Pocket Books: do you remember?

[DGE@ECN.egmont.com]

	Hey Vic!

>I seem to remember that on one occasion
>she brought a similar pocket size Disney comic, but
>actually in English...translations of  European Disney
>strips...she bought three or four of them...they
>looked new...I believe she might have bought them in
>Woolworths...
>
>Of course, over the years, the comics vanished....
>
>Does anyone else remember these comics? I'd sure like
>to find them again....a failed experiment, maybe?

	You got it.
	The comic you remember is the "Donald Duck Fun Library," a 100-page
pocketbook published in Britain in the late 1970s. It was the British
equivalent to the Scandinavian Onkel Joakim/Onkel Skrue, which is published
to this day (and to the German Donald Duck, which stopped a couple of years
ago). I have never seen one of these for sale on the open market, even when
I lived in the UK, but we do have bound-together file copies here at Egmont,
so I know we published it.
	In 1981, there were also thicker Disney comics in Britain when two
(?) issues of "Jumbo Book" were published. They are 256-page pocketbooks,
equivalent to the Danish Jumbobog and German Lustiges Taschenbuch (among
others). I guess these weren't a success - pity, as one of the two contains
some of Scarpa's *very* best stories.

	David