disney-comics Packet for Gladstone?

[Torsten Wesley Adair]

Sure.  Include my remarks.

First, have them tell their readers about this group.  Per could probably
write a decent introduction.

Second, send them the digests, perhaps once a month, and only excise
anything pertaining to Don Rosa's remarks.  They might not read
everything, but they might reply to it in the letter columns.

Now, some questions:

1)	Does Gladstone intend to publish the current CB WDC&S series in
hardcover (perhaps three-four paperbacks in one hardcover?).

2)	Does Gladstone intend to offer a generic Disney slipcase for the
various graphic novels Gladstone and Disney have produced?  How about a
slipcase for the comic books?  (DC has done this for its comic book sized
paperbacks (Sandman and Lobo), they were designed for the paperbacks, but
they also hold the comic books.  I have purchased an empty Sandman
slipcase for my comic books.

3)	Why has Gladstone reprinted stories which recently were reprinted
in Disney Comics?  Gladstone's secret I have seen twice in the last year
(Gladstone reprinted it in their first month), and there was another one in
the past month or so.

4)	Why aren't Disney comics being sold in the Disney Stores?  
Why aren't Gladstone's graphic novels being sold in the Disney Stores?  
And what is Marvel doing with the newsstand sales?  Anything out of the
ordinary?  How about a Disney comics magazine, which would be placed and
sold in newsstands, instead of spinner racks?

5) Many publishers (WARP Graphics and Dark Horse) have discovered that a
laminated hardcover (similar to those on children's books) costs only $5
more than a glued paperback.  Has Gladstone considered this?  Would it be
cheaper to publish one laminated hardcover containing three issues of CBL
WDC&S instead of publishing three separate paperbacks? 

6)	Hamilton Comics is including stickers and two flip books (printed
in the corners like Big Little Books) in the upcoming Charles Barkley
graphic novel.  Does Gladstone have any plans for inserts?  Perhaps a
fold-out poster of the Duck Family Tree?  How about an atlas of the
travels of Uncle Scrooge?  Or fold-out posters of Don Rosa and Carl
Barks covers!  (Only in Uncle Scrooge, and maybe in WDC&S.)

7)	Does Gladstone plan to collect the Life of Scrooge after it has
appeared in the comic books, and in which manner?

8)	Has Gladstone tried to market itself to the Disneyana collectors?

9)	Any plans to tap comic book creators outside of Disney comics? 
Peter David has written Disney Comics in the past, and I'm certain that
Neil Gaiman would do an excellent job with Uncle Scrooge!  Are there
artists who could master the Barksian model?  

10)	Any chance of Don Rosa and William Van Horn getting complimentary
copies of their work?	[You might wish to excise this one David]

Torsten Adair	torsten at cwis.unomaha.edu	Omaha, NE, USA