Disney-comics digest #653.

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      HARRY:
      So you liked "Catman Vs. The Masked Marauder!" Thanks a lot for 
the praise.  I liked translating that one more than nearly any other 
foreign story I've ever "Americanized."  And I guess it showed.
      One odd thing I've realized is that the Rosa in-joke that I added 
refers to a story that was published AFTER "Catman" originally appeared 
in Europe!  I guess you could say I "ret-conned" "Catman" -- uh, oh, 
superhero terms here, but I guess it's only appropriate.  

      One of the results of the 64-page comics vanishing for now may be 
that Romano Scarpa's famous "Colossus of the Nile" might not appear 
until summer '96 (I'm not sure).  Fabio and I made it into a real 
show-stopper in English.  But it may be some time until you see it.
      Oh, well, Scarpa's had a lot of exposure lately, anyway.

      FABIO:  
      I will indeed send you a copy of the finished translation of 
"Colossus," but I am prevented from doing so by a post-office workers' 
strike which has gone on for a LONG time.  If you've sent me that NAFSK, 
Mattias, that's why I haven't mentioned it -- even if it's in Edinburgh 
now, I won't actually see it until the strike is over.  >Sigh!<  How I 
look forward to that...

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