Disney-comics digest #125.

[David A Gerstein]

	Hi, Folks!

	I'll air my comments by subject like yesterday... seems like
that's an easy way to keep from digressing too much.


	Harry's quote from "Return to Xanadu"
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>"No, it's Ramjah Phee. What a strange person you are!"

	Isn't that *Samjah* Phee, or am I not remembering right?  And
most importantly... Don, is there a meaning or pun to "Samjah Phee"
that I just haven't caught, despite reading "Return to Xanadu" upwards
of eight times?


	Mark on colours (I think it was Mark, anyway)
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	Was it you who mentioned that Bolivar was colored a straight
orange in some old issue?  Now you've lit a powder keg...

	Bolivar is never colored consistently in American comics!  He
never has been, either.  The earliest comic I have that includes him
is WDC&S 9, and one of the strips in it is his second appearance in
the DD daily, so I believe that this is the first book to have multiple
appearances from him in it.  The news is:  He's tan in some strips,
brown in some, a mixture in others, and *white* in one of them.

	Disney Comics printed lots of Bolivar material.  But those
items -- in DDAD 5, 32, 33, WDC&S 562, 576, DISNEY ALBUM 7, and so
forth -- don't color him consistently, either, although he's usually a
mixture of dark brown and some other color.

	In Europe, where he's used more often, they seem to color him
consistently, but I couldn't tell you for the life of me how that is.


	DD in Mathmagic Land
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	When this cartoon was released in theatres, a comic version
was also done, by Tony Strobl.  It's okay, I guess, but then I
personally find Strobl's art extremely lifeless so maybe that's why I
don't like it much.  How is the script?  I've forgotten...

	When this story was reprinted in Germany a few years ago a
Daniel Branca cover to it was used.  I wouldn't mind if Daniel Branca
redrew the story itself (okay... FLAME ME!), as he has done with
various Strobls in the past ("Backwards Woodsman" and "The Mountless
Mountie").  I really like Daniel Branca's artwork, and with a good
script backing it up it can be one of the really fine duck reading
experiences.  Anyone else have a special fondness for it?

	I practically fainted when Byron Erickson informed me last
spring that Branca is to draw the script I sold Egmont!!!  I just
can't wait to see what he does with it.  (I'm just finishing the
editing on another script for them now... I imagine this one being
best drawn by Bill Van Horn, but he doesn't do lots of other people's
scripts, so let's keep our fingers crossed...)


	Mark Semich's WDC&S 57
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	Mark, where did you get that comic?  How much did it cost?
Did they have a wide selection of others from the period in generally
beat-up condition, and if so, how early did they get?  And am I asking
enough questions for you?
	
	Most of the WDC&S issues from that time are loaded with
wartime comments.  They go on to about 1946, because there was a time
lag between when the daily strips stopped the war comments and when
the comic books got to reprint those same strips.


	Well, that's all for today, folks.  Time to go to the mail and
see if Harry Fluks' package of albums has come!!!!!!

	Yours,

	David Gerstein

	"You don't understand the war, boys?  Let's pretend Huey was
Stalin, Dewey was Truman, and Louie was Churchill... and that this
easy chair was Germany, and I was *Hitler!*"
	>CRASH!  SOCK!<
	"It got too real for us, Unca Donald!"	--- Taliaferro, 1944