DCML Digest, Vol 4, Issue 32

[Katie Sullivan]

> ATTACHMENT part 3.2 message/rfc822 
> From: "KUR" <ggk at wp.pl>
> Subject: Qestion obout Back To The Klodike
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:47:56 +0200
> To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
> 
> Acording to wat I read in the Internet the orginal Carl Barks
> "Back to the
> Klondike" was 27 page long witch cut aut Flash back part of
> the story.
> I don't have old version of the story but the version I have
> is 30 page long
> and It have "Flash Back".
> But Flash Back is four page long sow it shoud be 31 page long.
> My Qestion is : Did in dis "longer version" some page was
> moved out of the
> story?
> 
> Yours
> Maciek


At the bottom of the 11th page, Scrooge says "Ha!  One thousand
dollars at compound interest!  Wait till I get my hands on that
old gal!"  In the original printing, the next panel on the next
page shows Donald coming in and saying, "Hey  I've been talking
to some old-timers!  They say Goldie left town years ago and
hasn't been seen since!"  All the flashback parts in between
those two panels were removed. A total of four pages of
flashback were missing.
Also, in the original printing, four other panels were missing
that now appear in reprints.
After Donald says "Goldie left town years ago and hasn't been
seen since," Scrooge yells, "Wouldn't you know it!  Somebody
owes you a billion dollars and they skip town every time!" 
In the original printing, the next four panels after that
were taken out.  They were lost until the early 1980s when the
huge collector's album "Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times" was
prepared.  The four flashback pages were still around, but those
four panels has been lost over the decades.  Barks re-drew them
from memory and it is these four recreated panels that appear in
current versions of the story.
The four panels I'm talking about are where Scrooge says, "Well,
the trip won't be a failure!  I can still go after my gold
cache!"  Then his nephews make sure he's been taking his
medicine, and walk away, leaving Scrooge with a distant
expression.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think those four
panels were just taken out to make room for advertising or for
some other layout reason.  There obviously wasn't anything to
censor in there.

Did that answer your question?  Probably not, come to think of
it.  Um...someone else know what could be going on there?  LOL


Katie (resident expert in everything to do with Goldie  ;-)

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