Shrinking Tightwad, Delta Dimension and more!

[David Gerstein]

     Hey Victor (and Travis):

 >> I know that several panels were removed from the American version  
of The
 >> Incredible Shrinking Tightwad.
 >> But why did Disney allow it to be published all over Europe?
 >> Don't they have any power over Egmont?
 >> Will the whole story ever be reprinted in USA?
 >
 > Funny you should ask... I believe you might be interested in  
reserving a
 > copy of Uncle Scrooge #359! ;)
 >
 > Here's a link to Amazon's page for it: <*http://tinyurl.com/qaydv*  
 > And
 > yes, it will have the original panels restored! As to why they  
were removed
 > in the first place... Mr. Gerstein, care to take a stab at it?

     Sure thing, Mr. Seitler!

     The Disney staffers who approved the Gladstone publications in  
1997 considered a few gags in the story to be too "unsanitary" for  
younger readers. It's quite a stretch; we're talking about mild  
business such as a Beagle Boy keeping prunes in his pocket.  
Nevertheless, Gladstone had no choice but to delete the sequences at  
the time.
     Flash forward nine years. A different group of Disney staffers  
now approves the modern Gemstone comics; and while they do ask us to  
alter certain stories, they quite sensibly see no problem with the  
complete version of "Shrinking Tightwad." Readers have been  
requesting it for one eternity, so here's our chance to give it to you.
     As for whether Disney has any control over Egmont: American  
Disney publications and European Disney publications have  
historically been approved by *different* groups of staffers within  
Disney, with differing editorial tastes. So often one thing is  
permitted in one publishing region and not in another.

     "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad" isn't the only story we're  
publishing due to reader requests, by the way. Our recent reprint of  
Carl Barks' "Daringly Different" came as a response to Elaine  
Ramshaw. This month, Floyd Gottfredson's "Love Trouble" begins in  
WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES 670, thanks to requests from Thad  
Komorowski and Jonathan Gray.
     I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, also, that we're just two  
months away from the epic Romano Scarpa story that *everybody* asks  
for. More than 70 pages long, "Mickey Mouse in the Delta Dimension"  
will be appearing in full in MICKEY MOUSE ADVENTURES 11. It's a  
sequel to "Island in the Sky," Floyd Gottfredson's personal favorite  
among his Mickey stories, and I like to imagine that Floyd would  
consider it deserving of that special status. I do.

     Hmm, how about that Amazon link, Dr. Einmug?
     Thanks! Here we go: http://tinyurl.com/p2yzr

     Best, David