King $crooge the First

[DAVID.A.GERSTEIN]

      HARRY:  Gladstone commissioned Ulrich's "King Scrooge" redraw 
themselves, in 1988.  He did the job and sent it to them.  They liked 
it, but decided to send it back to him for a few changes.  Before 
they did so, they paid him for half a page, then Xeroxed the half-page
(and it ALONE!) for use in a CBL article they were then preparing.  
They then sent back to him all other material he'd sent them.
      At this point, Schroder became disappointed with the story as a 
whole, so much so that he decided he didn't want it to be published.  
He told Gladstone he had destroyed the pages (!)
      This information appeared in UNCLE SCROOGE 255 in response to a 
letter I had written to Bob Foster.  I asked naively why if Gladstone 
never published the thing, why Disney couldn't?  And that was the 
response.  John has since confirmed it as correct.
      John and I can't really believe that the guy actually destroyed 
his work, but in any event, the situation's in a stalemate now.  How 
do you tell an artist, "We don't believe you destroyed the pages.  
Can't you send them to us, huh?"
      All we may ever see of that story is the four panels in CBL Set 
V.  Unless Daan Jippes gives it a shot.

      David Gerstein
      <9475609 at arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>