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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi everybody!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Derek -</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">>>>how
has </FONT></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
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PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">death been portrayed in other Disney comic
stories.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
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BACK="#ffffff">>>>Being Disney comics, I assume it hasn't/can't show up
in the</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">>>>form
of murder or anything gruesome like that (perhaps some</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">>>>very
early 30's Gottfredson strips?), but I wonder if death has</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">>>>ever
had an element in Disney stories in the form of illness,</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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BACK="#ffffff">>>>natural causes, etc. I couldn't really think of any
examples<BR>>>>beyond LO$, so perhaps some of you
will.<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>SPOILERS AHEAD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>There's the odd case of the
Gottfredson "Mickey attempts suicide" strips, prompted by walt Disney himself.
gottfredson explained it to David R. Smith in the interveiw reprinted in "Walt
Disney's Mickey Mouse in Color-- 1930s Comic Strip Classics", pp 107-8 of
the regular edition. it ran for about a week in late October
1931.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>At the end of "Terrible
Disguise", the Donald look-alike spy defenestrates himself.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>There's plenty of
"off-screen" shooting & killing in Gottfredson strips.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In "The World of Tomorrow",
the very humane Mekka girl Mimi gets in the way of Pete's flame gun to
protect Mickey; a fiery blast is all we see, then a pile of burnt
gears.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>There's one funny kind of
death in "The pirate Ghostship": "The Walking Death"! At the end of the
same story, the Pirate Pete gets burnt up by lava; one panel is trying to get
away, carrying a huge treasure chest, pearl necklaces stringed around his neck,
and coins in his pockets, with a mighty flow of lava inches away from him;
the next panel, you see his hat an a pearl necklace burning on the lava river;
pretty striking.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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