Finnish weekly Aku Ankka 2001

[Simo Malinen]

Since the Finnish weekly Aku Ankka turned 50 years last year
I took a liberty to count some numbers:


THE FINNISH WEEKLY AKU ANKKA 2001:

52 basic issues in year 2001
- 47 issues having 36 pages
- 2 issues having 40 pages
- 2 issues having 52 pages
- 1 issue having 68 pages
(+ 2 issues having pages without pagenumbers (film panels and school time 
table - 12 pages total))

Extra issues
2001/45B = reprint of the 1st Finnish weekly from 1951
2001/50B = Atlantis (comic book version of the film)

All the numbers below are from the issues 1 - 52.
B -numbers are not counted:

PAGES ---------------
Total 1956 pages
- 52 covers (one having also back cover)
- 1642 pages of Disney comics
- 161.5 pages of ads.
- 12 pages of contests
- 42.5 pages of articles and text (including illustrations with the text)
- 26 pages of "celebration art" drawn by Finnish (non-Disney-comic) artists
- 1 page - a Don Rosa drawing from French Picsou Magazine
- 18 pages of various material (school timetable, Barks photo collection, 
film panels)


COVERS ---------------
47 covers from Holland (all published in Dutch weeklies 1997-2000)
- atleast 26 covers drawn by Michel Nadorp
- some one fourth was redrawn old Danish/Western/Italian etc. covers
3 covers drawn by Don Rosa
- one for the Danish weekly
- one for the German weekly
- one for the Finnish weekly
1 cover drawn by Kari Korhonen
1 cover viewing a photograph of Carl Barks
No covers drawn by Carl Barks himself (exept one that based a pencil sketch 
by Barks)

STORIES ---------------
Total 246.5 stories having 1642 pages of Disney comics.
(that one half from a story placed in issues 2000/52 - 2001/01)

ALL STORIES by the amount of pages:
73 stories having 1 page
13 stories having 2 pages
22 stories having 3-4 pages
23 stories having 5-6 pages
20 stories having 7-8 pages
37 stories having 9-10 pages
29 stories having 11-12 pages
14 stories having 13-14 pages
15 stories having 15 pages or more
(+ the mentioned 1 part of a 2-part story having 8 pages)

STORIES by the producer -------------------
120.5 stories 1123 pages D coded stories
39 stories 279 pages H coded stories
87 stories 240 pages other stories (W,F,KF,S)

D coded STORIES by the amount of pages:
11 stories having 1 page
3 stories having 2 pages
12 stories having 3-4 pages
11 stories having 5-6 pages
14 stories having 7-8 pages
19 stories having 9-10 pages
26 stories having 11-12 pages
10 stories having 13-14 pages
14 stories having 15 pages or more
(+ that 1 part of a 2-part story having 8 pages)

H coded STORIES:
0 stories having 1 page (!)
1 story having 2 pages
10 stories having 3-4 pages
10 stories having 5-6 pages
4 stories having 7-8 pages
10 stories having 9-10 pages
1 story having 11-12 pages
3 stories having 13-14 pages
0 stories having 15 pages or more

other STORIES (W,F,KF,S)
62 stories having 1 page
9 stories having 2 pages
0 stories having 3-4 pages
2 stories having 5-6 pages
2 stories having 7-8 pages
8 stories having 9-10 pages
2 stories having 11-12 pages
1 story having 13-14 pages
1 story having 15 pages or more


The UNIVERSE -------------------
stories:
Duck universe: 1336 pages 153.5 stories
Mouse universe: 254 pages 81 stories
Other: 52 pages 12 stories (Li'l Bad Wolf, Hiawatha, Mad Madam Mim)
(no crossovers)

(Mice without Manuel Gonzales and Floyd Gottfredson: 190 pages 25 stories)

covers:
42 covers having ducks
8 covers having mouse characters
4 covers having other characters (Li'l Bad Wolf,...)
(2 covers having both mices and ducks)


STORIES by the artists --------------------
264 pages 23 stories drawn by Vicar
103.5 pages 17 stories drawn by Carl Barks
86 pages 6.5 stories drawn by Marco Rota
82 pages 8 stories drawn by William Van Horn
72.5 pages 7 stories drawn by Daan Jippes
72 pages 6 stories drawn by Ferioli
70 pages 5 stories drawn by Colomer
68 pages 4 stories drawn by Don Rosa
56 pages 5 stories drawn by Massaroli
55 pages 7 stories drawn by Nunez
54 pages 4 stories drawn by Rodriques
52 pages 6 stories drawn by Bernado
47 pages 47 stories drawn by Manuel Gonzales
45 pages 3 stories drawn by Gattino
41 pages 6 stories drawn by Freddy Milton
41 pages 3 stories drawn by Branca
32 pages 5 stories drawn by Bas Heymans
32 pages 3 stories drawn by Esteban
30 pages 3 stories drawn by Kari Korhonen
29 pages 2 stories drawn by Romano Scarpa
25 pages 5 stories drawn by Millet
25 pages 5 stories drawn by David
21 pages 4 stories drawn by Mau Heymans
20 pages 9 stories drawn by Marsal
18 pages 3 stories drawn by Manrique
17 pages 9 stories drawn by Floyd Gottfredson
194 pages 41 stories drawn by others

