ghosts in Disney comics

[Wilmer Rivers]

Dwight Decker writes:
> The fine line that has to be walked in this instance is
> keeping the ghosts from helping Scrooge too much, so
> that he solves his problems by his own wits instead of
> relying too much on supernatural assistance

Ah, but that gets us back to the original source material, as discussed
on this group last year - namely Dicken's/Mickey's (take your pick)
"Christmas Carol".  Ghosts play a very large part in the life of
Ebeneezer/Scrooge!  I haven't seen LO$ # 5 yet - my comics store hasn't
received it, as of yesterday - but it would seem appropriate for ghosts
to make an appearance there, given that LO$ # 1 has a lot in common
with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow!  (Which is just another examples of
ghosts in Disney cartoons, if not in Bark's stories.)  As for the
fundamentalists who object to supernatural elements in Disney comics,
they should be forced to watch all the witch cartoons such as Snow White
and Sleeping Beauty, the fairy cartoons such as Peter Pan, the ghost
cartoons such as Night on Bald Mountain from Fantasia, ad infinitum.
Then, when they write their protest letters to the Powers That Be in
Disney, they won't single out the comic books as the root of all evil.
Anyway, these people probably regard the very concept of a talking
duck as blasphemy.

Wilmer Rivers