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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To Rich : i need to read more carefully your
comments on my message but taking a look at your interesting thoughts, i want to
precise the following thing : </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>that is true that
Paperinik is not a recent creation but at his beginning, in the earliest
episodes of the seventies, his stories were more detective oriented than today
(his first adventures make me think of the french villain 'fantomas' which was
the main character of a popular detective novel printed at the beginning of the
twentieth century); if you take some stories of Paperinik nowadays, you will
find perhaps not an utter copy of the Batman universe but something which is
near of that, and very far from the spirit of the beginning; i can give you
examples : if you take a look at the stories of Paperinik by Lorenzo
Pastrovicchio/Stefano Piano, or better than that at a story like 'The Legacy'
(2005) by Andreas Pihl/Mardon Smet, you will understand what i mean, especially
the last story quoted is very similar to the Batman's gothic
universe.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>