DCML digest #1250

[Don Rosa]

From: lgiver at postoffice.pacbell.net
Subject: Music in last panel of Rosa's "A Little Something Special"
>>>>The half-page final panel of "A Little Something Special" has a small
segment
of music which Scrooge is thinking about.  This is not a cartoon shetch of
a few notes, but seems a precise copy of a measure of a real song.

It's been a while now, but I think that I had John Clark add music from
"After the Ball is Over". I'll check my script notes and see if John
recalls.

From: "timo ronkainen" <timoro at hotmail.com>
>the Venusian space ships are more or less copies of the space ship that
>Linda and Valentin has.
>>>Which was more or less copied from old Bob Powell's comics Vic Torry from
1950's. Vic and his girlfriend had very similar saucer like vehicle which
they used to fly around solar system.

This will be the Jaw-Hits-Floor-Award early nominee for 2003!!! I don't know
the Disney story being referred to, but how could someone away off in
Finland know so much about VIC TORRY AND HIS FLYING SAUCER, a very obscure
American one-shot comic book published in the year 1950?!?! Only Italians
are such experts!  Has this comic been reprinted by somebody recently?
Surely you don't have a copy of the original!
Bob Powell is one of my favorites -- but any discussion of copying old
versions of Martian Invasion Machines *must* mention the definitive Tripod
Monsters in Lou Cameron's 1955 "War of the Worlds" issue of CLASSICS
ILLUSTRATED #124, one of my favorite comics of all time, an issue I
cherished as a child along with my Barks Ducks and Little Lulus! Lou Cameron
was one of the greatest comic artists of the 50's but gave it up to become a
best-selling author of western/cowboy novels in the 1960's-80's.
By the way, VIC TORRY AND HIS FLYING SAUCER was published by the Captain
Marvel people, Fawcett Comics... which means it was printed right here in
Louisville!