A lot of things...

[Jørgen Andreas Bangor]

Pocket Books
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Thanks for the explanation, David, but I still wonder about these books...
I understand that they are made in Italy, both the original stories (at 
least most of them), and also compilated in Italy. In the earlier series
there were made intermezzos by... relax Fredrik, I'll not mention his name :),
but later they just put recent stories together and pushed them out on the
market again.
     Well... there is only one series in Norway, which started with #1 in
the late sixties, and has now reached #159 (not #160, as I said earlier).
I the beginning, and for more than twenty years, they came out very 
irregularly. Then, they came more and more often, and now they're monthly,
just like in other Egmont countries. BUT, if the Germans have reached about
#200, and the Norwegians have reached #159, and these books are similar,
then there must be about forty books never published in Norway!

Stuff for Don
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I'm a little handicapped, being about 200 kilometers away from my collection,
but a couple of things comes to mind.

In one story Scrooge makes Donald and HDL by a _lot_ of boxes of sereals
to find claims for some land in the desert, where he believes there is 
oil in the ground. They later find out that there's only an old tractor
buried there. I don't think he woud regard those claims as valuable.

In the story King Solomo's Mines, or whatever it's called, Scrooge is 
carrying the tickets around in a bag. All the tickets were lost, but if 
I know Scrooge, he would have kept the bag ;-)
 
Bookends
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WILMER:
>Hey Jorgen, have you ever considered creating duck bookends, like those
>that Don invented for the 60th birthday story?
I haven't noticed that yet. I must admit that I've only read the story
twice, and that's too few times to see all the details! I have this bad
habit of bringing Disney comics home every time I get the chance, since
they do take up some space. At the moment I've got more than 5000 pages
here...
     No, the Walt Disney Corporation wouldn't mind, of course...
Well, actually I have thought a little about translating the plastilin, 
or whatever you call that material, into tin. If I ever succeed in that,
and anyone should be interested, I would be more interested in trading it
with Disney stuff than selling it. The evil emp... er, Walt Disney  
Corporation, wouldn't mind that, would they?

Vicar
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MIKE:
There was a story drawn by Vicar in the Norwegian DD&Co #48. That means
last week. The story (D93413) is about Donald promoting some detergent.

Cars
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I saw a Detroit Electric on an exhibition a couple of years ago. It has
almost exactly the same shape as Grandma's car, but it's quite big. It's
quite short, but still big... There's small "extensions" aft and fore
(have I read too many sea novels?), with a big living room in the middle.
The car is certainly built for women. The cabin, or living room, has 
seats for four people. The front seats are heading backwards, and the 
back seats are heading forward. The driver is sitting in the back seat.
The conversation would be more easy that way. The car doesn't have a 
steering wheel, but rather some kind of handle. The speed was low, so 
even if the driver was distracted by the conversation, it probably 
wouldn't matter anyway. 
     An old aunt of mine once told about when she and her sisters learned
to drive in the early twenties. If I don't remember wrong, the car was a
Buick. She told that they sometimes had a little problem with keeping the
car on the right side of the road. Wasn't that dangerous in the traffic?, 
someone asked. There weren't any other cars, she answered.

Mickey Mystery
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If you have the chance, you should read the second story in Mickey Mystery
#12. It's out in Norway now. I think especially you involved in making 
stories for "Disney" would find this story (D93286) interesting. 



   Jorgen