tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82978474697369036062024-03-14T07:53:45.619-04:00I Can Break AwayDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-32116877651491845212015-02-09T16:03:00.001-05:002015-02-10T02:38:38.400-05:00Playlist: Songs of Comic Strips<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This round of playlist suggestions has a set of rules: the songs are inspired by properties that began as comic strips. So any characters that originated in animation or comic books that were subsequently featured in comic strips (such as <i>Felix the Cat</i>, <i>Mickey Mouse</i>, <i>Superman</i> or <i>Archie</i>) are excluded! Sometime down the line, we'll shine a light on music inspired by comic book characters, and other variations… for today, let's get some printer's ink on our fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There's Plenty of Links at the End of the Post to Start Up Your Own Comic Strip Playlist</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm also happy to tell you that beyond the usual links to Amazon and iTunes albums, this playlist offers </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOUR</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> free MP3 downloads, with links to several more free tracks to get your own comic strip playlist going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the 20th century, a significant highlight of the American weekend occurred each Sunday morning. Often procured by a trip to the corner drugstore as a thick bundle held snugly under the arm, or as a thunderous </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THUMP</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on the front porch. Either delivery method meant that much-anticipated token, the Sunday edition of the local newspaper, had arrived.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An Example of a 1939 Sunday Comics Page</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of all the expanded features within, the section ranking highest desirability was the large, full-color comic section. The Sunday comics were most often exposed as the front-facing layer cradling the bulky strata of the entire Sunday edition, like tempting and colorful Christmas wrapping paper. The Sunday comics were lovingly referred to early on as "The Funny Papers" or simply "The Funnies."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Government Worker Reads the Sunday Comics on the Back Porch at Arlington Farms, VA Residence for Women (1943)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was here that the latest chapter of favorite serialized adventures such as Chester Gould's <i>Dick Tracy</i> and Milton Caniff's <i>Terry and the Pirates</i> were found, leaving another cliffhanger for next week's not-to-be-missed installment. Laughs could be had from Frank King's <i>Gasoline Alley</i> and Al Capp's <i>Li'l Abner</i>, while Walt Kelly's <i>Pogo</i> brought hilarious social and political through the eyes of the "critters" of Okefenokee Swamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether in crisp black and white daily strips or in full color </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on Sundays,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> it's easy to see why "The Funnies" became the most coveted section for every member of the household. This was an especially important (and affordable) diversion during the era of the Great Depression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How popular were the continuing adventures of newspaper comics? A 1945 New York City newspaper delivery strike left readers and subscribers frustrated that their households were missing out on the latest installments of their favorite comic strips. So much so, that New York’s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia solved the problem by reading the Sunday comics over the air during his weekly radio address. Thanks to the archives of WNYC public radio, here's a sample clip of the Mayor's July 8, 1945 broadcast:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the early part of the 20th century, several comic strips had already stood out in popularity, and became vehicles for other media. Since radio was the most popular form of entertainment within the home, it was a natural conclusion to adapt comic strip characters into music and audio dramatizations.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Barney Google (Foxtrot)" by Billy Rose Became the First Popular Song Based on a Comic Strip Property</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first hit song that was birthed from a comic strip was released in 1923: a novelty song titled ”Barney Google (Foxtrot)" (better known as "Barney Google with the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes") written and performed by Billy Rose. The song was penned in honor of Billy DeBeck's </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barney Google and Spark Plug</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> at the peak of the strip's popularity, and performed by several recording stars of the 1920s and 1930s. Though such buzz words didn't exist at the time, these were the beginning days of synergistic multimedia properties.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time-Traveling Caveman <i>Alley Oop</i> Became the Subject of a No. 1 Pop Single in 1960</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Years later, the trend continued on the pop charts: V.T. Hamlin's comic strip caveman <i>Alley Oop</i> was immortalized by The Hollywood Argyles in 1960 with a number one hit of the same name. The Royal Guardsmen capitalized on the success of the <i>Peanuts</i> craze, with "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" in 1966 and several follow-ups afterward—but their songs would only be marginally identified with the <i>Peanuts</i> strip.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winsor McCay Personally Produced Two Silent Animated Shorts Based on His </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comic Strip </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Masterpiece <i>Little Nemo in Slumberland</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Theatrical animation became the next logical outlet, around the time Walt Disney began his ascent to fame due to the smashing popularity of Mickey Mouse. Winsor McCay had already created silent animated shorts of his <i>Little Nemo in Slumberland</i> strip, while Max Fleischer made an important addition to his own Studio: Fleischer had obtained the rights to produce a series of animated theatrical shorts starring the breakout character <i>Popeye the Sailor</i> from Elzie Segar's <i>Thimble Theater</i>.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Well-Known Tune "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" Made Its Debut With Popeye's First Theatrical Cartoon in 1933</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Popeye's memorable theme song "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" was penned by Fleischer Studio composer Sammy Lerner, and became as popular as the one-eyed sailor himself. Early merchandising efforts beyond audio and animation were also beginning to surface: George Herriman's <i>Krazy Kat</i>, Sidney Smith's <i>The Gumps</i> and other popular strips began to surface on products such as toys, rag dolls, writing tablets, and children’s savings banks.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chic Young's <i>Blondie</i> Became an Ongoing Series of 28 Films For Columbia Pictures From 1938 to 1950</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the silver screen, animated shorts continued to adapt strips such as Otto Soglow's <i>The Little King</i> and Rudolph Dirks's <i>The Captain and the Kids</i>. Chic Young's <i>Blondie</i> became a successful series of live-action films for Columbia Pictures, followed up by an intended series of live-action films based on Frank King's <i>Gasoline Alley</i>.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Songs of the Pogo</i> Was an Original Album Based on the Famous Comic Strip</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving beyond a single recording, another tactic was to compile an entire album based upon a comic strip—an early example of this is <i>Songs of the Pogo</i> from 1956. Walt Kelly chose several of the cleverly-worded doggerel poems sprinkled throughout paperback collections of his <i>Pogo</i> strips, and let composer Norman Monath construct tunes around them.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walt Kelly Himself Performed a Few Selections for <i>Songs of the Pogo</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those unfamiliar with the strip's Lewis Carroll flavored nonsense might grouse that most of the songs from the original LP have little to do with the </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pogo</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> characters, but the result is an excellent listening experience that is pure Walt Kelly. So pure, in fact, that Kelly himself, performs a few tracks on the album: his rendition of "Go-Go Pogo" is in the best style of a lively, tongue-twisting, vaudevillian opening act.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When television proved a success, a whole new landscape of opportunity opened up for comic strip adaptations. Limited or "planned" animation shorts featuring King Features strips such as <i>Beetle Bailey</i> and <i>Snuffy Smith</i> were created for modest budgets to insert into local kiddie TV programs. Meanwhile, entire blocks of new <i>Popeye</i> television shorts were created for both local and syndicated television packages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>The Addams Family</i> Became a Success in Rerun Syndication For Decades</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hank Ketcham's <i>Dennis the Menace</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">became a memorable live-action family sitcom. A</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> popular "slice of life" cartoon series in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The New Yorker</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">depicting a macabre clan also found its way to television: the single-panel gags created by Charles Addams turned into a monster success when <i>The Addams Family</i> premiered in 1964. The show's memorable music by <i>Green Acres</i> composer Vic Mizzy became an iconic TV theme song. The famous finger-snapping tune continues to be utilized each time <i>The Addams Family</i> is revived in various media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Charles Schulz's <i>Peanuts</i> Became the First Animated Television Special Based on a Comic Strip</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Television also became the perfect platform for an entirely new format of animating comic strip characters, beginning in 1965. <i>A Charlie Brown Christmas</i> premiered as a half-hour special on CBS, launching over fifty television specials, an animated series, and four feature films starring the <i>Peanuts</i> characters created by Charles M. Schulz. The television specials turned the already popular strip into a cultural phenomenon, the success of which continues to this day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Vince Guaraldi Created the Unmistakable Jazz Stylings Identified With Animated <i>Peanuts</i> Projects</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A tremendous part of the unique charm of the original <i>Peanuts</i> specials was the jazz underscore written and performed by San Francisco Bay Area musician Vince Guaraldi. After fifty years, his original composition "Linus and Lucy" stands out as the best-known music based on a comic strip, and has since become an American standard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unmistakable success of the <i>Peanuts</i> specials led to many other strips attempting to make the jump into television specials from the 1970s onward. These projects were received with varying degrees of success, but only a few landed ratings high enough for the network to order a series of special, such as Bil Keane's <i>The Family Circus</i>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1977's <i>A Doonesbury Special</i> Featured Several Original Songs</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One notable special was an adaptation of Garry Trudeau's topical strip <i>Doonesbury</i>, produced by animation veterans John and Faith Hubley for 1977's <i>A Doonesbury Special</i>. The special boasted full, personality-driven animation techniques (a rarity by the 1970s) and original pop songs that reflected the mindset of the upcoming generation. The songs were "performed" by the strip's resident pop star Jimmy Thudpucker, which were later collected on an LP featuring additional music by the fictional star.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zonker Briefs Jimmy Thudpucker on Ginny Slade's Social Stances in Preparation for "Ginny's Song"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The album also included a song that appeared as a 45" single two years earlier: "Ginny's Song" was a Thudpucker campaign song that tied directly into a strip storyline, in which law student Ginny Slade made a bold run for Congress.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <i>Garfield</i> Television Specials Featured Original Songs With Vocals by Lou Rawls and Desiree Goyette</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next big comic strip-to-television success arrived in the form of a lazy, fat, dry-witted house cat created by Jim Davis. In fact, Davis's </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garfield</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> became the first strong competitor to Schulz's </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peanuts</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, as 1982 brought the CBS special </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here Comes Garfield</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perfectly voiced by Lorenzo Music, the sleepy-eyed cat struck a significant chord with the "Me" generation, leading to a series of annual TV specials and a top-rated Saturday morning animated series. A significant stamp of the original <i>Garfield</i> specials were the original songs performed by Low Rawls and Desiree Goyette—like Guaraldi's jazz score, the cool R&B vocals of Rawls was a unique element which gave the animated <i>Garfield</i> shows an identity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Li'l Abner</i> Heralded the Start of Broadway Musicals Based on Comic Strips</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Al Capp's <i>Li'l Abner</i> had made it's way to the Great White Way in 1956, packed full of songs with lyrics by the legendary Johnny Mercer. The musical </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Li'l Abner</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> had respectable run on Broadway, but quickly became the darling of community theaters and school plays for decades to come—it is continually mounted across the country thanks to the value of simple sets and a large cast. A film version was produced by Paramount Pictures in 1959.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trudeau's <i>Doonesbury</i> experienced a brief run on Broadway, as did the <i>Peanuts</i> gang in several revivals of <i>You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown</i>. But the heaviest hitter was 1977's <i>Annie</i>, the Broadway musical version of <i>Little Orphan Annie</i>, which brought the world the well-known anthem "Tomorrow." The original Broadway production won a whopping seven Tony awards, and ran for nearly six years. Like <i>Li'l Abner</i>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Annie</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was adapted into a feature film by Columbia Pictures in 1982.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloom County's Resident Heavy Metal Band </span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Deathtöngue"</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> B</b><span style="font-weight: bold;">ecame "Billy and the Boingers" Under the Pressure of a Senate Hearing Within the Strip</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berkeley Breathed’s <i>Bloom County</i> also caught on quickly in the early 1980s, due in large part to Opus, the naive but outspoken penguin. Breathed’s humorous response to <i>Garfield</i> was Bill the Cat: a repulsive and near-comatose feline whose sole purpose was to generate sales of T-shirts, coffee mugs and plush dolls. Bill and Opus soon become the heart of the strip: for example, the pair ran for U.S. presidency on “The Meadow Ticket” on several occasions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most famous storylines centered around loudmouth lawyer Steve Dallas forming a heavy metal band headlined by Bill the Cat—their head-banging band Deathtöngue, was re-christened Billy and the Boingers during a series of daily strips featuring an accusatory Senate hearing on the negative effects of rock music. A 1987 Sunday comic invited actual bands to submit Boingers songs to be released on a flexi-disc record in the <i>Bloom County</i> collection, <i>Billy and the Boingers: Bootleg</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Closing the 20th Century</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Baby Blues</i> Became an Animated Sitcom on the WB Network</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mega-budget live-action <i>Dick Tracy</i> feature (which we discussed <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>) failed to spark the interest of film-goers. While the 1990s saw some new comic strips debut in newspapers, only a few made the transition to animation: in particular, <i>Dilbert</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Scott Adams</span>, and <i>Baby Blues</i> by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott premiered as prime time animated television series. The latter featured the hit song </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Its All Been Done" </span>by Barenaked Ladies as the opening theme. Culling comic book properties or developing new, wholly-owned properties such as <i>Spongebob Squarepants </i>became the industry standard for most animation studios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Aaron McGruder's </b><b><i>The Boondocks</i> Became a Popular Animated Series on Cartoon Network's [adult swim] Progamming Block in 2005</b><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One exception to this was Aaron McGruder's groundbreaking strip <i>The Boondocks</i>, which was developed as a series for Cartoon Network's [adult swim] block of evening programming. In line with the strip, the animated series took a slicing satirical view through the eyes of McGruder's adolescent protagonist Huey Freeman, who retains a harsh view of modern society in contrast to the extreme beliefs of the characters who surround him. <i>The Boondocks</i> animated series ran for four seasons, garnering critical acclaim for its sharp writing and hilarious, but brutal honesty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A Vanishing Breed</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the ever-shrinking page count and newspaper circulation of the 21st Century, comic strips have taken a back seat to their successors of comic books. But there may be promise for new comic strips to thrive thanks to online publishing. Not to mention, each year an increasing number of publishers release hardcover editions of comprehensive, archived editions of classic newspaper strips. Though the delivery methods may change, the art of comic strip storytelling has a future for generations to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With some background fleshed out, let's have some music...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a nice variety in this list of suggestions, which I've put together in order of the original appearance of each strip, rather than the projects that featured them. They flow nicely, with the capper of the full 48-minute broadcast of <i>Dick Tracy in B-Flat</i>, courtesy of our friends at <a href="http://archive.org/" target="_blank"><b>archive.org</b></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each song listed below is available on </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>Amazon.com</b></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>iTunes</b></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. As usual, direct links to albums for both stores are provided below the description of each song, where you can listen to audio samples and purchase those that you might like to create your own Comic Strip inspired playlist. Please note: I don't get a piece of the profits if you make a purchase—the links are there to make things easy. While sampling, you might discover some new favorites!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: The Mellomen (Featuring Thurl Ravenscroft)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Barbershop Melodies Vol. 3</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019BUXTC/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk12?ie=UTF8&qid=1410468063&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/barbershop-melodies-volume-3/id278040073" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Donald Craig, Laurie Beechman, Edie Cowan and Penny Worth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Annie (Original 1977 Broadway Cast Recording)</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043ZDF5K/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk11" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/annie-original-broadway-cast/id939941788" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I'm Popeye the Sailor Man</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Billy Costello</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>I'm Popeye the Sailor Man</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Im-Popeye-Sailor-Man/dp/B00CVO55QW/ref=sr_1_2?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1410467929&sr=1-2&keywords=I%27m+Popeye+the+Sailor+Man" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/im-popeye-sailor-man-from/id650847532" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sooner or Later (From 1990's Feature Film <i>Dick Tracy</i>)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Bernadette Peters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Bernadette Peters: Sondheim, Etc (</i></span><i><span style="font-size: small;">Live at Carnegie Hall)</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sooner-Or-Later-Live/dp/B000TEB5VA/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1410468103&sr=8-8&keywords=Sooner+Or+Later+%28Live%29" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sondheim-etc.-live-at-carnegie/id724528905" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Alley Oop</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: The Hollywood Argyles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Alley Oop / Hully Gully</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001J29J6Y/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410467827&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alley-oop-hully-gully-single/id286313568" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jubilation T. Cornpone</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Stubby Kaye and Cast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Li'l Abner</i> Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I9JRV9C/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk3" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/lil-abner-feat.-howard-st./id528613981" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Addams Family</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Victor Mizzy and His Orchestra</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Original Music From The Addams Family</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004AP05QU/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk13" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/addams-family-original-music/id400958879" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Go-Go Pogo</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Waly Kelly (with Norman Monath)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Songs of the Pogo</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0023CR83K/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk1?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/songs-of-the-pogo/id310012072" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Linus and Lucy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: The Vince Guraraldi Trio</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>The Definitive Vince Guaraldi</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ROSKVI/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk22?ie=UTF8&qid=1410468019&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/definitive-vince-guaraldi/id333314052" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ginny's Song</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Jimmy Thudpucker and the Walden West </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rhythm Section</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Album: <i>Doonesbury's Jimmy Thudpucker Greatest Hits</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97129363/09%20Ginny%27s%20Song.mp3" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREE MP3</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Here Comes Garfield</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Lou Rawls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Here Comes Garfield</i> (45 rpm Single)<i><br /></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97129363/Here%20Comes%20Garfield.mp3" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREE MP3</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I'm a Boinger</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Billy and the Boingers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: </span><i><span style="font-size: small;">Billy and the Boingers: Bootleg</span></i></span><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97129363/I%27m%20a%20Boinger.mp3" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREE MP3</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It's All Been Done</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Barenaked Ladies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>Stunt</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Its-All-Been-Done/dp/B001L28PWQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1421614382&sr=1-2&keywords=stunt+barenaked+ladies" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stunt/id283971439" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Boondocks (Main Title)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Asheru</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: <i>The Boondocks (Music From the Animated Series)</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LIKH3FG/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk1" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/boondocks-music-from-animated/id895525042" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Dick Tracy in B-Flat</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist: Armed Forces Radio Service</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Command Performance</i> (February 15, 1945 Broadcast)</span><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97129363/Dick%20Tracy%20in%20B-Flat.mp3" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREE MP3</a></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ADDITIONAL MUSIC:</b><br />
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<i><a href="http://taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2014/10/doonesburys-jimmy-thudpucker-greatest.html" target="_blank"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doonesbury's Jimmy Thudpucker Greatest Hits</b></a></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Complete Album with Artwork and Liner Notes</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Courtesy of Taylor Jessen</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s Fuji Puzzle Box</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></b><br />
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<a href="http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~mortenj/fimland/boingers/BillyAndTheBoingers-UStinkButILoveYou.mp3" target="_blank"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Billy and the Boingers flexi-disc "B" side</b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"U Stink But I Love U"</span><br />
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</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/28/I-Yam-What-I-Yam-The-Story-of-Popeye/" target="_blank"><b>NEATORAMA—The Story of <i>Popeye</i></b></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.dicktracymuseum.com/headquarters/dick-tracy-in-wwii/dick-tracy-in-b-flat/" target="_blank">The Dick Tracy Museum on <i>Dick Tracy in B-Flat</i></a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://lil-abner.com/" target="_blank"><i>Li'l Abner</i> (Official Site)</a><i> </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://whirledofkelly.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Whirled of Kelly (Art of Walt Kelly's <i>Pogo</i>)</a><i> </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.vinceguaraldi.com/" target="_blank">Vince Guaraldi (Official Site)</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/set/77" target="_blank"><b>1976 <i>Doonesbury</i> Strips on the Creation of "Ginny's Song"</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://berkeleybreathed.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>Bloom County's</i> Berkeley Breathed (Official Site)</b></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caribbean Stamp Set Commemorating Wat Disney World's EPCOT Center</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Welcome back and Happy 2015! Sincere apologies for a noticeable lapse of activity here since October—but with an unexpectedly busy Holiday season tucked away, things are finally gearing back up for new content around these parts. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks to all the returning readers for your outstanding feedback last year, and thanks to all new visitors who've found their way here, many through a recent sponsorship via <i>The Season Pass Podcast</i> (more on that show at the end of this post.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Special Welcome to Listeners of <i>The Season Pass Podcast</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since we're looking to the future, this first post of 2015 takes a glimpse <i>back</i> at a theme park that looked <i>ahead</i>. Cleaning up an old bedroom set, I discovered a small wax envelope underneath a bookcase for many years containing about 125 Walt Disney themed postage stamps from around the world in the early-to-mid 1980s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>WAK! A Caribbean Stamp Featuring a Donald Duck Stamp Gag by Carl Barks</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many of the stamps featured unique illustrations, each focused on a general or specific theme. Two stand-out themes found within were selections of an "American Legends" series with the animated depiction of Johnny Appleseed from <i>Melody Time</i> (1948) and John Henry (twelve years prior to the release of Walt Disney Feature Animation's animated short <i>John Henry</i>).</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The First U.S. Walt Disney Postage Stamp Was Walt Himself</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite the focus on American Legends, all of the stamps within the envelope were issued outside of the United States. Following Walt Disney's death in 1966, a commemorative stamp was issued featuring his portrait, less than two years later, bucking the Post Office policy of a 10-year wait between an individual's passing and their image appearing on a stamp. While postage stamps featuring animated characters are commonplace in the 21st Century, they were non-existent in the United States prior to the mid-1990s. In fact, Mickey Mouse was pretty late to the game: he didn't actually show up on a U.S. postage stamp until 2004!</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Spectacular View From Shirley Heights, a Popular Perch on the Island of Antigua</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The second stand-out was a series of stamps focused on the original attractions found in the Future World section of Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center—t</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he images immediately stood out in that they were the only stamps in the envelope to feature a theme park setting and the only designs to utilized character art with actual photographs.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The EPCOT Center stamps were issued in the Eastern Caribbean dual-island state of Antigua and Barbuda in 1988.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Entire 1988 Antigua and Barbuda EPCOT Center Series of Stamps</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Should I come across the remaining four stamps in the series offered for sale, I'll scan and add them in as an addendum. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the meantime,</span> I'd like to welcome new visitors who arrived via </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Season Pass Podcast</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I Can Break Away</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a co-sponsor of their most recent episode #292, the subject of which is sure to please fans of theme parks and EPCOT Center in particular: Part IV an exclusive interview with Walt Disney Imagineering's Tony Baxter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/2/e/f/2ef578a1640ece8e/The_Season_Pass_239.mp3?c_id=5863282&expiration=1420507129&hwt=4d5aa2adb2b8984500492baa7cc09851" target="_blank">The Tony Baxter Interview Part I: TSPP #239</a></b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://topicsonstamps.info/disney/index.htm" target="_blank">Ken Polsson's Walt Disney on Stamps</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.yesterland.com/wdstamp.html" target="_blank">Yesterland: Edward Bergen on the Walt Disney Stamp of 1968</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* For our Walt Disney comic book sleuths: I believe that Contemporary Resort Mickey looks very much like he was drawn by Italian comic book legend Romano Scarpa. Thoughts?</span></div>
Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-44966857189008469082014-09-30T23:07:00.002-04:002014-10-20T23:27:48.203-04:00The Disney Comics Story (1990-1993): The End of the Line<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1993 Was the End of The Line for Disney's Self-Published Comic Books</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The story up to now...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html" target="_blank"><b>PROLOGUE</b></a> recounted the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the comic collecting craze of the
1980s, due to the growing popularity</span></span> of graphic novels, TV</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and cinematic
adaptions of comic book properties in tandem with a
growing speculation market. During this time, Walt Disney Productions was
revived with the incoming leadership of Michael Eisner and Frank
Wells. The </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">reinvigorated Walt Disney Company decided to bring their
comic book publishing in-house</span></span>, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">reclaiming the </span></span>U.S. Walt
Disney comic book license from Another Rainbow
Publishing's
Gladstone imprint.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993-ready.html" target="_blank"><b>CHAPTER 1</b></a> revealed a corporate culture engulfing The Walt Disney Company, and the formation of their
new in-house comic book line under W.D. Publications, Inc. The initial offerings of
<i>Roger Rabbit</i> and <i>Dick Tracy</i> specials led to the April
1990 launch of eight monthly Walt Disney
comic book titles under the imprint Disney Comics. The new line was the seeds of an ambitious plan
for growth within the
first year of publishing, with goal of becoming a major contender in the comic book industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993_5112.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">CHAPTER</span></span> 2</b></a> </span><span style="font-size: small;">showcased the "Disney Explosion"</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">: </span>launching <i>Disney Adventures</i> digest, specials and annuals in addition to monthly books during the first year of Disney Comics</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">. New material </span>tied to then-current television series, films and anniversaries was developed alongside aggressive plans for expansion to new imprints to present broader content</span><span style="font-size: small;">. The original business plan was so aggressive that </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">self-inflicted
market saturation had begun to settle in</span></span>, and the Disney Comics Album Series were discontinued </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">after the first eight months of publishing</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">CHAPTER</span></span> 3</b></a> captured the effects of the "Disney Implosion"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">: as the </span></span></span>comic book craze was about to crest in 1991, Disney's accountants took a hard look at the numbers Disney Comics pulled in during it's first year of publishing. Economics dictated a severe slashing of monthly titles and the removal of Editor-in-Chief Len Wein, along with other members of the staff. Bob Foster was put in place as Managing Editor for the Disney Comics line, with a greater emphasis on classic material, to mimic the content Gladstone had published a few years prior.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1992: A New Mission in a New Year</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having trimmed the publishing schedule down to three monthly titles and a Limited Series under rotating themes, 1992 kicked off the second era of the Disney Comics line. Their goals were passive in contrast to the bombast of the April 1990 launch, as efforts were now to split the focus of their publications, catering either directly to the fan base or directly to kids</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">. There remained an optimistic</span> possibility of nurturing some kind of overlap between the two demographics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Reactions to The Disney Implosion </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Following the
departure of Len Wein, Managing Editor Bob Foster assumed drafting the
"Between the Lines" column and kept monthly messages to Disney Comics
readers </span><span style="font-size: small;">refreshingly direct. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foster openly acknowledged the
changes that had taken place in late 1991, rightfully citing economics
as the cause for the severe cancellation of titles. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Disney Comics</i> Managing Editor Bob Foster and Legendary Comics Book Artist Russ Heath (Seated) at the 1991 San Diego Comic Con</b></span></span></div>
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opinions were voiced loud, clear and unfiltered. In the days before
online comments sections and message boards, there was another outlet
for comics fans to cast their opinions: the weekly tabloid newspaper, <i>Comics Buyers Guide</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The succeeding months brought sour reactions to the Disney Comics line, especially in contrast to the quality of the Gladstone books that preceded them. Negative views were submitted not only from fans, but from creatives involved in the comic book industry, and several who had worked directly on Disney Comics publications.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These comments carried enough weight to elicit a reply in <i>Comics Buyers Guide</i> from a Disney marketing executive, reassuring that the comics line would move forward, having learned real-time lessons from their tumultuous first eighteen months of publishing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The executive's reply was lengthy and laced with corporate buzz words, but especially insulting in the following claim:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"We're finding new places to sell comics, in addition to both the Disney theme parks and the Disney Stores which have sold selected comic book product since we began publishing...."</span></span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That statement may read like it was meant in good faith, but it was a flat-out <i>lie</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If by "selected" they meant the premium-priced Collectible #1 Issue Box Set mentioned in Chapter 1 of this series, no one had ever seen any of the Disney Comics line offered in Disney's theme parks, nor in Disney Stores that continued to pop up in malls across America.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After all, wouldn't those have been the most logical places to find Disney comic books? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The 1992 Walt Disney Pictures Film Slate</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over in Burbank, the disappointing performance of <i>The Rocketeer</i> was quickly overcome by the tremendous success of <i>Beauty and the Beast</i>
at the close of 1991. Walt Disney Pictures had plenty more up their
sleeves for 1992 with high hopes for a variety of projects: </span><span style="font-size: small;">the original live-action musical </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Newsies</i>,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">a <i>Honey, I Shrunk the Kids</i> sequel, the original family comedy <i>The Mighty Ducks</i>, and a holiday season release for Feature Animation's next project: <i>Aladdin</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The 1992 Release of <i>Aladdin</i> Would Score Another Big Hit for Feature Animation, and Fuel Upcoming Comic Books</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of these films, only <i>Aladdin</i> would receive the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">graphic novel </span></span>adaptation treatment</span><span style="font-size: small;"> from Disney Comics. The first eight pages of the adaptation were previewed </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in the December 1992 issue of <i>Disney Adventures</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>additional new <i>Aladdin</i> stories would later appear in the digest, as well.</span></span><br />
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another family film was set to release that Christmas, featuring some
familiar friends who were new to the Disney fold. This points us to a
slight detour which will merge back onto the road of <i>The Disney Comics Story</i> and comic books overall...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>George Lucas's <i>Star Wars</i> Saga Changed the Way Audiences, Filmmakers and Studios Looked at the Execution and Marketing of Films</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Under
Michael Eisner's creative leadership, The Walt Disney Company had begun
to make gestures in expanding their identity, by way of licensing or
full acquisition of outside properties. The trend actually began </span><span style="font-size: small;">as
a result of projects a few years prior to Eisner's arrival: in
particular, the Studio's unsuccessful efforts in the early 1980s to
develop hit science-fiction/action properties to compete with the
mega-blockbuster <i>Star Wars</i> films from 20th Century Fox and the built-in fan base of Paramount's new <i>Star Trek</i> theatrical series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Star Wars: A New Hope</i> (1977) and <i>Star Trek: The Motion Picture</i> (1979) Signaled a Profitable New Era of Science-Fiction Films</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt Disney Productions had produced two</span><span style="font-size: small;"> films </span><span style="font-size: small;">as a response to these cinematic sci-fi sagas: <i>The Black Hole</i> (1979) and <i>TRON</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> (1982). Both films </span><span style="font-size: small;">created lush worlds with dynamic art direction and state-of-the-art special effects</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">. T</span>hey
were also costly, and failed to strike a chord with a wide audience,
despite significant promotion during their theatrical releases.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Black Hole</i> was considered especially uneven, unable to bear fruit as a film franchise, merchandise or a theme park attraction.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>TRON</i>
fared slightly better, having spawned a popular video arcade game and
aspects of the film were folded into segments of Disneyland's
PeopleMover track.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
