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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for the information Soren; the french
version of this story was published in 1966 in Mickey Parade 735 bis with a new
edition in 1976; this is a little bit a shame that the original beginning has
been replaced by something different because this kind of original image is
like a mysterious sign of what is going to happen and increases the suspense; in
an another story published in Mickey Parade 1016 bis, at the beginning of
the ludicrous story about a fake flying saucer called 'Oncle Picsou et
la Soucoupologie - uncle Scrooge and the science of flying saucer' there is as
well a full page picture which anticipates the rest of the story; to come back
to Paperino anno 2001, this is an important and bizarre story because it
introduces an historical aspect, a time dimension in the lives of Donald and
Scrooge which seems to lack in the previous stories and particularly in
Barks too; Barks often talks about the past of Scrooge, the nostalghia seems to
be a part of his inspiration for the character, but at one point in the time,
the ducks are what they are for ever; but in Paperino anno 2001, for the first
and last time the story shows us the future of the ducks and the death of
Scrooge like in a sort of nightmare; one of the kids says at the end of the
story, after they escaped both the Donald and the beagles boys of the
future : 'they disappeared, like some ghosts of the future', and really,
this is exactly what they are since the ducks are stuck for ever in an endless
present.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>