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<DIV>In a message dated 10/7/2003 3:47:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jongraywb@hotmail.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial><<This question has bothered me for SO LONG because back when I collected <BR>Disney comics AVIDLY and I never knew about the message lists and such, I <BR>came across Gold Key back issues of these books and had NO EARTHLY CLUE who <BR>or what Moby Duck and his "crew" was. :P>></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>as they say: everybody is a newbie at some time</DIV>
<DIV> most of us saw Donald and Mickey first on tv (in my case it was the mickey mouse club and the disneyland tv show). but most of the others we got from comic books (yes, i am old enough that I was an adult when they did ducktales - so back in the old days we would have had no earthly clue who or what Uncle Scrooge was...untill we read the comic book)</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial><BR><BR><<Needless to say I didnt buy the books (cause I was kinda revolted by the <BR>shoddy artwork and haphazard stories -__-)>></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>same guys who were doing the Donald and Junior Woodchucks comics (well minus one of the Woodchuck writers <g>) art by tony strobl and kay wright ((i guess i must be the only guy who thinks Wright is ok on this list))</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial><< but who in the world were they <BR>supposed to be, where and when did they debut, and who thought that they <BR>were popular enough to carry thier own book? I guess they were maybe <BR>semi-popular characters during the late Gold Key Era? Were they ever used <BR>overseas?>></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>who were they susposed to be? two sailors and a porpoise! going out on adventures in the days when whailing was considered adventuresome rather than enviromental damaging.,...</DIV>
<DIV> introduced in an issue of Donald Duck 112, i seem to recall a couple of other guest appearances in Donald Duck, before Moby got his own book in 1967. lasted a few years, ended, then revivied in the middle 70s</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial><<Anybody have any info on these 3 characters? Its obvious that at <BR>least Donald and the kids know of him somehow in the story I saw, and <BR>perhaps - only Moby is an old relation creted by who knows what? (I didnt <BR>know what to make of that Dimwitty Duck creature cause it sure as heck was <BR>no Duck i'd ever seen...) ^^;;>></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Dimwittty is even less PC than Moby -- but somebody has to swab the deck</DIV>
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<DIV> for some reason i feel Moby was created by Del Connell, anybody know for sure?</DIV>
<DIV>steven rowe</DIV></BODY></HTML>