deflated returns of those films combined with the high costs of
developing unproved properties led to Eisner cannily forging deals with
outside companies to utilize their I.P and talent under Disney-led
projects. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Walt Disney Company Began to Seek Outside Talent to Develop New Properties </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Starting With <i>Captain EO</i> for the Theme Parks</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Left to Right: Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Jackson, George Lucas)</span><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first big outside licensing deal was negotiated with
George Lucas's visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic to </span><span style="font-size: small;">produce the cutting-edge 3-D film <i>Captain EO</i>, starring Michael Jackson and Angelica Houston. Following the completion of the third installment of the original <i>Star Wars</i>
trilogy, Lucas was already committed to other film projects: his
colleague Francis Ford Coppola stepped in as Director for the
high-profile short film.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Success of <i>Captain EO</i> Proved That Not All Creative Innovation Had to Come From Within the Halls of The Walt Disney Company</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Industrial Light and Magic created i</span></span>nnovative 3-D effects especially for <i>Captain EO</i>
in tandem with Jackson's equally innovative music and dance
choreography. The scope and names attached to the 17-minute film was an
expensive endeavor, but a portion of the costs were covered </span><span style="font-size: small;">through
the sponsorship by Kodak. Not to mention, the drawing power of Michael
Jackson in the mid-1980s was basically the equivalent of printing your
own money.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the immediate success of <i>Captain EO</i> and dealings with George Lucas proving amicable, Disney was able to acquire the </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Star Wars</i>
license for exclusive use in their theme park attractions. A motion
simulator attraction was already in development at Walt Disney
Imagineering in Glendale, California</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>it was simple to re-skin the concept to adapt it into the world of <i>Star Wars</i> as commercial galactic space travel, resulting in the opening of Star Tours in 1987.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Flanked by Familiar Friends, Michael Eisner and George Lucas Attend the Ribbon Cutting for </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disneyland's </b></span></span>Star Tours in 1987</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Both <i>Captain EO</i>
and Star Tours came online within a year of each other at parks on both
coasts, bringing new life and cultural relevance to the Disney name. T</span><span style="font-size: small;">his
relationship benefited all parties, and lured in another colleague of
George Lucas: Steven Spielberg, resulting in licensing the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>Indiana Jones</i> franchise for Disney's theme parks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Outside I.P. Fit Well Into Disney's Theme Parks, Attracting Both Longtime <i>and</i> Brand New Guests</b></span></span></div>
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Disney/Lucasfilm relationship became the tip of the iceberg for
integrating content developed and established outside of The Walt Disney
Company. The work of another media phenomenon had the attention of
Mickey's new CEO for some time...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It's Time to Meet the Muppets</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During Eisner's time heading television<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">programming,
he forged a relationship with the gentle creative force that was Jim
Henson. Upon a remarkable rise in exposure during the 1960s, Henson's
work was seen everywhere the following decade via </span><span style="font-size: small;">commercials, television specials, thanks in large part to the strength of <i>Sesame Street</i> on PBS and eventually, <i>The Muppet Show</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Due to His Creative Nature, Jim Henson Was Considered "The Next Walt Disney"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michael
Eisner recognized this trait early in his own career, and had attempted
for several years to bring Henson's work into the Disney fold. In 1989 a
deal was finally struck to acquire Henson and his core group of Muppet
characters into the Disney portfolio, as well as multiple development
deals for television, films and theme park attractions. Sadly, Henson's
involvement was limited beyond a few initial projects</span><span style="font-size: small;">, due to his untimely death in May of 1990.</span></span><br />
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immediately after Henson's passing, the original Disney/Muppets deal
fell apart. But a few projects came to fruition, including the 1992
holiday season release from Walt Disney Pictures: <i>The Muppet Christmas Carol</i>, a re-telling of the classic Charles Dickens tale starring Michael Caine as Ebeneezer Scrooge alongside the quirky Muppet cast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Muppet Christmas Carol</i> Was the First Muppets Film After Jim Henson's Passing</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Poster Art Courtesy of <a href="http://www.madpoet-one.com/2011/12/tis-season-to-be-jolly-and-joyous.html#.U9K0eqOdQlR" target="_blank"><b>Music for a Mid-Life Geek</b></a></span><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">© Henson/</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Disney</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prior to the Disney acquisition, the comic book license for </span><span style="font-size: small;">the
wholly-owned Henson properties had been granted to Marvel starting in
1982. Marvel had produced comic book adaptations of Henson feature films
<i>The Dark Crystal</i>, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Muppets Take Manhattan</i>, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Labryinth</i>, and ongoing </span><span style="font-size: small;">series of </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fraggle Rock</i> and <i>Muppet Babies</i> titles (both the animated <i>Muppet Babies</i> and <i>Fraggle Rock</i>
Saturday morning series were co-produced by Marvel Productions Ltd.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not surprisingly, Marvel's Henson license was not renewed beyond 1989,
right around the time of Disney's initial dealings with Henson and the decision to self-publish the Disney Comics line.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Throughout the 1980s, </b></span></span>Marvel Comics Produced Several Comic Book </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adaptations </b></span></span>of Jim Henson's </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Film and Animation</b></span></span> Projects</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney's
increasingly brittle dealings with the Henson family showed in the lack
of acknowledgement in the comic books, which would have been a proper
vehicle for synergistic promotion. Though it seemed a likely candidate,
there's no </span><span style="font-size: small;">indication of Disney Comics preparing a graphic novel adaptation of <i>A Muppet Christmas Carol</i> or any other comic offerings with the famous Muppet characters.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Studio's apathy towards the Muppets brand became even</span><span style="font-size: small;"> more telling in April of 1992, when the license </span><span style="font-size: small;">to reprint the Marvel-produced stories from <i>Muppet Babies</i> </span><span style="font-size: small;">was granted to Harvey Comics. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Everything Old is New Again</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rare and Restored Classic</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Content Began to Show Up in Disney Comics</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art by Walt Kelly and Larry Mayer, <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> #571 (March 1992)</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The promise of the Disney Comics editorial staff proved true: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">traditionally-styled </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">foreign
reprints continued to appear as vintage gems were restored and
recolored for upcoming issues, much of which had never been reprinted
before. Some of the most unique material was found in the pages of <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i>, which experienced a doubling of page count with several 64-page issues in 1992.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Several Well-Crafted Foreign Stories Were Reprinted in the Style of Carl Barks</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The foreign
stories had merit, as they were originally written for Denmark's The
Gutenberghus Group in the tradition of Carl Barks stories. Several tales
by Vicar and "The Money Ocean" by Marco Rota evoked the spirit and
pacing of the 1950s work by Barks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Creative Erosion</b></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Due to the
creative management policies of W.D. Publications, Inc., Gutenberghus
also had indirectly attracted some new talent from the United States:
management stated that original art would <i>not</i> be returned to the
artists, which became a growing point of contention. Many artists
negotiate to receive some or all of their original art to be returned in
order to sell the work at comic conventions or through galleries and
auction houses. Doing so provides a much-needed source of income for
those under freelance or project-to-project contracts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Don Rosa Receives an Award from Swedish Journalist Sture Hegerfors</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Photo Courtesy of <a href="http://duckman.pettho.com/drinfo/drinfo.html" target="_blank"><b>Introduc(k)tion to Don Rosa</b></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During
the end of the Gladstone era, fan favorite Don Rosa had been vocal in
his disapproval on this policy, and made the transition to providing
stories for Gutenberghus, his latest works would appear in overseas
publications long before seeing print in the U.S. By 1992, some of
Rosa's new work was beginning to trickle over into issues of <i>Donald Duck</i> and <i>Uncle Scrooge</i>, providing a much-needed shot in the arm for </span><span style="font-size: small;">Disney Comics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In 1991 John Lustig and William Van Horn Also Began Producing Stories for The Gutenberghus Group</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Left to Right: John Lustig, William Van Horn, Gar</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">é</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Barks, Carl Barks)</span><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Immediately following the Disney Implosion, the "no new stories" mandate put in place for the </span><span style="font-size: small;">Disney
Comics line was quietly intended for the classic characters like Mickey
Mouse and Donald Duck, leaving some North American comic creators to
find work elsewhere. Both John Lustig and William Van Horn found a more
stable home for their talents at Gutenberghus. Disney Comics could still
use their work</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>but had no real editorial control over it, and had to go through the Danish company to acquire the stories.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Classic
reprints and new stories by Don Rosa and William Van Horn were a good way to keep fans and
collectors coming back for the next issue. There was enough cash left in
the coffers to swing a few promotions to promote incentive for new
readership, and to bolster consumers purchase of the monthly titles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Valentines Are Flying </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The 1992 Valentine's Day Poster Was an Elegant Premium</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">February </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1992 brought reprints of two Valentine's Day </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">stories by Carl Barks</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and an exclusive centerfold poster in <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> #570. The centerfold was </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on glossy paper </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">featuring a </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">nicely rendered illustration of Mickey and Minnie based on the 1941 Mickey Mouse short <i>The Nifty Nineties</i> flanked by two of the cherubs from <i>Fantasia</i>.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
the centerfold poster made for a nice bonus, a bigger premium promotion
was at hand: something Editors hoped would guarantee purchase of </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Donald Duck Adventures</i>, <i>Uncle Scrooge</i>, and <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i></span></span></span></span>, across a three-month span!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Duckburg Map</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> The Duckburg Map Promotion Ran Across the Standard Disney Comics Titles Over the Course of Three Months</b><span class="st"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
months of April to June brought forth The Duckburg Map promotion, in
which one full-page piece of nine were printed in each issue of the
monthly titles to form a large 26" x 33" map of the town. The goal was
for the readers to collect all nine pieces, and mail in proofs of
purchase: in exchange, they would receive a set of electrostatic
stickers (like vinyl Colorforms®</span><span style="font-size: small;">) to place on the map, and a chance to win a piece of original <i>Donald Duck</i> newspaper comic strip art.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The promotion had
several drawbacks: the map pieces were printed on actual pages within
the comic, not as a high-quality insert like the February centerfold.
Because of this, the printed ink on the reverse side was visible, and
cutting out a map piece led to a loose or untethered adjoining page in
the comic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>All Nine</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Duckburg Map</b></span> </span>Pieces </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Combined Into a </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Giant 26" x 33" Poster</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Map Art by Joe Pearson and Larry Mayer</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The bigger problem was that </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the map pieces were placed in </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the three titles geared to collectors, yet </span></span>the map really keyed directly off the animated series <i>DuckTales</i>,
not the traditional, Barks-style stories. The promotion may have been a
desire to develop that overlap between sales demographics, but it
wasn't properly executed, and came across as more youth-driven than
collector-minded.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flaws
aside, the promotion was met with contestants: Disney Comics sent out
the sticker sets to all those who entered, and there were three winners
of comic strip art, and two winners of a print of the <i>Duck Family Tree</i> by William Van Horn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Euro Disneyland</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Euro Disney Resort Opened in 1992 Among Controversy</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Euro Disney Resort</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (now Disneyland Paris)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
had opened earlier in the year, 20 miles outside of the city of Paris.
The project was plagued early on with local resistance, construction
issues, and considered an under-performing endeavor due to a European
recession that summer. Despite the public setbacks, Disney's marketing
made sure to promote their newest destination through every possible
channel of the company.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Special "Passport to Disneyland Adventures" Disney Comics I.D. Box</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
featured a theme of "Passport to Disneyland Adventures" as a way to
cross-promote the opening of the Euro Disney Resort. The three monthly
titles eschewed their usual I.D. box at the top left for an "admission
ticket" bearing the promotion, and (oddly) an illustration of the
Anaheim, California Disneyland castle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>June 1992 Disney Comics Titles Featured Theme Park Inspired Stories</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">Panel Details From "Plunkett's Emporium" Art by Vicar,<i> Uncle Scrooge</i> #269 (June 1992) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Translated
stories from Gutenberghus opened on the streets of Euro Disney and
transitioned into yarns based on locations within the parks: a medieval
adventure in Fantasyland in <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i>, and a pair of nostalgic Main Street U.S.A. stories in <i>Uncle Scrooge</i>. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i></span></span>, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">reprinted "Mastering the Matterhorn" </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a classic 1959 Carl Barks tale </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">set on the slopes of the famous mountain</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Original French Cover For "The Euro Disneyland Adventure"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Cover Art by Romano Scarpa,<i> Hors Collection: Aventures </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><i><span class="st">à</span> Euro Disney</i> #1 (March 1992) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">Image Courtesy of <a href="http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=fr%2FCHC+++1" target="_blank"><b>COA I.N.D.U.C.K.S.</b></a></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney's Colossal Comics </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Collection</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">#9 reprinted a 40-page tale </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">set within the new park, </span></span>drawn
by Romano Scarpa: "The Euro Disneyland Adventure." This was another
story that would have likely been released as a stand-alone graphic
novel, prior to the Disney Implosion</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>the cover art depicted above is surely what would have been used in that case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The 1992 Summer Olympics </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
big event that summer was the Olympic games of 1992, in Barcelona,
Spain. There were prominent associations and sponsorships by large
corporations such as </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coca-Cola, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nike and Visa. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt Disney Productions</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> had previously played a significant role sponsoring the 1984 Summer Olympics, which took place in Los Angeles</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>an
especially wise association, considering that the 30-mile proximity of
Disneyland to the Olympic game sites would surely benefit attendance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disney Artist Bob Moore Designed 1984 Olympic Mascot, Sam the Olympic Eagle</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Longtime
Disney artist Bob Moore even designed the 1984 Olympic mascot, Sam the
Olympic Eagle (no relation to Henson's Muppet character, nor the host of
the Disneyland attraction, America Sings.) That year, Sam showed up on
everything from programs, posters, toys and T-Shirts to soda cans and
packages of film.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disney Comics Celebrated the Summer Olympic Games in July 1992 </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art by Jim Franzen, <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> #28 (July 1992)</span><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney had a stake in the t</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he 1992 Summer Olympic games </span></span>as well: that July, the three Disney Comics titles featured Olympic themes, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with lead stories
of each book found the ducks participating in Olympic games and trials.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Official permission to use the famous five-ringed symbol within the
books.</span></span>and the I.D. box declared the books as an "Official
Licensed Product of the U.S. Olympic Committee"... so it's quite
possible those particular books found their way to Barcelona to be
distributed to participants and attendees!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disney Comics Ad Announcing <i>Disney Comics in 3-D</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
we've covered earlier in this series, format variations became popular
during the comic book craze of the 1980s and 1990s. A throwback gimmick
from the 1950s had found its way back into the mainstream: comic books
in 3-D.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3-D
movies had become the craze of both theater-goers and movie studios in
the early 1950s. The application of the technique to comic books was
developed in 1953 by cartoonist Norman Maurer, son-in-law to Moe Howard
of The Three Stooges. Maurer created the first 3-D comic book in tandem
with his brother Leonard and </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">their Managing Editor </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">at </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">St. John Publishing: </span></span>comics legend Joe Kubert</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.<i> Three Dimension Comics</i> #1 </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">was released in July of 1953</span></span>, headlined by another famous cartoon rodent: Mighty Mouse of Terrytoons fame.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The First 3-D Comic Was Published in 1953, Starring Paul Terry's <i>Mighty Mouse</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The experiment turned out to be a financial success: a 25</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">¢</span>
cover price was decided upon to cover the cost of the special 3-D
"space goggles" included within. Despite the higher price amid a sea of
10</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">¢</span> comics, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Three Dimension Comics</i> #1</span></span> sold over 1,200,000 copies. and opened the floodgates for plenty of publishers looking to cash in on 3-D comics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Disney's Comics in 3-D</i> #1</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney Comics
recognized that it was relatively easy to format previously published
stories for the 3-D format. With this novelty in mind, <i>Disney's Comics in 3-D</i> #1 was released </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">polybagged </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with glasses to present stories in an extra dimension. The title had </span></span>a 48-page count, </span></span>justifying the higher cover price of $2.95.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Back-Up Stories From the Cancelled Roger Rabbit Title Were Formatted for Dimensional Treatment in <i>Roger Rabbit in 3-D</i> #1</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A stand-alone <i>Roger Rabbit in 3-D</i>
comic soon followed in the same format, with a 32-page count and a
$2.50 cover price. Beyond the cover art, neither issue featured new
content. Future issues of either title failed to materialize.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don Rosa Collected</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A monthly title
containing new duck material from Don Rosa assured good sales figures
for that issue, so a special book dedicated to Rosa's work was logical
project to greenlight. A 100-page, prestige format album simply titled <i>Donald and Scrooge</i> was released in 1992 </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">compiling
Rosa stories that appeared in Disney Comics over their first two years
of publishing. The collection contained strictly reprints, but Don Rosa
was commissioned to create a new cover for the special.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <i>Donald and Scrooge</i> Special Compiled All of Don Rosa's Stories for Disney Comics Up to That Time</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art by Don Rosa for <i>Donald and Scrooge</i> Album #1 (1992)</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The contents of the Don Rosa special was later broken into three standard format issues of <i>Donald and Scrooge</i>,
sold both individually and as a polybagged package containing all three
issues—marking the third time the same material was made available in
less than two years. This level of hyper-reprinting was becoming a
common practice in the comics industry at the time, but became a factor
in diluting the value of the original comic books </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">within the collector's marke</span></span></span>t.</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To Maximize Rosa's Popularity, the Same Material Quickly Appeared Again in Three Standard Format Issues of <i>Donald and Scrooge</i></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><b>Bob Foster Departs</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
three monthly titles in May 1992 were the final books under the
Editorship of Bob Foster, who also departed for Denmark to work for
Gutenberghus as a script editor. Foster had become the guiding light of
the Disney Comics line, and a great champion of getting both new and
classic material "out there"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>an example of Foster's dedicated contributions was preparing vintage <i>Pinocchio</i> material for <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> to coincide with the classic film's Summer 1992 re-release.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bob Foster Researched and Prepared Rare Material to Appear in Disney Comics, Such as this Vintage <i>Pinocchio</i> Story </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">Panel Detail From an Untitled <i>Pinocchio</i> Story by Carl Buettner<i>,</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> #575 (July 1992) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
was a harsh blow to the already anemic Disney Comics line. Not only was
Foster's experience and history in the animation and comics field a
significant asset, he had provided a personal voice and the only honest
connection to loyal readers who had "hung in there."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Foster's Legacy Continued Via Planned Future Issues and Rough Layouts For Cover Designs</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art For <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> #35 (February 1993)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Concept by Bob Foster, Penciled by Jim Franzen, Inked by Bruce Patterson </span><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">Image Courtesy of <a href="http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=KJD+093b" target="_blank"><b>COA I.N.D.U.C.K.S.</b></a></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fortunately,
comic books are prepared and planned far ahead of printing, so plenty
of Foster's concept sketches and materials were left to inspire upcoming
books. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Editor Cris Palomino and Senior Editor David Seidman quietly took the reins, overseeing a small, but dedicated staff.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>More Fan Pushback</b></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foster's
departure signaled a collective groan for fans who understood his value
and contribution. The 1992 issue of the well-circulated fanzine <i>The Duckburg Times </i>offered a hard, honest editorial on the remaining embers of the Disney Comics line, the text of which is transcribed below:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>An Editorial in the 1992 Issue of <i>The Duckburg Times</i> Captured the Frustrations of Walt Disney Comic Book Fans</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">Cover Art by William Van Horn</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><i>The Duckburg Times</i> © Dana & Frank Gabbard</span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"[T]here
is more to the recent shake-up at Disney Comics than meets the eye. It
is a symptom of pervasive problems with Disney's approach to doing
business during the [Michael] Eisner era.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney's
near miraculous turn-around since the new management took over in 1984
could turn most anyone's head. In its aftermath hubris, what Michael
Eisner terms the 'masters of the universe' syndrome, has infected Team
Disney. They behave as if they know more about anything than anyone else
and can do no wrong. <i>Prince of the Magic Kingdom</i> contains an
illuminating anecdote about Disney executives behaving arrogantly during
meetings with network television executives despite at that time having
had very little success producing TV programs.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arrogant
presumption of this sort explains why Disney, with no experience
publishing comics, could decide not to renew Gladstone's license in the
belief that they could more successfully produce and market the comics
themselves. Before a single issue of the new Disney Comics line had even
been distributed, Disney executives were rumored to be confidently
predicting that in a short time they would be competing on an equal
footing with industry leaders Marvel and DC. After all, they were
Disney–how could they go wrong?</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Given
Disney's reputation for synergy and marketing savvy, the litany of
mistakes, gaffes and blunders that bedeviled Disney Comics is surprising
and embarrassing: the $1.50 cover price cripples sales to their target
audience of kids and parents. The refusal to return original art or pay
royalties alienated talent. The line of graphic albums was mishandled
and sputtered to a halt. Promised publicity on The Disney Channel and
<i>The Disney Afternoon</i> never materialized; plans to sell the comics at
K-Marts, the theme parks and Disney Stores went nowhere. Some of the new
material was dismal (most pointedly, the <i>Roger Rabbit</i> titles and early
issues of <i>DuckTales</i>) and foreign licensees refused to reprint it (a
significant source of revenue for the studio.) Favoritism in hiring
created cliques and tension among the staff.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney
never had a commitment to publishing comics beyond a desire for profit.
When it became clear marketing Disney Comics would require more than
just publishing the books and hope they sold, it was decided to scrap
the line except for the Duck titles. Len Wein and his associates were
sacked, indirectly scapegoating them for the whole mess.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wein
<i>et al.</i> bear quite a bit of blame, but the chief culprit was Disney's
management and its lack of strategic planning in starting this venture.
With Bob Foster gone, Disney Comics is at a crossroad. Hopefully this
lull will give Disney a change to reflect upon its mistakes and perhaps
profit from them. Please?"</span></span></b> </blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>– The Duckburg Times</i> Fanzine Editorial (1992) </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rear cover of the same issue offered a column of recent news, called "DISNEYDOM"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span>a
paragraph featuring an update on the Disney Comics line suggested that
perhaps the feelings expressed in the editorial were shared in Burbank as
well. Click the image below to enlarge:</span></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"WAK!!!"</span></span></b></i><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">As Quickly as The Walt Disney Company Wanted to Get Into the Business of Publishing Comic Books, They Wanted to Get Out of It</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><i>The Duckburg Times</i> © </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">Dana & Frank Gabbard </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">Character Art by Carl Barks, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">© Disne<i>y</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
end was near, but there were a few projects that would find their way
to the racks, most notably including properties and associations
mentioned at the beginning of this chapter...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pre-Hysteria</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though
the full acquisition of the Jim Henson properties failed to gel, The
Walt Disney Company retained development deals with Henson Associates
for features, home video releases and television shows.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Henson-Created <i>Dinosaurs</i></span> Ran Several Seasons on ABC's Prime-time Schedule</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first
original project that found it's way through the pipeline was an
original </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> television </span></span>series debuting mid-season on abc's 1991 </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">prime-time line up:</span></span> <i>Dinosaurs</i>
was a sitcom featuring the Sinclairs, a prehistoric family of domestic
dinosaurs, presented in the usual Henson style of sly satire and social
commentary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dinosaurs</i>
was heavily promoted during the premiere season, and gained decent
ratings thanks to the sharp writing and cross-generation appeal. The antics of precocious Baby
Sinclair proved something of a marketing bonanza, which led to dolls,
stickers, a CD recording and of course, comic books.</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Original <i>Dinosaurs</i> Comic Stories Debuted Through Disney's Hollywood Comics Imprint</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two <i>Dinosaurs</i> comic books were released in late 1992 and early 1993 in the </span><span style="font-size: small;">graphic novel format through the Hollywood Comics imprint. Other new stories featuring the Sinclair family characters </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">appeared in <i>Disney Adventures</i>, and several were reprinted in <i>Colossal Comics Collection</i> and a volume of <i>Cartoon Tales</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <i>Goof Troop</i>
Limited Series promised the year before never came to pass, but Goofy
and son Max were not completely forsaken on the comic pages: new stories
based his <i>The Disney Afternoon</i> show were featured monthly in <i>Disney Adventures</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Peter David Remained "Under the Sea" to Write Both Issues of a <i>Sebastian</i> Mini-Series for Disney Comics</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having completed the 4-issue runs on both <i>The Little Mermaid</i> and <i>Darkwing Duck</i>
Limited Series, there was no problem mining the Disney library for the
next theme of upcoming titles... Peter David remained "under the sea" to
write stories for a two-issue Mini-Series focusing on the breakout
calypso crab </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">character </span></span>from <i>Mermaid</i>. His two-part <i>Sebastian</i> story surfaced in July and August of 1992.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Like <i>The Little Mermaid</i> Comics, <i>The New Adventures of Beauty and the Beast</i> Also Took Place Before the Events of the Film</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Mini-Series featured beautiful art by Jorge Sanchez and the Jamie Diaz
Studios, an advanced color technique provided soft gradients and colored
line work, which gave the book a feel that was close to the film's
look.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Colored Line and Soft Backgrounds in </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The New Adventures of Beauty and the Beast </i></b></span></span>Stories Helped Evoke the Feel of the Animated Film</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <i>Cartoon Tales</i> series continued to reprint film adaptations and content from previous issues of Disney Comics. <i>Cartoon Tales</i> #13 featuring <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> was scheduled but never published, leaving a head-scratching gap for collectors and completists.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The last few in the run of the series were formatted the same, but deviated from the animation-centric content and dropped the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Cartoon Tales</i> banner. T</span></span>his is where another George Lucas license comes into play...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles</i> Also Appeared on ABC's Prime-Time Line-Up </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1992 Amblin Entertainment and Lucasfilm produced a big-budget prequel to their blockbuster Indiana Jones film trilogy, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a weekly television series </span></span>for abc's prime-time line-up: <i>The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles</i>. Each episode in the series jumped to different points in Indy's formative years, providing a nice complement to the films.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disney Comics Obtained the Reprint Rights to </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles </i>Comic Book Stories<i><br /></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dark Horse Comics had obtained the <i>Indiana Jones</i> license from Marvel in 1990. Upon the debut of the television series, Dark Horse published 12 issues of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles</i>, </span></span>adapting six early TV episodes into two </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">parts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having established a good working relationship with Amblin and
Lucasfilm, Disney negotiated the reprint rights to those
comic book stories: the first six Dark Horse issues of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles</i></span></span></span></span> were compiled and reprinted as three complete stories in the Cartoon Tales format: <i>The Curse of the Jackal</i>, <i>The Search for the Oryx</i>, and <i>The Peril of the Fort</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Another Arabian Night</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In an interesting turn, the final months of Disney Comics actually foreshadowed th</span></span>e upcoming trend of the Studio's direct-to-video sequels: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Return of Aladdin</i> was released as a two-issue Mini-Series in early 1993</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">bucking the prequel trend by setting the stage for the Aladdin characters in a sequel setting.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The comic book Mini-Series appeared one year ahead of </span></span>Disney TV animation's release of their first original project </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">exclusive</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to home media: <i>The Return of Jafar</i>. The project was not just a VHS sequel to <i>Aladdin</i>, it was a new way to monetize the TV movies used to set the stage for the upcoming <i>Aladdin</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">animated </span></span>series on both <i>The Disney Afternoon</i>
and CBS Saturday morning in 1994. Instead of
blocking 60-90 minutes as a one-time TV special for prime time viewing,
each unit retailed for $29.95. This was the beginning of a new trend in
home entertainment, and a new type of profit center that would prove to be pure gold.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Released One Year Apart, T<i>he Return of Aladdin</i> Comic Book Closely Mirrored </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Direct-to-Video Presentation</b></span></span> <i>The Return of Jafar</i>, Right Down to the Cover Art</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Return of Jafar</i></span></span> had a premise resembling the plot of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney Comics Mini-Series</span></span></span></span>, yet each held significant enough contradictions to each other<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. <span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately,
contradictory content between comic book tie-ins and animated projects
would no longer be a concern by the end of April 1993: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Return of Aladdin</i> would be</span></span></span></span> t</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he final Disney Comics Mini-Series.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Walking With Giants</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each <i>Aladdin</i> sequel project was developed
independently, but it wasn't too surprising...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> The
Walt Disney
Company had grown so large, that two branches of the company were completely unaware of each
other's handling of the same I.P.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">growth strategies set in place by </span></span>Michael
Eisner and Frank Wells had worked well with minimal
growing pains: the humble Walt Disney Productions of old had been remade
into a media giant in just under a decade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Naturally, larger financial and P.R. stumbling blocks such as Euro Disney took precedence</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span>issues
like a branch of publishing struggling with $1.50 comic books couldn't
garner much personal attention from the heads of the company.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If it had,
perhaps the ship could have righted itself... both Eisner, Wells and
Walt's nephew Roy E. Disney understood the value of their company's rich
history. It was Michael Eisner himself who appointed the formation of Walt Disney
Television Animation, and planted the seeds for <i>DuckTales</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The End of the Line</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some telling signs regarding of the end of Disney Comics showed in the lack of information within the "Between the Lines"
and letter columns</span></span> during the last few months of publishing. No real information was leaked as to the future of the comics line until May of 1993, the final month of publishing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whether
it was coincidental or intentional, perhaps the most symbolic of their
last gasp was the cover art chosen for the final Disney Comics issue of <i>Uncle Scrooge</i>:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Final Disney Comics Issue of <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> Appropriately Featured a Weathered, Sunken Ship Against </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a Solid Black Background</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art For <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> #280 (May 1993)</span></span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Concept by Bob Foster, Art by Don Rosa </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Between the Lines" appeared for the final time, assuring readers their favorites will not be dormant long... </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">click the image below to read the farewell message from the Disney Comics staff:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The May 1993 "Between the Lines" Farewell Column</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The text assured that contemporary content would continue on a monthly basis in the pages of <i>Disney Adventures</i>.
The comic book license for classic content was restored to the
publisher who had handled them best: Another Rainbow's
Gladstone comic book imprint.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Best
of all, the Walt Disney comic books would have no lapse in release...
