Don's comments on the 'don-rosa' index

[Harry Fluks]

Don:
> 	MARK SEMICH is asking why Gladstone is not using my stories.
> Harry had it right -- ALL my unreprinted Euro stories are in my "Life
> and Times of $crooge McDuck" series; Gladstone wants to print them
> straight through, one in each issue of UNCLE $CROOGE

Will this mean only six stories a year? So we'll have to wait more than two
years to get the Life of Scrooge complete (in English)?

> 	I finally looked through the "Rosa Index" that's in the Library
> on this service. I can make only teeny-tiny comments, but I'll go ahead
> and do so since such has been requested:

Thank you very much Don!

> 	"The Pied Piper of Duckburg" pages 1-3 were also PENCILLED by
> Barks, not just written. 

Yeah... Per and I discussed this once, and I proposed to consider the 
pencils as part of the script (just like Barks' Junior Woodchuck stories),
so mea culpa.

> 	Somebody was pretty sharp to notice that there were some panels
> "mirrored" in Disney's use of "Super Snooper Strikes Again". I almost
> didn't notice it myself. I still don't know why they did it.

The index said that the *Danish* version had mirrored panels. But that's
the original, then?

> 	How did someone know the original title of part 6? (I probably
> mentioned it, eh?) We might use that for Gladstone. Which sounds better?

For me as a non-American the title "The prey of the Transvaal viper" sounds
much more interesting than "The terror of the Transvaal"...

> 	In the COVER section: I see two listings for covers for "The
> Money Pit". Does someone think there were two different versions? 

I just named the cover of the Scrooge&Donald album after the story it was
inspired on (so I didn't have to think about how to describe the cover...)

> No,
> the first time Disney used it they mucked about with it a bit, but when
> it was used in that $9 album they printed it the way I drew it.

I didn't know there was a difference!

> 	The covers for the WALT DISNEY'S COMICS IN COLOR series? 

BTW: I still think these are the worst artwork you have ever done. I saw the
Beagle Boy cover once, and it made the comic album very unattractive.
(Hope you can stand the criticism 8-)

> 	A question: my money-bin cover for the recent U$ #281 is listed
> as "the rainbow factor". What's that mean???

I think that's the name of the lead story of the comic (?) It should be
corrected.

> 	I've done other illustrations of the Ducks for fanzines over the
> past 20+ years... it would take me a long time to try to figure out
> where and when. 

Well, it's the artist's task to draw them, it's the fan's task to trace
them and put them in a list 8-).

Somewhere in the near future, all your remarks will be incorporated in
a new, better version of the 'don-rosa' file! (Right, Per? 8-)

--Harry.