Duck Literature Adaptations

[Rob Klein]

Regarding Mads Jensen's query over "Duck" versions of books and other 
literature:

I remember an US/DD 3 part Egmont story published in the early 1990s, which is 
an adapted version of "Most Dangerous Game", which was an early 1930s USA 
feature film, which was, in turn, based on a novel.  Also, Rosa's story ("King 
Scrooge the First"?), based on the British early 1950s film "Passport to 
Pimlico", was also (I believe)loosly based on a novel with a similar plot.  I 
think there are MANY, MANY more adaptations of novels, short stories, epic 
poems and filmscripts. I can't seem to remember any others offhand, but I seem 
to remember seeing some Italian versions, some other Egmont stories, a few 
French stories, and some US stories drawn by Jaime Diaz studio using Goofy and 
Mickey?  (The latter are, of course, not "Duck stories"-but I think are of 
interest to this question). I'll be curious to see what our members from the 
various Disney publishing countries add to answer this question. As a writer 
myself, I don't really regard such borrowing as "plagerism" or less creative.  
It is really having a love for great literature, and having an uncontrollable 
urge to see one's favourite comic funny animal characters play leading roles in 
those stories (to see what wonderful and funny things occur).  The author often 
doesn't know what will happen at first.  He/she is as interested to see what 
enfolds from the effort, as are his/her fan/readers. Barks wanted to see Donald 
pperform Shakespeare. He wanted to see Scrooge discover Shangri-la "Lost 
Horizens", etc. Gottfredson wanted to see Mickey experience the "Adventures of 
Robin Hood".

Rob
Klein

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