Gladstone would resume their publishing schedule the following month.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
news was further verified with a two-page subscription form that
showed the familiar logos and titles, which picked up right where
Gladstone had left off. Preview images of the upcoming Gladstone cover
art suggested a different tone than the past three years of Disney Comics.</span></span><br />
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New Gladstone Series II Subscription Ad Officially Brought Walt Disney
Comic Books Back to the Publisher That Had Handled Them Best</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(Nearly) The End!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
chapter concludes <i>The Disney Comics Story</i> from inception to
cancellation... but if you remember where we started last November, this
all began with a Prologue. With every Prologue there needs to be an
Epilogue, right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So there's one more installment to go! After all, we need to cover:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What became of the creative talent that supplied work to the Disney Comics line? </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those who follow the
business side of entertainment probably recognized a pattern in this
chapter, with The Walt Disney Company, abc Television, Marvel Comics,
Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and the Muppets. We'll see just how those
roads converged in the past twenty years.</span></span><br />
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those who'd like to go back further into the history of Walt Disney
comic books, Author, Historian and Editor David Gerstein wrote a
wonderful 22-page history of the U.S. Walt Disney comic books for <i>Comic Book Marketplace</i> in 2003, titled "Disney Comics: Back to Long Ago!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This expertly researched article chronicles the books from the original <i>Mickey Mouse</i> comic strip,
right up to 2003. David has kindly made
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.cartoonresearch.com/gerstein/Back-To-Long-Ago.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Disney Comics: Back to Long Ago!</b></span></a></span></span></div>
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sure to enjoy... and plenty more about comic books of ALL kinds!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Original 1963 Attraction Poster for Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last year I wrote about the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hawaiian tiki craze </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that swept the continental United States during the 1950s and 1960s in a post on <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/01/see-you-in-disneyland-4-tahitian.html" target="_blank"><b>Disneyland's Tahitian Terrace</b></a>. The Polynesian dining and show space opened in 1962, providing just a hint of the South Seas culture to come to the park one year later. On June 23, 1963 Disneyland presented their first full Audio-Animatronic show directly adjacent to the Tahitian Terrace: Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room. The original Disneyland musical show has stood the test of time, and remains a must-see attraction for many visitors to Walt's original park.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are generous resources in print and online regarding the history and influence of
the attraction itself, so this post will focus on the origins of the songs performed in the original 1963 </span></span>Enchanted Tiki Room show. Like the other playlist entries on </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I Can Break Away</i>, there is a set of links to audio of all the songs at the end of the post and a FREE direct download to an MP3 for readers to enjoy. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We'll begin with a breakdown of each song in the show, and the story behind them</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>let's dive in!</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As guests file into Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room from the outdoor lanai, they await the arrival of a hostess who lightly nudges José, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">one of four colorful host parrots who sit stationary on bamboo perches. The bird comes to miraculous life, muttering "My siestas are getting 'chorter and 'chorter!" With that, he calls upon his fellow emcees and the bird cast is introduced in the rollicking theme song of the Audio-Animatronic show.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This signature song </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room</span></span>" </span></span>was included rather late in the development of the Enchanted Tiki Room show:
it has since become a signature tune within the berm of Disneyland and
other Disney theme parks around the globe. The song came into being simply because the show
required a reason to explain just what the Tiki Room actually <i>is</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1962, Walt Disney asked several members of his creative staff to report to Stage 2 of the Burbank Studio. There, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a full mock-up of a new</span></span> project for Disneyland had been assembled: the theme was</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> a tropical hut in a South Seas setting. Standard tropical trappings of bamboo and rattan matting were accented by stuffed birds on perches, exotic plants, and comically carved tiki totems. </span></span></span></span>When all in attendance settled down on folding bridge chairs, the presentation began... the once stationary decor suddenly came to life as birds chirped, flowers sang, and tiki totems chanted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the presentation concluded, everyone agreed the show was unique, but came across as a non-sequitur performance. There was nothing established to encapsulate what they had just witnessed. Walt clarified that was the very reason he'd gathered them, stating: "It's a great show, but nobody knows what the damn thing is all about."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He then turned to the Sherman Brothers, who had been requested to attend, and asked "Any ideas, boys?" Ever quick on their feet, the songwriting duo cooked up the germs of what would become the signature framework of the new show:</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"[W]e suggested that an articulate parrot could sing a song to set up the show. In fact, we continued, he could even act as the emcee! The song could be done in a calypso beat</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span>'The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room.' It has a sound you could remember. And Walt bought the idea, just like that, adding: 'Instead of one parrot emcee, we'll have four, with French, Spanish, German, and Irish accents.' He always had a way of plusing a good idea."</span></span></i> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> new presentation format of four host birds</span></span>, and the Sherman's rhythmic chant of the work "Tiki" worked perfectly to gel the show's unusual elements. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They established the lyrics and basic melody of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room</span></span>," with a memorable calypso beat. The orchestrations for the song was provided by Walt Disney Productions musical stalwart, George Bruns. Bruns had a remarkable way of squeezing energy and emotion out of musicians from the smallest combo to the full orchestra.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those familiar with the scores for Walt's animated films of that era will recognize signature trademarks and cues that pure Bruns. In fact, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruns utilized</span></span> several music cues</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in </span></span>Walt Disney's <i>The Sword in the Stone</i> (1964) </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that mimic his orchestration from </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Enchanted Tiki Room—both </span></span></span></span>were in production at the same time</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jacket Art for <i>Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room Original Soundtrack</i> LP From Disneyland Records (</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1968)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first track listed at the end of the post is the original version of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room</span></span>," and the only audio from the actual show (since it was an original composition.)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the roisterous opening song is completed, an angelic bird's whistling signals the start of the infamous "Offenbach Number"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—an opera selection performed completely in whistles and chirps. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">This </span></span></span>portion of the show has been cut from the The Enchanted Tiki Room since the 1980s. </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Offenbach song was considered a dramatic slow-down in energy</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">: </span></span></span></span></span>a two-and-a-half minute downshift which longtime W.E.D. Designer John Hench simply labeled as "boring." Hench noted that he often witnessed audience members losing interest and walking out of the show during that particular sequence. Luckily, the origin of the song has a bit more character than that!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The song was composed by </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jacques Offenbach, a prolific impresario of the romantic period. Originally written for his </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1864 </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">opera <i>Die Rheinnixen</i> (<i>The Rhine Nixies</i> or <i>The Rhine Fairies</i>) the tune was </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">featured </span></span></span></span></span></span>in Act 3 as </span></span></span></span>"Elfenchor" ("The Elves Song") played against a flurry of elves and spirits in a forest setting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The same melody resurfaced in Offenbach's final opera: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><i>Les contes d'Hoffmann</i> </i>(<i>The Tales of Hoffmann</i>) in 1881, this time </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as the song "Barcarolle</span></span>." The title comes from the Italian word <i>barcarola</i>, defined as a folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers, or a song written in the same style of meter, resembling the rhythmic oar strokes of the gondolier.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Modern-Day Production of Jacques Offenbach's <i>The Tales of Hoffman</i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The official track listing from the 1968 Enchanted Tiki Room LP album is listed as "Elfenchor from <i>Die Rheinnixen</i>." I've provided links to two Offenbach tracks at the end of the post: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Overture"</span> from </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Die Rheinnixen</i></span> and </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Barcarolle" from <i>The Tales of Hoffman</i>... it's basically the same melody, but both are offered for the sake of context.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"Look! Here Come the Girls!"</b></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the next act, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">José</span>
and the host birds draw attention to the center of the room, where
the magic fountain's water spout rises to beckon the descent of an
elaborate "birdmobile"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>a
chandelier-like carriage featuring a flock of lovely, white female
cockatoos. The introduction of the girls signal the next number, an old favorite which encourages the audience to join in and
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">English Sheet Music for "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" (</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1932)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pianist Tolchard Evans </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">had already experienced tremendous success </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as a songwriter</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> by 1926 with the song "Barcelona," and in 1931</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> for the accordion standard </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Lady of Spain</span></span></span>,</span>"</span></span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in a collaborative effort with Stanley J. Damerell</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and Robert Hargreaves.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Evans, Damerell and Hargreaves</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">, along with Harry Tilsley</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> struck gold again </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in 1932 </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing." </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bearing no romantic, national or religious associations, "Birdies" is an early example of a hit novelty song, preceding Bob Merrill's chart-topping </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" by twenty years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their bird song became a favorite in English pubs and taverns thanks to it's playful melody and interactive sensibility</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>it's certain that the song was also performed within traditional English Music Halls (England's equivalent of Vaudeville.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sing-Alongs Have Always Been Wildly Popular in English Taverns and Pubs</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once heard, "Birdies" is easy to remember, so it's understandable how it caught on so well in a pub or theater setting. </span></span>Due to the sheer simplicity and singability, the popular song quickly found it's way west, receiving it's first recording in the United States by radio personality Ben Bernie and His Orchestra in 1933.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Vintage Recording of "</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing</b></span></span></span></span>" by Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra is the Free MP3 on This Playlist</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The recording of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" </span></span>included
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As our avian chorus chirps and warbles the finish of their last number, ornate canoe-shaped baskets slowly drop from the thatched ceiling. Within the containers are bunches of singing Hawaiian orchids</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>their melody is backed up by several stalks of clacking Bird of Paradise plants in each corner of the Tiki Room. The botanicals build from a soothing lullaby to a buoyant rendition of the famous "Hawaiian War Chant."</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Colorful Baskets of Singing Orchids Begin "Hawaiian War Chant"</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The original rendition of the "Hawaiian War Chant" wasn't composed as a chant at all. In fact, the song had an entirely different name and context: </span><span style="font-size: small;">the original melody and lyrics were written in 1860 by Hawaiian Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II as "</span><span style="font-size: small;">Kaua i ka Huahua'i" ("We Two in the
Spray.")</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span class="st">Leleiohoku's song centered around a </span><span class="st">surreptitious meeting between two lovers, a composition with</span><span class="st"><span class="st"> </span>no connection to conflict or war (beyond the fact that the lovers are in the throes of an adulterous affair.)</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II's</span></span></b> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Original Composition of </span></span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Hawaiian War Chant" </span></span></b>Had Nothing to Do With War</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the early 1930s, English lyrics were written by Ralph Freed, with a slight melody and tempo rearrangement by Johnny Noble, the band leader at Honolulu's Moana Hotel. Noble's faster pace and jazz beat rendition lent to the notion of becoming a chant—his version helped popularize the song via radio broadcasts and recordings. "Hawaiian War Chant" became cemented in popular culture when it was performed by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra in the 1942 MGM musical comedy <i>Ship Ahoy</i>.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Hawaiian War Chant" Was Performed by Tommy Dorsey in MGM's </span></span></span></span><i>Ship Ahoy</i> (1942)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the Tiki Craze of the 1950s and 1960s permeated pop culture, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"War Chant"</span></span></span></span> could be heard frequently on the mainland, from exotic bars to episodes of <i>The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet</i>. The song remain as one of the most iconic representations of Hawaiian culture today—it is still regularly performed at resorts and live performances throughout the 50th state. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he singing flowers are interrupted by a change of lighting, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the mood shifts with a sudden beating of tribal drums, as four trios of tiki drummers in the recessed corners of the Tiki Room begin to furiously play, calling forth the totems that flank them to begin their imposing incantation of the "Hawaiian War Chant" lyrics. The tiki totems recite with shifting eyeballs and blink with convincing realism (with both eyelids!) as the tempo builds ever faster.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The entire room builds to a stunning climax of "Chant," summoning sudden thunder, lightning and a heavy rainstorm as seen through the bamboo window shades of the Enchanted Tiki Room: all of it's inhabitants now fully alive. Fulton Burley as Tiki Bird Michael sums up the freak change in weather best, by uttering: "The Gods have been angered by all the celebratin'!"</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are three selections listed below as inspirations for this sequence. First is the traditional "Hawaiian War Chant" by Andy Iona, which reflects </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leleiohoku's original romantic rendition. The second is traditional island drumming by The Polynesians to mark the transition to the rainstorm</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. The third is an Ella Fitzgerald's cover of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Hawaiian War Chant" to provide a swinging example of Ralph Freed's English lyrics and Johnny Noble's pacing.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aloha 'Oe (Farewell to Thee)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sudden storm heads out to sea and calm is restored to the Tiki Room. Right before the "Farewell and Aloha" conclusion song written by the Sherman Brothers (which is a quick wrap-up of what guests have just seen)—another Hawaiian standard glides in beneath the dialogue of the birds. In fact, it's likely the most iconic musical example of Hawaiian culture: "Aloha 'Oe (Farewell to Thee)"</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Aloha 'Oe (Farewell to Thee)"</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The composition of "Aloha 'Oe" was a accidental, yet serendipitous one, by Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch. There are varying accounts as to the origin of the song, but the most widely accepted rendition of the story is as follows:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1878, </span></span>Queen Lili'uokalani visited the
Maunawili Ranch in Oahu, where Colonel James Harbottle Boyd resided. As she departed for home on horseback, she turned to admire the view of Kaneohe Bay only
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affectionately bid each other farewell. The sight struck an emotional chord with Lili'uokalani who began softly humming on the trip back to Honolulu. By the end of their journey, the entire horseback party was humming the tune.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Queen Liliʻuokalani, the Last Hawaiian Monarch </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lili'uokalani was no stranger to writing or song compositions, she had composed over 150 songs, including "He Mele Lahui Hawaii" ("The Song of the Hawaiian Nation") which served as one of Hawaii's early national anthems. The Queen drafted a manuscript for </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Aloha 'Oe" </span></span>containing the score, lyrics and English translation, including a note stating </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Composed at Maunawili, 1878. Played by the Royal Hawaiian Band in San Francisco August 1883 and became very popular." </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Updated English lyrics were written in 1923 by J. WIll Callahan, who extended the title with the parenthetical "Farewell to Thee." </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since then, "Aloha 'Oe" has become a signature song of the state of Hawaii, used in countless live performances and recorded for radio, film and television productions. The original sentiment remains as a fond embrace "until we meet again."</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a-size-medium WebstoreAUISmoothFont WebstoreAUILink" id="artistBlurb">The track listed below is by George Kulokahai and His Island Serenaders, theirs serves as an exemplary rendition of </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a-size-medium WebstoreAUISmoothFont WebstoreAUILink" id="artistBlurb"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lili'uokalani's first impression of the tender interaction off</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a-size-medium WebstoreAUISmoothFont WebstoreAUILink" id="artistBlurb"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Kaneohe Bay.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heigh-Ho</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Tiki Birds compel their audience to stand up and applaud, guiding them</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>to the exit doors by singing a familiar tune from the Walt Disney songbook. Some clever re-tooled lyrics to the beloved Seven Dwarfs marching song "Heigh-Ho" leads guests out the door as the inhabitants of the Enchanted Tiki Room reset for their next show. </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is an
early example of Disney's staff winking to the audience by being
self-aware, which was as uncommon in 1963 as it is common in 2014. </span></span>"Heigh-Ho" was composed by Frank Churchill and written by Larry Morey for Walt Disney's first animated feature, <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i> in 1937.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Much like "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" it is deceptively simple, and one of Disney's best known. The prelude to the tune is the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">"Dig-a-Dig Dig" introduction, which leads into "Heigh-Ho" signaling the end of the Dwarf's workday in the jewel-rich mine.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">T</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">he animated sequence is a beautiful thing to witness, both artistically and as a perfect introduction to the characters: it remains just as </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">memorable </span></span></span>as the song itself</span></span></span>. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">"Heigh-Ho" appeared as recently as June 2014 when The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train attraction opened in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">The track listed is from the 2001 re-mastered soundtrack of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i>, containing the original </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">"Dig-a-Dig Dig" leading into </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">"Heigh-Ho" as it appeared in the 1937 film.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album Art for </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Song Origins of Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room</i> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Playlist</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each song listed below is available on <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b>. As usual, direct links to albums for
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each song, where you can listen to audio samples and purchase those that
you might like to create your own South Seas/Tiki playlist. As usual, I don't get a piece of the profits if you make a
purchase<span class="st">—</span>the links are there to make things easy. While sampling, you might discover some new favorites for your music library.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: The </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Official Album of the </span></span>Disneyland Resort (2013 Edition)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EDMZQ1Y/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk3" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-tiki-tiki-tiki-room/id685045399?i=685045717" target="_blank">iTunes </a></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Die Rheinnixen: Overture</span></span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Gulbenkian Orchestra</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Offenbach: Music From the Operettas</span></span><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Die-Rheinnixen-Overture/dp/B000QQHA9W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1407531635&sr=8-2&keywords=Die+Rheinnixen" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/die-rheinnixen-overture/id218643158?i=218644030" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman/Act 4</span></span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>Entr'acte (Barcarolle)</span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Barcarolle</span></span><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—Favorite Opera Intermezzi</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Offenbach-Contes-dHoffmann-Entracte-Barcarolle/dp/B000VA8A88/ref=sr_1_43?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1407386737&sr=1-43&keywords=barcarolle+offenbach" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/les-contes-dhoffmann-entracte/id4712024?i=4711991" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing</b></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ambrose and His Orchestra</span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
<a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97129363/Ambrose-LetsAllSingLikeTheBirdiesSing.mp3" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>CLICK HERE FOR FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD</b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></b></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></span></b></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hawaiian War Chant</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Andy Iona</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Hawaiian Memories</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wa-I-Hawaiian-War-Chant/dp/B005AJBAPK/ref=sr_1_23?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1407385814&sr=1-23&keywords=Hawaiian+War+Chant" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ta-hu-wa-hu-wa-i-hawaiian/id448082044?i=448082059" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bora Bora (Tahitian Drums)</b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: The Polynesians</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Hawaiian Serenade</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bora-Tahitian-Drums/dp/B000SFMMMG/ref=pd_sim_dmusic_t_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1DRY0MG7SB83AK64F4E3" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bora-bora-tahitian-drums/id123075061?i=123075160" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hawaiian War Chant </span><span style="font-size: small;">(Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai)</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>English Version</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Ella Fitzgerald</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Ultra-Lounge Vol. 15-Wild, Cool, & Swingin' Too!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hawaiian-Chant-Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai-Digital-Remaster/dp/B000TEIV26/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1407432286&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=Hawaiian+War+Chant+%28Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai%29" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hawaiian-war-chant-ta-hu-wa/id712244694?i=712244873" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aloha 'Oe (Farewell to Thee)</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a-size-medium WebstoreAUISmoothFont WebstoreAUILink" id="artistBlurb">George Kulokahai and His Island Serenaders</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: The Music of Hawaii</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Aloha-Oe/dp/B00EP6MWNI/ref=sr_1_134?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1407382803&sr=1-134&keywords=aloha+oe" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/aloha-oe/id343826866?i=343827059" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heigh-Ho</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: The Dwarf Chorus</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heigh-Ho-Soundtrack/dp/B001HDYWV2/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1407386038&sr=1-1&keywords=Heigh-Ho" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/heigh-ho-soundtrack/id292551692?i=292551705" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you've enjoyed this look at the origins of the songs behind The
Enchanted Tiki Room, I recommend a visit to FoxxFur's <i>Passport to Dreams
Old & New</i>—her 2013 three-part series on the musical history of The
Country Bear Jamboree is a comprehensive look at the songs and artists
behind the 1971 Audio-Animatronic show designed for Walt Disney World.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read all about it here:</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-music-of-country-bear-jamboree-part.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Music of Country Bear Jamboree: </span></span>Part III</a></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Severe Re-DUCK-tion in Size: The Cover Art for <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> #38 Provided a Fitting Analogy for Disney's Self-Publishing Endeavor</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Story So Far... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In our <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html" target="_blank"><b>PROLOGUE</b></a>
we saw how the rise of graphic novels, TV</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and cinematic
adaptions of comic book properties and</span></span> a
rising speculation market created the comic collecting craze of the 1980s. At the same time, a languishing Walt Disney Productions was revived thanks
to the incoming leadership of Michael Eisner and Frank
Wells into the company. The U.S. Walt
Disney comic book license was reclaimed from Another Rainbow Publishing's
Gladstone imprint, as the
reinvigorated Walt Disney Company decided to publish the
comics in-house.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993-ready.html" target="_blank"><b>CHAPTER 1</b></a> revealed a growing
corporate culture at The Walt Disney Company, and the formation of the new comic book line under W.D. Publications, Inc. The first offerings of <i>Roger Rabbit</i> and <i>Dick Tracy</i> specials led to the April 1990 launch of eight monthly Walt Disney
comic book titles debuted under the in-house imprint, appropriately
named Disney Comics. The new books were upgraded to high-quality paper and coloring, with primarily brand new content, and an ambitious plan for growth within the
first year of publishing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993_5112.html" target="_blank">CHAPTER 2</a></b> showcased the "Disney Explosion"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>launching <i>Disney Adventures</i>, specials and annuals published alongside the monthly books during the first year of Disney Comics</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">. Much new content was </span></span></span></span></span>tied to then-current television series, films and anniversaries. E</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">xpansion plans included three new imprints, based on Touchstone/Hollywood Pictures </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">films</span></span>, as well as original action-based and mature themes. By the close of 1990, the Disney Comics Album Series had been discontinued as their own market saturation had begun to settle in.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With self-inflicted market saturation comes </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dipping sales. Naturally, </span></span>the expansion goals for their comic lines would be have to be reconsidered,</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> revised or</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> flat-out reduced. Disney Comics readers had no idea just how severe that reduction would be.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With that in mind, let's pull
back to take a wider view of the business of comic books around 1991/1992...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We've already covered how comic book publishers benefited from the collector's surge and took every
opportunity to capitalize on the situation. In fact, most of the larger media companies began to take a page from Disney's marketing playbook and utilized hyper-synergization strategies across multiple platforms.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Brothers were already at work on the sequel to the 1989 mega-hit <i>Batman</i>, coercing Tim Burton and Michael Keaton to remain on board for another round in Gotham City. <i>Batman Returns</i> would be released to U.S. screens on June 19, 1992 with a mass marketing blitz that matched its predecessor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To keep the Bat-Signal lit between a inevitable third installment of the film series, development began in 1990 on <i>Batman: The Animated Series</i></span><span style="font-size: small;">, a joint effort between DC Comics and Warner Brothers Television Animation. The creative team behind the </span><span style="font-size: small;">tone of the </span><span style="font-size: small;">show consisted of life-long comic fans: Alan Burnett, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Paul Dini</span><span style="font-size: small;">,
Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm. The team took the best of Batman's world and
spun a dramatic, exciting take on the characters. The show was scheduled
to premiere on the then-fledgling Fox Network in the late summer of
1992, six weeks after the theatrical debut of <i>Batman Returns</i>.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marvel Was in on the 1992 TV Animation Schedule Too, With an Epic Saturday Morning Take on <i>X-Men</i> for the Fox Network<i><br /></i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The scrappy Fox Network was building their own reputation and programming schedule brick-by-brick. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not to be outdone by DC Comics, </span></span>Television executive Margaret Loesch backed a Marvel Comics animated pilot <i>Pryde of the X-Men</i>
in 1989, which had been broadcast, but not picked up as a series. The
core of the show was re-tooled and pitched again to more closely
resemble the sensibilities of the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby comic book series.
<i>X-Men</i> was picked up as a Saturday morning series by the Fox
Network with an initial order for 13 episodes, set to premiere in
1992, mere weeks after the debut of <i>Batman: The Animated Series</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fox had already
gained momentum with television animation: in 1987, their Sunday night
schedule of original live-action programming garnered major ratings
thanks to the irreverent comedy <i>Married... With Children</i>, followed by the quirky sketch comedy of <i>The Tracey Ullman Show</i>. Before commercial breaks, <i>Ullman</i> featured 30-second animated bridge sequences with original characters written and designed by <i>Life in Hell</i>
cartoonist Matt Groening. The stars of these sequences were a
dysfunctional cartoon family, the capers of whom skyrocketed in
popularity</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—they </span></span></span>spun
off to a prime-time Christmas Special in December 1989, followed by a
weekly prime-time series of their own in January 1990. <span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Simpsons</i>
quickly became a cross-generational sensation and a merchandising
bonanza.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Independent comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">held comic book properties
that launched several successful box office films in the mid-1990s, t</span><span style="font-size: small;">he most successful of which was </span><span style="font-size: small;">already in development</span><span style="font-size: small;">: <i>The Mask</i> was released in 1994 starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz</span><span style="font-size: small;">. Though the property was previously known only to staunch comic readers, <i>The Mask</i> would be a financial success, thanks in large part to Carrey's rising stardom. The film begat a hit soundtrack and a 1995 animated television series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i> before them, each of the above were spun off into comics resembling their television and cinematic counterparts. New comic book titles adapted from the <i>Batman</i>, <i>X-Men</i> and <i>The Mask</i> animated series would occupy shelf space alongside the titles that launched them onto the screen. <i>The Simpsons</i> appeared as comics in the magazine <i>Simpsons Illustrated</i> through Welsh Publishing</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span>the quarterly publication was so successful, that it led Matt Groening to form his own publishing company, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Bongo Comics</span><span style="font-size: small;"> in 1993. There, multiple <i>Simpsons</i> titles and several other properties would dwell as standard-format comics.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Biggest Comic Book Event of All</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beyond synergistic efforts, DC Comics dropped a bombshell of an announcement that would draw focus back to the pages where the excitement began. In October of 1992, a three-arc storyline kicked off, running across multiple titles</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span>a saga that would occupy a full year of publishing. Simply stated, no comic book plot has ever received media attention like <i>The Death of Superman</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Cover Art for <i>Superman</i> #75 (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Vol. 2, </span></span>Novem</span>ber 1992)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not only did this event </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">draw new attention to the entire line of <i>Superman</i> titles, it drew PLENTY of readers and spec buyers to comic shops around the country to snare multiple copies of <i>Superman</i> #75, which was available as a standard cover, and several sealed polybagged editions containing special "Superman Memorial" ephemera.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course, DC had no intention of keeping Superman "dead"... there were development deals in place for a new series of films with Warner Brothers, and <i>Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman</i> was being prepped for ABC's prime time line-up in 1993. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Death of Superman</i></span></span> was a marketing event, engineered to sell more comics to those who had jumped on the collector's bandwagon, and those who couldn't resist plunking down a few dollars and salt away (at the very least) one of the variant offerings of landmark issue #75.</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Disney Afternoon</i> Promotion Attracts Extra Visitors to </span></span></b>Disneyland: Exactly the Type of In-House Synergy The Walt Disney Company Perfected</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover of Spring 1991 Issue of <i>Disney News</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Scan Courtesy of <a href="http://www.disneynewsarchive.com/" target="_blank"><b>Tim's Disney News Archive</b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Increased
attention and buzz surrounding the above comic book projects led new and return
customers to make more frequent visits to the comic books shops that
were proliferating across the country. This I.P. cross-pollination was exactly what The Walt Disney Company wanted with the inception of the Disney Comics line. They were especially aware of their own brand recognition: Parents and Grandparents picking up comic books for the kids at home probably couldn't identify <i>Doctor Strange</i> or <i>Guy Gardner</i>, but they surely knew <i>Mickey Mouse</i>, <i>Donald Duck</i> and <i>Goofy</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Due to the Company's Rapid Growth at the Time, Michael Eisner Famously Referred to the 1990s as "The Disney Decade"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Left to Right: Michael Graves, John Tishman, Michael Eisner, and Frank Wells)</span></span><br />
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Eisner (Past CEO of The Walt Disney Company), and Frank Wells, (Past
President and COO of The Walt Disney Company) - See more at:
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Walt Disney Company's well-known properties and acquired/licensed I.P. only bolstered the confidence behind their </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">growth </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">strategy.
