A curious "error" by WDC Italia

[matteo sonz]

A funny note:
Walt Disney Company Italia published this month a story twice, in two
different monthly periodicals...

The story is D99016 "The flying Mallard" (with HDL, DD and Sonny Seagull)
created by Martin/Branca, and it's printed in "Zio Paperone"
#164 (may 2003)  *** and *** in "Mega3000" # 557 (again, may 2003!).
The strange thing is that the story is presented with a 4-tier layout in
"Zio Paperone" and with a 3-tier in "Mega3000" (which is a digest size
comic), with different titles, letterings and traductions!
The story has been choosen, translated, coloured and finally published in
the same building (I suppose) by the two different staffs which edit the two
publications, both completely unaware of the existence of the "other"
version!
Such a lack of communication is really unusual.
WDC takes care not to publish the same story twice in at least 5-6 years
(excluding some special stories of particular importance)
... but here the time interval has dramatically lowered!!

only one word: amusing!!