“Ghost of Man-eater Mountain” wasn’t so much censored as it was shortened to fit in a single issue of Mickey Mouse. With all the chapter breaks left in, it was longer than the amount of pages they could use per issue.
Donald Quest is another of the "alternate universe" stories like Wizards of Mickey and Ultra Heroes that the Italian publisher likes to push on people.
As far as I know, Donald Quest and Wizards of Mickey are explicitly commissioned by the Americans. If it was for the Italian publisher, none of the two series would probably exist. They are extremely unpopular in Italy (so much that the main writer of both of them, Stefano Ambrosio, is treated as some kind of human calamity in the Italian fandom). I am sure that the editors of Topolino would happily avoid the tone of critics related to those two series, if they could. (As concerns Ultra Heroes, it was from the previous Italian publisher, i.e. when Disney itself produced Italian comics.)
Examples of Italian alternative universe series still existing for autonomous decision of the current Italian publisher Panini are PKNE (PK New Era) and DoubleDuck. (I do not remember if X-Mickey is still on.)
As far as I know, Donald Quest and Wizards of Mickey are explicitly commissioned by the Americans. If it was for the Italian publisher, none of the two series would exist. They are extremely unpopular in Italy (so much that the main writer of both of them, Stefano Ambrosio, is treated as some kind of human calamity in the Italian fandom). I am sure that the editors of Topolino would happily avoid the tone of critics related to those two series, if they could. (As concerns Ultra Heroes, it was from the previous Italian publisher, i.e. when Disney itself produced Italian comics.)
WHAT? Wizards of Mickey isn't comissioned by Americans. I don't know how popular series is in Italy, but Disney Italia/Panini regularly publish new Wizards of Mickey comics from 2006 (last one is published two months ago). First part of "Wizards of Mickey", which is the only comics from the series published in Poland, is one of the most-loved Disney comics in Poland. The series has also published in various European countries, in Germany series is published in hardcover, which rarely happens.
I hope that in future you will check your sources because it isn't first time when you are making big mistakes.
After looking it up, Donald Quest was first published in the US, although it was produced by “Disney Publishing Worldwide”. It feels like a story that they were trying to launch a collectible card game or something with, as they would stop and give us stats on the meteor beasts and the beast busters, although to my knowledge there wasn’t one released in the US. inducks.org/story.php?c=XPW+DQ+1-1
“Ghost of Man-eater Mountain” wasn’t so much censored as it was shortened to fit in a single issue of Mickey Mouse. With all the chapter breaks left in, it was longer than the amount of pages they could use per issue.
Deb, I know "The Ghost of Man-Eater Mountain" was shortened for publication in MM #5, but it WAS censored as well. A specific example is that sound effects of gun fire was erased from many panels, making it look like characters were only pointing guns rather than actually firing them. Here's a comparison between some panels via hex's Disney Comics Randomness blog (comic book on the left, uncensored Timeless Tales edition on the right):
When published in trade paperback format in the collection Gift of the Sun Lord, the full length of the story was re-instated... but even here, some parts were censored. (I thought I'd point this out since hex's blog post mentions that both the TPB and the Timeless Tales hardcover has the uncut version of the story... but in this case, uncut is not the same as uncensored.)
Inducks has a good summary of the censoring that remains in the TPB: "Gift of the Sun Lord (Mickey Mouse (Trade paperback) 2) (2016) idem [Censored; Gunfire, the angle of the guns, dialogue about shooting.]" Only in the later Mickey Mouse Timeless Tales 1 hardback was the entire story published completely without censoring and changes.
I am one of the lifelong Disney comics fans (along with, e.g., GeoX who writes the duckcomicsrevue blog) who have stopped buying the IDW Disney comics. A big deal, because I've bought every Disney Duck comic printed in the USA since the second issue of the first iteration of Gladstone Publishing comics in the 1980's.
Did you also keep buying the initial run of the BOOM! books (the Ultraheroes/Double-Duck/Wizards of Mickey run)? That period until when the "classics came back" (BOOM! 2.0 I think they called it) was the only time after Gladstone-I that I stopped buying the "Core Four". I had no interest in stories starring classic characters that had them all playing superheroes, spies or mythological beings. I'm still holding on during the current IDW run (at least the characters are themselves), but for Pete's sake, Grandma has bright yellow hair and HD&L say "Uncle Donald"!
