Hello Rod from Brazil I suspect you're looking for "Gladstone's Terrible Secret", from WDC 140, of 1952. This is indeed a great story - & very unusual as a 10-pager with Gladstone plus Scrooge. yours Gladzooks
In the US original of #140, there is NO Sunset in the story's last panel. The sunset you remember is probably from WDC&S #143, the story in which Donald and his nephews try to beat Gladstone to gemstones in a desert. The last panel has a beautiful red/orange, and yellow sunset with Donald and The Nephews being resigned to having to always suffer Gladstone's Luck, riding in their car in silhouettes. However, Uncle Scrooge was NOT in that story.
Hello Rod from Brazil I suspect you're looking for "Gladstone's Terrible Secret", from WDC 140, of 1952. This is indeed a great story - & very unusual as a 10-pager with Gladstone plus Scrooge. yours Gladzooks
In the US original of #140, there is NO Sunset in the story's last panel. The sunset you remember is probably from WDC&S #143, the story in which Donald and his nephews try to beat Gladstone to gemstones in a desert. The last panel has a beautiful red/orange, and yellow sunset with Donald and The Nephews being resigned to having to always suffer Gladstone's Luck, riding in their car in silhouettes. However, uncle Scrooge was NOT in that story.
It's supposed to come out on 20-8-2024 (three days ago). According to Fantagraphics themselves it's already out of stock (?!). Considering The Netherlands, Europe: bol.com asks 39.99 Euro and Amazon.nl a whopping 91.99 Euro (idiots!).
I have a sneakin' suspicion the volume ain't really for sale yet.
Last Edit: Aug 23, 2024 11:59:57 GMT by meneerjansen
Censorship again and again and again? The story “Silent Night” is listed in Page236, but it is not in the Vol.3 actually. Why? Is this just because Donald was too mean to Jones? Like being rejected by editors in the last century (WDC64)? Now Vol.21, 23, 26, 28, 4, 3 have all been censored.
Censorship again and again and again? The story “Silent Night” is listed in Page236, but it is not in the Vol.3 actually. Why? Is this just because Donald was too mean to Jones? Like being rejected by editors in the last century (WDC64)? Now Vol.21, 23, 26, 28, 4, 3 have all been censored.
So you have vol. 3 "Mystery of the Swamp" already? Do you live in the US? See my post above this one.
Last Edit: Aug 23, 2024 13:49:43 GMT by meneerjansen
Censorship again and again and again? The story “Silent Night” is listed in Page236, but it is not in the Vol.3 actually. Why? Is this just because Donald was too mean to Jones? Like being rejected by editors in the last century (WDC64)? Now Vol.21, 23, 26, 28, 4, 3 have all been censored.
So you have vol. 3 "Mystery of the Swamp" already? Do you live in the US? See my post above this one.
I am from Asia and I buy physical books from US by purchasing through e-commerce, but it keeps showing that the Vol.3 have not arrived at the overseas warehouse. So maybe you're right. I also find this problem, the release dates of recent issues have usually been delayed. But I download the digital version from getcomics so that found the story had been cut.
Censorship again and again and again? The story “Silent Night” is listed in Page236, but it is not in the Vol.3 actually. Why? Is this just because Donald was too mean to Jones? Like being rejected by editors in the last century (WDC64)? Now Vol.21, 23, 26, 28, 4, 3 have all been censored.
I read through "Silent Night" just now (I still have this 2001 issue of the Swedish Kalle Anka & C:o. from my childhood that it was printed in), and I don't know... the only thing that stands out to me as something that potentially could be considered too much is Jones zapping Donald with electricity to make him sing all night at the end. I *guess* that could be considered unusally cruel/violent in a "realistic way" for these comics, for a "non-villain" character? But it doesn't strike me as bad enough to get the story removed. Maybe it was moved to a later, not-yet-published volume, on account of how its first publication was in 1976?
Censorship again and again and again? The story “Silent Night” is listed in Page236, but it is not in the Vol.3 actually. Why? Is this just because Donald was too mean to Jones? Like being rejected by editors in the last century (WDC64)? Now Vol.21, 23, 26, 28, 4, 3 have all been censored.
