Mathmagics Land & Indexes

[Per Starback]

First a couple of old questions that I don't think anyone ever
answered:

Chris ("Mickey's #1 Fan") Lawton asked what was first: "Donald in
Mathmagics Land" the comic or the film.  The comic book (four color
#1051) has August 1959 as it's cover date (reprinted in four color
1198), and the cartoon was released June 26, 1959, so they appeared at
about the same time.  I guess Disney asked Western to do a comic book
version of the cartoon and provided them with the manuscript of the
cartoon before it was ready.

Andy> Secondly, what happened to the Gladstone Barks index on the ftp
Andy> site?  I couldn't find it.  Is anyone planning on adding a
Andy> complete Barks index?

It was removed, because it contained no information not found in the
Gladstone and Disney indexes.  Maybe that was a bad move, would you
like it back?  I'm not planning on adding such an index, but I would
of course welcome it and put it there if someone else did!  Nowadays
when I want to find a particular Barks story I use my Carl Barks
Library if it's in one of the six (out of ten) sets I have of it, and
for the rest of the stories I have a list where *I* have it, so it's
not top priority for me.

More on our indexes: Fredrik wrote about rearranging the indexes and
having programs do other indexes from them etc.  My position is also
that we really should have indexes of "all" H-stories, all D-stories
etc, so that information on artists etc. would be only there,
associated with the story as such.  Then the entry for a comic book
would only say what comics are in it, and if you want a nice-looking
index of that title giving writers and artists too you'd have to run a
special program for that.  I think is sort of necessary, cause having
the same information stores in several places creates all sorts of
problems.  Then I'd also like a Disney Index server to which you could
send (directly if you're on internet, via email otherwise) queries
like "List the contents of WDC 150" or "List stories with Uncle
Scrooge from before 1960 not written by Barks in chronological order"
or whatever.  I've been thinking a little about things like this, but
don't hold your breath... :-)
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Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden.  email: starback at student.docs.uu.se
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