Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:"Everybody dash to the cellar! The MARTIANS are invading!" (which Barks story?)
Is it the sleepwalker story, in which Donald blames the nephews for eating out of the refridgerator?
Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:Nope.
Hint #1:
"Never mind, Unca Donald! You can make a new start here in LITTLE AMERICA!"
Robb_K wrote:Daniël: I think you should bring up your discussion of Barks' lost "Golden Apples" story art being "found", that you placed on The Carl Barkssection in McDrake's Dutch main forum.
Robb_K wrote:So, if the original story altered photocopied artwork can be "restored" to a useable condition, there should be no qualms about having 2 stories of very similar theme. They will be VERY DIFFERENT.
Egg wrote:Robb_K wrote:Daniël: I think you should bring up your discussion of Barks' lost "Golden Apples" story art being "found", that you placed on The Carl Barkssection in McDrake's Dutch main forum.
Egg cannot give much more information now, because it's Sunday now and all the offices are closed. Egg can only guess for now. Tomorrow, Monday, there might be absolute clarity about this. The original Barks artwork is said to be found in the heritage of an old-employee at Western, who took these (b/w) drawings (by Barks, Murry, Strobl and one unknown artist) with him for his children at home, to use it for their colouring enjoyment. As a result, most of the rescued art was damaged by the heavy felt-tipped colouring added by the children. This colouring had to be removed, but as a result some line-art details are washed away forever. (grunt)
The story will be exclusively published in a very expensive, heavy, limited edition Dutch collection. Egg thinks this grapevine news is hardly interesting for foreigners anyway, as the weight of the CBL-like collection makes it's practically impossible for foreigners to order it by post.Robb_K wrote:So, if the original story altered photocopied artwork can be "restored" to a useable condition, there should be no qualms about having 2 stories of very similar theme. They will be VERY DIFFERENT.
Yes, they are is said to be very different. Very different. Extremely different. But tell that to people who don't want two Duck stories with the same theme, no matter who wrote it. Jippes's version is first published, so Barks's version would be redundant now. (As with 'Race to the South Seas'.)
The original 1952 story is said to feature not only Donald and Daisy, but also Huey, Dewey, Louie, Scrooge, Gyro and some "Goldie"(?!). The males join some footrace to win the hand of some woman (Daisy? Goldie?), but Scrooge rather wants to have the gold. Gyro is said to give a long scientific explanation how the gold can be thrown away so far without getting muscular aches. (spoiler:) The end gag is said to be about having a less expensive Silver Pears festival next year. That is, if Egg understood it all correctly, from several rather hazy sources. Maybe this is a description of the Jippes version instead? (Egg knows neither versions.)
Your description of the "Golden Apples story sounds like it MUST be the Blum/Jippes "version", as what you descripe would not fit (scopewise, or pacing-wise comfortably) in a 10-page story (Blum's was 14 pages), AND, more importantly, it is TOO COMPLICATED and REDICULOUS a script for Barks to have used it for a 10 pager.
But again, it's Sunday today. Egg has to wait to dig up more information and very maybe some xeroxes. If people (you?) want to have xeroxes, they can tell it here to Egg, only today. Tomorrow is too late for requests. Egg might be offline then.
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