--
(9 pages 1 story drawn by Noel Van Horn)
(0 pages 0 stories drawn by Paul Murry)


SERIAL STORIES ---------------
(= long stories splitted in 2 - 3 parts for different issues)

11 full stories having 23 parts 207 pages,
+ 1 part of a 2-part story (8 pages dranw by Marco Rota)

Duck universe: 8.5 stories
Mouse universe: 3 stories

2 drawn by Gattino
2 drawn by Rodriques (mouse)
1 drawn by Ferioli (mouse)
1 drawn by Branca
1 drawn by Don Rosa
1 drawn by Colomer
1 drawn by Massaroli
1 drawn by Vicar
1 drawn by William Van Horn
0.5 drawn by Marco Rota

PRICES -----------------------
52 issues

If you bought them one by one from newstands:
costed 88.90 EUR = 528 FIM for 52 issues 2001

If you subscribed them:
costed 70.50 EUR = 419 FIM for 52 issues 2001


SUMMARY =======================

The amount of comics pages was lowest since 1996. If looking at previous 
years:

comics total: (no covers, B -issues not counted)
1996: 1564.5 pages (32 pages per issue)
1997: 1708.5 pages (36 pages per issue)
1998: 1702.5 pages
1999: 1674 pages
2000: 1643 pages
2001: 1642 pages


With the stories having one page only the very best years seems to be 
behind.

Stories having 0 - 1 pages: (B -issues not counted)
1996: 19 stories
1997: 71 stories
1998: 106 stories
1999: 97 stories
2000: 82 stories
2001: 73 stories


The same goes with serial stories.
(= long stories splitted in 2 - 3 parts for different issues)
1996: 52 parts 415 pages 23 full stories (+ parts)
1997: 46 parts 374 pages 21 full stories (+ parts)
1998: 43 parts 376 pages 20 full stories
1999: 30 parts 270 pages 15 full stories (+ parts)
2000: 24 parts 228 pages 11 full stories (+ parts)
2001: 24 parts 215 pages 11 full stories (+ parts)


With Carl Barks stories 2001 was an average year for Aku Ankka magazine.
The year 1999 was the rock bottom since 1951.

Barks stories in Aku Ankka: (B -issues not counted)
1996: 12 stories 121 pages
1997: 13 stories 88 pages
1998: 24 stories 93 pages
1999: 5 stories 39 pages
2000: 10 stories 111 pages
2001: 17 stories 103.5 pages


Somehow Aku Ankka magazine has turned to a pure duck magazine;
Mouse stories have vanished. In 2001 Finnish weekly had 28 issues
having no other mouse stories but 1-2 pager Manuel Gonzales and
Floyd Gottfredson sunday pages. Eight issues had no mouse stories
at all.

During the spring time there was a period when issues 2001/12 - 18 had:
- Duck stories 216 pages
- Mouse stories 7 pages
- and one Mad Madam Mim story 2 pages


And still this lost of mouse stories would not be necessary.
Basicly the Finnish weekly is compiled by the same material
as Egmont weeklies (mostly)

If looking at the Swedish Egmont weekly in 2001 they had five
new 10 pagers drawn by Ferioli and six new 10 pagers drawn by
Noel Van Horn *MORE* than the Finnish weekly had (all mouse
stories). Both artists are the most exelent talents and still
the Finnish editors decided not to use their artwork. Why?
And since the Finnish monthly extra is nowadays compiled by
Dutch stories only we'll never see those great mouse stories
here. Great!

Of course also duck stories were "cutted away" like atleast two
12 pagers drawn by Vicar. But the Swedish weekly Kalle Anka & Co
had some 1000 pages more comics than Finnish weekly...

The new Romano Scarpa story in Egmont weekly 2001/51 was placed
to the Finnish monthly extra. Only for few people to see. As a
Finn it's exciting to see do the Finnish weekly bother to publish
the second new Romano Scarpa story that was in the Swedish
weekly 2002/01 - it's a mouse story too!

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No "Helsinki Media" texts visible anymore. Aku Ankka 1/2002 was
published by "Sanoma Magazines Finland Oy".


- Simo


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