Disney-Digest 682.

[Peter Coenen]

ALL:
I`ve already posted this to the list when I was new, but it
seems that there are many people newer than me now, so I send
this one more time to avoid misunderstandings. I am not
connected to the Internet, but the research center my father
works for is. When he saw that there is a list about Disney
comics he subcribed for ME- under his name, so
you read "Peter" in the "From"-line of my mails, but it`s me
(Danny) whose mails you read in this list. So it`s still Danny-
not Peter!!! During the next days he`ll subscribe new, this
time with my name, so there won`t be any problems in the future.
Thank`s!

DANIEL:
> What questions would you ask [Carl Barks]? Me, I don`t know >
what I would have asked him.

Well, I`d have a couple of questions to him, for example am I
interested in his opinion about Don`s work, especially the Lo$.

>> I`d give anything to get one line of him or speak to him for >>
only a minute!!!
> Would you?

Hey, I`m a fan! Of course I would love to meet him, and I think
everybody on this list would like to, too.

> Did you know that Barks also made a script for a Scrooge
> cartoon, back in the fifties?

No, that`s new for me. I`ve never heared something about that.

MIKE:
> At least you`re younger than me, but only for 12 days... but
> even that is nothing compared to this new guy, Adam (13!)

At least I have been the youngest some time ago. (P.S.: Welcome,
Adam!)

> You can`t just expect a Disney family comics to show the death of
> a main character.

Well, I was quite a bit surprised when I heared that Don made
Scrooge died in 1967, because he first is no human being, and
it might be that these Ducks live far longer than we do.
Second he looked quite well in 1966 in the last Barks comics ;-) What
I wanted to know was just if there ever was a hint, comparable to the
situation in Don`s Lo$ when Scrooge heared about his mother`s dead or
the scene of his father "beeing invited to
get to know the old McDucks". I didn`t expect a hole story about it.
I think Disney never would have allowed something like that.

HARRY:
> Don Rosa has Scrooge born in 1867. So he can`t be living way after
> 1967, or he would be very old.

I don`t know if that`s the reason. Grandma Duck, for example, would
have been 117 years old when you`d say she died in the
same year as Scrooge did, and I think that she was alive until then,
at least till the very late Barksian time. I wonder why Don didn`t
make her died on a special date... Does anyone know when she appeared
last in a Barks story?

>This is, of course, Don Rosa`s view of the Duck-world.

Sure it is, and mine is similar and I don`t believe that Scrooge is
still alive *today*. I was just wondering about this special date.

ERIK:
>Does anyone know who Huey, Dewey and Louie`s father is?

As far as I know he has never been mentioned in any story.
Their mother in the Barks universe is called Thelma Duck,
in the cartoon "Donald`s Nephews" she was named "Dumbella"
and Don calls her "Della Duck".

Danny Coenen
f.coenen at kfa-juelich.de