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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>----- <EM>Gladstone/Another Rainbow *did* consider making a Gottfredson
Library <BR>(stated in one of the CBL volumes!), but the economics perspective
held <BR>them back from doing so. Plus, I suspect that the library would be
<BR>rather damaged by the fact, that some strips can never be published in
<BR>anything else than underground publications! That MMIC oddly enough
<BR>didn't reprint "Island in the Sky", which Floyd Gottfredson said was one
<BR>of three stories, he liked the best. The other two, "Blaggard Castle"
<BR>and "Phantom Blot" are included. Would love to read this
story</EM>!-----<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is true that the Disney Corporation has banned
some of their early material mainly because of racial overtones and sterotypes.
In the U.S. the film Song of the South has not been shown or released on video
or DVD because of racial concerns, but in Britain this film was recently
shown on television. However the new Disney Treasure DVD's do present all the
early cartoons that were formerly banned. The narrator of these DVD's is Leonard
Maltin, a well known film critic, who goes to great pains to explain that
sterotypes of black Americans and native American Indians and others given in
these cartoons were unfortunately accepted in earlier decades but that we
should learn from the past and not hide it. I would assume that the Disney
Corporation may now apply this to the early comics of Floyd
Gottfredson.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regarding the story "Island in the Sky", this story
is about a mad German atom scientist who speaks with germanized english
words mixed together with proper english. Although not reprinted by Dell,
Gold Key, Gladstone, this story does appear in a large hard cover album by
Abbeville Publishing Company (with Disney copyright) that first appeared in 1978
and has since been reprinted at least once in 1986. The book is called "Mickey
Mouse Best Comics" and occasionally shows up on ebay. Otherwise it may be
obtained from used book stores on the internet
(see Abebooks.com) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marvin Winitz</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>