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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Lynne,<div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Malcolm Willets and John Spicer are said to be the first</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">fans to find Carl Barks.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://travel.usatoday.com/alliance/destinations/mouseplanet/post/2012/07/How-Disney-Fans-Found-Carl-Barks/811852/1" target="_blank">http://travel.usatoday.com/alliance/destinations/mouseplanet/post/2012/07/How-Disney-Fans-Found-Carl-Barks/811852/1</a><br><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Eric</div><div><br><div>--<br><br>> Message: 1<br>> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 00:54:45 -0500<br>> From: "Lynne Burnett" <lynneburnett@charter.net><br>> To: <dcml@nafsk.se><br>> Subject: carl barks fan mail<br>> Message-ID: <003901ce640c$ad85df20$08919d60$@charter.net><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> <br>> On this website: http://www.toonopedia.com/barks.htm <br>> <br>> it states: "Most of Carl Barks's published work was unsigned. During most of<br>> his working years, he received absolutely no response from his readers, the<br>> vast majority of whom knew nothing about him except there was something very<br>> special about his stories. When, in the early 1960s, he got his first fan<br>> letter, he thought it was a practical joke."<br>> <br>> Does anybody know anything about Barks's first fan letter? My father wrote<br>> to Barks in the early 60's. I don't have a copy of the letter my father<br>> sent, but I do have the letter that Barks sent along with a small hand drawn<br>> picture of Donald. <br>> <br>> I would love to know if my father was Barks's first fan.<br>> <br>> Lynne Burnett<br><br></div></div> </div></body>
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