Donald Duc & Co # 47 1999

["Jørgen Andreas Bangor"]

Donald Duck & Co # 47 1999

The front cover is a Dutch one. Donald is sitting on a wooden box on 
the ice, with ice skates on his feets. He's bought a cup of hot 
chocolate, which he has put down on the ice. He looks surprised at it - 
and his nephews and the man who sold it are laughing at him - when the 
cup is melting its way through the ice.

This issue opens with a story about the stone age girl Gneis (D 99017, 
12 pages), this time written by Janet Gilbert, and drawn by Vicar. This 
girl has appeared in a few stories now, all the other being - as far as 
I remember - written by Stefan Printz-Påhlson.

In this story she's as usual in love with Donald - a feeling that is not
quite returned. Another person falls in love with Gneis, though - a 
person from the future. He travels back in time, and then makes every 
effort to make the girl become interested in him. Gneis is not a very 
sophisticated girl, so giving her flowers is quite in vain. She eats 
them. Another few attempts fail as well, but then, rather by  mistake, 
the man from the future does something that attracts her. And then 
someone's girlfriend from the future appears. It all ends with a happy 
couple travelling back to the future, and Donald being bothered with 
Gneis again, as usual.

Story number two is a Dutch one (H 91121, 4 pages). This has been a 
pattern for a while now, that there usually is one Dutch story in every 
issue. This one is written by Ruud Straatman, and drawn by Jose Colomer 
Fonts.

Donalds nephews are angry at him since he doesn't understand the kind of 
music they like, and turns off the TV when a music program is starting. 
They think he's too old to enjoy it. Gyro Gearloose comes by, and saves 
them with giving them a chemical which makes people act like they're 
younger than they are. The nephews spray Donald back to puberty, and he 
starts to dance wildly around the living room. By accident he gets a lot 
more of the chemical sprayed on him, and suddenly he's much more 
interested in cartoons than pop music. But then, soon after, the cartoon 
makes him scared. He's becoming younger and younger. Shortly after, he 
loses the ability to talk, and is acting like a baby. The nephews are now 
too old to see the same programs as their uncle. Gyro comes by again, 
and tells them that this baby condition will only last for a week...

I liked this story. I only wonder about one thing; since Donald is looking 
like his old himself, but acting like a baby, how would he have acted if 
he'd gotten just a little more of the chemical - enough to bring him back 
to the egg state?

Story number three is a one page Mickey story (D 98086), with a mystery 
the reader is supposed to solve. No credits given. This kind of story 
have also become a usual feature of the weekly Duck magazine. Earlier 
they were mostly F-coded (French), but nowadays they all have D-codes 
(Egmont).

Story number four is a Mickey Mouse story (D 99014, 10 pages) written by 
Pat and Carol McGreal, and drawn by Ferioli. This is story number two 
about the stones. The McGreal couple must be writing a lot, BTW. Their 
stories seem to appear very often.