Established and original content could be exploited to and from the
comics page. This made perfect sense in 1991 as the massive wave of the comic book craze was
about to crest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the occasion
of the comic line's first anniversary, Editor-in-Chief Len Wein reported
that over the course of their first twelve months, Disney Comics had
produced <b>3,000</b> pages of original material</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">: that's </span></span></span></span></span><i><b>not</b></i> counting reprints
of U.S. stories or translations of existing overseas material. He also
promised that more new titles would be joining the line-up later in
1991.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their output had been the result of a tremendous marketing push and initial capital investment to W.D. Publications, Inc.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—b</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ut dipping sales figures and shrinking </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">quantity</span></span> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">orders from </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">direct
market comic book shops proved the first year of Disney Comics was only
a partial success, with some significant holes in their initial
publishing strategy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To help patch the holes, an attempted outreach to readers beyond letter column replies was run in
most of the monthly books: a basic survey encouraging feedback
on the habits of Disney Comics readers.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In 1991 This Survey Form Was Run Throughout All Titles to Get a Better Grasp on Reader's Preferences (But Had Little to Do With Comic Book Content)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The only problem with the information </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">requested </span></span></span></span></span></span>was that the survey inquired no information that sales figures couldn't already determine, nor did it evoke motivation to actually improve or modify the contents of the books.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Still, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">regular monthly titles, specials and <i>Disney Adventures</i> came out on schedule after the Disney Comics Albums were quietly discontinued.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i>The Rocketeer</i> Fails to Soar at the Box Office</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Studio was hopeful for the potential of a new franchise with the release of <i>The Rocketeer</i> from Walt Disney Pictures in the summer of 1991. The Disney Comics team was also hopeful for the film's release, as it would attract a new, built-in set of consumers who were fans of the original comic series by Dave Stevens. Stevens himself illustrated the cover for the official <i>Rocketeer</i> movie adaptation graphic novel, released by W.D. Publications, Inc. in June 1991.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Rocketeer</i> Landed With a Thud in Cinemas, Thereby Crashing Hopes for Any New Further Comic Adventures From W.D. Publications, Inc.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">From <i>The Rocketeer—The Official Movie Adaptation</i> (June 1991)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Disney's promotional hype for <i>Dick Tracy</i> the previous summer had been rampant. While the film experienced an impressive opening weekend, the studio had anticipated a hit on the level of 1989's <i>Batman</i>, but the pop culture impact of </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Dick Tracy</i> paled in comparison </span></span>to the phenomenon and grosses of the worldwide Bat-Craze. Box office returns led executives to declare <i>Tracy</i> as a mild to moderate </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">success, thus squashing the potential for a franchise of films or synergistic theme park expansion for the famous comic strip detective.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a result, Walt Disney Pictures was a bit more conservative with the scale of marketing of <i>The Rocketeer</i> for 1991. The comic book stories had gained a respectable fan base since the character first appeared in Pacific Comics titles in 1982</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">—</span>but <i>The Rocketeer</i> was considerably less of a household name than comic book heroes such as <i>Thor</i> or <i>Green Lantern</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Rocketeer</i> Suffered at the Box Office, But the Film Gained a Mass Following in Later Years Through Cable and Home Media Viewings</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Though the overall reception from fans and critics were high, the film failed to perform, and was considered a disappointment in ratio to the high budget. Once again, the Studio immediately severed all future </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">plans for a <i>Rocketeer</i> franchise of films or development of presence in the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">theme parks</span></span>. <i>The Rocketeer</i> later found its audience, and enjoys a remarkable cult following today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The summer of 1991 also found Disney Comics a</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t their zenit</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">h</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span>with the addition of <i>Roger Rabbit's Toontown</i> in June, their schedule now consisted of TEN regular titles published per month, in addition to the <i>Junior Woodchucks</i> Limited Series, and <i>Summer Fun</i> #1, not to mention the comic book content that took up a good portion of the monthly <i>Disney Adventures</i>. The June 1991 <i>Between The Lines</i> column proved the breadth of their output released in a single month (not including <i>Disney Adventures</i>!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The June 1991 Disney Comics <i>Between The Lines</i> Column</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The list of offerings bursted with text, leaving no space for the usual left column greeting from Len Wein. The selection was an impressive line-up, in sync with the new, synergistic Walt Disney Company under </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To non-comic book readers, it represented a sign of Disney's marketing might, securing success in yet another corner of media.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But to the casual reader, it may have been <b><i>too much</i></b> of a variety to dedicate $15, minimum, to purchase every issue of the standard books each month (about $40 a month, minimum, in 2014 comic book prices.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Time Tetrad</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In August of 1991, Editor Bob Foster used the four titles under his direction (<i>Donald Duck Adventures</i>, <i>Uncle Scrooge</i>, <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i>, and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>DuckTales</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></i>) as a springboard to sell multiple books within the same month: <i>The Time Tetrad</i> series contained four </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">indirectly linked </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>stories</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> centered around a time machine built by Gyro Gearloose.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The Time Tetrad</i> Spanned Across Four Disney Comics Titles in a Single Month</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the same time, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i> and <i>Goofy Adventures </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>(two other titles not under Foster's Editorship)
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monthly theme. Perhaps themed issue promotions or connected multi-part
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Goofy Adventures</i> Became the First Casualty of "The Disney Implosion"</b></span></span></div>
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#17 was released with "FINAL ISSUE!" emblazoned below the corner logo
in capital letters. Sales for the title beyond the first few issues had
dipped alarmingly low, enough to justify the title's cancellation. The
most unfortunate aspect of the cancellation is that the book was wholly original in the world of Disney Comics, containing plenty of excellent new material and parodies that were quite
clever, in the satirical tone of <i>MAD</i> magazine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>David Cody Weiss' Letter Column in the Final Issue of <i>Goofy Adventures</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The letter column
in the final issue was penned by Editor David Cody Weiss (in the guise
of "Goofy" himself) explaining the basic facts, and foreshadowing not
only the need to make room for other titles, but the addition of Goofy
to <i>The Disney Afternoon</i> the following year in the weekday series <i>Goof Troop</i>, promising a new comic book title based on the upcoming show.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Goofy Was Scheduled to Return to Monthly Comics in 1992 Following the Debut of <i>Goof Troop</i> on <i>The Disney Afternoon</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Consider that </span></span></span>in the pre-digital age of publishing, </span></span>most
comic books were prepped for press three months in advance of their
release date. Weiss likely wrote the column in May, right after the
first anniversary of the Disney Comics imprint</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">. At the one-year mark, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">accountants </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">had </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>likely taken a good, hard look at which books covered their costs and which were less than profitable.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The severe changes to come weren't necessarily known at the time of Weiss's missive to readers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">.</span></span></span> </span></span>What <b><i>wasn't</i></b> foreshadowed in the letter column was the impending cancellation of six more </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Disney Comics titles</span></span>
in the following two months. After eighteen months of aggressive
publishing, low sales figures were predominant in their roster of
titles. The only books that kept up their sales were those reprinting
the comic book stories of Carl Barks and vintage comic book stories, or </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">material directly inspired by the same</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Budget Cuts Were Thrown Down So Quickly, Most Books Ran Copy for the Next Issue's Contents: <i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i> #19 and "The Phantom Fires" Never Made It to Press</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Detail of Letter Column From <i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i> #19 (September 1991) </span></div>
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provide content along the lines of Gladstone's efforts a few years
earlier, with a minimized emphasis on contemporary
content. </span></span>Starting November of 1991, the monthly publishing
schedule would be slashed by over two-thirds: <i>Mickey Mouse
Adventures</i>, <i>Goofy Adventures</i>, <i>Roger Rabbit</i>, <i>Roger Rabbit's Toontown</i>,
<i>DuckTales</i>, <i>Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers</i> and <i>TaleSpin</i> titles were all
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Titles Would Be Cancelled by December 1991, Restoring Traditional Content as the Primary Focus in U.S. Disney Comics</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The same fate met the annual specials: <i>Autumn Adventures</i> and <i>Holiday Parade</i> had material prepared to each justify a second issue, the Disney Comics volumes of <i>Spring Fever</i> and <i>Summer Fun</i> never made it past their first year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also completely cut was the <i>Final Fantasy</i> Limited Series written by Kurt Busiek and illustrated by Dell Barras, with cover art by <i>Hellboy's</i> Mike Mignola</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>all four issues had been written, with art nearly halfway completed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gone, too, were expansion plans exploring different genres via the new imprints Touchmark Comics and Vista Comics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Only three monthly titles remained under the Disney Comics banner: <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i>, <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> and <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span>the promise was made that these titles would feature newly-translated overseas material and reprints of </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">rare, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">classic U.S. material.</span></span></div>
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was also declared that new material featuring contemporary characters
was still being produced to be released in the form of Limited Series
and specials. But inside, Disney's management dictated that there would
be no budget for new stories to appear in Disney Comics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The "no new stories" mandate did not apply, however, to material featuring <i>The Disney Afternoon</i> characters in the pages of <i>Disney Adventures</i> digest, which usually consisted of 50% comics content and remained a strong seller.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More accessible (</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">available in locations beyond comic book or collector's shops) </span>and
kid-friendly formats were scheduled to debut by the end of 1991. A new
series of hardback editions featuring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were
also in the planning stages, t</span><span style="font-size: small;">o further entice fans of classic material.</span></span></div>
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Foster (Right,) Poses with Carl Barks—Foster Took Over as Managing
Editor of Disney Comics After Len Wein's Departure in the Fall of 1991</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comic
book titles and projects in the planning stages were not the only
casualty of the reduction: Editor-in-Chief Len Wein departed, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">with David Cody Weiss</span></span>
not long after, giving Bob Foster the opportunity to take the reins as
Managing Editor. It was a logical choice of succession: Foster had been
the Editor on </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Donald Duck Adventures</i>, <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> and <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i></span></span> since the in-house Disney Comics began.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The massive reduction of output</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> was appropriately nicknamed </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The Disney Implosion"</span></span> by <i>The Duckburg Times</i> fanzine publisher Dana Gabbard</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—a term that gained momentum throughout both the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">fan community and the </span></span></span></span></span>comic book industry. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">It was a hard pill to swallow for W.D. Publications, Inc. Behind closed doors, it was even harder for </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">stubborn Marketing executives at The Walt Disney Company to accept the fact that their
greatest profits were coming from the very material that
Disney wanted Another Rainbow/Gladstone to move away from.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Yet Another Rainbow to Chase</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speaking
of Another Rainbow/Gladstone: their offices in Prescott, AZ weren't
exactly idle. Despite the removal of the traditional comic book
license, Bruce Hamilton and his staff were still operating with their
surviving license from </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Walt Disney Company </span></span>to produce high-end lithographs of oil paintings of the Disney ducks by Carl Barks.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
They had also been amicably handling the subscription and back issue
services for Disney Comics since the inception of the in-house comic
books in April of 1990. In the middle of 1991, the following ad appeared
in the pages Disney Comics to great reception...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Another Rainbow Delighted Readers With the Announcement of <i>The Carl Barks Library in Color</i></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>, Published Under the Gladstone Imprint</b></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having completed their run on the hardbound, black-and-white<i> Carl Barks Library</i>, a new opportunity arose for Another Rainbow</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>a set of prestige format comic book albums, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The Carl Barks Library in Color</i>.
The album series would cover Barks's entire comic book output in lavish
color editions, each book accompanied by numbered trading cards. This
was arranged as a separate deal from the traditional
comic book license</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">, and </span></span></span></span></span>the albums would be published by Another Rainbow under the familiar Gladstone
imprint</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span>a gesture which tickled fans and collectors to no end.</span></span> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Terror That Flaps in the Night</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Darkwing Duck</i> Proved Perfect Fowl Fodder For Comic Book Capers!</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Right at the same time </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Disney Comics began scaling back their efforts, a new show premiered on <i>The Disney Afternoon</i>, thus beginning the trend of rotating out older series each year. Re-runs of <i>The Adventures of the Gummi Bears</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> was cycled out to make room for the first spin-off from Walt Disney Television Animation: <i>Darkwing Duck</i> was birthed from a 1987 episode of <i>DuckTales</i>, titled "Double-O-Duck."</span></span></div>
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series was developed over the course of a few years, originally
starring Launchpad McQuack as a bumbling secret agent, then placing him
as a sidekick and comic relief to a new lead character who would take
the title role. It was decided that the new Double-O-Duck resembled
Donald Duck a bit too closely, so animation artist Toby Shelton was
tasked to redesign the the masked mallard with some unique touches and a
slight nod to Roger Rabbit's design.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With <i>Darkwing Duck</i>, series creator and Producer Tad Stones introduced</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> a smart, broader sense of humor to <i>The Disney Afternoon</i>, and rounded out</span></span> the show from a singular premise into a full-blown sitcom:</span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Jeffrey Katzenberg told me it was a one-note spy parody and ordered me
to do it over. Darkwing Duck fought crime at the same time as raising an incorrigible
daughter who wouldn't stay out of his hero business. That's a richer
story mine than just superhero parody. It became a much stronger, much funnier and fresher
series."</span></span></i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still
operating on their initial strategies, by the time the series premiered
in September 1991, Disney Comics had planned to incorporate the launch
of the new series just as it had with <i>TaleSpin</i> the year before. <i>Darkwing Duck</i> comics would be included in the latest issues of <i>Disney Adventures</i> and debut as another four-issue Limited Series, paving the way for an ongoing, monthly title. The September 1991 issue of <i>Disney Adventures</i> featured the very first <i>Darkwing Duck</i>
comic book story "Let's Get Fiscal", the Limited Series kicked off
later that month, recounting the TV movie that set up the premise for
the series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Limited Series was penciled by John Blair Moore and inked by George
Wildman: the pair utilized a bold, cartoony look that strayed from the
"house" </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney </span></span>style by other new artists. Moore's adaptation managed to </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">captured the</span></span> lunacy of the series perfectly, while keeping the pathos intact.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>John Blair Moore's Loose Cartooning Style Reflected the Show's Sensibilities, While Retaining Genuine Moments</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moore also prepared another adaptation of a </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> two-part <i>Darkwing Duck</i> episode: </span></span>"Just
Us Justice Ducks" which was anticipated to serve as fodder for the
launch of a monthly, ongoing <i>Darkwing Duck</i> title. This time, Editors
prompted feedback from readers on whether or not there would be a
regular title: though Darkwing's world held plenty of comic book D.N.A.,
a monthly Disney Comics title never came to be.<b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Walt Disney's Comics & <i>Surplus</i>?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happily, there would be plenty of well-executed <i>Darkwing Duck</i> comics in <i>Disney Adventures</i>. But with no monthly title, what would become of Moore's </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Just Us Justice Ducks" adaptation?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To that end, what would become of the other completed material prepared for cancelled titles, such as <i>TaleSpin or Goofy Adventures</i>?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nothing would go to waste:</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> plans were already in place via the "accessible</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
kid-friendly formats" Bob Foster alluded to. These formats would serve
as an excellent vehicle to deliver the surplus material while exploiting
their own library (reprinting recent material in different formats was
already a method long utilized by other comic book publishers.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First up, was a second digest, this one containing 100% </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">comics content </span></span> with an </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">alliterative (and </span></span>somewhat vague) moniker...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The premiere issue of <i>Disney's Colossal Comics Collection</i> was released in October 1991</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the bi-monthly</span> digest indeed served</span> as a means to capitalize on both their past library of comic stories in <i>Disney Adventures</i> and completed material intended for cancelled titles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The covers featured an assemblage of characters from <i>The Disney Afternoon</i>,
but outside of "Disney's" within the title, the book's nonspecific
title lacked unity and instant recognition: it came across as merely a
random collection of characters. <i>The Disney Afternoon Comics Digest</i> might have made for a more cohesive banner.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"The Volcano of Gold!" Had Potential as a Stand-Alone</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <i>TaleSpin</i></b></span></span> Graphic Novel </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>From Disney Comics</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still, the digest served its purpose and made a fitting companion to <i>Disney Adventures</i>, sharing the coveted placement on supermarket and drugstore checkout racks during its run. A true highlight for <i>Colossal Comics Collection</i> was issue #5, featuring a 41-page <i>TaleSpin</i>
story "The Volcano of Gold!" with bold color rendering and dynamic art
that was likely intended as a stand-alone graphic novel, before the
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;">The second reprint format came under the banner of <i>Disney's Cartoon Tales</i>. Geared toward younger readers, the <i>Cartoon Tales</i>
series were designed to sell in toy stores and "big-box" retail shops
such as Target and Kmart alongside children's coloring and activity
books.</span></span></span></span></div>
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series collected longer, multi-part stories or multiple issues of
Disney Comics in a single book. The primary focus was reprinting stories
based on characters from <i>The Disney Afternoon</i>, or the previously released graphic novel movie adaptations such as <i>101 Dalmatians</i> and <i>The Little Mermaid</i>.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;">Incidentally, John Blair </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moore and Gary Martin's <i>Darkwing Duck</i> adaptation of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Just Us Justice Ducks" finally saw print in <i>Cartoon Tales</i> #7, as the lone volume in the series to feature original content. The two-part tale was soon reprinted in <i>Colossal Comics Collection</i> issues #5 and #6 just a few months later.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Critical Success of </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Beauty and the Beast</i> Changed The Playing Field for Animated Films of the 1990s and Beyond</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1991 closed out with a new course set for the future of Disney Comics, and a smash hit for Walt Disney Pictures: <i>Beauty and the Beast</i>
premiered with tremendous fanfare, and tremendous ticket sales. The
film's immediate success with both family audiences and critics was due
largely in part to excellent buzz generated from a work-in-progress
viewing at the New York Film Festival earlier that summer.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Cost-Cutting Measures of the Disney Implosion, <i>Beauty and the Beast</i> Was
Published as Both Prestige and Standard Format Graphic Novels in Late
1991</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now
in tandem with the Studio's customary marketing roll-out, Disney Comics
had their graphic novel adaptation on the stands a few weeks prior to
the film's theatrical release. There was immediate plans to further
capitalize on the popularity of Belle, Beast and the enchanted objects
in a new Limited Series to follow in the tradition of their successful
four issues of <i>The Little Mermaid</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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out the "no new stories" mandate only applied to classic characters
like mice, dogs and ducks. But new comic stories proposed to Marketing
executives as </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">direct tie-ins for </span></span></span></span></span></span>new TV shows, films and VHS releases?</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apparently, <i>that</i> was perfectly fine.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993-end.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Disney Comics Story (1990-1993):<br />The End of the Line</b></span></a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I must add that a great champion of this blog and these posts has been Joe Torcivia, who, yet again, has just put up a full post about <i>this</i> post! Be sure to read it, and all of the excellent topics over at Joe's blog, <i>This Issue at Hand</i>. He even found the perfect Gyro Gearloose panels to illustrate the topic!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read his recap of this chapter and insight on the early 1990s comic craze here:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-series-of-implos-ible-events.html" target="_blank"><b>The Issue at Hand: A Series of "IMPLOS-ible" Events!</b></a></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joe Torcivia Provides the Perfect Visual Metaphor of the Disney Implosion: Another Crazy Gearloose Invention!</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Panel Detail From <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> #82 (June, 1969) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Artwork by Kay Wright & © Disney</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joe
is not only a noted reader and collector of the comics we all like, but
he's written official articles and translated some wonderful Walt
Disney comic book stories himself... his most recent contribution can be read within the latest Mickey Mouse volume by the fine folks at Fantagraphics: <i>Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot</i>!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joe's text accompanies that of the invaluable editing team of David Gerstein and Gary Groth. You can preview a generous 21 pages of the new book at the link below to appreciate the thought and care they've put into the series:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/walt-disney-s-mickey-mouse-vol-5-outwits-the-phantom-blot-pre-order-u-s-canada-only--4.html?vmcchk=1" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mickey Mouse Outwits The Phantom Blot</span></span></span></span></i></b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Guilty Admission</i>: I had initially placed the link to Joe's post in the comments section of this post, but my HTML skills proved ineffective. Ahh, the kids today with their JavaScript, and the in-app purchases, and the snapchats, and the emoticons of the I-don't-know-what...</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://michaelperaza.blogspot.com/2010/08/double-o-darkwing.html" target="_blank">Mike Peraza on <i>Double-O-Duck</i> to <i>Darkwing Duck</i></a> </span></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://hellboyanimated.typepad.com/just_a_tad/2013/07/how-to-pitch-an-animated-series-pt-7-is-it-a-show-yet-the-sit-of-sitcoms.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tad Stones on </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pitching an Animated Series & </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Darkwing Duck</i> Development </span></span></b></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.milehighcomics.com/tales/cbg127.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mile High Comics Looks Back on <i>The Death of Superman</i></b></span></span></a></div>
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-31974542316503831122014-06-09T21:22:00.001-04:002014-06-09T21:51:52.957-04:00Donald Duck's 80th Birthday: Just Ducky!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Donald Duckling Artwork by Marco Rota, from <i>Buon Compleanno, Paperino!</i> (1984) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June 9, 2014 marks the 80th anniversary of Donald Duck's first on-screen appearance, and is considered his official birthday by the Walt Disney Studio. While Donald's 80th may not match the spectacle of his 50th Birthday celebration in 1984, you'll surely come across some good wishes bestowed to the irascible duck online today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are countless excellent resources online and in print chronicling Donald's history<span class="st">—</span>so, rather than regurgitating information that's readily available, I've prepared something special to commemorate the day. That's right: it's Donald's birthday, but today you, the readers receive a gift!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"DOGGONE IT! WAAAAK!!! WAAAAAKKK!!!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Donald's Most Memorable and Relatable Quality is His Short Temper: Throwing the Epic Fits of Frustration We'd All Like to Throw</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the end of the post is a link to download something I've scanned and compiled as a PDF: a rare, six-page article from a 1991 issue of <i>Filmfax</i> magazine focused on the duck himself, and one of the people who best knew Donald at his core.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nope, not Carl Barks this time... this article is about Clarence "Ducky" Nash. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clarence Nash, the Original Voice of Walt Disney's Donald Duck</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prior to obtaining a full-time gig as the world's most famous duck, Clarence Nash was a versatile radio impressionist and a publicity figure for the Adhor Milk Company. With the benefit of a rural upbringing, he learned to produce remarkably convincing animal sounds ranging from horses to frogs, and parlayed those into entertaining voices and routines. His rendition of a baby goat on <i>The Merrymakers</i> radio broadcast in 1934 would change the course of his life: that performance clinched him the role as Donald Duck.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Storybook Adaptation of Donald's Debut in <i>The Wise Little Hen</i> (1934)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt Disney's Silly Symphony <i>The Wise Little Hen</i> introduced Donald to the world. The short directed by Wilfred Jackson, features the vocal talent of actress Florence Gill (as the titular Hen), Disney Studio writer and performer Pinto Colvig (as Peter Pig), and Clarence Nash as the sailor-suited duck whose popularity would soon eclipse Walt's biggest star, Mickey Mouse.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was a role Nash would maintain for the next 51 years via film, television, radio, records, theme parks, goodwill tours and hospital visits to ailing children. He also had the rare opportunity to be the sole actor to dub Donald's dialogue in foreign translations of the cartoon shorts, done so by speaking the dialogue phonetically<span class="st"> (</span>the duck's tantrums, however, remained as the same recordings</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>they were universal in ANY language!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By clicking the text link below the <i>Filmfax</i> magazine cover, you can view or download a 6.4 MB PDF of the six-page 1991 article. Sized for clarity to read online or print out, it provides unique quotes, photos and a nice history of Clarence and Donald's years together, right up to Nash's passing in 1985. The article starts out with a surprising anecdote documenting a heated disagreement Nash had with Walt Disney, with an outcome that might take the wind out of the sails of Walt's detractors. Click on the link to find out more:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With that, let's all wish Donald a Happy 80th Birthday. Since this is a happy occasion, we'll close with another rarity... a moment of peace in the Duck family household!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Huey, Dewey, Louie and Bolivar Share a Tender Moment With Unca Donald</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000719/?ref_=tt_cl_t3" target="_blank">Donald Duck Filmography at IMDb</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Spinning+Disney%27s+World%3A+the+memories+of+a+Magic+Kingdom+press+agent...-a0181757191" target="_blank"><b>Charlie Ridgway on Donald's 50th and Press Agent for Walt Disney's Theme Parks</b></a></span></span></div>
Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-16057335760790902032014-05-05T02:30:00.001-04:002014-05-07T13:13:38.594-04:00Q&A With Lonnie Burr, Author of The Accidental Mouseketeer<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Iconic Shield Logo for <i>The Mickey Mouse Club </i>(</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1955)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the past decade, there's been no shortage of literature for fans of Walt Disney and the Disney Studio to ingest. In fact, the level of quality and new information on those very subjects have been raised considerably in the past decade: lovingly restored comic book and strip reprints from Fantagraphics, gorgeous tomes on niche subjects from Disney Editions, and the stellar works by respected Disney historians such as Didier Ghez and Jim Korkis from a new independent publisher, Theme Park Press.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cover for the Updated 2014 Edition of <i>The Accidental Mouseketeer</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the new releases from Theme Park Press is an updated edition of <i>The Accidental Mouseketeer</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><i>: Before and After The Mickey Mouse Club</i>—</span>the memoirs of original Mouseketeer Lonnie Burr, which contains in-depth stories of Lonnie's on-screen years before and after his years on <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i>. Not only did Lonnie earn his ears, he crafted a remarkable career of acting, dancing, directing, choreography, award-winning writing and more. </span><span style="font-size: small;">With refreshing candor and intelligent delivery, the book showcases his decades of work with some of the most notable names from stage and screen, in front of and behind the scenes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was recently put in touch with Lonnie Burr through the generosity of Theme Park Press Editor Bob McLain</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>on the occasion of the release of <i>The Accidental Mouseketeer</i> I had a few question about his days at the Disney Studio during the original run of <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i>. Those questions multiplied into a Q&A you're about to read, to which Lonnie most graciously agreed to participate in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lonnie Has Made Many Friends </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Throughout His Career</b></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The following Q&A is intended as a canapé for reading the entire book, and<span class="st"> to maintain</span> the mission of keeping the contents of this blog unique. </span><span style="font-size: small;">As per the usual format, my questions are formatted in blue
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Be sure to stick around after the Q&A: directly below it, you'll find out where to purchase <i>The Accidental Mouseketeer</i>, as well as a link to Lonnie's recent appearance on <i>Stu's Show</i>, where you can purchase </span><span style="font-size: small;">Lonnie's three-hour interview </span><span style="font-size: small;">from February 2014 for only 99<span class="st">¢</span>. You can also find out how to be part of a proposal to induct the original Mouseketeers as official Disney Legends in 2015.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i> Producer Bill Walsh is credited for crafting most of what
the show would become, including those famous "ears" you and the others helped
made famous. I have a theory that Walt was grooming Walsh to run the studio
prior to the grafting of Ron Miller. Do you have any insight to that notion,
or memories of Bill Walsh in general?</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">First:
the EARS were artist/Big Mooseketeer Roy Williams's contribution, not
Bill, which he recalled from an early cartoon when Mickey tipped the "top
of his head including the ears" to Minnie Mouse.</span></span></b></span></span></span>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist and "Big Mooseketeer" Roy Williams Pulled Inspiration From the 1929 Mickey Mouse Short, <i>The Karnival Kid</i> to Design the Mouseketeer Ear Hat</span><span style="font-size: small;">s<span class="st"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We had little to do with
Walsh and he seemed very gruff. Hal Adlequist, however, was a very
pleasant producer, next in line. I have no knowledge about Walt grooming Walsh
for anything except he threw him into putting it all together just as he
<i>FORCED</i> Roy Williams, who had never performed before a camera nor anywhere,
into becoming a comedy foil for Jimmie and the kids given his girth, size
and baldness. Roy was not happy but grew into the role.</span></span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The set decorator for the entire series run of <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i> was Harriet Burns, who would later move on to
WED as a prominent show designer. Did you have any
encounters with Harriet, or experience set designs in progress as they were
being built and painted?</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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at all; I would not have recognized the name if you had asked. However, their
were 28 Mouseketeers the first season due to 4 being fired early on:<br /><br />1) Dallas
Johann left the first day because he could only cry when "action" was called;
he was replaced by his brother John Lee as Mouseketeer Lee since there was
already a Mouseketeer Johnny (Crawford, later starring on <i>The Rifleman</i>);<br /><br />2)
Paul Petersen (later on <i>The Donna Reed Show</i>) went up to one of our two portly
Casting Directors punched him in the stomach and called him, "FATSO"! He must
have changed his "attitude problem" for Ms. Reed;</span></span></b></span></span></span> </div>
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got into the paint department and did a Andy Warhol on ALREADY FINISHED set
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Harriet Burns Was a Set Decorator on <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i> Prior to Her Well-Known Work as a WED </span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">T</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">heme Park </span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></span></span>Show Designer</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;"></span> </span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There's plenty of footage of the original Mouseketeers at Disneyland from
Opening Day in 1955 through the subsequent decades. What are your
impressions of the growth and evolution of the park over the years?
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seemed fresher to me then but that may be because it was so new and I was so
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now gone from Disneyland's past that you'd like to see restored?</span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
wrote, co-choreographed and co-directed the first live show at the now
defunct stage with Barbara Epstein the first year. I was one of the six Mice
in the show along with Mickey, Goofy [Mouseketeer Tommy], Minnie and other
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">You have an impressive list of Hollywood and Broadway personalities that
you've worked with during your career. Did anyone surprise you by being down
to earth, bucking the trend of affectation and ego despite their celebrity
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was in the film <i>Live a Little, Love a Little</i> (sometimes under a
different title) in 1968 with Elvis. He was pleasant off camera and we
chatted; he showed no signs of booze, nor drugs, and had no cadre of
"insiders" surrounding him. The late, great Prez [Robert Preston], with whom I
did the musical <i>Mack & Mable</i> on Broadway for Gower Champion was a GREAT
raconteur. He would have a Black & White [scotch] and soda, tall after a
show and regale us with stories of Errol Flynn and Victor Jory as good guys
vs. bad buys with many of the "stunt fights" their separate gangs had were
actual fights for the two groups were like the Jets and the Sharks.</span></span></b></span><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In our e-mail exchange you mentioned working with Bob Fosse, Shirley MacLaine
and Sammy Davis Jr. on the theatrical version of <i>Sweet Charity</i> in
1969.</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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it was 1968, released '69, and Fosse's first film as choreographer and
director. The late Mouseketeer Bonnie Lynn Fields, third season, was
on the flick, too, so we met up again for the first time since
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">That
adaptation had a large cast, as well as an impressive pedigree of writing
(Neil Simon, based on a Federico Fellini script)—can you relate some of your
experiences in that massive production? Was Fellini involved at any
point?</span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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Fellini. Two Fosse mistakes: we were all in heavy wigs, costumes etcetera for
the "Rhythm of Life" number with Sammy and his costume was leather
boots/pants, all one piece, which was really HOT. Being new at film-making,
Fosse took a long time setting up and he disregarded how long we sweated under
the lights while standing around waiting for him to decide on the shot,
lighting and so on. Sammy, with his Mai Tai glass filled with Bourbon and
Coke, finally shouted out, "Bob I'm a super star and I'm sweating to death
with everybody else, give us a break, man!!!" And Fosse did.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lonnie Reveals How Bob Fosse Had Some Stumbling Blocks Cutting His Cinematic Teeth on <i>Sweet Charity</i></b></span></span></div>
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also heard a sotto voce exchange between the Cinematographer and Fosse while
setting up a scene. Bob muttered, "I can't get the setup I want, it's too far
away", as he looked through the small, hand held view finder one uses to see
what the camera will see. Bruce Surtees, the Cinematographer, whispered,
"Bob, you're looking through the wrong end."</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>You also told me about a role in a cut sequence from Steven Spielberg’s <i>Hook</i> that you (thankfully) still receive residuals for. That must have been quite an experience considering the star power of the cast, the enormous, practical sets and elaborate costumes. Has that sequence surfaced as bonus footage in DVD or Blu-ray releases?</b></span></span></span><br />
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have not researched it, ergo, have no idea. If someone knows, I would like to
see it. I was a peg-leg, drunken, Cockney sidekick of Bob Hoskins who played
Smee, first mate to </span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Dustin Hoffman's Captain Hook</span></span></b></span></span>.</span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Lonnie's Pirate Role in 1991's Big-Budget <i>Hook</i> Was Cut, But Proved Rewarding by His Maneuvering of Double Pay Due to the Hazardous Peg-Leg Effect</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My leg was bent up from the waist to the
knee and tied off, which was very uncomfortable, and very dangerous and
more painful to dance on. I was not pleased when Spielberg got on his
$200,000 crane and was flying around looking at shots and Robin Williams
continually did his crazy club act, distracting Steven. I was in pain. I did,
however, get myself and three other guys my age as peg-legs, more mature than
most of the other pirates, double pay by being very tricky.</span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We’ve seen you perform many styles of dance with outstanding form.
