<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="1">I think the idea of Mickey's father being a criminal is a good one, as several of his ancestors have been (Tony Toponi, Rattinger,...). But maybe this detail should stay hidden, and not used in a story... This would explain why we never meet him, wereas we met Minnie's parents. Mickey probably doesn't speak to him anymore...<BR>
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About the unpublished material, i like to consider it as a fact, only when it doesn't go against the final story (for instance, in Don Rosa's sketches, Grandma is with Scrooge at the gold rush, and i don't consider this detail as a fact, as in the final Lo$, he meets her in Duckburg, but there is nothing against saying that Potcrack McDuck, an ancestor of scrooge from Don's sketches, existed, so i consider he existed...). I think you can use unpublished sketches and ideas to *complete* final stories. But if you consider all disney stories ever published as one universe, you already can't consider some facts as true facts (for instance, you'll have to make a choice between considering that Scrooge is Grandma's brother or his son's brother-in-law, in how many different stories do the heroes discover the Horse of Troyes, for instance, or Atlantis? you'll have to chose one story among dozens of stories... )You already hardly manage to tie all this stories together, to find
explanations, ... So including unpublised materials won't be the best solution, of course...<BR>
So I only use to consider the *masters*'s unpublished ideas, when it's possible...<BR>
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Gilles</FONT></HTML>