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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As has been mentioned in recent messages, Gemstone
is not presently authorized to use the new disney characters created after the
mid 1980's. Relatively new continuing "disney" characters, i.e. created
after the death of Walt Disney, were utilized by Gold Key and Whitman comics
until they ceased publication in 1983. These characters, mainly in movie
adaption comics, included aristocats/kittens, and the universes of Robin Hood,
the Rescuers, and the Fox and the Hound. When Gladstone took over and except for
Duck Tales ( as far as I know) they did not use any new characters. Comic
book versions of the Black Cauldron and Oliver and Company were published by
Scholastic Paperbacks Inc. Duck Tales was based on the
Television series and was really itself based on the Uncle Scrooge comics.
When the Disney Company took over again in 1990, they produced spin-off
comics of The Little Mermaid/Sebastian, Roger Rabbit, The Beauty and the
Beast, and Aladdin. After the "implosion" however, these Disney Company
spin-offs mainly ceased, and the great dispersal began. Marvel produced The Lion
King, Pocahontas, and The Huncback of Notre Dame. Hercules, in a take-along
size, was produced by Acclaim Comics. Tarzan and Atlantis were produced by Dark
Horse Comics. Recently take-along comics of Lilo and Stitch as well as
Monsters,Inc (Pixar) have been produced by Tokyopop Manga.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am sure we would all hope that all the disney
comic characters could gather together under one roof, and certainly they
could be well cared for by Gemstone. ( By the way, the Disney
Company has accomplised this for cartoons in the House of
Mouse.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marvin Winitz</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>