Professional dance requires physical and mental grit on top of real
discipline: what is the physical preparation beyond routine
rehearsal?</span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></b></span></span></span><br />
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unique and great Fred Astaire would have used the line about getting to
Carnegie Hall: PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE - which Fred did. Others work
differently. You have to warm up and even more as you mature. Kenny
Ortega (<i>High School Musical</i> all versions, etcetera) - used me first in <i>Newsies</i>, his first film directing and choreographing as an Irish strike
breaker. Later, Mandy Pantinkin's doctor character on <i>Chicago Hope</i>
had a very rare musical number from <i>Guys and Dolls</i> -- "Luck Be A Lady
Tonight" -- while he was undergoing brain surgery. They needed at least
ONE dancer who was mature enough to be a neurosurgeon and I was in my fifties
and Kenny knew I could cut it, thus, it was me and the "pretty young boys and
girls" and Hector Elizondo who was VERY jazzed about getting to dance one time
in his career.</span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Courtesy of <b><a href="http://www.mouseketeerlonnieburr.com/Scrap.html" target="_blank">Mouseketeer Lonnie Burr</a></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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you continue to dance today?</span></span></span></b></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
last show I danced in was the tragedy, Steinbeck's <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> in
2003 which had been rewritten as a stage play and after Broadway was done
at the oldest extant theatre in the country: Ford's Theatre in Washington,
D.C. Yes, the one Lincoln was assassinated in and was not used for about
a hundred years.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> In this dark play there is only one scene of merriment and
celebration in which everyone waltzes, polkas and then does a hoedown. Script
did not have me in the scene but the choreographer, being aware of my
dancing/choreography background, thrust me into it in my 60th year. It was easy
and I enjoyed the break from the sadness we portrayed, although my Grammpa Joad
got many of the few laughs in the show that echoes our recent U.S. financial
downturn, unless you are part of the 3%.</span></span></b></span> </blockquote>
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earlier with Joel Grey in the musical <i>George M!</i> about the life of George M.
Cohan. That is (or was) the Shubert in New Haven, Conneticut around the corner
from THE University.</span></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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is a myth that "older" folks, like athletes, lose their abilities but that is
not as true for dancers. It has been a while since I have choreographed or
danced but I had to quit being a runner after eighteen years due to an
arthroscopy, or knee operation, not a replacement. I gained weight, got it off
quickly, and began aerobic hiking three miles twice a week AND giving myself
an advanced ballet and jazz dance warm up, about 45 minutes, but no
combinations - steps put together as part of a number as one does for a class.
This keeps me in shape - I add push ups, yoga, 2 sets of 110+ sit ups and the
like to the dance exercises and they counter the hiking.</span></span></b></span></span></span> </blockquote>
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70, I am more limber than most men or women at 40 and can still dance. IF I
had to do eight numbers a show, eight shows a week as on Broadway I would not
last very long, as I did in my 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, but I can STILL dance
quite well.</span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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television today? Do you think it’s a refreshing return to showcase the art,
or do you find it over-produced/bombastic?</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Definitely
NOT refreshing, nor a viable showcase for dancing. Definitely OVER-PRODUCED.
It is too much like a dancing survivalist show for my taste.</span></span></b></span></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Current-Day Dance Competitions Rely More on Inflated Production Values Than Actual Art and Skill of Dancing</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> I prefer the
dancers from Carol Burnett's show and others of that level. My forte and
favorite, of course, is tap. Then it would be jazz dance and last
ballet, which I took six years of as a kid and was better training for the
body than the other two but not my style - too formal.</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Lonnie's Parents, Howard and Dorothy Babin<br />Performed as the </span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Vaudeville </span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dance Team "Dot and Dash" </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
late and also great James Cagney, who like my parents the dance team Dot &
Dash in vaudeville and night clubs, learned to dance by watching, just as Bob
Hope and George Burns could do a simplistic "soft shoe", the easiest form of
tap. Cagney once said, "Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance
man" and you will recall his only Oscar he received was not for playing a
tough guy but as a song-and-dance man in <i>Yankee Doodle Dandy</i> as George
M. Cohan and we could see James' [he hated being called Jimmy, which was
forced upon him by a studio head] unique way of dancing. So, bad guys do
dance, despite Hemingway's testosterone overload.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ON </span></span>WRITING/POETRY</span></span></b></span></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Your writing displays a mastery of wordplay, some of which would send the
casual reader to dash for a dictionary! Who influenced your romance with
wordsmithery—was it brought about by family, a professor, or a published
writer/poet?</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It
is embarrassing, but frankly I did not understand poetry/verse until I began working
on my Ph.D. in English Literature, a few years after my MA in Theatre Arts.
The reason was that NONE of my teachers knew how to do more than say read
this, feed me back my POV [film script for point of view] and you get an A. I
had written some horrid drivel before that for some young ladies who
apparently did not understand it either, hence, they did not fall ill while
reading.</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> I
did very well in school, passing my SATs around 1600 at 13 in my Junior year
in high school and 14 in my senior year. Went through my BA & MA by
[age] 19 (explained further in my memoir.)</span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Emblematic Masthead for Connecticut's Long-Running Newspaper,<i> </i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The Hartford Courant</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Image Courtesy of <b><a href="http://www.simongoodmanpictures.com/press.html" target="_blank">Simon Goodman Pictures</a></b></span><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Once
I understood poetry, I was impassioned and the first things I had published
were poems, then reviews for film and theatre. I have had two collections, 51
poems published in varied media from The Hartford Courant (newspaper),
Southern Humanities Review and Kansas Quarterly, both poetry mags and so on. I
also edited a poetry quarterly in the early '70s called QUIDDITY [so
you don't have to look it up, it means "the thing in itself" - that you may
look up.] I've also won 11 poetry awards.</span></span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My
unmet mentors include T. S. Eliot, Stevens, Donne, not Yeats, some of the
earlier Romantics.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Panel Details of a Recently Illustrated Version<br />of "The Love Song of J. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Alfred</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Prufrock"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Verse by T.S. Eliot, Art </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">©</span> by <a href="http://julianpeterscomics.com/page-1-the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock-by-t-s-eliot/" target="_blank"><b>Julian Peters</b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source Courtesy of <b><a href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/01/11/picturing-prufrock/" target="_blank">The Dish</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I have a public reading in this century I gave of my
favorite poem, T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" on my DVD.
Unfortunately Thomas Stearns had a very nasal voice and was monotone so it has
a bit more substance in my interpretation. The poem was published in
1917 and still is viable and vital.</span></span></b></span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Actually,
there has been very little actual verse written in the last 30 or more years.
Yes, there is Ashbery still and Merwin but it has become too much like the
oxymoron [contradictory] "rap music," too much rhyme but no reason, no
substance.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My latest Christmas card answered an ambition to write and perform beat
poetry.
Despite the whimsical outcome, the core was sincere and I found it to be quite
cathartic. Did you ever pursue live poetry during the Beatnik era leading into
the counterculture movements? Did you read the work of writers at the time
such as Diane di Prima or Allen Ginsberg?</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
have read Ginsberg but he is not my hazelnut blend of coffee at all. Is Diane
the wife of the late Louis Prima? I am not familiar with the name.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Pandora's Box Coffee House and Nightclub</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Was Located at 8118 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, CA</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of <b><a href="http://www.sott.net/article/221504-Inside-The-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation-Part-XII" target="_blank">Signs of the Times</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">©</span> Mondo Mod</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
did "hang" at a famous coffee house, Pandora's Box, at the beginning of
the Sunset Strip but liked the bar across the street,
Sherry's, where the Don Randi jazz trio played but that was in
the mid-'60s. Don would do a little Monk for me once in a while. </span></span>Pandora's Box looked far better in the darkness of night, although it
was a triangular lot with no room for ANYTHING else where Laurel Canyon from the
North crosses Sunset Boulevard and becomes Franklin south of Sunset.</span></span></span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">With the updated re-release of <i>The Accidental
Mouseketeer</i> complete, you have another updated volume coming soon from Theme
Park Press: <i>Great Comedy Teams: 1896-2014</i>—that’s a pretty dense
topic to tackle. How deep did you have to mine for resources for the earlier
years?</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Quite a bit, with some research help from my wife of 43+ years Diane, from things that they called "books." What in the hell are we going to do with all those libraries in ten years???? Plus, most of the well known teams have film from TV, movies and Broadway.</b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Stan and Ollie Demonstrate the Art of Anticipation</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> in Comedy</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">:<br />An Update of </span><span style="font-size: small;">Lonnie's </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Great Comedy Teams</i> Will Be Released Later This Year</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Image Courtesy of <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/06/mens-sheds-building-lifesaver-community" target="_blank">The Guardian</a></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>I will never read a book on a "slate" which I just gave my wife for her birthday - she requested it and I got the best, most RECENT one, which will most likely be obsolete before Xmas.</b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Can you provide a brief preview of what readers can look forward to in the
updated edition of <i>Great Comedy Teams</i>? </span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
weakest team for me and the last one, Cheech and Chong, indicate that
team comedy is ostensibly dead since they broke up in the late '80s. However,
The Hollywood Reporter a couple of weeks ago (03.28.14) quoted Tommy
Chong, 75, about doing another movie; their last was in 1983. I was not
there for the interview so I am not sure what state Tommy was in at the
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
brief plot description he gave used, "All sorts of shennaigans happen." Words
like shenanigans and the <i>TV Guide's</i> hideous "hi-jinks" scare the hell
out of me </span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="st"><i>vis</i>-à-<i>vis</i></span> humor.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A lot of the readers of this blog visit for comic book and comic strip
content, did you have a favorite newspaper comic strip growing up? I see you
as someone who would appreciate the wordplay and intellectual subtext of Walt
Kelly’s <i>Pogo</i>.</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></span></b><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">You
are precisely correct. The truth is I read and collected more comic books than
read things from the paper. Now I prefer the arbitrarily absurd, <i>e.g.</i>, <i>Non
Sequiter</i>, <i>The New Yorker's</i> singles and the retired Gary Larson's
work [<i>The Far Side</i>], even though his lawyers stopped me from using one of his on my website
<a href="http://www.mouseketeerlonnieburr.com/" target="_blank">www.mouseketeerlonnieburr.com</a>,
in its 14th year and a section for primarily Mouseketeer but also other Disney
comic scenes.</span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Walt Kelly Utilized <i>Pogo</i> as a Platform for Timely Topics and Political Figures, Such as 1968 Democratic Nominee Eugene McCarthy (Above)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
collected different comics, one of my favorites being Scrooge McDuck, even
more rabid than Donald and THE Donald. I collected and read all of the Classic
Comic Books which came in handy in college. Like an idiot I gave away my
roughly 400 comic books to a boys home. Now it was not idiotic from an
altruistic point of view but I sure could use all that moola.</span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lonnie's Exquisite Taste in Rich Scottish Ducks Fits in Perfectly Around Here</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Panel Details From <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> #5 (March, 1954)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Story and Art by Carl Barks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The website shows photos of you visiting some impressive spots around the
globe: was there a location that you were hesitant to visit that you wound up
enjoying? </span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Not
that I can think of - we are very eclectic in our choices but as I write this, I do recall more than one bad day in the Bahamas but I sure as hell did
not enjoy it, nor would I return.</span></span></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">To wrap up, I’d like to ask if you could impart a personal manifesto: a
simple mantra, or piece of advice as a token for readers to carry with
them?</span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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with your gut; first impressions are usually right. Of course, this comes from
a "thin slicer."</span></span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></span></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Psychology
finally caught up with me and named what I have been doing all of my
life: I am a "thin slicer." I happened upon the phrase while writing my memoir
and reading one of Gladwell's extended-to-a-book essays. It refers to people
that can perceive in a literal millisecond something that is "off kilter,"
usually negative but it can be positive. It has saved my mouseka-buttocks and
people I know near them on many occasions.</span></b></span></span></span></span> </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'd like to thank Lonnie for his time in participating, and providing such great, detailed answers to the questions for this post. If this Q&A has whet your appetite, there's much more to be found within the pages of <i>The Accidental Mouseketeer: Before and After The Mickey Mouse Club</i>, which you can purchase in both paperback and Kindle formats on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Accidental-Mouseketeer-Before-Mickey/dp/0984341595" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> or directly from the publisher at </span><a href="http://themeparkpress.com/books/accidental-mouseketeer.htm" target="_blank"><b>Theme Park Press</b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Inside the book, you'll read PLENTY more about Lonnie's long career, with a generous focus on his days on <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i>, it's subsequent tours and reunions on television and at Disneyland, as well as more on Lonnie's travels, writing and associations with prestigious names from all forms of entertainment.</span></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lonnie Burr on <i>Stu's Show</i></b></span></span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Stu Shostak Has Hosted <i>Stu's Show</i> Online Since 2006</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Illustration by Dan Cunningham</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since
2006, film collector and Television Historian Stu Shostak has hosted
his own internet radio broadcast <i>Stu's Show</i>, a weekly program of
in-depth interviews with talents from classic television and film. Lonnie
was Stu's guest this past February and gave a whopping three-hour interview
about the book, his life and career. The entire broadcast can be
purchased as an immediate download for only 99</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">¢.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="st">Stu's Three-Hour Interview with Lonnie Burr <a href="http://www.stusshow.com/archives.php?y=2014" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Please note that Stu runs a special offer on his site that gets you FOUR shows for $2.97 (</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">the price of THREE</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">)—</span></span></span></span>a basic word search through his show archives will lead you to show topics and personalities that will </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">surely </span></span>be of interest (<i>e.g.</i> Disney, animation, game shows, Lucille Ball, etc.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><b>Stu Offers an Excellent "4 for 3" Offer in His Archives</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of </span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://stusshow.com/index.html" target="_blank">Stu's Show</a></span> </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On episode #357 you'll hear Lonnie speak about his relationships with Jimmie Dodd, the core (and rotating) cast of Mouseketeers, and his teenage romance with Annette Funicello! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Lonnie and Annette Were Off-Camera Sweethearts During the First Season of <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which brings us to Mr. Shostak's excellent proposal to cement the place of The Mickey Mouse Club cast in Disney Studio history... </span></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><b>Nominate the Original Mouseketeers as Disney Legends for the 2015 D23 Expo</b></span></span></span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">SInce 1987, the Disney Legends award is presented to individuals in honor of their long-lasting impact on the company's legacy. The ceremony has recently become a part of the company-run D23 fan club, and now takes place during their biannual D23 Expo in Anaheim, California.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Stu has proposed that fans contact D23 to recommend the core cast of Mouseketeers (those who appeared on the show throughout all four seasons of <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i>) to become Disney Legends in 2015. This would be a perfect opportunity to do so, as 2015 marks the 60th Anniversary of the debut of <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i> on television.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">A short, cordial note is all that is required, stating that 2015 marks the 60th anniversary of <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i> and would be the perfect time to recognize the following eight original Mouseketeers as official Disney Legends:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mouseketeerlonnieburr.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Lonnie Burr's Official Website</span></span></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.annetteconnection.com/How-to-Help.php" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Annette Funicello Research Fund for Neurological Diseases</span></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.originalmmc.com/index.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">George Grant's Original Mickey Mouse Club (a Comprehensive Fan Site)</span></span></b></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney Comics Ad for <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> #250 (November 1990)</span></span></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In our <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html" target="_blank"><b>PROLOGUE</b></a>
we uncovered how the comic book industry bounced back during the 1980s,
thanks to an infusion of media interest via television and cinematic
adaptions of comic book-based properties along with a collector's craze due to a
rising speculation market. In a fascinating parallel, the reputation
and financial well-being of Walt Disney Productions was revived thanks
to Roy E. Disney's lobbying and grafting of Michael Eisner and Frank
Wells into the company during the same period. The dormant U.S. Walt
Disney comic book license was granted to Another Rainbow Publishing's
Gladstone imprint for a successful run, until the comic book boom led a
reinvigorated Walt Disney Company to reclaim the license and publish the
comics in-house.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993-ready.html" target="_blank"><b>CHAPTER 1</b></a>
looked at the phasing out of the old ways to accommodate the growing
corporate culture at The Walt Disney Company, while zooming in on the
formation of the new comic book line under W.D. Publications, Inc. A
month after the final Gladstone comics hit newsstands, eight Walt Disney
comic book titles debuted under the in-house imprint, appropriately
named Disney Comics. The books featured slick formatting and a large
share of all-new content, with ambitious plans for growth within that
first year.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By
the summer of 1990, comic book stores were thriving, and continued to
pop up everywhere across the United States. No longer resigned to tables
at used bookstores and flea markets, Proprietors cannily broadened
their brick-and-mortar store inventory with collector's supplies and
niche magazines. Many more added non-comic book items such as trading
cards, or movie and sports memorabilia, with the intent of enticing a
cross-pollination of consumers to their shops.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>As the 1990s Kicked Off, More and More Comic Books Were Published, Causing Diamond's Monthly</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Direct-Sales</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Catalog </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Previews</i> to Increase Its Page Count Every Month—<i>Previews</i> Soon Rivaled Many Local Telephone Directories!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aggressive
publishing schedules led new and return customers to make more frequent
visits to the comic books shops that were proliferating across the
country.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It was the "perfect storm" for the comic book industry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We're #1</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smaller, independent publishers such as Caliber, Malibu, Valiant and Dark Horse Comics expanded and experimented with content</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—comic books began </span></span></span>pushing
the envelope, further evolving and re-defining the approach of comics
into sequential art narratives.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
course, DC and Marvel remained the mightiest forces, and "event" books
became an equally mighty tool, wherein an epic change or milestone for
their characters or worlds was touted proudly across the cover in
banners proclaiming "Special Collector's Issue!" Another popular technique was
the resetting of issue numbering to get an assured bump in sales. A #1
issue was a sure way to tempt consumers to begin collecting full runs (just as the in-house Disney
Comics line practiced in the previous chapter.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Sampling of #1 Issues Released in 1990,<br />During the Height of the Comic Collecting Boom</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many publishers utilized this technique in some capacity<span class="st">—</span>for
some, like the restored Harvey Comics line, it would become a casual
practice. The more level-headed approach to releasing a #1 collector's
issue were the appointments of Specials, Annuals, or a Limited
Series featuring new or well-known characters. The
Limited Series was also a trial balloon for potential new ongoing titles,
which would (logically) score another #1 issue sales bump.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b><b>The Disney "Explosion"</b> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Full-Page Ad for July 1990 Disney Comics Releases</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Image Courtesy of <a href="http://langtath.blogspot.com/2012/06/disney-adventures-magazine-0-fall-1990.html" target="_blank"><b>Cracked Magazine and Others</b></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© Disney</span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
a burgeoning comic book market and hot properties from The Walt Disney
Company, the future of the Disney Comics line looked
bright. Their initial launch landed the comics in outlets beyond the
direct market, monthly issues could easily be found on newsstands, and </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">comic book spinner racks in</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
convenience stores or drugstores. National book retailers at the time such as Waldenbooks and B. Dalton added a wide selection of comic books to their magazine displays. Of course, s</span><span style="font-size: small;">ubscription forms were offered in every issue of Disney Comics, as well as other print venues.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney
Comics Subscription Forms Were Featured in Every Monthly Issue and
Through Any Other Print Venues W.D. Publications, Inc. Could Tap Into</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© Disney</span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Promotional ads
and letter column replies printed in the first few months of Disney
Comics contained promise of expansion, and they surely delivered. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Disney
Comics planned to close out 1990 in a big way. After all, the Walt
Disney Company had plenty of projects in the works, ready for
synergistic expansion...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Annuals and Limited Series</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While some modern sales
and marketing strategies from other publishers were put to work right
away, others were legacy concepts from decades ago... one of the most
memorable traditions of the Western Publishing years were the themed
100-page </span><span style="font-size: small;">specials beneath beautiful painted covers, released throughout the year for </span><span style="font-size: small;">a whopping 25<span class="st">¢</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dell
comics readers could go back to school with Donald Duck's nephews,
spend Halloween with Bugs Bunny, take a summer vacation with Tom and
Jerry, or even visit a four-color version of Disneyland</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">. But t</span>he most-anticipated Dell Giant of the year was <i>Walt Disney's Christmas Parade</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—chock full of yuletide fun with Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Br'er Rabbit and a cast of other Disney friends.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><b>A Sampling of Memorable Dell Giant Covers</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">The
Editors of the Disney Comics line decided to expand upon the tradition
with four annual titles, and the promise of another collector-friendly
set of #1 issues. These annual issues kept the framework of Disney
characters around a seasonal theme, but the sturdy prestige format
devolved to a traditional "floppy" book and a 64-page count. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">The
storybook-style painted cover art of the Dell specials was eschewed for
traditional, colored line art in a "wraparound" format (a scene
encompassing both front and rear covers.) </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">The first of these four was <i>Autumn Adventures</i> in September 1990, followed seasonally by <i>Holiday Parade</i>, <i>Spring Fever</i> and <i>Summer Fun</i>.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Wraparound Cover Art for the #1 Issues of the Season-Themed </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Annuals Published by </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Disney Comics</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">(Click to Enlarge)</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cover Art © Disney</span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">The annuals primarily contained</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"> re-colored </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">classic domestic or overseas material, but a smattering of new content was created beyond the dense cover art. <i>Holiday Parade #1</i>
justified it's all-inclusive title with the inclusion of "Shine a
Little Light" a Chanukah-themed story, the first of such in domestic
Walt Disney comic book history.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"Shine a Little Light" Evoked the Original Chanukah Story: a Notable First of Diversity for U.S. Walt Disney Comic Books</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b>Panel Details From <i>Holiday Parade</i> #1 (1990)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Written by Cherie Wilkerson, Pencils by Cosme Quartieri, Inked by Rubén Torreiro</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: x-small;">© Disney</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Actually, the featured set of characters starring in </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">"Shine
a Little Light" could also claim credibility as the hosts of another
Disney Comics first. What would that be? Let's spin it...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bringing You a Disney Afternoon</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>The Disney Afternoon Premiered in the Fall of 1990, Providing Multiple Tie-Ins for Brand-New Disney Comics</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of <b><a href="http://vintagedisneylandtickets.blogspot.com/2012/12/operation-desert-shield-family-holiday.html" target="_blank">Vintage Disneyland Tickets</a></b><br />© Disney</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first Disney Comics Limited Series was a tie-in with the Fall 1990 television premiere of <i>TaleSpin</i>,
a new animated series from Walt Disney Television Animation, starring
the characters of Baloo and King Louie from Walt Disney's 1966 animated
feature <i>The Jungle Book</i> in a different premise. <i>TaleSpin</i> premiered on the newly-launched two-hour kid's programming block <i>The Disney Afternoon</i>, comprised of with daytime stalwarts <i>DuckTales</i> and <i>Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers</i> (which were already monthly Disney Comics titles) and a syndicated package of Disney's Saturday morning hit, <i>The Adventures of the Gummi Bears</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><i>TaleSpin: Take Off </i>was the First Disney Comics Limited Series, Quickly Followed by an Ongoing <i>TaleSpin</i> Series</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like <i>DuckTales</i> and <i>Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers</i> before it, <i>TaleSpin</i> premiered as a 2-hour television movie, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Plunder and Lightning"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to set up the daily TV series. The movie was faithfully adapted as the first Disney Comics Limited Series</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>TaleSpin: Take Off</i>
consisted of four issues with a nice touch of consistent cover designs
to tie the books together. Two months after the final issue of the
limited series was released, a monthly, </span><span style="font-size: small;">ongoing</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>TaleSpin</i> title hit the stands, giving fans and collectors the opportunity to snag another #1 issue. Of all the comics based on <i>The Disney Afternoon</i> shows, the original stories written for <i>TaleSpin</i> was the most faithful to the source material.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
bounty of fun could be found in Annuals, Limited Series and
ongoing monthly titles, yet they weren't the only place to find comics
featuring characters from <i>The Disney Afternoon</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>there were even more new, BIG adventures to be had, in a smaller format...</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The First Newsstand Issue of Disney Adventures (October 1990)</span></span></b></div>
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creative teams kept busy preparing new content for monthly books and
specials, yet another ambitious comic-based project was preparing to
launch in the fall of 1990. Executive Editor Michael Lynton conceived a U.S. equivalent to Italy's
wildly popular digest <i>Topolino</i> (a long-running publication featuring Walt Disney comic book stories): <i>Disney Adventures</i> featured articles, puzzles, contests and full-length comic book stories based on <i>The Disney Afternoon</i> properties. There was no mistaking the connection, as early issues of <i>Disney Adventures</i> proudly boasted a banner or stamp touting it as "The Official Magazine of The Disney Afternoon."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>The Format of Italy's Popular, Long-Running Digest <i>Topolino</i> Was a Major Influence in Creating <i>Disney Adventures</i> for the U.S. Market</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lynton believed <i>Disney Adventures</i> was a special project, and the digest's roll-out plan was equally inspired</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>a preview</span><span style="font-size: small;"> edition (or </span><span style="font-size: small;">issue
#0) was created to get kids excited for the upcoming monthly
publication. Kellogg's cereals ran a number of promotions with premiums
for <i>The Disney Afternoon</i> in the summer months of 1990: one of which offered the special preview issue of <i>Disney Adventures</i>
as a mail-in offer with proofs of purchase from cereal boxes. The
preview issue was no slouch, containing two full-length comic stories
featuring </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>DuckTales</i>, <i>Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers</i> and the very first <i>TaleSpin</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> comic story</span><span style="font-size: small;">
published in the U.S. The line-up of creative talent was no slouch
either, with names like Giorgio Cavazzano, Romano Scarpa and Marv
Wolfman on the bylines.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Chaos Coin Catastrophe!"—A <i>DuckTales</i> Painted Story From <i>Disney Adventures</i> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The two-part, lead <i>DuckTales</i>
story in the preview edition held another unique distinction for U.S.
