Pied Piper

Olaf Solstrand harryklein at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 19 07:28:00 CEST 2002


>Bruce Hamilton at Gladstone Comics had those original first three
>penciled pages from Barks. He thought it would be interesting if I
>completed the story, so he gave me copies of those pages to trace
>and ink. I had no idea how Mr. Barks planned to end the story, but
>I think they told me that it was originally left uncompleted because
>Barks decided he "didn't feel like drawing all those pages of mice
>and children" -- so whatever the original ending was, it also
>involved lots of children doing something.

I don't know about you, but to me, this sounds like a funny gag to that 
Hameln-magic-flute-player-tale, where the flute player (flutist?) uses his 
magic flute to get all the rats out of Hameln, and when the town does not 
pay him, he starts playing his flute to get the children out of Hameln 
instead. After all, Gyro _was_ finding a way to get rid of rats (mice?) in 
this story, and he used the same technique as the flutist - he tricked the 
rats into following him - out of the city - to then blow up the bridge (I 
think the Hameln guy did this? There _must_ be someone here that knows this 
story better than me... what is that, is it Grimm?) I also get relations to 
this from the title, and from what Gyro was singing on page 3. That's a 
theory.


Olaf the Blue

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