Komix #154

[Kriton Kyrimis]

Here's what's in this month's issue of Komix:

* Cover by Don Gun (sp?). I have put a scan in
  http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis/pics/komix154.jpg
* A two-page letters column, half of which is taken over by what is
  probably an April Fools' day hoax, a slightly flawed letter advocating
  writing Greek using only capital Roman characters. In the introduction
  to the letters column they even suggest putting this issue in our money
  bin, for reasons that will be disclosed in the next issue!  There is
  also a correction regarding Don's interview in issue #150, where it
  appeared that Don  said that Barks did not like love comics. They now
  admit that they mistranslated "comic books" as "comics".  You'll have
  to wait for the full translation till next month.
* A two page "news of Komix" column. Notable items: the publication of the
  latest chapter of the Life and Times in Picsou Magazine #349, and the
  negotiations between Komix and Sergio Aragones to have his latest
  stories printed. (I wonder if the latter is a second April Fools'
  day hoax.)
* Don's "Of Ducks, Dimes and Destinies". Their translation seems to
  be based on Don's original script, and not on the Gladstone version,
  where they made a few modifications in the page before last.  The Greek
  title of the story means something like "a 0.10 drachma coin's worth of
  youth", which is a direct reference to a Greek movie of the early 1960s,
  titled "a 0.05 drachma coin's worth of youth". (This was a comedy, not
  the classic film based on the Faust legend, which I may have mentioned
  elsewhere. In any case, they can't go wrong by using a film reference
  in the title, even if it is to a film that Don has never seen.)
* A two-page article titled "unknown pages, new adventures", subtitled
  "the life and times of Scrooge McDuck: the lost episodes". According
  to this article, they will be printing five of the "lost episodes",
  one every two months, in chronological order: "Of Ducks, Dimes and
  Destinies", "The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark", the "Pizen Bluff"
  story whose title I can't remember off-hand, "The Dutchman's Secret",
  and "Hearts of the Yukon". There is no mention of the Panama story,
  about which they talk in their news column. (Or is it one of the
  above five?)
* "Mickey and the Beanstalk" (MMOS 157), drawn by Harvey Eisenberg.
* A one-page article titled "Mickey in the land of fairy tales", subtitled
  "from the big screen to comic panels".

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
	      	(WWW:    http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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