Disney comics: the characters were drawn in traditional ink outlines
filled in with </span><span style="font-size: small;">vibrant, </span><span style="font-size: small;">solid colors against against painted and rendered backgrounds</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>a time-consuming technique that showed up in early</span><span style="font-size: small;"> issues of <i>Disney Adventures</i>. The style made the characters pop and supplied an appearance closer to the animated series. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most important was that national distribution for <i>Disney Adventures</i> far eclipsed that of the standard comic books or graphic novels from Disney Comics. </span><span style="font-size: small;">The digest actually benefited from its compact size: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Disney Adventures</i> was a convenient item that didn't take up much retail space, so it was </span><span style="font-size: small;">made available to retail stores beyond newsstands or comic book shops</span><span style="font-size: small;">. The format, plus cover art of kid-friendly celebrities and familiar Disney characters was lightning in a bottle</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>granting it the most coveted placement of all: on supermarket and drugstore checkout racks.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Archie</i> Digest Titles Have Found Success on Checkout Racks For Decades</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Only Archie Comics had previously achieved such </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">ubiquitous </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">availability and eye-level prominence for two decades prior</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">. The </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">placement of various <i>Archie</i> digest titles at supermarket checkout racks kept those characters at the forefront</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st">—t</span>his
positioning was especially significant as comics sales and distribution
waned during the 70s and early 80s. For many Gen-Xers, their first
exposure to the teens from </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st">Riverdale </span>was via the digest format at supermarket check-out lines.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With maximum exposure, and the dedicated format of a brand-new 65-episode series each year, <i>The Disney Afternoon</i> would become a major source of content across W.D. Publications, Inc.<span class="st">—</span>the television block brought more animated Disney content into homes via network television than ever before.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The 1990 <i>DuckTales</i> Feature Film Unofficially Connected the Dots of Walt Disney Comic Book History</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At this point in time, all roads really wind together. Considering that</span><span style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The influence of Walt Disney comic books was inescapable that summer, as August brought yet another </span><span style="font-size: small;">piece of</span><span style="font-size: small;"> the synergistic puzzle to the silver screen... <i>DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp</i> was released to theaters on August 3, 1990.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
feature film continued the adventures of Scrooge McDuck and his
grandnephews, with some fluid, expressive animation thanks to a higher
budget than the standard television episodes. The story takes a more
kid-friendly departure from the original Barks material (a tone the TV
series had understandably taken)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>but
the brightest gem that came out of the film's production was the
Indiana Jones inspired one-sheet poster illustrated by none other than
the renowned movie poster artist Drew Struzan:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Acclaimed Illustrator Drew Struzan Created the Poster Art for <i>DuckTales the Movie</i></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Struzan's involvement casts a nice parallel: the duck stories by Carl Barks inspired many aspects of </span><span style="font-size: small;">the <i>Indiana Jones</i> series</span><span style="font-size: small;"> to Steven Spielberg and George Lucas</span><span style="font-size: small;">. In an act of mutual admiration, the official <i>DuckTales</i> logo was inspired by the <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i> logo treatment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp</i> Graphic Novel Adapted by John Lustig, Art by Carlos Valenti, Cosme Quartieri, Robert Bat & Rubén Torreiro</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course, with all the history behind the <i>DuckTales</i> feature, it only made sense to bring things full circle with a comic book adaptation of the film. <i>DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp</i>
was the first all-new animated movie adaptation from Disney Comics,
sold as a 64-page graphic novel soon after the film's theatrical
release. </span></span>Drew Struzan's dynamic poster art served as a fitting cover for the graphic novel.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Shipwrecked!</i> Graphic Novel Adapted by William Rotsler, Art by Dan Spiegle</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course, Walt Disney Pictures continued to produce live action films too. Beyond the new <i>Dick Tracy </i>Mini-Series
and official movie adaptation (covered in <b><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993-ready.html" target="_blank">Chapter 1</a></b>)—several other new
live-action features from the Studio were being adapted as 64-page graphic
novels for release in the coming months: the upcoming family action/adventure film <i>Shipwrecked!</i>, and a feature film version of Jack London's <i>White Fang</i>. Of course, there were already plans afoot for an official adaptation of the following summer's movie version of <i>The Rocketeer</i> as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disney Comics Also Adapted the Live-Action Feature Film Version of Jack London's <i>White Fang</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>White Fang</i> Graphic Novel Adapted by Bobbi J.G. Weiss and Drawn by Richard Moore</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most surprisingly, Disney's hit live-action family film from the previous summer of 1989, <i>Honey, I Shrunk the Kids</i>
never found its way to a comic book adaptation. Despite its box office success, the film had
minimal merchandising exposure. What's even more surprising that this trend
continued with the film's 1992 theatrical sequel: <i>Honey, I Blew Up the Kid</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hollywood Comics</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spinning a New Web: </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hollywood Comics</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
the market for family fare tied up, Michael Eisner appointed another
film label, Hollwood Pictures, as a complement to Disney's Touchstone
Pictures. The target was continuing to create content for mature
audiences, with a diversity of films that wouldn't necessarily dilute
the award-winning Touchstone label. The first Hollywood Pictures release
was a joint effort, once again with Amblin Entertainment. Tapping into a
common fear of spiders, the comedy thriller <i>Arachnophobia</i>
starred Jeff Daniels and John Goodman. The tone of new film was perfect
comic book fodder, and led to the first signs of branching out for the
Disney Comics line...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hollywood Pictures Birthed Hollywood Comics: The First New Imprint in the Planned Expansion of the Disney Comics Line</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">© Disney</span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hollywood
Comics was the first official comic book imprint spun off from Disney
Comics. Naturally, the debut outing was the official movie adaptation of <i>Arachnophobia</i>,
a 64-page graphic novel released simultaneously with the film in August
of 1990. The art was deftly penciled by comics legend Dan Spiegle and
inked by Sam Parsons in a varied panel format, which gave the comic an
open, broad feel.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Graphic Novel Adaptation of <i>Arachnophobia</i> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was the First Release from Hollywood Comics</span></span></b>, Allowing For More Intense Imagery Than Would Be Expected From the Traditional Disney Comics Line</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Panel Details from the <i>Arachnophobia</i> Graphic Novel (August 1990)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adapted by William Rotsler, Pencils by Dan Spiegle, Inks by Sam Parsons </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>FInal Fantasy</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Final Fantasy</i> From Hollywood Comics Was Anticipated as the Next Piece in the Puzzle of </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disney Comics</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Expansion </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of <a href="http://disneyweirdness.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-love-90s-part-deux.html" target="_blank"><b>Disney Weirdness</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">© Disney</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
next Hollywood Comics project announced was another first: comic books
based on an outside property licensed exclusively to W.D, Publications,
Inc. from SquareSoft, Inc.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">A 4-issue Limited Series based on the immensely popular video game <i>Final Fantasy II</i>, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">was being </span></span></span></span></span></span>written by Kurt Busiek (<i>Astro City</i>, <i>The Avengers</i>) drawn by Dell Barras (<i>Transformers</i>, <i>Death's Head</i>) under covers by <i>Hellboy</i>
creator Mike Mignola. The scripts were completed by Busiek, and the
first two issues fully drawn when the project was dropped the following year.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Initiate Phase Two</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The launch of Disney Comics and Hollywood Comics signaled</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
the completion of phase one for the Walt Disney Company's entering the
comic book marketplace. With a steady publishing slate of their
well-know properties and plenty of seed cash in the coffers, phase two
began development. The ultimate plan to dominate the industry was being
assembled by W.D. Publications, Inc. The goal would be</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to publish original content of genres most associated with comic books</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">: superheroes, crime, drama and horror.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">gritty,
mature or violent subjects would shatter the borders (and the stigma)
of traditional Disney characters and the company's family-friendly
image. The newly desired genres necessitated another new imprint in
order to accomplish this. Of course, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">W.D. Publications, Inc. had already shown it's ambition and brio from the outset: so let's make that TWO more new imprints...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Touchmark Comics Logo Was Designed by Todd Klein</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Image Courtesy of <b><a href="http://myoldbox.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/before-vertigo-there-was-touchmark/" target="_blank">Emillo Torres</a></b> </span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Touchmark Comics</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Touchmark
Comics was conceived as the imprint dedicated to more mature,
sophisticated content in the vein of Alan Moore's work on <i>The Swamp Thing</i> and Neil Gaiman's <i>Sandman</i>.
Not quite identical to the film label as Hollywood Comics was,
Touchmark was a close relative to the Studio's Touchstone Pictures
label. The press booklet handed out at the 1991 San Diego Comic-Con
offered a dictionary definition casting out a good idea as to why:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="ssens">touchmark [</span><span class="pr"><span class="unicode">ˈ</span>təch</span><span class="ssens"><span class="pr">-<span class="unicode">ˌ</span>märk</span>] <i>n</i> 1: an artist's symbolic signature on a work of art 2: an identifying maker's mark impressed on pewter</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Karen Berger was a sharp Editor at </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">DC
Comics, who had pushed the envelope for smarter, edgier and more
sophisticated content in her titles. For instance, Berger was
responsible for bringing in Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison to the pages
of DC. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her like-minded and equally able Assistant Editor Art Young </span></span>was hir</span></span>ed away by Disney to conceive and head up the entire Touchmark line of new titles and given <i>carte blanche</i>
for subject material and creative talents. Young arranged a top-notch
line of comic book talent such as Peter Milligan, Brian Bolland and
Grant Morrison for Touchmark's initial offerings. Young also contacted
the premier industry letterer and logo designer Todd Klein to conceive
the logo treatment, the process of which Klein describes in an excellent
blog post <b><a href="http://kleinletters.com/Blog/logos-that-never-were-touchmark/" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> The San Diego Comic-Con Preview Booklet Contained a Look at <i>Enigma</i>, <i>Mercy</i> and <i>Sebastian O</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The titles and synopses for three titles were previewed: <i>Enigma</i>, <i>Mercy</i> and <i>Sebastian O</i>—Touchmark Comics was positioned to be a major forerunner to the immensely popular DC imprint of Vertigo Comics.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vista Comics</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The other new
imprint announced was Vista Comics (most likely a nod to the Studio's
Buena Vista Pictures television and film distribution arm.) Vista Comics
was more of the competitor to the classic Marvel and DC comic book
lines with superhero and science-fiction themes. Initially, there were
plans for new adaptations and expanded adventures of characters from
past films such as <i>Tron</i> and <i>The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh</i>. Continuing tales of Dave Steven's <i>The Rocketeer</i> following the premiere of the 1991 film were also a possibility.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Vista Comics Might Have Brought New Tales of Leslie Nielsen as </b><i><b>The Swamp Fox</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
remains to be known if there were plans to create original superhero
characters or teams that wouldn't have been outside I.P.—sadly, there
remains little documentation on the planned content of Vista Comics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>New Disney Classics</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As mentioned above, the <i>DuckTales</i>
movie adaption was the first <i>new</i> graphic novel of an animated film from Disney Comics. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We saw in <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993-ready.html" target="_blank"><b>Chapter 1</b></a> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">their initial graphic novel offering was a reprint of the 1968 Gold Key comics adaption
of <i>The Jungle Book</i>.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Fall 1990 Home Video Release of <i>Peter Pan</i> Gave Way to the Next Classic Reprint in Graphic Novel Format</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Jungle Book</i>
was published to coincide with the theatrical re-release of the film
during the summer of 1990, and likely a strategically synergistic
lead-up to the premiere of <i>TaleSpin</i> in September.</span></span> Another classic reprint soon followed to serve a similar purpose: the 1953 Dell comics adaption of <i>Peter Pan</i> (also drawn by Al Hubbard) reprinted as a graphic novel to mark the inaugural home video release of the film that September. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Little Mermaid</i> Graphic Novel Was a Faithful </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Comics </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Adaptation </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>of the Hit 1989 Animated Feature Film</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adapted by Tom Anderson, Art by Xavier Vives Mateu</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though the previous summer's hit <i>Honey, I Shrunk the Kids</i> didn't make the transition to a comics adaption, the film from 1989 that <i>did</i> move forward was the box office mega-hit <i>The Little Mermaid</i>. <i>Mermaid</i> became the first new comic book adaptation of a feature from Walt Disney Animation by Disney Comics<span class="st">—</span>the difference here is that the bulk of the production on the <i>DuckTales</i> movie was done overseas, and produced under a separate production company, DisneyToon Studios. <i>The Little Mermaid</i>
Official Movie Adaptiaton made its way onto the stands as a 48-page
graphic novel. The comic adaptation was originally created through </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Gutenberghus Group </span> for Denmark's long-running Donald Duck comic magazine <i>Anders And & Co.</i>
The art was purchased by W.D. Publications, Inc., then translated into
English (the comic was published in their respective countries in
December of 1990.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>By the End of 1990, Plans Were Already Underway For a </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disney Comics Limited Series of <i>The L</i></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>ittle Mermaid</b></i><b>, With the Prospect of Launching a New, Ongoing Series</b><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The Little Mermaid</i> Limited Series #2 of 4 (January 1992) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Little Mermaid</i>
was already out of theaters for a year, and available on home video by
the time of the graphic novel's release. But Walt Disney Feature
Animation hadn't produced a film this successful in decades—<i>Mermaid</i> quickly developed a wide fan base, so it was only natural to capitalize on the success of the film's characters. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney
Comics may have purchased the movie adaptation from overseas, but the
staff was already working on an original, 4-issue Limited Series of <i>The Little Mermaid</i> featuring the adventures of Ariel before she came to live on the surface.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney Comics Brought on</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the Diverse Talents of Peter David to Write 1991's <i>The </i></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Little Mermaid</i></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Limited Series</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just how wide was
Ariel's fan base? Wide enough that comics writer extraordinaire Peter
David (who by that time had crafted successful runs on <i>Aquaman</i> for DC, <i>The Incredible Hulk </i>and <i>Wolverine</i> for Marvel) approached Len Wein at the 1990 San Diego Comic-Con and exclaimed: "I hear you're doing a <i>Little Mermaid</i>
comic. You better let me write it or I'll break your legs." His subtle
persuasion landed him the job. David's earliest drafts for <i>Mermaid</i> were smart, and shone through with a love for the film's characters.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> There will be more to say about <i>The Little Mermaid</i> Limited Series in the next post of The Disney Comics Story.</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
Ariel got her first treatment of four-color fins, two other animated
projects were being prepped for graphic novel treatments... set to
release in November 1990 was <i>The Rescuers Down Under</i></span><span style="font-size: small;">, to be accompanied by a new 30-minute featurette <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i>, starring none other than the Studio's flagship trio of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Soft, Hand-Painted Style of <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Graphic Novel</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Gave the Book a Touch of Class!</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Panel Details From <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> (November 1990)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adapted by Scott Saavedra, Illustrated by Sergio Asteriti</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Prince and the Pauper</i>
adapted the Mark Twain story nicely, and featured some of the finest
animation of the classic characters since the days when Walt Disney
himself roamed the halls of the Animation building. The comic adaptation
was not only a faithful 64-page interpretation of the featurette, it
went beyond the convention of traditional Walt Disney comic books,
taking the technique of painted backgrounds in the early <i>Disney Adventures</i>
comics one step further: the entire comic book was hand-painted in a
soft illustration style by longtime Italian Disney artist Sergio
Asteriti, giving the adaptation a rich, storybook feel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Scheduled for Publication Near the Film's Theatrical Run, <i>The Rescuers Down Under</i> Graphic Novel Was Released Several Months After the Home Video</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Release</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite the extra time hand-rendering painted color took, <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> was published on schedule. </span></span>The first possible sign of "biting off more than you can chew" for Disney Comics was the delays of the comic adaptation for <i>The Rescuers Down Under</i>.
Ads for the graphic novel were printed in December of 1990, but the
release of the graphic novel was delayed long after the film's cinematic
run and VHS release the following year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The same promotional page </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">was printed </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with revised copy in Disney Comics by late 1991 exclaiming "<i>You Loved the Movie and Video...</i>" The art team behind the adaption was the same behind many of the standard monthly titles and <i>Disney Adventures</i>:
thus, the monthly books simply had to come out on schedule, leaving
work for specials either rushed or left on the back burner.</span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Celebrated Milestone Issue #550 in June 1990</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite
all the extra comics being released at a healthy pace, the standard
eight monthly titles were published on schedule, missing only a few
release dates. This feat was especially commendable, and shows the
dedication of the creative and editorial teams, considering the
staggering amount of new content created for Disney Comics in a mere matter of months.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Uncle Scrooge</i> Soon Celebrated a Milestone, Too: </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Issue</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> #250 in November 1990</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Milestones </span><span style="font-size: small;">were approaching </span><span style="font-size: small;">for </span><span style="font-size: small;">the two remaining long-running title</span><span style="font-size: small;"> t</span><span style="font-size: small;">hat held onto their original issue numbering</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>the 550th issue of the flagship <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> in June of 1990 and the 250th issue of <i>Uncle Scrooge</i>
in November of 1990. Both issues were commemorated with special new
wraparound covers and expanded to 48 pages for the month, each filled
with vintage stories.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" Illustration by Al White</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another milestone that would play a big role that year was the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney's "concert feature" <i>Fantasia</i>. Disney Comics marked the occasion in<i> Mickey Mouse Advenures</i> #9 with a new adaption of th<i>e "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
segment fr</i>om the film. There had been a comic book adaptation of the sequence by mouse stalwart Paul Murry in Dell's <i>Silly Symphonies</i>
#2 in 1953. The
updated story in 1990 was a more faithful version of the famous
sequence,
which is often regarded as "Mickey's Finest Hour." The new adaptation
was
lovingly written with an original framing device by Marv Wolfman, the
art was penciled by Steven DeStefano and inked by Gary Martin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Disney Comics Adaption of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" Captured the Drama and Dynamic Visuals of the Famous <i>Fantasia</i> Segment</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Panel Details From <i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i> #9 (December 1990)<b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Written by Marv Wolfman, Pencils by Stephen DeStefano, Inks by Gary Martin </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The t</span><span style="font-size: small;">eam of DeStefano and Martin had already been receiving high praise for their work in <i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i>
since issue #1. Under the thoughtful editorship of David Cody Weiss,
their fun, yet dynamic style paired with smart writing by Michael T.
Gilbert and Marv Wolfman did an excellent job re-introducing Mickey to
comics.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> The new stories recalled the spirit of the
scrappy, adventurous mouse from the early days of Floyd Gottfredson's
serialized comic strips, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">adding new heavies to the Mouse's Rouges Gallery, and </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">most notably restoring the gravitas to Mickey's most lethal foe, The Phantom Blot.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Phantom Blot Returned to His </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cold-Blooded Roots</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in the Pages of <i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Panel Details From <i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i> #8 (1990)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Written by Lee Nordling, Pencils by Stephen DeStefano, Inks by Gary Martin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sadly,
only a handful of stories by the team were produced, before DeStefano departed the pages of <i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i>. He'd already been working with the King Features Syndicate licensing department as the official
artist for another classic character: <i>Popeye the Sailor</i>.
Thankfully, DeStefano's </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Popeye</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">deal allowed enough flexibility to
occasionally return to Disney Comics, providing cover art and shorter
comic stories for <i>Disney Adventures</i>.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stephen DeStefano Became the <i>De Facto</i> Artist for <i>Popeye the Sailor</i> Projects and Merchandise<i><br /></i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Everything Old is New Again</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sales
on the monthly books had dipped some since the first issues, as was the
usual trend after a release of #1 issues... but some titles, such as <i>Goofy Adventures</i> suffered severe drops in sales figures within the first eight months. Marketing folks and Editors paid attention to reader
feedback via monthly letter columns. There was often spirited feedback
and a chance to see what consumers wanted to see.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 'Toon Back-Up Stories From <i>Roger Rabbit</i> Would Be Spun Off Into a New Monthly Companion Title in 1991: <i>Roger Rabbit's Toontown</i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of <b><a href="http://toonfur.com/?p=toonpatrol" target="_blank">Weaselsite</a></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For
instance, the 'Toon-centric back-up stories in Roger Rabbit were
grabbing more attention than the main feature. So much attention, in fact, that a new monthly title
was in preparation for 1991 to showcase new stories for the Maroon
Cartoon characters: <i>Roger Rabbit's Toontown</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">uckling triplets Huey, Dewey and Louie </span></span>could always found as supporting players in the monthly pages of <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i>, <i>Uncle Scrooge</i>, <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i>, and <i>DuckTales</i>—but the boys hadn't had their very own title since Western Publishing snuffed the campfire of <i>Huey, Dewey and Louie: Junior Woodchucks</i> in 1983, as the longtime publisher began to phase out their entire comic book line under the Whitman imprint.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A <i>Junior Woodchucks</i> Limited Series Was Announced For the Summer of 1991</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Junior Woodchucks</i> Limited Series #1 of 4 (May 1991) </span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art by Jukka Murtosaari</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A resurrected <i>Junior Woodchucks</i>
title was in development by Disney Comics as another 4-Issue Limited
Series, for 1991. Once again, with the hope of sales high enough to
justify a new, ongoing <i>Junior Woodchucks</i> title (and, once again, hitting that gold strike of two #1 issues!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>The <i>Gummi Bears</i>
Nearly Had a Limited Comic Book Series From Disney Comics, Plans Were
Scrapped When It Was Realized That Network and Syndicated TV Broadcasts
Were Ending in Late 1991</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another proposed Limited Series was for Disney Television Animation's <i>The Adventures of the Gummi Bears</i>. The show had been on the Saturday morning line-up for six years—</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in 1990, syndicated episodes of the show held the lead slot for the first year of <i>The Disney Afternoon</i> programming block. M</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ore</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> than enough comic book content had been produced overseas to fill four issues, but the reality was that <i>Gummi Bears</i> was going to be phased out of syndication by the fall of 1991.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gladstone's </b></span></span></span></span>Cover Proposal for an Earlier <i>Gummi Bears</i> Comic Album</b></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art by Daan Jippes </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
few years earlier, Gladstone had commissioned cover art by Daan Jippes,
with plans to devote an issue of their comic book albums dedicated to
the Gummis, but that too, never made it beyond the proposal stage.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fowl Play?</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Book on the Genealogy of the Duck Family Could Have Been Possible</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Panel Detail From "Happy Birthday Donald Duck" by Marco Rota (1984)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Image Courtesy of <a href="http://dcf.outducks.org/viewtopic.php?id=346" target="_blank"><b>The Disney Comics Forum</b></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another more mysterious project was brought up, but never quite came to light. In the letter column of <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> #6, Editor Bob Foster wrote:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"We
are in the process of doing a duck genealogy book that will include the
story of how Huey, Dewey and Louie came to inherit Donald Duck as their
uncle."</i></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now, Bob was possibly being cheeky there, though it remains a fascinating project. Perhaps <i>too</i>
ambitious a project for a small staff already juggling multiple
projects. Not to mention, there are a lot of contradictions in 50+ years
of Walt Disney comic books across the globe—what counts and what
doesn't?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In a Bit of Foreshadowing, Don Rosa Made the First Official Mention of Scrooge McDuck's Younger Sisters </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(Based on Carl Barks's Duck Family Tree) </b></span></span>in "Return to Xanadu"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Panel Details From <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> #262 (November 1991)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ironically, Disney Comics was only a year away from printing Don Rosa's "Return to Xanadu" in <i>Uncle Scrooge</i>
containing a clue—hinting that Rosa was about to tackle the subject of
creating a dedicated genealogical timeline and canon for the ducks.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Striking a Balance</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">From
the beginning, the Disney Comics editors struck a good balance of new,
classic, and translated material from overseas within the monthly titles
carried over from the Gladstone era. While some cheered on the new
comics, others pined for reprints of vintage material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The
results of the monthly output were balanced reasonably well, but it's
fair to notice that early on, there was a larger share of new material,
or newly translated stories by overseas artists such as Victor Arriagada
Rios, (better known as "Vicar") and other Gutenberghus Group artists.
Vintage stories by Carl Barks or Paul Murry would surface to make sure
the collectors were kept in mind and open their work up to new readers.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bob Foster's Dedication to Titles Under His Editorship Shows in Personally Hand-Drawn Cover Concept Sketches and Color Comps</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">One
of the most striking differences in the Disney Comics line beyond unifying most of the logos was
the cover art. The covers from Disney Comics had taken on layouts
similar to covers from Marvel Comics, versus the traditional practice
for Walt Disney comic book covers going back to the days of Dell/Gold
Key comics, in which backgrounds details were often kept to a minimum:
sometimes as a vignette, or keeping characters large and afloat against a
solid color background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The layout choices might have been to make the
new covers gel better with modern sensibilities or other titles on the
racks. This doesn't mean that careful thought wasn't put into their
designs, as Bob Foster's preliminary roughs above show.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> In
fact, a majority of those who desired vintage material disliked the
"Marvel-ization" of the Disney characters in the new stories. Luckily,
there was some new content that hadn't changed from the Gladstone
days...</span> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"It's Bats, Man!"—</span>Disney Comics Provided a Perfect</span></b> Nod to the <i>Batman</i> Craze of the Early 1990s</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> #6 (September 1990)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art by William Van Horn </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cover
art from William Van Horn skewed more towards the traditional layouts,
and Gladstone fans could at least be satisfied with his newest covers
and stories appearing practically every month. Van Horn often wrote his
own material, and occasionally drew from scripts by John Lustig that
worked perfectly with Van Horn's fun and sometimes loopy sensibilities.
