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No, thanks. :)

Send me your address to (Email removed) (it will be forwarded to my regular mail address), and I'll send you a copy of the issue.

Quote from user: JanoIf you want, I can send you a free copy of the German DD Sonderheft in which we presented the first ever reprint of the Beagletrap story. I still have some spare copies left.
Hi there Jano,

Would you happen to have an 'extra' spare copy left of the German DD Sonderheft book?

Thanks,
Tom Wormstedt

I've got the book now, got it on Friday. It's a bit of a disappointment, unfortunately. Sure, this is good stuff, but there are some things which are just too bad.

-I'm one of the few fans of Don Rosa's artwork. But these are his earliest stories (1988-1990) and it just doesn't look good yet. He's still too much trying to imitate Barks' style. Also, his stories aren't as good as they're going to be.
-These are only Donald Duck stories, and they're mostly short (exceptions: Return to Plain Awful and The Crocodile Collector). This isn't Rosa's type of stories: he works much better with Scrooge, adventure stories. Some people blame Rosa for making too 'big' stories (doing tricks with gravity, the Ducks to the centre of the earth, Scrooge's life - full with historical details), but you can see in these stories that without it, it just isn't Don Rosa-like. I like his stories because they're full of history. If I want to read something lighter, I'll read Van Horn.
-The art looks a bit faded sometimes. You can see this the best in the only story that's relettered and recolored from the Gemstone era: Fir-Tree Fracas (the christmas story). The colors come from Picsou Magazine 443 (look up on Inducks here).

Don't get me wrong, the book is fine. But it's just the problem: if you're going to collect somebody's complete works, you've got to include the bad stuff. Oh, and I'm only halfway through the book. So what I said earlier, is only based on the stories until The Crocodile Collector.
Plus point: The Starstruck Duck. :)

Does somebody else have the book, and has something to say about it?

Quote from user: UnderDuckDid you notice that the book is made in China? I want to slap Boom! to the head for that...it´s really sad to see how even minor American companies jumped on the globalization bandwagon. I´d gladly pay a few bucks more if it would have been produced in a western country.
I don't like this either. I'm happy to pay more for a "printed in the united states" tag. But that seems to get rare. Fantagraphics prints in China as well.

I've now read a bit more of the book, and I'll reconsider some of my points.
Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down Under-I'm one of the few fans of Don Rosa's artwork. But these are his earliest stories (1988-1990) and it just doesn't look good yet. He's still too much trying to imitate Barks' style. Also, his stories aren't as good as they're going to be.
A minor mistake here, his stories are from 1987 until 1990. Still, you're stuck with his first two years. From The Crocodile Collector on, it starts to get better.
Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down Under-The art looks a bit faded sometimes. You can see this the best in the only story that's relettered and recolored from the Gemstone era: Fir-Tree Fracas (the christmas story). The colors come from Picsou Magazine 443 (look up on Inducks here).
The original coloring seems to come from the Scandivnavian Hall of Fame books, I see. The colorer is also listed, and it's definately a Scandinavian. I think they couldn't get the American version, and had to make a new one.

Fantagraphics material is published in China as well, so I do hope that you won't be missing out on their wonderful projects because of that fact.