I think it's a bit sad there was no way of continuing DoubleDuck in the US, maybe separate from regular Duck comics. They stopped before the real gold came around! (Mission: Thermal Heart, and the astonishing Artibani stories) Same with PKNA now, and Wizards of Mickey too - although the latter has been a bit hit-and-miss after the first cycle. Still these are among the best Italian concepts. Ultraheroes, not so much.
As far as I know, Donald Quest and Wizards of Mickey are explicitly commissioned by the Americans. If it was for the Italian publisher, none of the two series would exist. They are extremely unpopular in Italy (so much that the main writer of both of them, Stefano Ambrosio, is treated as some kind of human calamity in the Italian fandom). I am sure that the editors of Topolino would happily avoid the tone of critics related to those two series, if they could. (As concerns Ultra Heroes, it was from the previous Italian publisher, i.e. when Disney itself produced Italian comics.)
WHAT? Wizards of Mickey isn't comissioned by Americans. I don't know how popular series is in Italy, but Disney Italia/Panini regularly publish new Wizards of Mickey comics from 2006 (last one is published two months ago). First part of "Wizards of Mickey", which is the only comics from the series published in Poland, is one of the most-loved Disney comics in Poland. The series has also published in various European countries, in Germany series is published in hardcover, which rarely happens.
I hope that in future you will check your sources because it isn't first time when you are making big mistakes.
I think "Wizards" was conceived with the idea of appealing to various markets, including the USA. It became so popular in Germany that after the first four (soft cover) pocketbooks the German editors asked the Italian writers to do more stories. So we got another book. And now that a different team is handling the series, there was another one, and if they go on at this pace we'll probably soon get the 7th issue.
It's certainly popular enough in Italy to warrant a line (Legendary Collection) that was created to house WOM reprints.
I got all volumes of the Fantagraphics Carl Barks Library .There are 15 of them but according to Wikipedia, the series is planned to have at least 30 volumes and a new one is released every half year. Does is mean I still have to wait over seven years until the series will be complete?
I got all volumes of the Fantagraphics Carl Barks Library .There are 15 of them but according to Wikipedia, the series is planned to have at least 30 volumes and a new one is released every half year. Does is mean I still have to wait over seven years until the series will be complete?
In theory, yes.
Since I don't really consider this series a definitive Carl Barks Library – for one thing, there's the bizarre choice of faithfully recreating the clumsy-looking colors of the original comic books, which Barks himself never liked – I find it a little sad that Fantagraphics' series will dominate the American market for so long. I hope a more fully realized edition can come along in the future. It's wonderful that Barks's work is back in print, but he deserves better.
I got all volumes of the Fantagraphics Carl Barks Library .There are 15 of them but according to Wikipedia, the series is planned to have at least 30 volumes and a new one is released every half year. Does is mean I still have to wait over seven years until the series will be complete?
Yes. I will be almost 80 years old when i get the last volume. I have a complete German set, but, not being a German, I'm not thrilled with how Erika Fuchs changed the dialogues and narratives.
I got all volumes of the Fantagraphics Carl Barks Library .There are 15 of them but according to Wikipedia, the series is planned to have at least 30 volumes and a new one is released every half year. Does is mean I still have to wait over seven years until the series will be complete?
Yes. I will be almost 80 years old when i get the last volume. I have a complete German set, but, not being a German, I'm not thrilled with how Erika Fuchs changed the dialogues and narratives.
Have you considered buying up Another Rainbow's black-and-white Carl Barks Library? I prefer Barks's comics in color, since he always drew them with color publication in mind, but what I've seen of those books looks very nice nonetheless. And the AR Library has more comprehensive and in-depth articles than Fantagraphics' edition -- in fact, it's more like the later Scandinavian Carl Barks Library in color, which I still wish Gemstone would have had time to publish in English before they went bankrupt.
(One slight drawback with the AR books is that, in a few stories, the art is not as uncensored as in Fantagraphics' later edition. Voodoo Hoodoo comes to mind as the most obvious example.)