I read through "Silent Night" just now (I still have this 2001 issue of the Swedish Kalle Anka & C:o. from my childhood that it was printed in), and I don't know... the only thing that stands out to me as something that potentially could be considered too much is Jones zapping Donald with electricity to make him sing all night at the end. I *guess* that could be considered unusally cruel/violent in a "realistic way" for these comics, for a "non-villain" character? But it doesn't strike me as bad enough to get the story removed. Maybe it was moved to a later, not-yet-published volume, on account of how its first publication was in 1976?
The reason that story was shelved was because it was scheduled to be on the shelves during the two weeks before Christmas and the two weeks after. It was felt that it was not an appropriate way for Donald to treat Jones during The Christmas season, because that is the time that ALL of Mankind should think deeply about how they've been conducting their lives, and they should follow "The Christmas Spirit" in realising one of The Ten Commandments, that they should each "Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself), and thus follow "The Golden Rule", and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". The editors felt that Donald's and Jones' mean and violent behaviour was totally inappropriate for The Christmas Holiday and violating The Christmas Spirit, and so be a bad example for the highly impressionable little kiddies. We all know that such violence between those 2 characters was accepted both during the several months before, and several years after. I think it's just a shame, because I think it is hypocritical of The Christian ethic to feel that ANY time of the year should be singled out for especially good behaviour. The standard should be that individuals should be monitoring their behaviour every day of their lives, to make sure they are doing their best to make sure their own actions are not hurting other people, animals, plants unless needed for food to survive), and The Earth. Maybe I'm a Jewish Bhuddist/Hindu? - Or an Environmentalist Beatnik/Socialist/Anarchist? In any case I'm glad the story was shelved, because we got a replacement Barks story for January 1945, and we got THIS story, which I received from Malcolm Willits in 1965, photocopied it, redrew the missing first half page (upon receiving instructions from Carl Barks as to what he drew, in an early 1966 meeting with him, and hand colouring photocopies of the inked original boards). In late 1973, I gave a copy of that and The 1957 "Milkman Story" to our editor at Oberon (Dutch Disney Comics) and the latter was printed in The Dutch Donald Duck Weekly in 1974. "Silent Night" (Which I had previously Titled "A Christmas Carol"("Een Kerstlied"), was not published until 1986 because the editor said it was incomplete without Barks' first page top half. It was finally published first at Christmas 1985, when I got Thom Roep to understand that Carl, himself told me what was on the panels and how things were situated, and so got in-house artist, Michel Nadorp, to redraw one of the panels that I had drawn, to make it acceptable. I'm glad my friend, Daan Jippes was chosen to redraw the non-Barks panels for The US printing, as he draws Barks 1944-52 classic style the best of anyone.
Censorship again and again and again? The story “Silent Night” is listed in Page236, but it is not in the Vol.3 actually. Why? Is this just because Donald was too mean to Jones? Like being rejected by editors in the last century (WDC64)? Now Vol.21, 23, 26, 28, 4, 3 have all been censored.
I read through "Silent Night" just now (I still have this 2001 issue of the Swedish Kalle Anka & C:o. from my childhood that it was printed in), and I don't know... the only thing that stands out to me as something that potentially could be considered too much is Jones zapping Donald with electricity to make him sing all night at the end. I *guess* that could be considered unusally cruel/violent in a "realistic way" for these comics, for a "non-villain" character? But it doesn't strike me as bad enough to get the story removed. Maybe it was moved to a later, not-yet-published volume, on account of how its first publication was in 1976?
