Bolivar (was Re: DCML Digest Issue 19)

[Tor Kinlok]

On Aug 20, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Don Rosa wrote:

>> From: "Franzon, Johan F I" <franzon at kouvola.helsinki.fi>
>> Subject: Bolivar
>> I was more intrigued by the sentence: "Bolivar - had
>> disappeared from the American stories before my sisters
>> starting saving the comics". But Bolivar did make a glorious
>> show of himself in 1951! What happened then?
>>
>
> Then my sister missed buying an issue. No reason was given for her  
> action. I
> would have complained, but at the time I was preoccupied in waiting  
> to be
> born. I tried to mention the matter the first chance I had, but  
> somehow my
> best efforts resulted in unintelligible gurgles and drools. (This  
> is the
> point at which a better man than me would put a little smiley-face  
> icon.)
>

Don, do I understand you correctly?  Are you saying that if you  
personally missed reading an issue as a child, then somehow that  
story never happened?  Going back and reading the story as an adult  
doesn't count, or doesn't make it "real?"

If so, that's a real shame, because having Bolivar just show up and  
tag along with HDL on one of $crooge's quests could be a lot of fun.   
In fact the more I think about, the more I am convinced that I've  
already read such a story by you?  But I must certainly be imagining  
things.

I certainly respect and admire your decision to create your own  
guidelines and tell your stories as you choose to tell them - but in  
this case, I also think that you're one of those little detail- 
obsessed continuity freaks like Marvel and DC is afflicted with :-)

- Tor