Indexes

[Per Starback]

Don Rosa:
> First off, do I see mention here of a need for an index to WDC&S? I
> indexed the ENTIRE contents of each issue of WDC&S from #1-400, all
> the way down to the text features, years ago in RBCC when I was comic
> fandom's answer guy. DON'T ask me to upload it!!!!!

Great, but I don't just want such an index to exist, I want to have
access to it.  I don't have access to old issues of RBCC.  (Besides,
as Harry already pointed out, it's more convenient with an on-line
index.)

> But I'm constantly hearing of people launching in-depth indexes to
> Disney comics even though they were all thoroughly indexed in the
> late 60s and early 70s ...

But there is so much more known nowadays!  How many Disney artists
were known by name back in 1970?  Barks, Gottfredson and Taliaferro,
but not many more.  Now we even know who wrote many of the stories.

> ... (albeit in magazines that many current collectors are not
> familiar with).

Yes, I didn't know about the Disney index in RBCC.  And it's true that
I don't know of any published Disney indexes from the early 70s or
earlier either.  Before Becattini's Index last year the only thorough
index I know of was Horst Sch"oder's The Disney Funnies, but that was
never published ...
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Per