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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Great news for collectors that Gemstone will be
issuing TPB's. During the Western Printing Co. era the closest thing to TPB's
were the Giant Comic books that were not published regularly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> In the 1990's, Gladstone </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>came out with a large number of TPB's which included the
Gottfredson/Barks/Rosa stories.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Somewhat surprising, and maybe not aware to
many, is that Gladstone is still selling most of these TPB's (see <A
href="http://www.brucehamilton.com/gladstone">www.brucehamilton.com/gladstone</A> ).
The price of these are now mainly higher than the original cover price, but
on eBay they can often be found at a good price.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regarding an album of the Good Housekeeping Disney
pages, it is my understanding that these pages were not comics, but
were summaries with illustration of the Mickey, Donald, and Silly Symphonies
movie cartoons. Hopefully this will be a fore runner of a spectrum of material
for Disney enthusiasts that will be provided now under Mr. Geppi.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marvin Winitz</FONT> </DIV>
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