Disney-comics digest #143.

[David A Gerstein]

	Dear Don (and everyone),

	You said:

	"I did the cover for Gladstone's issue of U$ with part 1 of
my "Life and Times of $crooge McDuck" and yesterday I went over the
coloring of that story with the colorist. And the last thing I did
today was send off the new cover for the same chapter of the series 
which will be appearing in a new German album publication which will 
probably be titled "THE DON ROSA LIBRARY" unless saner heads prevail. 
This will be a companion to their CARL BARKS LIBRARY..."

	I know it's gonna be a while 'til you next read this by which
time there may be plenty of other letters in the digest with this
question:

	Do you mean that you sent Ehapa (the German publisher) a copy
of the cover that you drew for Gladstone?  Or do you mean that there
are *two* different covers that you have drawn for "The Last of the
Clan McDuck," one being for Gladstone, another for Ehapa?

	If the latter situation is true, I hope that when the LO$ goes
into its eventual second printing (the album version) in this country,
each chapter gets preceded by a double-sided page that has first the
American cover, then on the reverse side the German one, for each
chapter!

	As of last summer I knew of no German publication called the
CARL BARKS LIBRARY per se.  They have been doing a series for years
and years called DIE BESTE GESCHICHTE VON DONALD DUCK;  albums with
rather garish color like the earliest Gladstone albums, which consist
wholly of Barks stories *but* in no particular order.  There is a
subtitle on the cover of each edition:  IDEE UND ZEICHNUNG VON CARL
BARKS (Concept and Art by Carl Barks), but I believe they've dropped
the credit on the more recent volumes.  Barks and Gottfredson remain
the only artists to get credits in Germany, and then only some of the
time.

	There is also a German series called DIE TOLLSTE GESCHICHTE
VON DONALD DUCK;  these are 68-page bimonthly comics, which have a
mixture of Barks stories, Strobl stories, and Taliaferro daily strips.
I don't believe that any Rosa stories have been published there.

	My guess is that the new all-Rosa series is to be called DIE
BESTE GESCHICHTE VON DONALD DUCK with a subtitle, IDEE UND ZEICHNUNG
VON DON ROSA, not some transliteration of THE CARL BARKS LIBRARY.

	Maybe I'm wrong... but in 1990, the only hardback "library"
books I saw were the Abbeville/Mondadori books and a Gottfredson
reprint series, MICKYS KLASSIKER.  Since then has someone begun
publishing translations of the CBL... I don't mean just some
collection of all-Barks stories, but in Another Rainbow's format?  If
so, why aren't ads for the thing in Ehapa's regular comics?  (They
weren't as of last summer.)

	Your friend,

	David Gerstein