<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hi all!<BR>
<BR>
Travis Seitler sent me an email explaining what happened with MMF 271 and since he apparently meant the email to go to the DCML as well as to me, here it is below:<BR>
<BR>
Derek (et al.),<BR>
<BR>
Quebecor apparently had a binding error with their final batch: if you'll<BR>
notice, the same thing should have occurred with pages 1-4 and 5-8 of that<BR>
issue, too. I don't at present have an exact number of copies affected by<BR>
this error, but we have been assured by Quebecor that this is only the case<BR>
for a very small minority of the books.<BR>
<BR>
We first noticed this with the advance copies we got straight from Quebecor<BR>
last week. Once we brought it to Quebecor's attention, we sent the alert to<BR>
Diamond Comic Distributors' distribution centers to run spot-checks on their<BR>
inventory of MMF #271 before copies were sent out to retailers. They did,<BR>
but didn't find any other mis-bound copies. <BR>
<BR>
I've passed along notice to "the powers that be" here at Gemstone that (at<BR>
least one of) our readers has received one of these "error" copies. They're<BR>
going to work out a game plan, and we hope to have some sort of answer for<BR>
you really soon.<BR>
<BR>
Since this is just a problem with a small minority of copies, it's not<BR>
likely that we'll reprint the missing pages in a future issue... but we<BR>
aren't going to leave you in the dark about Doc Static's "Santa crisis".<BR>
Just think of it as a (really lame) cliffhanger!<BR>
<BR>
Seriously, though: I apologize for the trouble, and we'll get things ironed<BR>
out as soon as we can.<BR>
<BR>
***<BR>
If anyone else has received one of these mis-bound books, please contact me<BR>
off-list <stravis@gemstonepub.com> so that I can keep track of who's been<BR>
affected (without clogging DCML).<BR>
***<BR>
<BR>
Thanks for your patience!<BR>
Travis Seitler<BR>
Art Director, Disney Comic Books<BR>
Gemstone Publishing<BR>
410.427.9431<BR>
stravis@gemstonepub.com</FONT></HTML>