Mouse characters appeared a couple of times in Carl Barks stories: - A Mickey adventure:
- Mickey's nephews in a gyro story:
- In "Vacation Time" (https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC++83-02), Donald says "I should open the door, maybe it's Daisy, or Mickey, or someone I know!"
Where's that second image from? Betting the first one's from "Riddle of the Red Hat", since it's the only Mickey story Barks ever wrote and drew, but no clue about the second one.
Trapped Lightning, a 1955 Gyro four-pager. In it, Morty and Ferdie appear, holding the role that would normally have gone to Huey, Dewey and Louie if not for those weird postage laws that meant the same characters couldn't appear both in the "main" story of a book and its backup story.
[** I take 2010 as a reference because it is the year when the new director/editor-in-chief of Topolino magazine started her job, slowly changing the whole game. In a better way, everyone thinks. Because before Disney Italia was trying to turn Topolino magazine into a too childish publication, on the model of many equivalent Disney publications elsewhere in Europe. This had entailed the departure of many important writers - like Artibani, for instance - and the impossibility for others - like Casty - to develop long stories. Since 2010 things are increasingly getting better.]
Why can't they do the same thing in France... (and also remember that a Disney publication is for Disney comics, not low-hanging-fruit vulgar comic strips.)
Well, that's a completely different story, since Hachette does not produce stories. I do not follow all the magazines here, but as far as I can see Hachette is doing a good job in selecting the best that comes from both Italy and Denmark. Also, I like that they organize the publications into 4 magazines with clear different contents: the short Egmont stories in Le journal de Mickey (which is clearly the one for the kids!), the best modern stories (from bot South and North Europe) in Super Picsou Géant, the less good ones in Mickey Parade Géant, the more "Barksian" ones, old and new, in Picsou Magazine. Everything is clear and you know what you are getting from the magazine that you are buying. I mean, I am perfectly ok with Le journal de Mickey targeting only little kids, as long as I can buy Super Picsou Géant and Picsou Magazine!
On the other side, it is dangerous to push Topolino to become like Le journal de Mickey, i.e. full of brief childish stories. Because Topolino produces new stories. It gives the fuel to many magazines in the rest of the word. And if you oblige the Italian writers to write almost only short light stories - as they were probably trying to do in the early 2000s - then all we are left is almost only short light stories.
Mouse characters appeared a couple of times in Carl Barks stories: - A Mickey adventure:
- Mickey's nephews in a gyro story:
- In "Vacation Time" (https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC++83-02), Donald says "I should open the door, maybe it's Daisy, or Mickey, or someone I know!"
Where's that second image from? Betting the first one's from "Riddle of the Red Hat", since it's the only Mickey story Barks ever wrote and drew, but no clue about the second one.
The second image is from a Gyro Gearloose solo story from an early issue of Uncle Scrooge (the same that includes the first appearance of the Terry-Fermians). In the story, Gyro harnesses lightning. Originally, it was supposed to include Huey, Dewey, and Louie, but they had already been included in the previous story, and at the time, characters could only appear in one story per comic. So they were replaced by Morty and Ferdie. It was the only time that Carl Barks ever drew Morty and Ferdie, he usually only drew Duck characters, and only ever drew one Mickey Mouse story.
Where's that second image from? Betting the first one's from "Riddle of the Red Hat", since it's the only Mickey story Barks ever wrote and drew, but no clue about the second one.
The second image is from a Gyro Gearloose solo story from an early issue of Uncle Scrooge (the same that includes the first appearance of the Terry-Fermians). In the story, Gyro harnesses lightning. Originally, it was supposed to include Huey, Dewey, and Louie, but they had already been included in the previous story, and at the time, characters could only appear in one story per comic. So they were replaced by Morty and Ferdie. It was the only time that Carl Barks ever drew Morty and Ferdie, he usually only drew Duck characters, and only ever drew one Mickey Mouse story.
That isn't true. "Uncle Scrooge" (quarterly), "Mickey Mouse" (bi-monthly), and "Donald Duck" (bi-monthly) ALL had regularly had 2 stories containing their main characters around that time. The "Gyro Gearloose" stories, added to "Uncle Scrooge", "Goofy" added to "Donald Duck", and "The Little Bad Wolf" stories added to "Mickey Mouse" solely so those comic magazines could meet The US Postal Service requirements to qualify for lower-cost 2nd Class shipping postage rates for "magazines", by having AT LEAST ONE STORY USING DIFFERENT MAIN CHARACTERS.
The second image is from a Gyro Gearloose solo story from an early issue of Uncle Scrooge (the same that includes the first appearance of the Terry-Fermians). In the story, Gyro harnesses lightning. Originally, it was supposed to include Huey, Dewey, and Louie, but they had already been included in the previous story, and at the time, characters could only appear in one story per comic. So they were replaced by Morty and Ferdie. It was the only time that Carl Barks ever drew Morty and Ferdie, he usually only drew Duck characters, and only ever drew one Mickey Mouse story.
That isn't true. "Uncle Scrooge" (quarterly), "Mickey Mouse" (bi-monthly), and "Donald Duck" (bi-monthly) ALL had regularly had 2 stories containing their main characters around that time. The "Gyro Gearloose" stories, added to "Uncle Scrooge", "Goofy" added to "Donald Duck", and "The Little Bad Wolf" stories added to "Mickey Mouse" solely so those comic magazines could meet The US Postal Service requirements to qualify for lower-cost 2nd Class shipping postage rates for "magazines", by having AT LEAST ONE STORY USING DIFFERENT MAIN CHARACTERS.
I am aware of all this. I'm afraid I phrased it somewhat clumsily, but those were the very facts I was trying to convey.