Marco Polo / Mike

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

BOB:

>> Treasure of Marco Polo: Dialogue censored. One panel changed,
>> Harry knows which one.

> Can you find out what panel was changed and What the replacement
> dialogue is?  Thanks.

David already told exactly in "Beakful of news" what art is changed. 
It is the second panel of page 16.

I don't know about the original dialogue, but there's one reference 
in an article in that same set of the CBL:

Part of the article: 

    Barks' primary emotion was indignation at the political chaos
    that could burden a country with "sixty rulers in six months".

A note under the article:

    This line is from the original dialoque of p. 591, panel 4, as
    printed by Western Publishing in 1966 and 1976. In accordance 
    with the current wishes of The Walt Disney Company, some dialogue 
    in the present edition has been revised to eliminate references to 
    rebellion and civil war.
    
We're talking about a line of the fourth panel of page 23. This note 
seems to be the only reference to censoring in the CBL.

Reading "Marco Polo" makes me ask how that story even got published 
back in 1966 and 1976. This story is like watching news about war on 
televsion... how did this story got past Western's desk?


MIKE:

> It's just that for some reason I've been feeling like talking 
> (writing) a lot lately. The length of my own messages surprises me 
> sometimes!  

Well, I really like your long writings. BTW. Is your Beagle Boys 
story longer than 4 pages? Does Egmont also publish longer stories of 
them? The Beagle Boys stories from Egmont published here in Holland 
are (almost?) always 4-page stories. Will Uncle Scrooge also be in 
your story? 


--- Daniel