German Lo$

[Dan Rosenberg]

I'm a German immigrant to the US. I visit every year to see my family and a few years ago I obtained some graphic novel editions of Lo$. I did compare them to the Gladstone printings at the time (although not recently, and it's pretty late now and I'm gonna hit the hay soon) and found them to be pretty loyal to the original script. I can say now with certainty that none of the names for characters were "kiddified", just altered to fit the German language. As far as dates go, they were also accurate. Hope that helps somewhat. Ta-Dan R. 


Don Rosa:
>
> Say, are there any German Duckfans on here? Any that are willing to help me
> out?
> Ehapa (Germany) is planning a special presentation of my "Life of $crooge
> series... they are the only major Egmont company that did not go along with
> the Lo$ hardback of some years back, and they plan one now, an expanded
> edition including all of the extra chapters as well.
> What I need to be able to tell them is where the original German printings
> of those stories contained alterations of my original scripts. I have always
> been told in those days that the German editions of my stories were the most
> inaccurate, and I fear that all the dates in my Lo$ were changed or omitted
> and all of the names of actual people and places were changed to goofy names
> for kiddies and other elements may have been altered. Now Egmont/Ehapa has
> agreed to allow me to have more editorial control over how my work is
> presented, which would include guaranteeing that all presentations of my
> scripts are accurate, but I need help in this regard since Ehapa will
> probably reuse the same German scripts they used previously.
> All I can know for sure is that the accurate version was printed by
> Gladstone (since those are the ones I can read, and I supplied them with the
> original scripts directly). Is it at all possible that anyone here can do
> some comparisons between the German version (in the weekly or the Rosa
> albums) and the Gladstone version, at least where names and dates are
> mentioned? It would be a big help. Maybe I could get a free copy of the book
> for whoever can help.
> 
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