Gladstone updates wanted and available

[David A Gerstein]

	Dear Folks,

	First of all, I have a request:  Does anyone have the new
edition of either Diamond Previews or Advance Comics comic-preview
magazines?  If so, could someone type in the summaries of January's
Gladstone offerings?  I dialogued the story for DDA 25 and wonder how
it's been described;  I know there's a new (to the U. S. that is) Daan
Jippes story in WDC&S 590, and US 285 should have Don Rosa's Lo$ part
1!!!  So there's apparently a lot of great stuff coming up and I want
to hear how it's described... can someone help?  I have no way to get
either of those catalogs here.

	Now a comment as to availability:  I have all the new
Gladstone monthlies through DD 282 (with one exception, US 283, which
I'll own very soon), and will be glad to type in information about
them for the gladstone-index file on ftp.  But before I send that info
to Per, I need to know:  Has someone else done this?  Also... don't we
want to combine gladstone-index and disney-index now?  Having a gap in
gladstone-index's US listing between 242 and 281 seems awfully odd...
same with WDC&S.  Maybe we at least want to install copies of the
information on Disney Comics' US and WDC&S in gladstone-index, so that
readers won't find a whole lot of information missing.  Can't we just
have gladstone-disney-index?  Or is this sacreligious?

	Disney certainly did some very good WDC&S issues... that's one
thing to hand them at least.  I wish Gladstone had been influenced by
it, but they seem not to be.  For Disney it was the flagship title...
for Gladstone, just another one of the line-up.

	BTW:  Per, do you still have all the updates I did for
wdc.index?  Did Kjell Crone say they couldn't be added?  That'd be a
shame since I spent quite a while leafing through those early issues
to get the information.  But then... I guess that Becattini's volume
will give us all the updates we ever need on that title when it's
published.

	When it *is* published (Vol. 2 I mean) maybe we can put
together a computerized "Disney comics information finder" program
from it... with complete data about everything!

	AND NOW:

	I have a complete index of all the Dutch stories published in
the U. S., as well as a nearly-complete index to the Danish (Egmont)
stories used here.  Do you guys want that stuff for ftp?  Someone once
suggested that an index to ALL Danish stories be made and while I
don't have the resources to do that, I can at least go ahead and send
info on the ones that have been published here.

	I could eventually also do such an index for Disney Studio
stories (the "Studio program" from 196? to 1990 I mean).  But are
these really good enough to bother about?  *I* sure have very few
favorites among the lot, although even I will admit that their Goofy
material is pretty good.  I just don't think that it's good enough to
take preeminence over Romano Scarpa and others in D&M.

	Your friend,

	David Gerstein

	"The only way to get ahead of Mickey Mouse is to *run* in
*front* of him!"
	<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>