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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is a good story, which is a sort of
parody, where there is an interaction between Donald, the kids and Mickey
Mouse which is called paperopoli liberata, published in 1967 in Topolino 598,
drawn by Giovan Battista Carpi; this is true that the very good Gottfredson in
his 30's stories tended to mix both the characters of Mickey and Donald in
the same places and intrigues (house of the seven ghost and others stories); i
can be wrong but i think that might be justified at this period
because there wasn't an appropriate city and place for developping Donald's own
world; i would like to know whether Gottfredson mixed the two
characters one or two decades later with the same regularity due to the
creations of the others characters around Donald by Barks and Taliaferro (and
also by the italians artists), and the creation of Duckburg by Barks; i guess it
was easier to use Donald in Mousetown at the beginning when he used to be
isolated from a particular town or family than it has been the case
later.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>