Long non-Barks stories; German Auto Albums (?)

[Harry Fluks]

David:
> 	But what alternative is there to printing long Barks stories
> in USA and DDA?  How many foreign stories out there are shorter than
> Italian 70-pagers and also very good?

You already know of some Danish time travel stories, and German 44-page
stories (you mentioned them yourself in a letter to Disney).

> Are there many long Dutch and Danish stories which are much better than,
> say, DDAD 33's very unexciting "Sobbing Serpent" story?

There are some Ben Verhagen stories which I think are very good (titles
translated from Dutch):

25 pg. H 8768   U$ and the temple treasures of Gaos
21 pg. H 86230  U$ and the diamond of Duncan McDuck
30 pg. H 8869   U$ and the granite of Nibelungen
25 pg. H 8841   DD the money of Deckselsen Duck

Other Dutch long stories are the (now famous) Big Sneeze story by Freddy
Milton (H 8001, 31 pg.) and a few stories by Jan Gulbransson (H8296, 23 pg.,
and a 40-pager of which I have to look up the code).

Gulbransson has an own drawing style, inspired by Barks. Apparently, the
Dutch editors didn't like his work that much (just like Rosa's) because
his stories were mostly published in b/w in summer/winter holiday specials,
in stead of in the regular comics.

This brings me to a question for our German member, Nikolaus:
we know there was a German album series "Abenteuer aus Onkel Dagoberts
Schatztruhe" and we know the contents. But there was also another album
series, something like "Disney Auto Albums". Do you know how many issues
there were and what they contained? (DAA #3 apparently contained a 
47-page Gulbransson story).


--Harry.

Harry         PTT Research       ()_()     Dutch Disney comics freak
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