On Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse Strips

[Dreidreizehn Comicart & Disneyana]

> Cord Wiljes said:
> Yes, but this edition was printed without a licence, I believe.<

This limited edition was printed with a Disney license about 20 years ago in
Germany. Unfortunately the small printing run of only 300 copies made it
expensive over the years on the secondary market. I don't think that there
will be a better edition coming with the help of Disney. Hard to believe,
but Disney's art department bought a set of this for themselves about two
years ago to get a complete run of Mickey Mouse dailies from this period.
They neither have the originals nor Xeroxes of them, so that this edition
might be the only one for the next time. A chance could be to find a
collector of the daily strips cut out from newspapers. At ebay from time to
time a complete month with about 26 strips is offered in the range of 10
USD. So a comparable collection containing 25 years will cost about 7,800
USD! I try to collect for myself all the Donald dailies and Sunday pages,
let me tell you that I have spent a lot of money during that time. And if
ever a collection will be completed, I don't think that Disney will license
them again. The WWII-strips were full of flog'n'force.