From RoC

Wed Sep 7 10:20:51 CEST 1994

This is an updated version of a letter Lasse swears was sent last week:

 Don't sign anything, before you've read it!
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 A paragraph in my latest letter appeared like this:
>  Though Barks knew that his stories would be read all around the world,
> references to American geography, culture and history are legio.
> Especially the Midwest
 As I write my letters over days or even weeks - inserting, deleting,
and rearranging - they go through various stages of finishity.
Occasionally work-in-progress will be rescheduled for next time, in
order to let my brother Lasse start the presses.
 I'll leave it to you to name 50 or more examples from Barks' work
with references to cowboys and indians.

 Don:
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> I can't recall now who [...] supplied me with an UNCLE $CROOGE #179
> [...] Also, %$#&@^% it, but I seem to be missing an UNCLE $CROOGE
> #180, so I still don't have a set!
 Sorry to hear about U$ #180, I was kinda hopin' I'd go down in history
as 'The Man Who Completed Don Rosa's Uncle $crooge Collection':)

 Mickey Mouse is fun
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 Harry:
> Gladstone announces a "Danish" Mickey story by Erickson and Ferioli, for
> one of the issues of "Donald and Mickey". I'm sure Ole and David will like
> this...
 I sure do, if it is the same 24 pager in-3-issues in recent Nordic issues,
that Mikko credited to Verhagen... small spoiler !alert!:
This first of the "new" MM stories takes Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy to an
uncharted island in the Bermuda-Shorts-Triangle, where they encounter
an alien spaceship, a boa constrictor, Pegleg Pete & his pirates, and an
'alternate' Mickey and Minnie, while Goofy plays cards with a couple of
his favorite cartoon heroes - a stuffed donkey (Eeyore), a bear (Humphrey?)
and an unidentified fish - and loses heavily.

 The Complete (in-the-disney-comics-sense-of-that-word) Moe Checklist:
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 code   pages  AA-DK    title

X 8191   10   27/69   'DD and Moe the Hermit'
 John Hancock wanted.
??????   12   33/69   'CF: Unauthorized Real Estate Agent'
 Fethry sells $crooge Moe's... dog?
X 8144    7   39/69   'Eat at Moe's'
 Fethry promotes the backward restaurant surprisingly well.
X 1048   11   42/69   'DD - a Peaceful Fishing Trip!'
 Only a minor role for Moe here. (Drawn by Paul Arens)
X 8139    9   46/69   'DD - a Fast Deal'
 U$ tries to buy antiquities from Moe.
X 8055    6    3/71   'Folksingin' and hog-callin''
 Anders: "[...] this is the one to go for." Oink. I second that.
S 1055    7    8/74   'The green-beaked woodchopper'
 Moe photographs a rare bird for HDL, and becomes honorary JW.
S 74146   6    8/76   'The Chicken-thief'
 Moe's old friend, an escaped convict, hides at Moe's place.

All stories drawn by Tony Strobl, except where otherwise stated.

 The Quintessential Fethry (more boring codes)
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 David:
>         Someone just wrote a letter in DD #287 asking why Fethry didn't
> appear here.  They referred to him, however, as "Popop," the French name.
> In their reply, Gladstone ALSO called him Popop -- which must mean that no
> one there was able to even recollect seeing the character in English!
> (I've written a letter noting the two stories with him that I have seen in
> the U. S., also mentioning his real name.)
 The Fethry in DD #106 is very different in appearance from the later Fethry
as drawn by TS. The really good stories are however the ones drawn by Al
Hubbard around 1964.
 Try these: EXTRA 4024, 4033, 4051, 4079, 4120, 4130, and 6066...

 What's the capital of Ohio and other encyclollypopidal questions
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 Wilmer:
>        It was a LUNAR eclipse that Columbus predicted for the Jamaican
> natives, if that makes a difference.
 As lunar eclipses are fairly common - usually two or four a year - and
not as temporally or geographically limited as the solar counterpart,
it's not too improbable, or...  Wm. Hathaway, speak up.

 Tryg:
In Icelandic 'helseth' means 'dead clever' (or maybe 'lethally wounded'?)
At least that's what my Icelandic/Danish dictionary said. Sigurdur?