<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Marvin,<div><br></div><div>For the sake of clarity I perhaps should have said "were using the Gemstone version of the logo", since the "and friends" element was added for the Gemstone series.</div><div><br></div><div>Gary</div><div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Gary Leach wrote that the cover of the new Boom Mickey Mouse Comics "were using the Gemstone logo". This logo is</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">nearly identical to the original title screen logo of the classic Mickey cartoons of Plane Crazy and Steamboat</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Willy of 1929. Gemstone used this logo in 2003 after a lapse of 10 years since the preceding Gladstone</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">second series of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2">the 1990's did not make a Mickey Mouse comic book.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2">The "modern" appearance of this logo</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">was in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2">Gladstone first series of the 1980's.</font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Actually it was in this first series comic books that Gary Leach</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">was listed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2">as giving his appreciated service to Disney fans as production assistant under Bruce Hamilton.</font></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>