Scrooge in Holland (Lo$ 11)

H.W. Fluks fluks at pcssdc.pttnwb.nl
Wed Sep 6 09:27:35 CEST 1995


The new Dutch Donald Duck Extra was in the shops yesterday, containing Don's
Life of Scrooge chapter 11! This gave me a very enjoyable evening.
I think I don't need to talk more about whether or not I liked the story.
A few remarks:

- I made a quiz (in Dutch) about this story. The task is to find as much
references to Barks stories as possible. One condition in this quiz is,
not to ask any question to Don about it. (When will the Gladstone comic
be in the shops, containing all the answers of my quiz?)

- I guess the colouring is the standard Egmont colouring. The maps have very
strange colours (Saudi Arabia appears to be flooded, for instance).

- The Dutch used the 3-part version: pages 9 and 17 have a big splash panel.
Page 9 has no caption, though.

- Scrooge saw some VERY strange wind mills in Holland! I have never seen
mills like this before...
In the Dutch translation, the newspaper in the same panel is the
"Haarlemsche Courant" ("Newspaper of Haarlem"). Haarlem is the city where
GP (and Oberon) used to reside for many years. Only recently they moved
to Amsterdam.

- Don, did you *have* to include the Gilded Man? Why include references to
DONALD stories, where Scrooge was never involved? Or was this an idea of
the editor, just like the square egg reference in chapter 3?

- Donald kicking Scrooge on page 23 was a nice touch. Literally.

--Harry.



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