Almanako

[Dim I Nticoudis]

  There is mention of quiting Almanako because of low quality.I think the 
magazines only problem is that it republishes fairly new stories and as 
usual some of them are going to catch the readers' notice and others are 
going to be forgotten.Almanako is not Komix and it is not supposed to 
be.Stories like "The Ghost of the Great War" reprinted in the last issue are 
fairly good and memorable.
  Searching through some old issues of this magazine I found in issue 
83,January 1998 one 19-pages story whose plot sounds familiar but there is 
no mention of who is the story's creator or the time it was published.It was 
reprinted under a greek title which means "Nightmare in the Old West".The 
only known characters which appear in it are Magica De Spell,Ratface and 
Scrooge McDuck.In the story Magica dreams she returns back in time to the 
day Scrooge earns his first dime polishing shoes.The strange details of this 
storie is that Scrooge earns his first time as a very young kid,Huey's age 
or even younger,polishing a Wild West sheriff's boots in the goldminers' 
times.He has already emigrated to the U.S.A alone fore some time.Magica 
fails to obtain the dime and she wakes up.When I first found this story I 
didn't understand why she would go after a coin than is not in Scrooge's 
hand for decades and so it has no power at all.
  This story is just a dream but the plot reminds me od Don Rosa's much 
better "Of Ducks,and Dimes,and Destinies".Does anybody know which story this 
is?

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