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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Sales
are really slipping. Scrooge had 4,604 copies sold in January and<BR>3,677 in
May.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>People who are willing to buy Uncle Scrooge include a large faction of
adults who have come to expect more than they are getting with the current title
(that is really geared towards kids). Even the Scrooge collectors who want to
keep their collection complete, have stopped buying the Scrooge title, or
reluctantly buy one and don't even read it.. The younger audience is not buying
Uncle Scrooge.</DIV>
<DIV>With Barks gone, and Rosa retired, you must find someone willing to write a
decent story.</DIV>
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<DIV>Barry</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>