<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Leo,</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><div>Thanks to Kneon Transitt for the figures on sales: it is interesting to see that Gemstone's <em>Uncle Scrooge</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>#623 had sales of over 7,000, but then immediately a decline took place, stabilizing to around 4,000 per issue.</div><div> </div><div>Anybody have any deductions (or de-duck-tions) as to why that happened? Not enough Rosa stories, too many reprints,...?</div></span></span></blockquote><br></div><div>I got no deductions, sorry to say. I just know that I went into the Gemstone project with cautious optimism and came out disillusioned, yet again, about the standard Disney characters getting any traction in today's US comics market.</div><div><br></div><div>My biggest personal regret is that a couple of Duck scripts I arranged for Gemstone from two of my favorite pro writers never wound up being drawn. I like to think they would've paid off, modestly at least, but now we'll never know.</div><div><br></div><div>Gary </div></body></html>