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Re: DCML Digest, Vol 20, Issue 7</td>
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<div class="headerdisplayname" style="display: inline;">From: </div>
Richard <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lerichard@free.fr"><lerichard@free.fr></a></td>
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Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:25:02 +0200</td>
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<pre wrap="">Is April 28, 1993 exact date for last MM strip?
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<pre wrap="">Can't be. Comic strips end on Saturday or Sunday, and that was a Wednesday.
It's amazing how many respected reference works give dates that can't be.
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Just for information, Inducks doesn't say that the last strip is April 28,
1993, just that an April 28, 1993 strip does exist. If you know the exact
date of the last strip (and any other important info?) please give it</pre>
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Well, if I knew, I obviously WOULD give it. What I CAN do is TRY to head
off the possibility that this gets picked up elsewhere and becomes accepted
as the correct final date, and winds up as incorrect information in some
reference work. Of course, it's entirely possible someone will see the original
post and not this one, and assume that since it wasn't corrected (to his
knowledge) he can go ahead and pass it on. So the effort may come to naught,
even tho ANYONE could have done what I did and not taken a risk of increasing
the amount of misinformation in the world. But -- one does what one can.<br>
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I hope Inducks will do the responsible thing and add that strips (at least
three but it may very well be more) definitely exist after that date, now
that the fact is known beyond doubt, so nobody else assumes it's correct.
(And that goes for every other start/end date you've got for a newspaper
comic. A quick check of a perpetual calendar can't confirm a date, but it
can easily identify most wrong ones.)<br>
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Just as an example of the confusion that can arise, I have three different
dates for the beginning of the "Thimble Theatre" comic strip, where Popeye
first appeared, and not one of them passes this simple test. What could the
people giving those dates possibly have been thinking?<br>
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I know this is a tiny triviality, but when you post information and try to
put across the idea that it's authoritative, you've got to pay attention
to tiny trivialities.<br>
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(By the way, there was a discussion on this list a couple of years ago, about
Super Duck and the fact that the name was used by a very minor non-Disney
character decades ago. I just posted an article on that non-Disney Super
Duck in my Toonopedia(tm), which you can read at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.toonopedia.com/suprduck.htm">http://www.toonopedia.com/suprduck.htm</a>
if by some odd chance you happen to be interested.)<br>
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Quack, Don<br>
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