<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 10/12/01 6:11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Don Rosa writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">If you've read almost *any* of my Magica stories, at least if your
<BR>translators have not scrapped my dialogue for something else, I always make
<BR>a point of explaining and reaffirming why Magica, according to Barks'
<BR>original stories, wants that Dime.
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Unfortunatly, the only Magica story of yours that I've managed to find is the one involving the silver platter*, and the only Barks Magica story that I've encountered is "The Many Faces of Magica DeSpell". In both of these stories, Magica's motives are clear, but not the reasoning behind them.
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<BR>The some goes from that which most of my knowledge of Magica in fact comes from, DuckTales (which I know that most of you DCMLers consider childish and apocryphal at best). On the show, sometimes she's a witch, sometimes she's a sorceress. Sometimes it's the Lucky Dime and sometimes it's the Number One Dime. Only in "Send in the Clones" has there ever been any attempt at explaining why she's after the dime -- it will allow her to turn Poe back into her brother, and it will allow her to rule to world.
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<BR>Exactly *how* it will do either of these things, it isn't said.
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<BR>-Yossi
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<BR>* If you'd like to send me more, you're more than welcome to. :-) But seriously, being a comic-book reader, but not a comic book collecter -- Meaning that $2.50 for 24 pages is barely worth it, and $5-$50 for same almost never is, not when I can get a 350 page novel for only $6 or so. It's a real problem for someone wanting to go back and read all the ol' Duck stories...</FONT></HTML>