Interestingly, there would be letters printed with push-back from
readers that his style was too loose, where others absolutely adored
this take on the ducks.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between Doing Comic Book Work for Gladstone and The </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Gutenberghus Group, Don Rosa Wrote Two Episodes of <i>TaleSpin</i> For Walt Disney Television Animation</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">(Don's Episode Titles Shown Above)</span> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Beyond the first Disney Comics issue of <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i>, only a few new stories
by Don Rosa trickled in. The reason for this was Rosa's transition from selling his first stories directly to Gladstone/Another
Rainbow</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="st">. A</span></span>fter a brief stint writing for Walt Disney Television
Animation (he is credited for writing two episodes of <i>TaleSpin</i>)</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">, and doing story work for Dutch Publisher Oberon and Welsh Publishing in the U.S. for a <i>DuckTales</i> magazine. Rosa finally returned to his drawing board to create new duck stories for the </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Gutenberghus Group</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> (later renamed the Egmont</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">
Group), which would eventually show up in Disney Comics following Don's
original script in English. It was a contractual agreement with the
Denmark company that the U.S. publisher could run the stories once they
saw print in Europe. Eventually, Van Horn would start producing stories
for </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Gutenberghus </span>as well.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cracks in the Veneer</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Don Rosa's reluctance to produce stories directly for Disney Comics was based on their practice of not returning artwork to the artists upon publishing of the work. Other artists took notice of this among a growing restlessness, plus rumblings of arbitrary rates paid per page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Despite
their best efforts to please marketing teams, longtime readers and new
readers, there were changes afoot by the end of the year. The Disney
Comics Album series were intended to fill the void of classic reprinted
material (</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">with the exception of Album #5 which was a collection of short-form <i>Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers</i> stories.)</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Neither Classic Nor New Material Could Save the <i>Disney Comics Album Series </i>From Low Sales and Early Cancellation</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Disney Comics Album Series #5—<i>Chip 'N' Dale: Resuce Rangers, The Secret Casebook</i> (October 1990)<i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover Art Pencils by Keith Tucker, Inks by Gary Martin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gladstone</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ran a total of 35 in their comic album series from 1987 to 1989</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>the
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<a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Disney Comics Story (1990-1993):</b></span></span></a><br />
<a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Disney Implosion</b></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://bobfostersportfolio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bob Foster's Online Portfolio</b></span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/06/20/the-great-archie-comics-experiment-of-1989-90/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Comic Book Resources: The Great Archie Comics Experiment of 1989-90</b></span></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.comicbookbrain.com/large-archie-comics-digest-chesterfield.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Comic Book Brain on Archie Digests-Part I</b></span></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.comicbookbrain.com/z071-archie-comics-digest-sarah-palin-obama.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Comic Book Brain on Archie Digests-Part II</b></span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://ryanwynns.blogspot.com/2011/09/history-of-ducktales-comic-books-part.html" target="_blank">Ryan Wynns on the DuckTales Series II from Disney Comics</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://stephendestefano.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Stephen DeStefano on Tumblr </a></b></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/07/01/comic-book-legends-revealed-321/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Touchmark Comics: Comic Book Legends Revealed by Brian Cronin</b></span></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://myoldbox.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/before-vertigo-there-was-touchmark/" target="_blank">Touchmark Comics by Emillo Torres</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://langtath.blogspot.com/2012/06/disney-adventures-magazine-0-fall-1990.html" target="_blank">View the Entire Contents of the Kellogg's 1990 Preview Issue of <i>Disney Adventures</i></a> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aloha, and welcome back for the first post in quite a few weeks! Much of the U.S. has been caught up in a icy start to 2014—here in the northeast, a weather system known as the polar vortex welcomed in the new year. It continues to repeat, leaving most of us pining for warmer climes. During cold spells like this, sun-kissed, far-away places like the Hawaiian Islands seem farther away than ever. So what's the best way to combat freezing temperatures? Bundle up and let some music take you away to somewhere warmer...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you've visited or have even the most basic knowledge of the 50th state, it's easy to understand Hawaii offers much to please all five senses: unique views, scents and flavors are revealed around every turn. Native Hawaiian culture trumps or intertwines much of the urban influence from the mainland, and even the pace maintains a distinct tempo. This is especially evident in the music that originates from the islands, which is the very subject of this season's playlist suggestions.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Front Entrance to the Dole Pineapple Plantation in Wahiawa, HI</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whether you're shopping, strolling, or driving, it's hard to avoid slack-key guitar music on a visit to any of the Hawaiian islands. Even the train tour at the famous Dole Pineapple Plantation plays a lighthearted </span><span style="font-size: small;">recording of slack-key guitar as the miniature train trundles along past pungent, never-ending fields of pineapple plants.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tuning Into Slack-Key Guitar</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes
peppy, sometimes dreamy, slack-key is a fingerstyle of guitar playing, with one or more of the tuning keys loosened to create the sound that
unmistakably represents and identifies Hawaiian culture. The practice goes back to the early 19th century, when Spaniards passing through Hawaii taught the slack-key technique during their visit, letting the Hawaiian people practice and re-develop the technique. Slack-key style combined with steel guitar and the iconic ukelele provide the signature sounds of Hawaiian music.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Three Bears" Waterfall on Maui's Historic Road to Hana </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The local music matches the beauty and tranquility of the land: from bustling Waikiki, to the rustic roads of Maui, to the varied terrains of the Big Island, to the wild rainforests of Kauai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While there is plenty of variety to Hawaiian music, the songs suggested here are some of the most well-known, and intended to set a mood—in a few months, we'll visit Polynesian music with a more expansive theme of the exotic South Seas to suit the setting of a classic mid-century Tiki bar. That's not to say we can't prepare a nice tropical drink to enjoy with the music before then. Here's a simple and delicious recipe:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's Have a Drink With Shag</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Joshua "Shag" Agle has done his part to re-introduce Tiki culture into the 21st century. His appealing paintings and illustrations restore the hip, mid-century lounge scene with bright, vibrant colors and a design sense that evokes that era, yet is fully functional in the current day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The drink featured comes from a beautifully illustrated package of cards called "Shag's Tiki Drinks Deck: 52 Ways to Shake Your Way to Paradise"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—</span>the card set </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">sold out </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">long ago, but a Google search might uncover a set for your own home bar set-up. Click the link below to search: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Even though we're not talking Tahiti this time, it's a relatively close neighbor. The ingredients needed are exemplary of Hawaiian flavors and easily attainable, making the Tahitian Tattoo is a pretty simple drink to prepare. It <i>might</i> just make you forget the cold winter months for a while.</span></span><br />
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<b>Album Art for Winter 2014 </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Playlist—</b></span></span>Songs of Hawaii </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To transition us from the mainland and the recent posts on Walt Disney Productions, Annette Funicello eases our journey west with the catchy "(Every Night is) Date Night in Hawaii"—a melody which will stay with you forever, even after a single play. From there we go straight to Hawaii with the New Hawaiian Band, get a quick lesson in the local language from </span><span style="font-size: small;">Martin Pahinui & Co., then a song from </span><span style="font-size: small;">Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole, a unique voice who left this world far too young, and far too soon. Then there's a perfect example of slack-key guitar from Ken Emerson, and Don Ho, </span><span style="font-size: small;">of course... it's NOT "Tiny Bubbles" (but a classic nonetheless!) </span><span style="font-size: small;">Martin Denny's rich studio recording of "Hawaiian War Chant" swings us back east 'round Hollywood way. The musical arrangements of Martin Denny will be featured in an upcoming post later this year.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sam Ku West is Considered One of the Best Steel Guitar Players of All Time</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image © & Courtesy of <a href="http://www.well.com/~wellvis/samkuwest.html" target="_blank"><b>Brad's Page of Steel</b></a></span> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As usual, there's a FREE MP3 to get your playlist started, this time it features a vintage recording of a Hawaiian steel guitar from one of the pioneers of the format: Sam Ku West. Few recordings exist of West's performances, so this is something of a rare treat, courtesy </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of <a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank"><b>archive.org</b></a></span></span><br />
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free MP3 by Sam Ku West below the list of
the eight song suggestions.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"> A</span>s usual, direct links to albums for
both stores are provided below
the description of each song, where you can listen to audio samples and
purchase those that you might want to use to create your own Hawaiian-inspired playlist. Remember: I don't get a piece of the profits if you make a
purchase<span class="st">—</span>the links are there to make things easy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(Every Night is) </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>D</b></span></span>ate Night in Hawaii</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Annette Funicello</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Hawaiiannette</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CC7TROY/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk7_B00CC7TROY" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hawaiiannette/id203143619" target="_blank">iTunes </a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>On the Beach at Waikiki</b></span></span><br />
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Artist: New Hawaiian Band</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: New Hawaiian Band: Hawaii's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>C-A-T, Pöpoki Spells Cat</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artists: Aaron Mahi, Bobby Ingano, George Kuo & Martin Pahinui</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Ho'olohe [Listen]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Henehene Kou 'Aka</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Facing Future</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y48BTM/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk9" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/facing-future/id6920356" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Miloli'i Slack Key</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Ken Emerson</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Slack Key Guitar</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/MiloliI-Slack-Key-Ken-Emerson/dp/B000QLPKIA" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/slack-key-guitar/id65581588" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>White Ginger Blossoms</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Haunani Kahalewai</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Hawaii... A Musical Memento of the Islands</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hawaii-Various/dp/B000251NAE" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hawaii...a-musical-memento/id3623926" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Hukilau Song</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Don Ho</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Don Ho—Hawaii's Ambassador of Aloha to the World</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hawaiian War Chant</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Martin Denny</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Quiet Village</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sunkist Hawaii</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Sam Ku West and The Harmony Boys</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Recorded March 26, 1928)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97129363/Sunkist%20Hawaii.mp3" target="_blank"><b>CLICK HERE FOR FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD</b></a></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Striking Cover Art For <i>Mickey Mouse Advenures </i>#1 (April 1990)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We concluded our <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993.html" target="_blank"><b>Prologue</b></a> with the Walt Disney Company's revocation of the formal comic book license from Another Rainbow Publishing's Gladstone imprint at the close of 1989. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shifting cultural influence and an surprisingly aggressive speculation market had re-invigorated the comic book industry</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>i</span></span>n a likewise parallel, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Walt Disney Company</span></span> was experiencing a renewed interest in their library of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">animated </span></span>characters, both new and old. These events sparked the notion in Burbank that new comic books published in-house would logically trump the popularity of the Gladstone books, whose cornerstone was firmly placed in classic comic material of the 1930s through the 1960s. By self-publishing their own comic books, the Walt Disney Company would:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The road to the 1990s was paved with gold as far as the Walt Disney Company was concerned: domestic theme parks were well-attended and expanding, as new resorts were being developed around the world. A strong film slate during the second half of the 1980s kept Studio coffers healthy via their new Touchstone Pictures label, with hits such as <i>Down and Out in Beverly Hills</i>, <i>Good Morning Vietnam</i>, <i>Who Framed Roger Rabbit?</i> and <i>Dead Poets Society</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt Disney Pictures was bouncing back as well: 1989 brought box office gold with the family comedy <i>Honey, I Shrunk the Kids</i>, followed by the wildly successful animated feature <i>The Little Mermaid</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>the animated film that placed Disney animation back on top of the heap.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The television market was sewn up too, with no less than a 24-hour premium cable channel, prime-time network hits like <i>The Golden Girls</i>, <i>Empty Nest</i>, and original syndicated animated series such as <i>DuckTales</i> and <i>Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers</i>, with each outlet seeded with significant plans for rapid growth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The media empire was back on the rise</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span>as its prominence and projects grew more ambitious, so did the departments within.</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Success of the Late 1980s Had It's Price: The Once-Familial Atmosphere of The Walt Disney Studios Had Grown Formal and Corporate</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like in so many periods of corporate growth, the arrival of new management sometimes arrived in unwanted forms to existing and new departments: </span><span style="font-size: small;">eager, but less than creative executives who knew profits had to justify their salaries. With awakened success, more of this management style permeated the company</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>the price to pay was that the familial, campus-like atmosphere of the Walt Disney Studio was dissipating into the ether of memory.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Studio Co-Founder Roy O. Disney Poses Amongst a Plethora of Official Disney-</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Licensed</span></span></b> Merchandise, Circa 1953</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For decades, licensing had always been the most profitable arm of the company, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">even during the leanest years</span></span>. </span></span>Classic properties like <i>Cinderella</i> and <i>Peter Pan</i> and new properties like <i>The Little Mermaid</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">covered their production costs many thousands of times over in ticket sales, home entertainment, soundtrack recordings and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">all manners of related merchandise produced by approved licensees</span></span></span></span></span></span>.</span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By 1990, the licensing division was known as Walt Disney Consumer Products<span class="st">—</span>this subsidiary had grown exponentially due to the company's new prosperity. In fact, the consumer products division had expanded so much that sub-subsidiaries needed to be established to manage particular lines of merchandise. Products such as preschool toys, collectibles, soft goods, timepieces, and (of course) the publishing of books and magazines.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thus, several imprints for diverse publishing endeavors were formed (later carried under the banner of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Disney Publishing Group)</span></span>: Disney Editions, Disney Press, Hyperion Books, and Hyperion Books for Children. A fifth imprint, W.D. Publications, Inc., was formed especially for Disney's self-published comic book line, set to launch a month after the final issues of the original Gladstone comics hit the stands.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shooter was selected by Lynton as a consultant, and as the first choice to be Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Disney's new comic book line. This grand opportunity was torpedoed by Lynton's due diligence: when references were requested, prominent comics professionals described Shooter as a "monster" and claimed they, nor other creators would ever want to work for the company with Jim Shooter at the helm. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The duties became divided: in a questionable move, the title of Publisher was awarded to Randy Achee, who held no comic book publishing experience (his background was in the publishing </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of controlled circulation magazines </span></span>and the sales of ad space within.) The more logical appointment was that of Len Wein as Editor-in-Chief. Wein was a</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> prominent </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">writer and editor for both </span></span>DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Project founder Michael Lynton became the Executive Editor.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney Comics Founders </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pose With Gladstone and International Walt Disney Comic Books (October 1989)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Len Wein (Editor-in-Chief), Sally Prendergast (Marketing Manager),<br />Randy Achee (Publisher), Bob Foster (Managing Editor), David Seidman (Editor)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Below Center: Michael Lynton (Executive Editor)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo © & Courtesy of </span><b><a href="http://bob-foster.blogspot.com/2009/07/disney-comics-core-group-1989.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bob Foster</span></a> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the
polarizing appointments of the less-qualified Achee as Publisher and the
industry-experienced Wein as Editor-in-Chief, it was clear the aforementioned unwanted executive interference was already
present at </span><span style="font-size: small;">W.D. Publications, Inc. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
names joined the roster<b>, </b>thankfully closer related to the field
of comic books and animation: Bob Foster became Managing Editor, David
Seidman and David Cody Weiss as Editors, and Cris Palomino as
their "peerless one-woman </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Production</span></span> Department."</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Floyd Norman (Left) Worked on Animation Storyboards During Walt's Time, and Did Significant Work Re-Establishing the <i>Mickey Mouse</i> Comic Strip for King Features Syndicate</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photo © Disney</span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Big shot executives from New York took charge of the prestige units but
our comic book company was given little regard. I honestly believed they
would have given us more respect if we had been publishing sleazy
girlie magazines. I do not joke when I say our editors did a lot of
their early work on packing boxes. Disney had given the artists and
editors a firm deadline on getting the books to press yet there was no
furniture available. In spite of these challenges, Disney entered into
the world of comic book publishing with their usual snotty attitude. The
company not only paid the lowest page rates but refused to allow the
artists to retain their original art. Word of Disney's arrogance spread
throughout the comics industry and before long many were eagerly
anticipating our doom."</span></span></i></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The First Publications? P-P-P-Please!</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Surprisingly, the initial release from W.D. Publications, Inc. was not a comic book proper,
but an slick, </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">oversized, </span></span></span></span>prestige format book under the banner of <i>A Disney Movie Book</i>, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">employing still frames of actual animation as comic panels, with dialogue balloons added. </span></span>The first Disney Movie Book was an adaption of the Roger Rabbit short subject <i>Tummy Trouble</i>, which preceded the hit Walt Disney Pictures release <i>Honey, I Shrunk the Kids</i> in June of 1989.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Intended as an Ongoing Series, <i>Disney Movie Book </i>#1<i>: Roger Rabbit in Tummy Trouble</i> Was The First Book Published By W.D. Publications, Inc. in Early 1990</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From a marketing standpoint, it made perfect sense: Roger Rabbit was a hot property, with <i>Tummy Trouble</i> as the first in a series of theatrical shorts. Two more shorts, <i>Roller Coaster Rabbit</i> (1990) and <i>Trail Mix-Up</i> (1993) were produced, but never adapted into future <i>Disney Movie Books</i>. This first volume sold well but failed to break even, leaving <i>Tummy Trouble</i> as the lone entry in an attractive, abandoned series. <i>Tummy Trouble</i> even included the premium of a fold-out movie poster—a scheduled <i>Roller Coaster Rabbit</i> adaption (presumably </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Disney Movie Book #2</i>) </span></span>was intended to include a flexible, vinyl record containing the wild musical score for that short. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> A Tie-In to the Upcoming Walt Disney Pictures Release, <i>DIck Tracy: Big City Blues</i> Was a Prestige Format Graphic Novel With Bold Art By Kyle Baker</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next release in February 1990 was a touch closer to a traditionally-sized comic book. The original graphic novel <i>Dick Tracy: Big City Blues</i> was the first of a three-issue prequel and comics adaption of the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures release <i>Dick Tracy</i>. The prequel mini-series was written by John Francis Moore, with </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the film adaption written by </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Len Wein. A</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ll three books were dynamically drawn by Kyle Baker, who took the art in a more dynamic, independent comic book style (rather than emulating the comic strip style of <i>Tracy</i> creator Chester Gould and his successors.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But these were not "official" releases under the Disney Comics imprint. Those titles were in preparation, and about to show up in a matter of weeks: featuring new content, bright white pages and vibrant computer coloring to take place of the traditional newsprint and four-color presentation that had long been the norm for traditional Walt Disney comic books...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">April 1990: Disney Comics Launch</span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>April 1990: The First Month of Disney Comics, Featuring (Mostly) #1 Issues</b></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"We are going to produce an expanded line of comics, to broaden the audience beyond the collector's market. We'll be going with both updated and brand-new titles. We're looking for the Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson of the future."</span></span></i></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">–</span></span> Publisher Randy Achee to </span></span><i>Disney Magazine</i>, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spring 1990</span></span> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rigors of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">setting up, </span></span>hiring staff, commissioning artists and </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">overcoming </span></span>stumbling blocks behind them, the Disney Comics line </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">launched </span></span>on schedule in </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">April of 1990, </span></span>with an ambitious slate of eight monthly, ongoing titles featuring classic Walt Disney characters and
newer Disney properties of that era. The eight titles at launch were:</span></span><br />
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<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mickey Mouse Adventures</span></span></i></b></li>
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<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Donald Duck Adventures</span></span></i></b></li>
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<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goofy Adventures </span></span></i></b></li>
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<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Uncle Scrooge</span></span></i></b></li>
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<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</span></span></i></b></li>
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<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roger Rabbit</span></span></i></b></li>
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<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">DuckTales</span></span></i></b></li>
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<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers</span></span></i></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the exception of the
long-running <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> (issue #243) and the even longer-running flagship title <i>Walt Disney's Comics and
Stories</i> (issue #548), all the Disney-published titles reset their issue
numbering to #1, for both consistency's sake and to capitalize on the
collector's market.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Editor-in-Chief Len Wein Welcomes Readers to Disney Comics in The Inaugural Edition of His Monthly <i>Between The Lines</i> Column</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The traditional Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy books
officially added "Adventures" to their titles, justifying the issue #1
designation. Justified, except that Gladstone had already been publishing a
<i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> title in addition to the standard <i>Donald Duck</i>
book</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>however, Disney Comics chose to start again at issue #1. The same
numbering reset was done for the <i>DuckTales</i> comic book previously published by
Gladstone, which has caused confusion for collectors and completists
ever since! (Read my post on the ongoing confusion this caused<b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2012/11/got-donald-duck-adventures-5-which-one.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>HERE</b></span></span></b></a>)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>There Was a Desire to Jump-Start New Collectors Via a Box Set of Disney Comics #1 Issues Through The Disney Store and Catalog</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To reach out beyond the collectors' market, a special edition box set of the six #1 issues was offered via The Disney Store and its companion mail catalog: the comics were shrink-wrapped and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. The set retailed around $75, which may have been a touch too high</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span>the six books</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> were not unique or variants, simply the direct market editions sold at comic books stores (no UPC bar code) that could still be purchased for $1.50 apiece.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even corner identifiers and logo treatments were conformed to show a unification and identification that these books were the stamp of a new regime. The initial Disney Comics output featured brand new
commissioned material, plus European stories that had never been printed in the
U.S., as well as classic content from the Western Publishing era to round out the books (and satisfy former Gladstone readers).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In a Cheeky, Satirical Format Similar to <i>MAD</i> Magazine, <i>Goofy Adventures</i> Placed The Goof Throughout History and in The Guises of Legendary Figures</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of the new offerings in particular, <i>Mickey</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> Mouse Adventures</i> and <i>Goofy Adventures</i> boasted some impressive new content by Stephen
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characters in comics form. The new <i>Mickey Mouse Adventures</i> material had several references to Floyd Gottfredson comic strip serials, as well as nods to the later years of Western Publishing, while being fully unique and entertaining in their own right. <i>Goofy Adventures</i> contained some of the outright funniest new content, not keeping the Goof chained to any one continuity, but allowing him to step into history and fiction</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span></span></span>taking a typically goofy approach to the roles of figures like Genghis Khan in one issue, Dr. Frankenstein in the next.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Early Pre-Order Numbers for the <i>Roger Rabbit</i> Title From Disney Comics Were Promising, Even With New Detective Rick Flint Standing in for Eddie Valiant</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As newer titles go, initial orders for the new comics showed that the <i>Roger Rabbit</i> title was the strongest contender in the new line. The comic took place after the events of film, with a caveat that would impact the continuity of the stories: the likeness rights of actor Bob Hoskins as Detective Eddie Valiant were not in place for the series beyond issue #1. This led to Valiant leading a new human detective character, Rick Flint to pair with Roger for new capers in 1940s Los Angeles. The format wisely contained a live-action and 'toon adventure, with a back-up story set in the cartoon district of Toontown.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like Many Contemporary Publishers, Comics Based on TV Series <i>DuckTales</i> and <i>Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers</i> Ran Storylines Across Multiple Issues During Their Disney Comics Run</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most kids who came home from school at that time quickly settled in to watch a full hour of syndicated Disney animation with new episodes of <i>DuckTales</i> and its companion <i>Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers</i>, which always garnered high ratings in their local time slots. It was a natural to bring both into the Disney Comics fold as individual titles. In a new format for domestic Walt Disney comic books, both titles carried plots across multiple issues, a prolonged method of sales via storytelling that DC, Marvel, and others had found success in. This was just prior to the premiere of the Fall 1990 </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">two-hour </span></span>programming block known as <i>The </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Disney Afternoon</i></span></span>... and Disney Comics already had plenty of plans for that, too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The pages of <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i>, <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> and <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> held closest ties to the Gladstone content: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">fan favorites William Van Horn, Don Rosa and Carl Barks could be found there, </span></span>albeit with some new twists</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. The format of </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the squarebound </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gladstone</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> Comic Albums</i> remained with the numbering also reset and re-christened as <i>Disney Comics Albums</i>, which served to further cater to the classic comics collector. Unfortunately, the contents were often uneven, and thoughtful/contextual commentary from Editors such as Geoffrey Blum were sorely missed.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The First Prestige Format Graphic Novel Under the Disney Comics Imprint Was the 1968 Comics Adaption of <i>The Jungle Book</i> by Carl Fallberg and Al Hubbard</span></span></b></div>
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classic and new Disney films were planned to be published in both standard and graphic novel formats to coincide with the release of the films in theaters or
VHS. By the Summer of 1990, the first graphic novel under the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney Comics imprint </span></span>was a dual prestige format and traditional softcover reprint of the 1968 Gold Key comic book adaption of Walt Disney's <i>The Jungle Book</i>, drawn by Al Hubbard </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and written by Carl Fallberg</span></span>. Many brand-new film adaptions were already in various stages of development.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There was no starting small, and the first few months were the gateway to what would be dubbed "The Disney Explosion" when <b>MUCH MORE</b> than these eight monthly titles would become available: annual specials, graphic novels film tie-ins and and several other projects were in stages of development. Next time, we'll look at what those encompassed. <b> </b></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-disney-comics-story-1990-1993_5112.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Disney Comics Story (1990-1993):</span></b></span></a><br />
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<i><a href="http://bob-foster.blogspot.com/2009/07/disney-comics-core-group-1989.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>DISNEY COMICS CORE GROUP</b></span></span></span></span></a></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://bob-foster.blogspot.com/2009/07/disney-comics-core-group-1989.html" target="_blank"><b>Bob Foster's Recollection of Starting Up Disney Comics</b></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://floydnormancom.squarespace.com/blog/2013/2/19/unfunny-comics-story" target="_blank"><b><i>UNFUNNY COMICS STORY</i><br />Floyd Norman's Recollection of the Shaky Start-Up Disney Comics </b></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/09/disney-adventures.html?spref=tw" target="_blank"><b><i>DISNEY ADVENTURES</i><br />Jim Shooter's Account of Consulting & Bypass of Editor-in-Chief for Disney Comics</b></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/it-was-twenty-years-ago-today.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY...</i></span></span></span></span></b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/it-was-twenty-years-ago-today.html" target="_blank"><b>Joe Torcivia's Round-Up of the First Month of Disney Comics</b></a></span></span></span></span><br />
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-83398033137795819912013-11-05T03:09:00.003-05:002014-02-22T02:09:26.982-05:00The Disney Comics Story (1990-1993): Prologue<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disney's Self-Published Comic Books Ran From 1990 to 1993</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The U.S. comic book boom of the 1980s restored the medium to the mainstream forefront. Once-sagging sales figures due to low circulation and constrictive distribution methods (discussed <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-business-of-western-publishings.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>) were back on the rise. This new attention brought forth publishing of new and resurrected titles during that period—a wide variety, the likes of which had been unavailable for decades.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Within that crop of fresh, four-color entertainment came a re-vamped line of Walt Disney comic book titles. The tale of The Walt Disney Company's stint at self-published comics is about to unfold here as a multi-part series... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...but before we get to ducks and mice, let's have a bit of history to place things in context. In modern-day comics parlance, this post can be considered "Chapter Zero."</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coming of Age</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comic
books had
taken a remarkable turn in the public eye by the close of the 20th
Century. Legendary cartoonist Will Eisner's desire to elevate the art
form was brought to fruition with the 1978 release of his seminal work <i>A Contract With God</i>. The dramatic collection of stories told through sequential art brought the term graphic novel into our lexicon.</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Will Eisner's <i>A Contract With God</i> Was the First Widely Recognized Graphic Novel in the United States</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Exposure of graphic novels as literature was aided largely in part by the success of Art Spigelman's Holocaust memoir <i>Maus</i>, and Frank Miller's contemporary handling of an aging Bruce Wayne in <i>The Dark Knight Returns</i>.
Selected graphic novels began to show up as <i>The New York Times</i> Best Sellers,
and were added to public school reading lists (joining European imports
such as Goscinny & Uderzo's <i>Asterix</i> series, and Herge's <i>Tintin</i>.)</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Maus</i> Recounted the Horrors of the Holocaust in Comic Strip Format, Casting Animals as Various Races and Nationalities</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Something Old, Something New</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In mainstream pop culture, a brand-new property captured the imagination of children and teenagers across the United States: <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i>
began life as a self-published, independent black and white
comic book by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The crazy concept with the
even crazier title caught on quickly when the characters were licensed as
a highly sought-after line of toys and an immensely popular animated
television series beginning in 1987. A quarter-consuming arcade game
followed in 1989, with the first of three big-budget feature films
slated for release in 1990. The favorable response to these oddball
heroes let loose a flood of valuable merchandise and product tie-ins,
all of which led back to comic books in the form of collected back
issues, spin-offs, and an alternate comic book adaption
of the animated series.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eastman and Laird's <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i> Directly and Indirectly Helped Birth a New Generation of Comic Book Readers</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Close to follow was the much-hyped 1989 blockbuster cinematic release of Tim Burton's <i>Batman</i>
for Warner Brothers, which placed the gritty world of Gotham City at
the forefront of the DC Comics universe. The feature film boasted the
inspired and unexpected casting of Michael Keaton in the titular role, and Jack
Nicholson as the Joker, accompanied by a chart-topping, multi-platinum soundtrack
featuring original music by Prince. This cross-demographic appeal
couldn't be ignored, and it was impossible to turn a corner during the
summer of '89 without seeing the familiar winged logo. Naturally, this
led to a profitable wave of bat-branded merchandise, from T-shirts to
breakfast cereal to video games, and cyclically, back again to comic
books. New and collected Batman and Joker stories from DC Comics were in high demand, in
addition to the official <i>Batman</i> movie comics adaption written by Denny O'Neil with lush art
by Jerry Ordway.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Summer of 1989 Was the Summer of <i>Batman</i>: The Hit Feature Film Brought Another New Audience and Former Readers Back to Comic Books</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Turtle and
Bat phenomena were remarkably timed: both properties ignited dual fuses,
causing an explosion in the American comic book marketplace. A new
generation discovered comic book entertainment via other forms of
entertainment media, finding their way to newsstands and the relatively
new establishments known as comic book shops that had surfaced in the
past decade. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This surge in popularity benefited lifelong, core fans of classic comic book heroes like <i>Superman</i>, <i>Batman</i>, <i>Spider-Man</i> and the <i>X-Men</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span>their commitment rewarded with hardbound collections, expanded content and spin-off titles of favorite characters. But a boost from pop culture movies and television was only half of the reason for the explosion...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Collector's Market</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While some sought entertainment, an equal share of others came looking to cash in on the "easy money" of soaring prices for vintage and current back issues that the news outlets had begun to exploit. </span><span style="font-size: small;">The comic book collector's market was in full swing. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Comic Book Collector's Boom Helped the <i>Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide</i> Expand and Spawned Many Periodicals on </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Comic Collecting</b></span></span></div>
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boom lured adult consumers who would never otherwise pick up a comic
book, and publishers made sure to keep them coming back each week. </span></span>Some crafty
marketing techniques to ensure a single customer's multiple purchases of
the same issue included limited print runs, polybagged editions,
variants (different cover art on the same issue) and embellished
"incentive" covers.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New comic book shops quickly opened up across the country to service the new audience that arrived on the comics scene, fueled by the factors above. One thing was clear—comic books were no longer just for kids. They were now taken seriously as: </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">valuable to the corporations that owned the I.P., and </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">investments to speculators who spent serious money each week on new releases</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The funny books had indeed come of age. A long way from the days of languishing sales in the 1970s, and even further from the slings and arrows of Dr. Fredric Wertham's <a href="http://www.seductionoftheinnocent.org/TheAntiComicsCrusade.htm" target="_blank"><b><i>Seduction of the Innocent</i></b></a> in 1954.<br /><br /> <b>Mouse House Resurrected</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Animation Department Poses For One Final Picture Before Their Evacuation From the Walt Disney Studio's Main Lot (Circa 1984)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like the comic book industry, Walt Disney Productions was emerging from dark times as well by the of the decade. Upon surviving a hostile takeover and near-liquidation by Investors and corporate raiders, the wilting media powerhouse became re-established as The Walt Disney Company in 1985 with the appointment of Michael Eisner as CEO/Chairman of the Board and Frank Wells as President</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span>their early restructuring of the company and updating of the Studio's output and image took a near-immediate hold. <br /><br /> Existing projects in varying stages of development were heavily scrutinized, and the notion of productions more in line with competing Studios no longer eschewed. This included animated product as well. Prior to the 1989 release of <i>The Little Mermaid</i> and the money-making template it would cast, two high-grossing achievements of the decade were animated projects that fueled new excitement by reaching into the Studio's past:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The Syndicated TV Series <i>DuckTales</i> Owed Its Success to the Walt Disney Comic Book Stories of Carl Barks</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first was the 1987 original animated series <i>DuckTales</i>, with a heavy foundation on the comic book stories of Carl Barks. The syndicated afternoon show debuted with consistently high ratings, thanks to a healthy budget offering scripts and visuals of much higher quality compared to most animated television offerings of the time. A combination of classic and new characters led to a remarkable 100-episode run, spawning a hit video game, and a full-length feature film released to theaters in 1990.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New comic book stories featuring <i>DuckTales</i> characters were produced by Italian Publishers and through the Jamie Diaz Studios in Argentina, appearing in U.S. and overseas comic books, digests and magazines.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a bit of ironic foreshadowing, a comic book adaption of the film was released as a prestige format graphic novel by Marvel Comics in 1989, some twenty years prior to The Walt Disney Company's $4+ Billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment. The oversize adaption shined with art by a pair of comics legend: Dan Spiegle handled the live-action scenes incorporated with cartoon characters and settings by Daan Jippes.<br /><br /> These projects broke the ice of a notably stale two decades of lackluster animated fare. In another direct parallel to comic book publishers, the recent success prompted Disney's re-examination of their existing I.P. and aggressive development of new properties.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Another Rainbow Publishing Held the Walt Disney Comic Book License Through Their Gladstone Imprint</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> From 1985 to 1990</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1986, the license to publish Walt Disney comic books had been granted to </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another Rainbow Publishing, </span></span>a modest company in Scottsdale </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(later, Prescott,) </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arizona</span></span></span>. </span>Founded and run by </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">two well-known collectors and champions of comics as an art form: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Russ Cochran and Bruce Hamilton</span></span></span></span>. Another Rainbow had already met success with lavish lithographs and a special edition book of Carl Barks's oil paintings. These were produced alongside a high-end, archival series of hardcover box sets reprinting the entirety of Barks's Walt Disney comic book work, as well as E.C.'s line of Horror comics and Marjorie Henderson Buell's <i>Little Lulu</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Another Rainbow Produced The Original <i>Carl Barks Library</i>:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cochran and Hamilton </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">may have lacked the financial clout of Eisner and Wells, but where they lacked in dollars, they made up for in heart. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>So devoted to the
work of Carl Barks were the duo,</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> that their
company name was based on the title of an early Barks oil
painting of a young Scrooge McDuck: <i>Always Another Rainbow</i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. T</span></span></span></span></span></span>he imprint for their Walt Disney comic book
license would bear a similar tribute: Gladstone Comics was named after
the Barks-created cousin of Donald Duck with perpetual good luck:
Gladstone Gander.</span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cochran and Hamilton Named Their Comic Book Line After Donald Duck's Frustratingly Lucky Cousin, Gladstone Gander</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two 100-page
specials appeared on newsstands in late 1985, followed by the debut of the
"core four" monthly titles* in July of 1986. As Gladstone's launch restored Walt Disney comic books to newsstands and spinner racks, they received a bump in sales and critical praise</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. Bi-monthly titles, prestige format albums and
specials </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">were gradually added </span></span></span></span>to their publushing schedule.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Utilizing Excellent Presentation and Carefully Selected Content, Gladstone Published Some of the Finest Stateside Walt Disney Comic Book Titles</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Editors took great
care in presenting each issue's content: </span>f</span></span></span>or the first time in the United States, Disney stories and art were properly credited to the artists, writers and colorists in the format they were originally presented. Thought-provoking text articles often accompanied comic stories, providing context and history on the featured tales. Not only did the Gladstone books reprint and credit classic domestic stories, they imported a HUGE treasure trove of translated stories from Disney's mammoth Danish comics publisher, The Gutenberghus Group (now The Egmont Group.)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The original Gladstone comics also gave modern-day comic legends Don Rosa and William Van Horn their first chance at creating official duck stories.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Initially, the Another
Rainbow/Gladstone staff had minimal interference from Burbank
executives, who were likely pleased with long-dormant profit from U.S.
