Disney-comics digest #576.

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      DON:
      "Where did those words/sounds [Jackie Gleason's "Homina! Homina!"] 
actually appear in print [in a duck story]?"
      In LO$ 2, right after Scrooge first sees the sawyer shooting 
upward.  And there's been at least one other instance, too.  DD said it 
upon being surprised by a Beagle Boy in my "Return to Morgan's Island," 
and I was told to change it to something else.  It became "Oh, me!" (in 
very small, shaky letters).

      JON:
      "...that donkey that Al used in many strips..."
      This is actually a burro, named Basil.  The 1937 cartoon "Don 
Donald" introduced this burro -- in his only screen appearance -- as 
well as DD's 313 roadster, and AT began using both in the strip 
promptly.  Note:  313 does not have a license plate in the cartoon;  it 
has a crank where the license plate should go, which is just how it 
looked in the comics at first.  Anyway, Disney (and now Gladstone) color 
that car EXACTLY as it was colored in that cartoon.
      I don't believe that 313 appeared in any other cartoon.

      FABIO (and others):
      Sad to say, Disney has banned all other Federico Pedrocchi 1930s 
DD stories from American reprint now.  They consider the art too poor.  
It's a tremendous shame, as if this had not happened I would now be 
working on the second one, with Fabio's help (I hope!).  Maybe one day 
things will change.
      Are you there, by the way, Fabio?  Is everything okay with you 
these days?  I haven't heard from you in a LONG time...

      That's about it for now, gang.

      David Gerstein
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