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<DIV>Everyone: </DIV>
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<DIV>John Chadwick writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>>>I was just reading in one of the essays in Carl Barks'
Greatest DuckTales Stories Vol.1 that postal regulations prohibited Scrooge
and Gyro from appearing in the same stories in Uncle Scrooge comics. Why
should the Postal Service care about such a thing?>></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>First, thanks for buying the DuckTales book. The Postal Service thing
was as Steven Rowe explained it. Why? We may never know
from this vantage point in time. For some specifics, I'll quote from an
APA article I did on Gyro several years ago: </DIV>
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<DIV>"<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">In 1956, Dell began offering its comic books directly to
the end consumer on a subscription basis.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Conforming to a seemingly inexplicable U.S. postal requirement to obtain
lower cost second-class mailing privileges, each qualifying Dell periodical was
mandated to run a single page of TEXT, and a comics story which <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><U>featured characters not used in ANY other
story in the magazine</U></I> (!)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">"</SPAN>…Don’t ask me,
I’m just a columnist!!!!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Over
the years, I’ve never heard ANY practical reason for this one!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">It
was this latter item which brought the <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Gyro
Gearloose</I></B> short stories into being, and into the <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">UNCLE SCROOGE </B>title on a permanent
basis.</SPAN>"</DIV>
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<DIV>[End of Quoted Material] </DIV>
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<DIV>Note that this text requirement of the regulation would have been
instrumental in bringing those "One-Page-Text" stories, that usually featured
Goofy, Li'L Bad Wolf, etc. into being... and, for other publishers, took
the form of educational or fiction texts and eventually gave birth to the letter
columns. </DIV>
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<DIV>Joe Torcivia. </DIV>
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