Donald dailies in DD 284.

[David A Gerstein]

	Dear Folks,

	Mark Semich said that the Donald newspaper strips in DD 284
seemed to be dailies... sounds like they must have gotten through the
Sunday strip in DD 283 then, unless there are a few Sundays opening up
DD 284's Taliaferro section.

	He also mentioned a few gaps in dates.  Maybe Disney has
banned some strips... but most probably those gaps are where there
were SUNDAYS!  (Not Sundays with a DD strip printed, since there was
no Sunday strip in 1938.)

	As of 1990, the only banned Taliaferro strips from 1938 were a
full week or two where Donald was at an Indian reservation.  I hope no
more have been banned since then... but it seems as if SOMEONE has
been looking through the strips for something to ban, because since
1988 the 10/17/37 strip with the first app. of the Nephews has been
banned.

	And BTW, I remembered wrongly that the dailies began in Jan.
'38.  We'll know if these are the first dailies if the first week
includes:

	A)  Donald feeding seals at the circus (accidentally)
	B)  Donald climbing a mountain
	C)  Donald trying to hang a picture and failing.

	I believe those are the first three.  I know of another one
that belongs in the first week:

	D)  Donald takes a bath in the sidecar of a police motorcycle,
after filling it with water, only to end up in jail.

	This seems like prime banning material, but Disney didn't used
to have it banned (Gladstone did run it circa 1989), and they've let a
lot of strips run in recent DDs where Donald ended in jail.  Is this
among the reprints this issue?

	That's all for now.

	David Gerstein
	<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>