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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Daniël van Eijmeren:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> This week, an extra Donald Duck Extra has been published in </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> The Netherlands. Issue number is "7 1/2".</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">I've bought it last thursday and I can say it's a very NICE
issue. Let's see if we're able to identify the contents a
little bit further.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> D 2002-033 - 26 pages - US - Dream of a Lifetime (Rosa)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">This certainly is a very fine story. I like it MUCH better
than 'Gyro's first invention', which was too 'explainative'.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Notice that the Dutch editors utterly failed to comprehend
Don's 'fool-proof system' and published the extra recap-page
as well. Well, maybe we should regard it as a BONUS-page. :)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> H 9879 - 1 page - DD - special place for smokers in </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> restaurant (Milton?)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">It doesn't look like Milton to me. Could this gag've been
drawn by ROB KLEIN? (The artwork even looks a bit Strobl-ish.)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> D 2001-135 - 14 pages - DD- potion that weakens enemies </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> (Rota?)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">This is certainly a Rota story. (Andold 'Wild Duck') His Dutch
name is 'McWild McDuck', which looks a bit silly. Is Andold
really a SCOTTISH warrior? The pirates in this story look much
more Scottish (wearing kilts). </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> D 7096 - 9 pages - BB - ring in chocolate box (...)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">As far as I can see, with my very limited experience in
identifying Duck art, this is a story by Daniel Branca. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Am I correct?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> H 94147 - 1 page - DD - tree in garden (...)? </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> D 2001-160 - 12 pages - DD - winner in turkey town </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">A Vicar story. Donald starts a new life as a 'winner' in a
town inhabited by turkeys. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">This 'alternate Duckburg' was founded by Jacobus Krul, the
turkey counterpart of Cornelis Prul. :)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> RPDD 2503 - 1 page - US - greengrocer is an old class mate </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">This must be Toby Strobl. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> BTW. "Dream of a Lifetime" is published in the two-part </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> version. There seem to be two typo's in the story. On page </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> 20, Donald says "Donald" to the young Scrooge. On page 25, </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Gyro says "mnee Duck" instead of "meneer Duck".</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">On page 6: "als iemand een vraagT stelt". But apart from those
three typo's, this story was very WELL-EDITED. I can see that
some balloons were enlarged, but it's done very beautifully,
without 'double panel-lines'. (Unlike in 'Caballeros',
'Crusader Kings', 'Gyro's 1st'.) </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">The recap-page may be a bit annoying, but its text is adapted
to one-part publication. (It doesn't read "In the previous
episode:", but something like "Do you still understand this a
little bit? Yes, you do... a LITTLE bit.") The translator has
at least tried to give this strange page a logical position in
the storytelling (explanation). </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Michiel Prior.</span></font></div>
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