Btw, what other Disney comics do you think would make sense to publish in a smilar way the William Ward book was published? Meaning publishing a book with a low print run that contains material nobody else would publish.
One I could think of is a complete Disney comics of Federico Pedrocchi (maybe without his two Snow White comics).
The other is a large format Wilfred Haughton book, that would contain 60 pages of comics (his "The Deftective Agency" series) and the 104 beautiful Mickey Mouse Weekly covers that are completely his work (+ maybe a selection of his work in the MM Annual).
With the exception of the two stories he did directly for Albi d'Oro publications ("Donald and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Clarabelle in the Claws of the Black Devil") this contains the complete works of Pedrocchi, including the Snow White comics.
(Either way Pedrocchi isn't really "obscure", his stories get reprinted every now and then and aren't treated much differently from other really old Italian stories. He's not some lost relic from the 30s whose legacy is only kept alive by a handful of fans that dug his work out of the mists of history where the official license holder would've preferred to have kept it the way Ward and Guastaveglia are)
Btw, what other Disney comics do you think would make sense to publish in a smilar way the William Ward book was published? Meaning publishing a book with a low print run that contains material nobody else would publish.
One I could think of is a complete Disney comics of Federico Pedrocchi (maybe without his two Snow White comics).
The other is a large format Wilfred Haughton book, that would contain 60 pages of comics (his "The Deftective Agency" series) and the 104 beautiful Mickey Mouse Weekly covers that are completely his work (+ maybe a selection of his work in the MM Annual).
at a book fair in Italy I found an amateur book, really well-bound (with also an index written with a typewriter), containing six Pedrocchi stories. It is surprisingly well done and I guess that only this very one copy exists in the world, so I am very jealous of it.
I've said it before but the painted stuff (again from Mickey Mouse Weekly) by Harold Whitaker and Ronald Neilson really deserves a collected reprint.
Was Harold Whitaker the writer of those comics? He is not listed anywhere on Inducks.
According to corrado , who also says he tried to get the info onto Inducks... Edit: Well sim's link has it clear and bright on the cover. So that's that.