Extras

Anders Christian Sivebaek acsive at mail.mira.dk
Thu Aug 9 17:49:55 CEST 2001


Hi again (Skip this mail if the others bored you)

I want to talk about the extras. These are usually monthly or
bi-monthly. 

The danish one has been mentioned by me, here, sometimes now. It still
consists of 
some reprints, a non-published french Mickey-story and maybe a dutch
one. 
No fact-pages here. The other two scandinavian extras, known under the
name Mickey 
Mouse (whereas ours is just DD Extra) feature the same stories, with
another cover. - 
The cover for the danish extra may be a good thing - it's not a
gag-cover, but showing a 
scene from a story inside. 

Finns, tell us about the finnish extra, if there is one? Is it as the
scandinavian one?
(Scandinavia, from what I heard, is by finns considered to be Norway,
Sweden, and 
maybe Denmark, if we have a good day ;-) - Northern Europe includes us
all. 
The egmont countries btw, would not be including Finland, only
second-handedly, as the publisher
there is not a part of Egmont, just cooperating, like Holland, Greece
and Italy. 

The dutch one is special. It has Rosa-stories from time to time. Of
course, if the story
is a long story, they will use the parted version, as they are not
supposed too. - Nah, 
that's not fair. I remember hearing that it's very tough getting the
1-part versions from 
Egmont, if you don't ask for it several times. When not Rosa, other
Egmont-stories are 
in the magazine, which also has some two fact-pages in the end, telling
small facts and 
about nature. 

What have we here? - The german Extra, the Sonderheft, also titled,
best stories of Donald Duck. 
The lates issue had a Rosa-cover, a Rosa-story and all in all 4 pages
(two article-pages, two 
pages with an interview) with text on Rosa. On the german comicforum,
the editor himself tells that
one of the first issues next year will carry the Sharpie of Culebra Cut
by Rosa, as this was not found 
to fit for the younger readers of the MM. 
The Sonderheft started out in the 60'es btw, publishing then
Barks-stories, later Strobl and others, and
now Rosa, Barks and others seem to be the main element therein. 

The Picsou Mag. in France features many pages on movies, games and
such. Plus untill recently the pin-up by Rosa. Rosa and Barks-stories
are a main element of the comics therein, and proud articles has been
published the 3 times a Rosa-story done for France was inthere. Unlike
the dutch extra, the Picsou seems to be very thoroughly on getting the
right versions of the stories, though I think the 34th page of the
kalevala wasn't published there?

The Italian Zio Paperone mag, which means Uncle Scrooge, features cover
and backcover by Marco Rota, one of the big ones in Italian duck-art
(IMO). The comic publishes nice articles on the stories contained, and
on the artists. it has a letters page and comics by Rota, Barks, Rosa
and others. Even though I'm not able to actually read Italian, this is
a mag of which i'm proud to have 8 copies in my foreign collection. 

Greek Komix has become quite known here, because of the nice paper, the
covers, the stories and the articles. Though all contents are greek to
me, I would still like to have many Rosa-stories in this printing. 
Did it start out in the end of the 80'es or so? Even though I'm quite
sure of that, the first issue has already rweached wuite a value if you
can even find it at the second-hand-shops in eg. Athens. 



A. C. Sivebaek
acsive at mail.mira.dk




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