Ah well, I only had to pay for comic+shipping approximately what I would have had to pay for a new IDW issue, so it's not like I'm taking a big risk. Yeah, I'd rather have the chauvinist antagonist, if any, be someone other than Donald. Your description reminds me of some of the Brazilian "New Daisy" stories from the 1980's, where the point was, A woman can be a forest ranger! A woman can be good at martial arts! Those stories do not hold up well. I think Brazil must have been about a decade later than the USA in feminist progress; that "surprise" wouldn't have worked in the USA after the mid-1970's. The New Daisy stories that work for me are the ones with more of a fantasy storyline: the ones where Daisy encounters mermaids or Amazons.
Yeah, it's very much a New Daisy story, now you mention it — "Yowzah! Women can be museum guards!". But there is a fantasy element via Magica, so there's that, I suppose. And the art's nice.
I just found another one on Inducks, though I haven't read it yet, so I can't say if it's a *good* story. Arthur Faria's Contrafeitiços, in which apparently Daisy is the only one who can retrieve the stolen #1 dime from Magica's castle. Not going to make it into my headcanon, because my Magica neither dwells in a castle nor rooms with Mim! But I still might be able to convince myself into buying Journal de Mickey 2022 (1991) from French eBay to read it. Do you have access to that issue, Orora?
The Inducks rating is not high, but on the other hand, it's something that a Brazilian ten-pager even *has* a rating on Inducks, and that five people voted.
Ah, I do have it! I am going to take a look at it.
Well, it's an okay/decent story. But Daisy and Magica themselves barely interact with each other, only when Magica does the basic steps of her "evil plan"... but Magica casts a spell/curse on Daisy that she uses to both her advantage... and disadvantage, which is the most interesting part.
And this Inducks rating is quite basic; I feel that the average story there goes around 7.2/10!
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I've now read "Hocus-Pocus on the Nightshift" --which came *really fast* from the French seller! I agree with Scrooge MacDuck that the art is nice. By happenstance, I have one other, very short Magica story illustrated by Cynthia Campanario Pineda --the very delightfully titled Missed Spell (say it in English, it's indistinguishable from "Miss De Spell"). Enjoyed the art in that one, too!
I like the Hocus-Pocus story more than Scrooge MacDuck does. Yes, Donald's dialogue with Daisy is unnecessarily annoying. But if you ignore that byplay, it's a fine Daisy story. She shows her courage when startled by the mummy, realizes it's out of place, shows her courage again in opening the sarcophagus when she hears noise from inside, figures out who the intruder really is, and finally figures out how to disarm (un-wand) her. Donald makes all the mistakes, but it doesn't feel as if he's just being set up as a fool to make Daisy look good by contrast--to me they felt like mistakes that Donald is actually likely to make, out of an excess of self-confidence or temper. The brittle mastery of Donald the nightwatchman. All in all, I'm happy to put this on my all-too-short list of the stories where Daisy shines.
I just was able to get a copy of another Daisy/Magica story, Faria's Disfarça... É Disfarce! from the Brazilian "New Daisy" series. Daisy and Donald attend a costume ball held by Scrooge; Daisy is disguised as Magica, Donald as Scrooge, Scrooge as Grandma Duck! Magica has gotten the Beagle Boys to help her get access to the Number One dime, which Scrooge is apparently keeping in a safe in his mansion. While Donald bungles his attempt to cut a deal for/as Scrooge with the rich guest of honor (Donald hopes this will get him a promotion), Daisy as Magica defeats the Beagles by *twice* fooling them into thinking she is the real Magica. First she directs them to open the safe, claiming to have deactivated the alarm, but of course it goes off and they have to flee; then outdoors she appears again and tells them to go this way...into a swimming pool.
So, Daisy does *not* interact directly with Magica, but she does defeat Magica's attempt to steal Number One by pretending to *be* Magica. Scrooge says to her on the last page, "you saved my dime!"
And this one *can* make it into my headcanon, because there's no reference to Magica living with Mim in a castle!