Latin American Donald Duck comics?

Clueless in Seattle clueless.in.seattle at mailandnew.com
Mon Mar 5 00:05:40 CET 2001


	Nearly a decade ago I bailed out of Seattle and moved to Mexico for the
winter and enrolled in Spanish language school.  One day as I was
browsing a newstand for something easy to read in Spanish I saw some
plastic bags containing comics.  Each bag containined three back issues
of the Spanish Donald Duck comic "Pato Donald."  These turned out to be
perfectly suited for practicing my rudimentary Spanish reading skills. 
And the fact that each bag contained a random set three different Pato
Donald back issues excited my latent collecting instinct, so soon I was
scouring the city for more baggies of duck comics.  

	Trouble was; I apparently got in at the end of the game, because I soon
was coming up empty handed  at all the newstands.  I asked around about
used comics stores, and actually found one.  But the fellow who ran it
looked at me queerly when I asked for Pato Donald.  All he had were
stacks and stacks of aging Mexican soap opera like comics that used
photographs with speech baloons to tell "adult" stories.

	Every now and then I take out my old Pato Donald's and wish I could
figure out where to look for the missing numbers in my collection.

	I'd be grateful for any leads or clues.

	P.S.  I'm brand new to the list (Richard Bellacera suggested I
subscribe when I queried him about the Mexican Donald Ducks) so I guess
I should introduce myself.  I got my first taste of Duck Tales when I
was a kid in the 40's and some older friends had a copy of the one where
they go off to the Andes or some such place and find those chickens that
laid the cubical eggs.  I couldn't stop thinking about those eggs and
wondering what they tasted like.  It seemed so real to me then.

	In "real life" I go by Will, but in cyberspace they call me Clueless. 
It probably won't take you long to figure out why  :)



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