DCML Digest, Vol 20, Issue 10

[Donald D. Markstein]

>
> Subject:
> Re: DCML Digest, Vol 20, Issue 7
> From:
> Richard <lerichard at free.fr>
> Date:
> Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:25:02 +0200
> To:
> dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
>
>>>Is April 28, 1993 exact date for last MM strip?
>>>      
>>>
>>Can't be. Comic strips end on Saturday or Sunday, and that was a Wednesday.
>>It's amazing how many respected reference works give dates that can't be.
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>>
>
>Just for information, Inducks doesn't say that the last strip is April 28, 
>1993, just that an April 28, 1993 strip does exist. If you know the exact 
>date of the last strip (and any other important info?) please give it
>

Well, if I knew, I obviously WOULD give it. What I CAN do is TRY to head 
off the possibility that this gets picked up elsewhere and becomes 
accepted as the correct final date, and winds up as incorrect 
information in some reference work. Of course, it's entirely possible 
someone will see the original post and not this one, and assume that 
since it wasn't corrected (to his knowledge) he can go ahead and pass it 
on. So the effort may come to naught, even tho ANYONE could have done 
what I did and not taken a risk of increasing the amount of 
misinformation in the world. But -- one does what one can.

I hope Inducks will do the responsible thing and add that strips (at 
least three but it may very well be more) definitely exist after that 
date, now that the fact is known beyond doubt, so nobody else assumes 
it's correct. (And that goes for every other start/end date you've got 
for a newspaper comic. A quick check of a perpetual calendar can't 
confirm a date, but it can easily identify most wrong ones.)

Just as an example of the confusion that can arise, I have three 
different dates for the beginning of the "Thimble Theatre" comic strip, 
where Popeye first appeared, and not one of them passes this simple 
test. What could the people giving those dates possibly have been thinking?

I know this is a tiny triviality, but when you post information and try 
to put across the idea that it's authoritative, you've got to pay 
attention to tiny trivialities.

(By the way, there was a discussion on this list a couple of years ago, 
about Super Duck and the fact that the name was used by a very minor 
non-Disney character decades ago. I just posted an article on that 
non-Disney Super Duck in my Toonopedia(tm), which you can read at 
http://www.toonopedia.com/suprduck.htm if by some odd chance you happen 
to be interested.)

Quack, Don
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