Stories that have pages deleted in your language

[Orora]

I just made a strange discovery.

So, there is this story, Zio Paperone e le sirene di montagna ("Uncle Scrooge and the mountain sirens"). 

In this story, Scrooge is seduced by the singing of a woman in a palace, and rushes to kiss her hand.



In the full comic that I have, this is the only panel where we see this woman.
I already thought it was strange.

In France, this comic was published in the magazine "Mickey Parade" #193.

In the 90s, Mickey Parade would have on its back preview panels of the comics that were going to be published next month.

When you look at the previews of Mickey Parade #192...

You can see another panel showing this woman in the preview, a panel that is not in the comic published in Mickey Parade #193.

I find this very weird.
I checked Inducks, and it confirms that one page has been removed in the French publishing.

Why would they remove the page that was shown in the preview??
Very weird and misleading.

Has something similar happened to you?

[Hyaroo]

Yes; I remember reading a "Donald Pocket" with a story where Donald dreams he's a knight in the middle ages. I was very young when I read it, but the story seemed choppy and confused, wityh several plot points coming out of nowhere -- like one scene where Donald has totally lost his mind and goes on a berserker-rampage, but I couldn't see why he did it because they didn't show him actually losing his mind or why, and he was perfectly sane in the previous scene. 

Turns out that almost half the story had been cut from the Norwegian translation, which certainly meant that the parts that were left were a little confusing. 

The story was Paperin Furioso, by Luciano Bottaro, and it was later reprinted with only one page cut, so at least we got almost the complete story there. (Actually, I didn't think the story was all that good, but it did have some moments/scenes that have stuck with me since I first read it.)

[rasterax]

It used to be a common practice, in the 60's/70's mostly, for stories to be heavily shortened in Egmont publications. Two examples come to mind:

- The first printing of Barks' "The Gilded Man" removed eight pages from the story, removing, well, the Gilded Man
- The first printing of the Papernik origin story removed Paperinik - it was turned into a 5-page story about the stray dog that briefly appears in it

[Hyaroo]

Jan 20, 2018 19:38:27 GMT rasterax said:

- The first printing of the Papernik origin story removed Paperinik - it was turned into a 5-page story about the stray dog that briefly appears in it

Weirdly, I think that would improve the story. "Donald acts like a total jerk, and gets his comeuppance for it, end of story" -- works better than "Donald acts like a total jerk, and when this causes problems for him, he blames everyone else, causing him to create a masked identity that enables him to punish all the people who were mean to him (ignoring that he was mean to them first and his misfortunes were largely his own fault anyway) and gets off scot-free." 

Yeah, I have issues with the origin story of the Duck Avenger. ^_^

[Deleted]

In the 60's to the 80's, Brazil was suffering a Militar Dictatorship, so many pages were censored or even deleted

[timoro]

Could you be more specific, TitusMcDuck? What kind of censoring was made in Brazil during those years? Any examples? What stories were altered and how? This is interesting.

Timo

[gadgetphile]

I'm pretty sure I once found a story where nearly half of it was cut but I can't seem to find it at the moment. However, found these.


A date with danger (1970)


Bottled battlers (1970)


Pippo e i parastinchi di Olympia (1972)


The great $$$ giveaway (1975)

[timoro]

Finnish Aku Ankka comic book had four pages less than it's Scandinavian counterparts, Ander And etc. For decades AA had 32 pages instead of 36. Therefore some stories had to be shortened, cut out page or two. Strangely enough editors made those cuts quite often in Barks' stories. This happened especially in the early 1960's. Consistently they dropped off page or two from those wonderful 10-pagers. Why, I don't know, while they still left stupid Nils Rydahl's one pagers on. Why not drop them instead? Sigh. Later on they stopped doing this, especially when Barks started to get recognition.

Timo

[Hyaroo]

Just remembered another case -- in 1967 (before my time, but I've read comics that are older than me before), the Norwegian Donald Duck magazine reprinted the classic "A Christmas For Shacktown." The story had been printed in Norway before, as a one-shot called "Donald Duck og barnas juletrefest" (Donald Duck and the Children's Christmas party), and then it was the full story -- but for some reason the reprint had a number of pages cut.

Notably, every panel where Shacktown and the poor children are depicted, has been cut. We don't actually get to see the children until the party at the very end, when they're happy and playing with toy trains -- this certainly means the story is far less effective, and Scrooge's refusal to give up the money for the party suddenly seems milder -- in the reduced story it comes across more as the typical, comically cheap Scrooge who doesn't suffer fools gladly and doesn't give handouts, business as usual. You even feel some pity for him when his money bin collapses and his money fall into the deep cavern.

In the full story, when you actually see the children he refuses to throw a crumb to, how poor they are and how much they're looking forward to the party he doesn't want to contribute to, you really get that Scrooge has crossed a line, and his temporary loss of money -- and implied long time to get them all back -- is just desserts.

[sirredknee]

"Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad" was another Barks story that was heavily edited when it was first published in the "Egmont countries". Among other things all the scenes with the crows disguised as ghosts were cut. 17 instead of 24 pages!