a young age could probably be told by most,if not all of us. I used to stack them in piles, and toss them up in the air and let them hit me on the head. I always wanted more, More, MORE!
Matilda
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 41 -
2013-06-28 at 02:57:34
Quote from user: germundone rainy day I happened to lie down on a rug with Kalle Anka 41-1979, with Daniel Branca??s The Mysterious Garden (reprinted in the US a few years later in Uncle Scrooge #221)! That was it! We went to a flea market the following day and I managed to find parts 1+3, which was the actual start of decades of, well, obsessive collecting, studies and checklists of Barks and Murry and Gottfredson etc. That story has it all: a mysterious house, Magica de Spell, a magic wand controlling plants, man-eating plants, the nephews acting brave and full of initiative etc. And: glorious artwork by Branca! It??s still great! Objectively! Absolutely stunning!
it all began with Branca??s The Mysterious Garden, a rainy day more than 30 years ago. It??s fascinating how one single story could change my life - and it was, surprisingly enough, not even by Barks or Gottfredson?¦
I read Wejp-Olsen & Kenner/Branca's Mysterious Garden story in U$ 221, but it wasn't until I saw it years later in the German Big Black Book 2 (Magica De Spell stories) that I truly appreciated it, since the art was showcased so much better there. I'm glad editor David Gerstein included it in that book! And when you speak of the nephews' initiative and bravery...I was interested to see on inducks that HDL are listed as the "heroes" of the story, and their names appear over the title in most countries' printings.
it all began with Branca??s The Mysterious Garden, a rainy day more than 30 years ago. It??s fascinating how one single story could change my life - and it was, surprisingly enough, not even by Barks or Gottfredson?¦
I read Wejp-Olsen & Kenner/Branca's Mysterious Garden story in U$ 221, but it wasn't until I saw it years later in the German Big Black Book 2 (Magica De Spell stories) that I truly appreciated it, since the art was showcased so much better there. I'm glad editor David Gerstein included it in that book! And when you speak of the nephews' initiative and bravery...I was interested to see on inducks that HDL are listed as the "heroes" of the story, and their names appear over the title in most countries' printings.
Germund
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 42 -
2013-06-28 at 08:12:30
Quote from user: MatildaI read Wejp-Olsen & Kenner/Branca's Mysterious Garden story in U$ 221,
Shame on me for not giving credit to Wejp-Olsen and Kenner, who both wrote many memorable stories in addition to this one. Interestingly, Barks early on made the nephews more mature and said in some interview that it was a very deliberate move ?? in the long run, kids prefer reading about smart kids who are in charge of situations, and sometimes are even smarter than the adults in the stories. (Danish donaldist Niels Houlberg-Hansen wrote a nice article about this not too long ago, which is why I came to think of it.)
Shame on me for not giving credit to Wejp-Olsen and Kenner, who both wrote many memorable stories in addition to this one. Interestingly, Barks early on made the nephews more mature and said in some interview that it was a very deliberate move ?? in the long run, kids prefer reading about smart kids who are in charge of situations, and sometimes are even smarter than the adults in the stories. (Danish donaldist Niels Houlberg-Hansen wrote a nice article about this not too long ago, which is why I came to think of it.)
Morequack
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 43 -
2013-06-28 at 16:27:31
I was 9 years old when I read my very first Disney comic. I lived in Greece and it was the Greek publication MICKEY MOUSE from 1967 featuring the Italian story, "Paperino e l'isola del Tesoro." Never published in the USA, it translates to, "Donald Duck on Treasure Island." I wish I still had that comic!
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++216-APhttp://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++216-APhttp://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
AzureBlue
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
Message 44 -
2013-06-28 at 18:38:36
Quote from user: MorequackI was 9 years old when I read my very first Disney comic. I lived in Greece and it was the Greek publication MICKEY MOUSE from 1967 featuring the Italian story, "Paperino e l'isola del Tesoro." Never published in the USA, it translates to, "Donald Duck on Treasure Island." I wish I still had that comic!
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++216-APhttp://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
Wow are you kidding me? In the mail today a recent ebay purchase of mine came, which included the British publication of this story. I live in the US but it was only like 5 bucks on ebay. Looked cool to me
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++216-APhttp://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
Wow are you kidding me? In the mail today a recent ebay purchase of mine came, which included the British publication of this story. I live in the US but it was only like 5 bucks on ebay. Looked cool to me
Morequack
Your first Disney comic, How did you become a Donaldist?
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2013-06-29 at 04:37:41
Quote from user: AzureBlueQuote from user: MorequackI was 9 years old when I read my very first Disney comic. I lived in Greece and it was the Greek publication MICKEY MOUSE from 1967 featuring the Italian story, "Paperino e l'isola del Tesoro." Never published in the USA, it translates to, "Donald Duck on Treasure Island." I wish I still had that comic!
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++216-APhttp://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
Wow are you kidding me? In the mail today a recent ebay purchase of mine came, which included the British publication of this story. I live in the US but it was only like 5 bucks on ebay. Looked cool to me
Wow is right! Thanks to you I just saw this on Ebay for $5.25 and bought a copy, as well! Thanks for mentioning that! It had not occurred to me to look for the UK version. Hopefully this version is printed well.
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++216-APhttp://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?normalsize=1&image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2009/02/gr_mm_0047a_001.jpg
Wow are you kidding me? In the mail today a recent ebay purchase of mine came, which included the British publication of this story. I live in the US but it was only like 5 bucks on ebay. Looked cool to me
Wow is right! Thanks to you I just saw this on Ebay for $5.25 and bought a copy, as well! Thanks for mentioning that! It had not occurred to me to look for the UK version. Hopefully this version is printed well.