So I stumble upon this and I swear that I've seen almost the exact same story before, however it had Daisy and Donald in the roles instead. Aware of any similar scenarios?
You probably mean D 2014-028. Though the punch-lines are indentical, I actually prefer the newer story – mainly because I love the monstrosity Rodriques has created for Daisy to return. (I even think I've seen the same sculpture in the background of another story drawn by Rodriques but perhaps I'm mistaken.) Also, Daisy worrying about bumping into Donald adds to bit of tension to the one-pager.
I did. No other instance comes to mind right now. I wrote my reply on the off chance that someone might want to know what the other story is and discuss the similarities – and differences – in question.
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Aug 26, 2016 18:34:22 GMT
Well, as for other instances, there were those countless Brazilian remakes of Donald stories with José Carioca replacing Donald. And I also remember a Mickey Mouse story that had the same premise as The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone and also the same twist ending (with Pete beginning to turn into gold rather than Scrooge), although the actual story was not a scene-for-scene remake.
Reminds me I should open a thread about artists who trace other people's drawings. (several French artists would trace Claude Marin, but some Italians would trace Cavazzano or De Vita)
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1. A Disney comic that has THREE different versions: the Barks story "Be Leery of Lake Eerie". One drawn by Kay Wright in 1972, a Carpi version from 1992, and a Jipper version from 2003.
3. The Road To Mandalay written by Dave Rawson and Pat McGreal. Two versions, both by Egmont, made no more than 2 years apart. Version 1 and version 2. Why?? I suspect there is an interesting story behind why these two versions happened. Does anyone know more about this?
1. A Disney comic that has THREE different versions: the Barks story "Be Leery of Lake Eerie". One drawn by Kay Wright in 1972, a Carpi version from 1992, and a Jipper version from 2003.
3. The Road To Mandalay written by Dave Rawson and Pat McGreal. Two versions, both by Egmont, made no more than 2 years apart. Version 1 and version 2. Why?? I suspect there is an interesting story behind why these two versions happened. Does anyone know more about this?
What the... very interesting, I never heard about that Italian version of the Woodchucks story before.
I suspect there must also be a reason why that second Egmont version of The Road to Mandalay has ONLY been published in the United States.
A couple of identical stories are This and That. I noticed the similarities between the two when I was a child because they were both published in Paperino Mese, the former on 361 and the latter on 362.
This story was almost completely reused as a "Spiff and Hercules" comic in Pif Magazine. Plot was by François Corteggiani, and he mostly replaced Donald with Hercules. The ending is totally similar.
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3. The Road To Mandalay written by Dave Rawson and Pat McGreal. Two versions, both by Egmont, made no more than 2 years apart. Version 1 and version 2. Why?? I suspect there is an interesting story behind why these two versions happened. Does anyone know more about this?
My suspicion is that it was simply an error - the same script got sent to two different artists. The same thing has happened in Italy too:
This script by Alberto Savini was drawn twice - first version drawn by Massimiliano Narciso released in Paperino Mese, second version drawn by Giuseppe Facciotto in Topolino. Both were released in the European pocketbooks too, without anybody noticing it until it was printed and Peter Höpfner put in an apology for missing that. Interestingly, while both stories have the same basic order of events, the art changes the feel massively. Narciso's version is much superior.
An earlier example is this classic Duck Avenger story by Giorgio Pezzin - it was released in Topolino drawn by Massimo De Vita, and then in Paperino Mese drawn by Franco Valussi. In this case, somebody intervened & the dialogue in the PM version was rewritten by Massimo Marconi, but it's still ultimately the same.
Well, there are also all Yellow Beak stories; and "Darkest Africa" is very similar to "Forbidden Valley" (althoug they are not "identical stories with diferent characters", but two stories with the same main characters and some superficial differences in the script).
And wasn't there a Marco Rota story that reused the premise of Voodoo Hoodoo? Except Donald was actually shrinking after being exposed to an old African mystic ball?
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