AW: On Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse Strips

[Cord Wiljes]

It has been said that the complete edition of Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse
strips is expensive. Is this really so?

You can buy it for $ 900. each of the 26 volumes (1930-1955) has around
100 pages. each page has three strips with 5 panels each. So you get
2.600 pages at a page rate of 35 cent / page.

Let us compare this to

+ a current issue of "The Amazing Spider-Man":
22 pages for $ 2.25 => page rate = 10 cent / page

+ a volume of the current (beautiful) reprint series of "Krazy Kat":
116 pages for $ 14.95  => page rate = 13 cent / page

+ a current issue of Walt Disney's Comics:
60 pages for $ 6.95 => page rate = 12 cent / page

+ the original b/w Barks Library
8,000 pages für $ 1.300 => page rate = 16 cent / page

But each of these comics pages (with the exception of Krazy Kat) has
only 8 panels at most. So a Gottfredson page with three strips has the
content of two comic book pages. And considering the very condensed
daily format it has probably even more story value - especially compared
to Spider-Man ;-)

So it is not THAT expensive.

I am thinking about buying all existing copies and dropping all but one
into the Atlantic Ocean. My copy will be valuable beyond measure *g*

Cord