Disney-comics digest #653.

[DAVID.A.GERSTEIN]

      Why is no one credited in Gladstone's edition of "Catman Vs. 
the Masked Marauder"?  I forgot to answer that.
      Egmont is extremely erratic about giving story information to 
Gladstone.  In the 1980s, there was actually a rule that they 
COULDN'T give it out, so when proofs to a given story came to 
Gladstone, jet-black ink would be blotting out the names of the 
writers and artists.
      In 1990, cooincidentally RIGHT when Disney took over from 
Gladstone, Egmont agreed to give out the names of writers and 
artists.  But in the earlier days, they did a very incomplete job;  
around 1991, there are still a lot of stories that appear without 
credits because Egmont couldn't offer them.
      From 1992 to 1993, Egmont was very good at giving credits to 
Disney Comics-Burbank, so complete ones usually appeared.
      But starting in early 1994, they began doing a very poor job at 
supplying Gladstone with credits.  Sometimes Gladstone will have the 
old problem of a story arriving with the artist's name blotted out 
again, although there's no rule that this must be done now.
      "Catman" was one such case, apparently.  Jose Colomer Fonts' 
art is very similar to that of a certain Scalabroni, and unless 
Gladstone is supplied with credits they can't say for sure who did 
it.  (I had guessed it was Scalabroni, BTW.)  If I could find out 
something concrete -- such as Scalabroni being an inker at Colomer's 
studio -- I'd be very pleased.
      Still, now and then I'm surprised by how unwilling Gladstone is 
to guess who did a story.  "A Case of Too Much Money" (US 291) was 
clearly drawn by Vicar, but since it arrived at Gladstone without 
credits, it was printed without them, too.

      David Gerstein
      <9475609 at arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>