Guardians of the Lost Library

[daniel van eijmeren]

DON:

I've just read "GotLL" in the Donald Duck monthly here in Holland. 
I've enjoyed it. I like all those back-ground details. After reading 
your stories for the first time, I always search through the story to 
find to the ones I didn't notice while reading. Even after that, I 
still see more details while re-picking up a story! (For example, the 
mices in GotLL kneeling for the lantern.)

I have some questions about GotLL:

Which facts in the story are really happened? You give so much 
details about the library being moved and copied through the 
centuries, that I do believe it really happened (untill the last 
moving: The library being moved to the Duckburg area).
There was especially one detail of which I think it must be true, 
because there was no reason to say it: In Constantinopel a nephew 
says that the library is shrank. The reason why I think this is true,
is that this comment didn't add anything to the story itself. Anyway, 
the given reason *why* the library was shrank is very vague to me 
("Maybe they skipped the plays.") So, what is true and what is made 
up by you?

While searching the library Scrooge runs into a soccer-stadium during 
a soccer-match. At a certain point someone says that it is not 
forbidden by the law to dig during a match. Then the referee points 
out why the rule (digging during a match) was scrapped, which made no 
sense to me. Can you tell me more about this scene?

I'm curious to see the original message on the sign in Scrooge's 
office (panel 2, page 21, first version). In Holland the joke was 
quit funny: "Look out! Slippery! Bribe-money!" The word "bribe" in 
Holland also means "grease".

Harry bought for me the GotLL-Gladstone, so I will read that version 
in the near future. (But the "original" seemed okay to me.)


HANG GLIDERS BE HANGED
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Does anyone of you know about this Barks-story? Barks made it as a 
synopsis during the seventies, maybe at the same time he made "Go 
Slowly, Sands of Time". (You can read the synopsis in CBL1.) The 
story is also published as a comic, coded D6886. The artist didn't 
follow the synopsis very close, but the plot is the same.

SCROOGE AND THE ASWAN-DAM
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This is a story Barks rejected in an early stage. The only remains of 
the story are two letters he sent to friends/fans in about 1962, 
revealing some of the story. The story Barks made to replace "Aswan 
Dam", was "The Golden Nugget Boat" (US 35). As far as I know Barks 
didn't make any art for "Aswan Dam", but maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe those two items are some of your interest, or am I telling some 
facts that everyone here already knows?



Daniel  (age 21, the youngest member of Disney-comics?)