<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Well, it's nice to know that WDC isn't nearly as far behind US as those order figures indicated. My local shop only gets new comics in on Thursdays, so I'll guess I'll have to wait until late next week for DDA.<BR>
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Having just today stopped by the shop and getting a bunch of back issues of Disney comics, plus the WDC 634(more on that later), I've noticed something about the paper that's been used in Disney comics over the years. When you compare a Gladstone Series 1 comic to a Disney Comic(1990-93) or a Gladstone Series 2 comic, the paper in the Series 1 comic is always very yellowed. Even when comparing the earliest Disney Comics to Series 1, the DC comic is always about as good looking as when it was made, whereas Series 1 comics have turned from white to yellow(similiar to what happens to paper used for newspapers, but not quite as bad). Is this because DC/Gladstone had switched to a higher grade of paper? That would be my guess comparing Series 1 to DC, but it would be nice to know if that actually was the case.<BR>
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Just first impressions of WDC 634: It seems about as good as US 319, which is good indeed. Especially the Van Horn story and Gilbert/Vicar's Gladstone story.<BR>
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Derek Smith</FONT></HTML>