Donald the Milkman (CS WDC 215 ) is included in vol.19. This story was written in 1957, but was first published in 1974 (Netherlands, in Donald Duck #47). Barks also commented on the reason for the rejection, "this story was shelved because Donald was too mean to the villain." Vol.19 includes stories written by Barks in 1957-1958, so I think fantagraphics included the stories according to the date of creation. So the conclusion is - if Silent Night is not included in vol.3, it will never appear in the complete library. But who knows, maybe in a few years, those censored stories will reappear in the reprinted books. It is obvious to me that this series of books is being censored and edited by Disney reviewers. This is really a disaster for loyal fans who just want to collect all the works of Barks. I bought and collected the Barks Library published by Another Rainbow in the 1980s. They are expensive and heavy. Despite this, this detailed and complete collection still made some changes to Barks' works (such as dialogues and character faces). Different eras have different value judgments on the same story, but it is really difficult to collect all of Barks' complete works that have not been changed beyond recognition in the same era.
I read through "Silent Night" just now (I still have this 2001 issue of the Swedish Kalle Anka & C:o. from my childhood that it was printed in), and I don't know... the only thing that stands out to me as something that potentially could be considered too much is Jones zapping Donald with electricity to make him sing all night at the end. I *guess* that could be considered unusally cruel/violent in a "realistic way" for these comics, for a "non-villain" character? But it doesn't strike me as bad enough to get the story removed. Maybe it was moved to a later, not-yet-published volume, on account of how its first publication was in 1976?
Donald the Milkman (CS WDC 215 ) is included in vol.19. This story was written in 1957, but was first published in 1974 (Netherlands, in Donald Duck #47). Barks also commented on the reason for the rejection, "this story was shelved because Donald was too mean to the villain." Vol.19 includes stories written by Barks in 1957-1958, so I think fantagraphics included the stories according to the date of creation. So the conclusion is - if Silent Night is not included in vol.3, it will never appear in the complete library. But who knows, maybe in a few years, those censored stories will reappear in the reprinted books. It is obvious to me that this series of books is being censored and edited by Disney reviewers. This is really a disaster for loyal fans who just want to collect all the works of Barks. I bought and collected the Barks Library published by Another Rainbow in the 1980s. They are expensive and heavy. Despite this, this detailed and complete collection still made some changes to Barks' works (such as dialogues and character faces). Different eras have different value judgments on the same story, but it is really difficult to collect all of Barks' complete works that have not been changed beyond recognition in the same era.
How can Disney justify not allowing "Silent Night" in this Barks Collection IF they allow The Milkman story? Both show Donald behaving violently and mean-mannered. The only difference is that "Silent Night" has Jones zapping Donald with an electric prod. It would be painful, but couldn't endanger his life or permanent health condition. This bothers me greatly. This collection of expensive books is not going to be bought for little children who might be afraid of such action. They see a lot worse levels of violence in cartoons. These collections are bought almost exclusively by nostalgic adults who read the stories as children, and who are old enough, and Worldly enough to know these are comedic fantasy stories for entertainment, and are not going to read them to their children and give them the desire to electrocute people with electric cattle prods. This is completely unfair. They are worried that Dr. Wertham types will alert The World that the so-called kid-friendly Walt Disney Company is showing kids how to enjoy being violent and hurt other people physically, and ruin their company's good reputation. They didn't stop that story from being printed in a floppy paper comic book that cost a low enough price that it COULD have been bought by a relatively young child, and certainly was bought by adults for their children. So why would they not allow it to be printed in a very expensive hardbound author collection, aimed strictly at adult collectors???
It's supposed to come out on 20-8-2024 (three days ago). According to Fantagraphics themselves it's already out of stock (?!). Considering The Netherlands, Europe: bol.com asks 39.99 Euro and Amazon.nl a whopping 91.99 Euro (idiots!).
I have a sneakin' suspicion the volume ain't really for sale yet.
It's supposed to come out on 20-8-2024 (three days ago). According to Fantagraphics themselves it's already out of stock (?!). Considering The Netherlands, Europe: bol.com asks 39.99 Euro and Amazon.nl a whopping 91.99 Euro (idiots!).
I have a sneakin' suspicion the volume ain't really for sale yet.
WOW! That's really an old-fashioned GYP!!! I'm glad I didn't decide to buy it from Amazon.nl! Mine has been shipped out for delivery some days ago. It is scheduled to arrive to me later today, or by 20:00 this evening. I'm afraid to open it and find out "Silent Night" is NOT included.