comic books. In turn, the comics likely experienced a bump from the
September 1987 debut of <i>DuckTales</i> as a new generation discovered the exploits of the world's richest duck each weekday afternoon. </span></span></span></span>But the powerful wake of new success impacting The Walt Disney Company was about to shake up the fate of the Gladstone comic book license significantly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The news media's increasing focus on comics books and
related properties such as <i>Batman</i> and <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i> had
motivated the Disney Studio to greenlight production of TWO big budget, live-action film
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Dick Tracy</i> (1990)</b></span></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Rocketeer</span></span></b></i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (1991)</span></span></b><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The following summer was a property the Studio optioned several years earlier: <i>The
Rocketeer</i>, a popular independent comic book by Dave
Stevens, with a Saturday Matinee serial flavor, starring Billy Campbell,
Jennifer Connolly and Alan Arkin.</span></span><br />
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course, <i>Dick Tracy</i> and <i>The Rocketeer</i> were licensed outside
properties with adventure and action themes (the type of which The Walt
Disney Company didn't own outright). This returns us to the Company's aforementioned </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">re-examination of their existing I.P.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span></span></span>which included looking closer at their own comic book output through Gladstone Publishing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Creative notes from a once-quiet Burbank began to show up at the Gladstone offices more frequently: one notorious incident was a note regarding Barks-drawn duck characters looking "off-model" on the cover of a comic book album, suggesting Studio-approved models in it's place.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Carl Barks-Drawn Cover to Gladstone Comic Album #21: <i>Donald Duck Family</i> Sparked a Surprising Red Flag From Burbank Executives </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gladstone's four-year output of Carl Barks covers were never a conflict before—it became apparent that while the marketing folks enjoyed profits from the work of Barks and many other Disney comic artists, they held little notion of their content or value. The I.P. was considered more valuable than the reason the comics were popular in the first place.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1980s Marketing Executives Never Quite Pieced Together That the Work of Carl Barks (Right) and Floyd Gottfredson (Left) Set the Standard For Walt Disney Comic Books Around the Globe</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Similar interference continued until the close of 1989, when The Walt Disney Company chose not to renew their comic book license with Another Rainbow/Gladstone. The resurgence in interest of their classic characters and the boom in the comic book market inspired Disney to undertake something they'd always left to others: the company would publish the comic books themselves. The desire being that all profits could be kept in-house, and editorial control wouldn't receive any creative pushback. This business plan now in motion, the final Gladstone comics were released to newsstands and comic book publishers during the first three months of 1990.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A class act up to the end, Gladstone didn't cover up or hide what was to come</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">, nor were they outwardly vengeful or bitter</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span></span></span>click the image below to read their farewell message to faithful readers, and a hint of the change that would come to Walt Disney comic books the following month:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Editor Geoffrey Blum Wishes The New Disney Comics Effort Well in the Final "Cross Talk" Section of the Original Gladstone Run</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So... this <i>finally</i> brings us to the doorstep of our main topic</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—there's
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>At the Initial Launch of the 1990 Disney Comics Line, New and Classic Disney Characters Received Their Own Titles</b></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* The long-running "core four" titles in U.S. Walt Disney comic books are <i>Donald Duck</i>, <i>Mickey Mouse</i>, <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> and <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i>: these four titles have been restored most often by comic book publishers that acquire the license.</span></span></span></div>
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-54371419380336357932013-09-20T01:32:00.001-04:002013-09-20T18:49:20.287-04:00A "Frozen" Rita?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A 1998</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"> Sample of </span></span></span>My College Newspaper Comic Strip </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bill & Rita</i></span></span></b> </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Frequent readers of this blog likely observe a distance from an editorial direction<span class="st">—</span>nor does <i>I Can Break Away</i> maintain much account of personal life beyond presenting original artwork, or minor anecdotes on the topic at hand. This post will place itself somewhere in the middle of that framework, due to the tenuous connection of the subjects in this post.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Initial marketing and advertising campaign has commenced for the forthcoming animated feature <i>Frozen</i> from the Walt Disney Animation Studio (slated for U.S. release on Thanksgiving week of 2013.) Having witnessed <i>Frozen</i> preliminary art and teaser trailers that trickled out over the course of the summer, I was impressed with the scope and charm of the animated film, but never lingered enough to take a good look at the design of one of the lead characters until about a week ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An online image of <i>Frozen</i> poster art centered on one of the female lead characters stopped me in my tracks. I recognized a design I quite liked, for reasons I wasn't sure of. It soon hit me that Elsa the Snow Queen looked remarkably familiar to something linked to my own past...</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Good Look at Elsa From <i>Frozen</i> Sparked Warm Memories of Rita</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can you can see why<span class="st">? N</span>ot just in the design of an attractive girl, but the hairstyle? Minus the braid, Elsa bears a striking resemblance to the female lead character of my own <i>Bill & Rita</i>. Of course, this is a coincidence of design choice, <b>not</b> a "lift" by anyone at Disney Animation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In fact, that's downright impossible: each <i>Bill & Rita</i> strip was only published once</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>well over a decade ago to a tiny audience, via a minimal-circulation campus newspaper. Nor has it had a public presentation since. But seeing Elsa inspired me to share a bit about the conception of the strip, and some thoughts about character design in general.</span></span><br />
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The timing would be my only opportunity to do so at an appropriate age:
continuing an art degree by way of broadening my academic horizons and
more intellectual pursuits. The bohemian atmosphere of an art-focused college was unique, but couldn't replicate the experience of large ivy-covered halls, school Football games, or the opportunity to get involved in a college newspaper.</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bill & Rita</i> Appeared in C.W. Post's Student Newspaper, <i>The Pioneer</i> From Fall 1996 to Spring 1998<i> </i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Orientation day at Long Island University's C.W. Post campus found me leaving a message in the mailbox of the Editor of their campus newspaper <i>The Pioneer</i>, requesting a meeting to discuss providing some kind of comic art on a bi-weekly basis. My request was received with success, and I was given <i>carte blanche</i> on the subject of a traditional, four-panel comic strip. My notion was that, naturally, college students would be be most interested in reading about college students. But satire on college life featuring a bunch of eighteen-to-twenty-somethings seemed like the type of thing that's been done in a lot in college newspapers (most notably Garry Trudeau's <i>Doonesbury</i> predecessor <i>Bull Tales</i> at Yale and Jeff Shesol's </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Thatch</i> at Brown University.)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The concept that I decided on was a campus setting surrounding new characters, incorporating an anthropomorphic dog character named Bill, intended for another comic strip idea. A few years before "prequel" became a part of the pop culture lexicon, I slimmed down his appearance and dialed back the dog's age to be college appropriate, keeping the forthcoming timeline of the intended later comic strip intact.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bill, My Faithful Canine Character Became An Unlikely, But Loveable Lead For a College-Centered Comic Strip</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now I had an upbeat, cute, talking animal character and some yet-to-be conceived twenty-somethings. Why not give more texture to the thing and make one of them Bill's human girlfriend? If the species thing isn't the one-note joke every week, there could be comedic conflict there. So Rita was conceived as Bill's significant other.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I Used Them With Restraint</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="st">—</span>But When You Set Up a Premise Like This, Species Compatibility Gags Are </b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Inevitable!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What Kind of Girl Dates a Dog?</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the start, I knew Rita shouldn't be too prissy, nor overly brusque<span class="st">—</span>she had to be a strong, wise girl coming of age in the 1990s. She also had to be open-minded enough to date a talking dog (which wasn't necessarily a new idea: Berke Breathed's Opus the penguin frequently dated human females in <i>Bloom County</i>, and we all know Gary K. Wolf's Roger Rabbit married the buxom, human Jessica Rabbit.)<span class="st"> But Bill and Rita's personal dynamic and campus life would be the focus of the strip.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"> <b>Despite The Many Odds Against Them, It Had To Be Clear Bill and Rita Genuinely Adored Each Other </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Knowing that much about who she needed to be, Rita's design process was based on an technique long-used by professional cartoonist and animation artists: the "silhouette test" which is used in two capacities:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Using this method led to Rita's slim frame, shorter hairstyle, and the up-lifted spit curl at the center of her hairline. She'd stand out as female in silhouette, but slightly askew of more fashionable girls her age. </span><span class="st"><span class="st">Though the strips never appeared in color, Rita's hair is platinum/bleach blonde to the point of pure white with the slightest tint of pale yellow</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span class="st">—</span>in my mind, it set Rita further apart from her peers as a level-headed, but quiet, rebel.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"> This design process helped define her personality, before any actual writing began.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><i>Bill & Rita</i> was an early effort on my part, and the early strips are hard to look at without extreme scrutiny, despite the strong personalities of the characters. However, as each strip progressed, I figured out more about using a </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st">nib pen with a jar of Windsor-Newton ink, attempting clearer hand</span>-lettering, placement of line weights and trying zipatone screens. By 1997, things became more polished and proved true the advice of Charles M. Schulz on starting a new comic feature: <i>"Draw fifty strips, throw them away, and then start again."</i></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These Days, Bill Provides Hi-Jinks in My Annual Holiday Card (Along With the Slightly Less Hairy Chap Pictured Above)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><i>Bill & Rita</i> had a definitive conclusion once I received my diploma, and the artwork largely laid in a envelope as something of an afterthought as I quickly paved my way into the professional world of commercial art. Of course, the dog continues to play a role of canine mascot in my annual custom Holiday Card, and it's possible I'll post the entire college run of <i>Bill & Rita</i> here someday, most likely via a remarkable online book format recently directed to me by none other than renaissance man and friend of the blog, <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-disneyland-comic-art-of-carl-barks.html" target="_blank"><b>Joseph Cowles</b></a>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">© 2013 by Dan Cunningham</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Should such a project come to pass, you'll certainly hear about it here. For the record, I'd still place it in those years
of the mid-1990s, </span></span></span>the final era to depict college life before technology commanded primary social interactions. All done </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">with a promise of much-improved artwork/drafting, and the benefit of color.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A search for an item stored in the bedroom of my youth prompted the opening of a mailing envelope, steel-clasped well over a decade ago. Of the contents within, one remarkable item was an issue of <i>Disney Magazine</i>: a gift-with-purchase premium publication sponsored by Proctor and Gamble between May 1975 to April 1977.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Final Issue (</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>April 1977) </b></span></span>of Proctor and Gamble's Disney Magazine</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The magazine ran for 19 issues, and was free with purchase of rotating P&G products at supermarkets and drugstores</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span></span>i</span>nside was an all ages affair, featuring true-life and fantasy stories, puzzles and feature articles on themes relevant to Walt Disney Productions at that time, further enhanced by special artwork from Disney Studio artists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A two-page spread on the then-upcoming 1977 release of <i>The Rescuers</i> set off a spark, and I thought the article was unique enough to share here on the blog. While the text contains nothing revelatory, the true treasures are the photos provided showing Studio employees during production of the animated feature.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The (staged) photos feature the production team amongst models, sketches and storyboards, and fans of Disney history will likely get a kick out of seeing familiar faces, furniture and fixtures. Though small, they're a nice snapshot of the "old guard" transitioning the art of the craft to the "new guard." Animator Don Bluth is shown three times, a few years before his notorious exit from Walt Disney Productions in 1980, taking several members of the staff along with him</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span>Bluth forged ahead to direct a string of animated features to become a serious contender to the Walt Disney Studio for much of that decade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While not considered a true "classic" today, t</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he film was extremely well-received d</span></span>uring its initial release in 1977</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. Compared to the Disney Studio's animated features of the 1970s, which leaned toward a method of longer segments framed within a thin plot, <i>The Rescuers</i> benefited from</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the refreshing return to a more linear and narrative storyline.</span></span> What made the film further attractive was the invitation of original, full animation </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">from a U.S. studio (</span></span>a rarity during this time.) It should be noted <i>The Rescuers</i> was the swan song for several longtime employees of Walt Disney Productions, most notably, master animator Milt Kahl who animated the film's heavy, Madame Medusa.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Current-day master animator Andreas Deja has been sharing several blog posts on Kahl's work, and his lasting influence to animators around the world. Read a bit of analysis and insight into the character animation for Madame Medusa <b><a href="http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2011/11/madame-medusa.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like Captain Hook in </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peter Pan</span></span></i>, it is extremely difficult to successfully portray an antagonist with comical notes, while maintaining a true sense of menace. By virtue of his animation "acting" alone, Kahl's Medusa scenes are frequently studied frame-by-frame by professionals and students alike. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another slice of media has surfaced in the past year stemming from the early development of the film via Huston Huddleston, the son of songwriter Floyd Huddleston. In 2011 Huston posted several original song demos by his father in early development for </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Rescuers</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—songs </span></span></span></span>tailored around the talent of Louis Prima, who portrayed the memorable voice over/singing for King Louie for the Studio in <i>The Jungle Book</i> a decade earlier. Floyd recorded several demos tracks, some of which were laid down by Prima himself, in character... the earliest drafts of the script featured Prima as a zoo critter, Louis the Bear.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That draft of the film fell apart when Prima began experiencing persistent heath issues*, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">prompting story evolution to the final film. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Huddleston's demos were scrapped for new songs by Carol Connors, Sammy Fain, Shelby Flint and Ayn Robbins.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The new song writers heralded a shift to songs played over montage scenes, departing from the traditional "musical" style of on-screen characters singing
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of the original Huddleston demo recordings have seen an official digital </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">release</span></span></span> by Walt Disney Records as part of a larger audio project of unreleased tracks entitled <i>The Lost Chords</i>. The Prima material is fun and polished, but it's clear they'd be largely out of
place with the tone of the final version of <i>The Rescuers</i>. You can sample these lost tracks on Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Chords-Rescuers-digital/dp/B008UXAI8S" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> and iTunes <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-lost-chords-the-rescuers/id551787887" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></span></div>
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-47592618826714097152013-07-19T04:58:00.000-04:002014-08-07T13:27:03.815-04:00Playlist: Songs of Summer (2013 Edition)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Opening Sequence of <i>Snoopy Come Home</i> (1972)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's only four weeks into Summer 2013, and temperatures across the U.S.A. have heated up considerably</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span class="st">... it's my favorite time of year, and</span></span></span></span></span> the best place to enjoy these days is among the sand and surf. Whether you swim, sail, surf, or bask in the sun, here are some summer playlist suggestions with a beach-going theme. Sampling the songs below will help discover some new tracks to incorporate into your own perfect summer playlist. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There's a fun variety of lesser-known, but perfect beach songs suggested (and believe it or not, The Beach Boys <i>aren't </i>included this time around</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span class="st">.) What's listed is a blend of old and new audio, sure to set the mood for getting sand in one's shoes.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span class="st">A new track that sounds old by The Young Veins prompt you to take a vacation, Cayucas provides a look at those brief summer romances, then the crunchy, garage sounds of Surfer Blood and Vivian Girls will get you in the water. Tennis returns to the playlists with the title track from Cape Dory, and we get something perfect to cruise around to courtesy of The Ramones and (of course) Annette Funicello.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As in previous posts, the 9th song is a FREE MP3 download to get you started, and this song is something special, not available on CD or digital download. If the surfing beagle at the top of this post stirred up any memories, it might give you a clue... the downloadable MP3 is "At The Beach" from the 1972 animated feature <i>Snoopy Come Home</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While Vince Guaraldi's jazz stylings will always be foremost associated with the music of animated </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PEANUTS</span></span> projects, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charles M. </span></span>Schulz and Producer Lee Mendelson chose the songwriting team of Richard and Robert Sherman (<i>Mary Poppins</i>, <i>Winnie The Pooh</i>, <i>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Charlotte's Web</i>) to write and compose the songs for the second PEANUTS feature film.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman (Circa 1972) </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On a roll after their Oscar-winning decade at Walt Disney Productions, the Sherman Brothers produced a memorable set of songs that fit perfectly into Schulz's world: fun, poignant, glorious, and sometimes just outright sad. Like the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PEANUTS comic strip, the family film never talked down to the audience</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Snoopy Come Home</i> is considered one of the finest animated </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PEANUTS</span></span> projects ever produced. "At The Beach" sparkles with expert wordplay by the Sherman Brothers, and the light, catchy tune paints a picture of a summer's day we'd all surely like to play in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each song listed below is available on <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b>. As usual, direct links to albums for
both stores are provided b</span><span style="font-size: small;">elow the description of each song, where you can listen to audio samples and purchase those that you might want to use to create your own beach-bound playlist. Please note: I don't get a piece of the profits if you make a
purchase<span class="st">—</span>the links are there to make things easy. While sampling, you might discover some new favorites in the process.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></b></span></span></b>"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine."</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: The Young Veins</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Take A Vacation!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Cape Dory</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b>King of the Beach</b></b></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: King of the Beach</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Surf's Up</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span>Single</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Astro Coast</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rockaway Beach</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: The Ramones</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Weird Tales Of The Ramones (1976-1996) (Digital Version)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>At The Beach</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The series that's been unfurling around here on Western Publishing's Disneyland/Walt Disney World comics books has been getting some nice attention and significant traffic. Whether you're a frequent visitor, or the original posts <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/03/disneyland-inc-and-business-of-western.html" target="_blank"><b>Part I</b></a> & <a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-business-of-western-publishings.html" target="_blank"><b>Part II</b></a> brought you this way, here's some good news: a Part III is in the works. For today, we're going to circle back in time a bit to spin off on a detour of Part I.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The focus this time around should help slake the thirst of fans seeking fresh information on a pair of prominent icons: Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, and Carl Barks, the world-renown artist and writer of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic book stories. The unlikely thread that further intertwined these two icons is a gentleman who spent an enviable amount of time around both.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nope, not Walt Disney... this gentleman goes by the name of Joseph Cowles. As per the usual format, let's have a bit of background on our subjects, followed by an exclusive Q&A that Mr. Cowles has been very gracious to participate in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Carl Barks Greets Fans at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upon the passing of Carl Barks in August 2000, tributes flowed from around the globe in the form of articles, notes, and illustrated cartoons. The accolade that stands out most prominently was supplied by fellow duck cartoonist, Don Rosa, one of Barks's most devoted successors. Rosa's concluding paragraph tots up a lengthy list of solid criteria on the impact, influence and astounding worldwide appeal of the work of Carl Barks</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—sharply </span></span>punctuated</span> with the following statement, free of hubris and without a scrap of irony:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A bold proclamation regarding a man who wrote and drew comic book tales about anthropomorphic ducks. But Rosa's praise is pinpoint accurate and not a product of hero worship. Barks fleshed out Donald Duck and his world to an expansive level that eclipsed any other cartoon character that transitioned to the comic book page.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Barks Kept the Spirit of Donald's Screen Persona, While Tethering Him With Relatable Family Responsibilities and All-Too-Human Desires and Weaknesses</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> #145 (October 1952)</span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not only did he root the comic book duck into a more complex "everyman" while retaining the feisty core personality from the silver screen, Barks repositioned nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie from bratty hellions to noble and wise preadolescents, while gradually populating the city of Duckburg with a memorable assortment of characters of his own creation, the most prominent being Uncle Scrooge McDuck.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From 1942 to 1966, Carl Barks chose not to "churn out" comic book stories, but took great care in spinning yarns with factual references to technology, history and science. While some of his contemporaries viewed the "funny animal" format as a free pass to craft imaginary and implausible situations and locales, Barks chose a self-imposed high road, frequently referring to his library of <i>National Geographic</i> magazines for inspiration of settings for exotic locales or far-away quests for treasure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His drafting held no bias: arbitrary objects such as farm equipment or fence posts were rendered accurately through his hand, in equal cadence with detrimental plot devices like sailing ships or an Aztec temple. His later, more fantastical tales dealing with science-fiction or magic always held practical applications and outcomes: Barks never stooped to a <i>deus ex machina</i>. That level of respect for his audience </span><span style="font-size: small;">set his work far above and apart, </span><span style="font-size: small;">compared to many other simplistic, more mundane humor comics on the stands.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> The Use of Readable Silhouettes and Carefully Crafted</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From Dell Four Color #1025 <i>Walt Disney's Vacation in Disneyland</i> (August 1959)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">Story and Art by Carl Barks</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today, there are uncountable
resources available on the life and work of Carl Barks in print and online,
since his identity was revealed to the public over forty years ago.
Prior to then, the children of WWII and the Baby Boom era recognized only the distinctive artwork and writing style of a nameless artist, due to the individual anonymity and credit-free policy of Western Publishing's Dell and Gold Key comics. Thus, for 20+ years readers thumbed through their newsstand selection of Walt Disney comic books, keeping an eye open for stories written and drawn by "The Good Artist." </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carl Barks at His Home Studio, Circa 1963</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Legacy of Carl Barks </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The lasting impact of Carl Barks cannot be ignored</span><span style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="font-size: small;">for his influence spreads as far as the four corners of the globe. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His comic book work is admired, studied and taught by literary scholars around the world</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. He has been showered with awards and honors of every kind.</span></span> </span></span>His post-retirement original oil paintings of the Disney ducks sell for hundreds of thousands at auction. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Classic reprints and new Barks-inspired <i>Donald Duck</i> comics outsell copies of <i>Batman</i> and <i>Spider-Man</i> across Europe. Admirers include Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, the two men responsible for one of Hollywood's most iconic scenes: Indiana Jones running through an ancient temple from a humongous boulder. In fact, the entire opening scene from <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i> was adapted from scenes pulled from Barks storie</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s. George Lucas himself wrote the foreword to a luxurious 1981 collection of Barks stories published by Celestial Arts titled <i>Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life & Times</i>.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">George Lucas Praised Barks in the Foreword of</span></span></b></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times </span></span></b></i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Celestial Arts, 1981)</span></span></b><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></b></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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noted that Walt Disney characters traditionally made the leap from
screen cartoons to comic books, but Barks's creation of Scrooge McDuck
became so popular through comic book exposure alone, that the old
Scottish duck soon found his way into several animated productions at
the Disney Studio. This culminated in the 1987 animated television
series <i>DuckTales</i>, which revolved around Scrooge and pulled a generous amount of Carl Barks plot outlines and characters into the fold.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Syndicated Television Series <i>DuckTales</i> Was Directly</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>DuckTales</i>
was a smash hit from the premiere episode, earning high ratings and
high financial returns, resulting in a whopping 100 episodes, a feature
film, and several successful video games during the show's initial
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The July 1956 <i>Disneyland News</i> Heralds the First Year of Operation</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disneyland was already a considered a success by the park's first anniversary in </span><span style="font-size: small;">July of 1956. Naysayers withdrew their criticisms, and an era of themed amusement enterprises began. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many years earlier</span></span></span></span></span></span>, Walter and Cordelia Knott had expanded their chicken dinner business and established Knott's Berry Farm a <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">few miles up the road from Anaheim</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span> </span><span style="font-size: small;">As Disney's park quickly grew in popularity and scope, the Knotts wisely continued to expand their own offerings, fully aware that prosperous business at Disneyland meant prosperous business at Knott's. The pair of Walters, Knott and Disney, always shared an amicable "good neighbor" </span><span style="font-size: small;">relationship.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the 1950s drew
to a close, businesses and partnerships began to form around the
United States to construct and design their own versions of Disneyland: the notion to capitalize on such a financially successful new model of entertainment
was too good to pass up. There were successes, however, many of the projects were constructed hastily, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">below code and </span></span>without proper budgets. Others fell victim to bad business practices and poor site research—</span><span style="font-size: small;">resulting in short-lived theme parks such as Frontier Village (San Jose, CA), Pacific Ocean Park (Santa Monica,CA), Pleasure Island (Wakefield, MA) and Freedomland
U.S.A. (Baychester, NY). Interestingly, the latter two were spearheaded by
C.V. Wood, who played a prominent role in the construction and
management of Disneyland. Following an acrimonious and everlasting
parting of the ways with Walt Disney, Wood loudly boasted his new amusement
endeavors as "the Disneyland of the east."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beyond Disneyland, there were some significant high points dotting the initial growth of domestic theme parks. Technology played a key role in their evolution, as
more and more televisions found their way into homes around the Unites
States at this time</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span>the world was becoming smaller, and tourism
promotion found a bright new outlet. </span></span></span></span>Live and recorded broadcasts of entertainment venues held to potential to reach a wider audience versus static newspaper and magazine photos.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Development activity </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of themed spaces </span></span>was further augmented and influenced by the forward-reaching exhibits, transportation and architecture of the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle, WA (a.k.a. the1961/1962 World's Fair.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The northwest spectacular was highly publicized and well-received, immediately followed by buzz surrounding the northeast's more expansive production: the1964/1965 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY. To bring us full circle, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Walt Disney himself provided the most groundbreaking entertainment </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for the two operating seasons of the New York World's Fair</span></span>: four unique, separate attractions and the massive Tower of the Four Winds kinetic sculpture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair Won Over The</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(Perceived) More Sophisticated East Coast Audience</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This outgrowth of theme parks and mammoth expositions resonated within a pop culture that was already </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">bursting at the seams </span></span>at the time<span class="st">—</span>the influence and bombastic flair of these spaces were tough to ignore. Especially by someone who got a kick out of gently teasing society and passing trends.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Barks Poked a Little Fun at Disneyland </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">in the 1960s, </span></b></span>Placing Uncle Scrooge</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Among Those Upping Their Ante in the Themed Amusement </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Business</span></b></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> #46 (December 1963)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Carl Barks and The Candy Kid</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While Barks did provide some material for the Dell Disneyland comics, his stories within those specials were not set within the park itself</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—at most, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">they occasionally depict a particular gateway, icon or locale in opening panels to frame the story within the realm represented. Barks's stories from those Dell Disneyland comics can easily be reprinted in a non-Disneyland book with very minor editing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> Uncle Scrooge and Grandma Duck Admire the View</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From Dell Giant <i>Uncle Scrooge Goes to Disneyland</i> #1 (August 1957)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In fact, the slipcase cover art at the top of this post (drawn circa 1982) is one of the few direct renderings of a Disney theme park that came from Barks himself (Florida's Walt Disney World Resort, in this case.) Note, however, that the setting is tertiary to the pleasant family portrait, which is secondary to the primary gag of Scrooge's straying pupils gazing towards the orphan coin. This heirarchy is even more obvious viewing the image below of Barks's original black and white ink drawing before cropping or the addition of colors and logos (click the image below to enlarge):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Another Rainbow Publishing's<i> Carl Barks Library Vol. VIII</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">wo decades prior to drafting that slipcase cover, Barks <i>did</i> do a drawing of the ducks centered within Disneyland. A special drawing for an audience of one: a local Orange County teenager named Joseph Cowles. Cowles worked at Disneyland from 1957 through 1962 under several positions, and his early aspirations for cartooning were compounded by the fluid work of "The Good Artist." The identity of the anonymous comic book artist began to unravel for young Joseph through casual conversation with another icon of Walt Disney Productions in the 1950s: story sketch artist & gag man, Roy "The Big Mooseketeer" Williams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thus began a journey in which Cowles would be amongst the initial core group of fans who actively sought out "The Good Artist"<span class="st">—</span>closely
following the first fans to contact Barks, John Spicer and Malcom
Willits (read Jim Korkis's detailed account of their first contact <a href="http://www.mouseplanet.com/9969/How_Disney_Fans_Found_Carl_Barks" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joseph managed to obtain not only Barks's name, but his mailing address, which began a correspondence and series of visits to the Hemet, CA home of Carl and Garé Barks. In 2012 Cowles collected his memories of those interactions, and several related essays on the influences and legacy of Carl Barks in the book <i>Recalling Carl</i> which is available to order <b><a href="https://www.createspace.com/3685555" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Recalling Carl</i> by Joseph Robert Cowles and Barbora Holan Cowles</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Event Horizon Press, 2012)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Recalling Carl</i> is a refreshing look at the work of Carl Barks and at the man himself shorn from a unique perspective</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>Cowles's recollections are well-detailed and written with the confidence of a </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">world view</span></span> adult, deftly balanced by maintaining his point of observation as a teenager.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The following Q&A keys off of what you'll find in <i>Recalling Carl</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">. Keeping to</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> the mission of keeping the contents of this blog unique, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mr. Cowles has generously provided a treasure trove of new information, images and insights on our subjects. My questions are formatted in blue text, his responses are formatted in red text.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Joseph Robert Cowles:</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Author, Editor, Designer, Publisher and Futurist</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You started working at Disneyland at 16,
starting as a Busboy and ultimately moving through food services up to
Popcorn Vendor. How many years in total did you work at the park? Did
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I began work at Disneyland on my 16th birthday in June 1957. My
mother was one of "Walt's Girls" who ran the Disneyland PBX*
switchboards, answering all phone calls and connecting them to the
correct parties via cables, like those one might see in old movies.
Mother had me file an application with UPT Concessions (the division of
United Paramount Theaters that was licensed to run many of the snack
stands throughout the Park.) One could work for a concessionaire at age
16, but had to be 18 to work directly for Disneyland.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I worked full time
during the summers as a busboy at the Dairy Bar in Tomorrowland
(sponsored by the American Dairy Association, operated by UPT)
full-time through the summer months and on weekends and holidays during
the school year. I "retired" in June 1959 to begin a sort of
nitty-gritty internship in the screenprinting shop of an ad agency in
Los Angeles on the Monday after high school graduation. About fifteen
months later I returned to Anaheim to work at Disneyland as a popcorn
peddler during the winters and as night manager of the Malt Shop (again
UPT) in Frontierland during summer, until late March or early April
1962. During this time I also did a Monday through Friday 8:00 p.m. to midnight shift on
one of the first FM radio stations in Southern California, KFIL,
spinning jazz and big band records. Throughout both periods in Anaheim,
beginning in early 1959 and continuing through mid-1962, I worked part
time doing ad layouts for a small local magazine, <i>This Week in Orange County</i>.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Young Joseph Cowles Helms a Main Street U.S.A.<br />Popcorn Cart at Disneyland, Circa 1960</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Photo by David Cowles, Image © & Courtesy of <a href="http://www.thegoodartist.com/" target="_blank"><b>The Good Artist</b></a></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>That's an impressive and varied resume by age 21! Your connection to Disneyland doesn't stop with your Mother, either: I think everyone would like to know some background on the photo of "Mitch" you've provided. </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">The <i>actual</i>
Fire Chief of Disneyland at that time, Thomas Jefferson Mitchell. The
real Disneyland fire department was staffed by firefighters employed by
the City of Anaheim Fire Department, whose salaries were paid by the
Park. This photo of "Mitch" was a transparency taken by, I believe,
Amador Acosta, who in those days was the official photographer of
Disneyland. I've heard that few of Acosta's photo archives of the park
have survived, having been discarded during the "housecleanings" the
Disney organization undergoes from time to time. The reason I have the
photo is because Mitch became my stepfather when he and my mother
married in 1958. In the photo he's dressed in a gaslight-era uniform,
which he wore while going about his business of looking for fire
hazards. Like the Disneyland security/police force, these guys were all
professional and dead serious about protecting Park and Guests from all
harm.</span></b></span></span></span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b><b>Thomas Jefferson Mitchell:</b></b></b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b>The Actual, Working
Fire Chief of Disneyland, </b></b><b><b>Circa 1955</b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span>Courtesy of Joseph Cowles</span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">You can also see the newness of the vegetation in this Main Street photo
of Mitch, which was probably taken soon after the Park was opened in
late July 1955. The larger of the trees visible in the background are
actually located in Adventureland, which that time had received the most
landscaping. Walt was under a great deal of pressure to get Disneyland
open and paying its own way, so he decided to push ahead even though the
vegetation was lagging behind.</span></b></span></span> </span></span></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During your time there, the park
was experiencing substantial growth—especially during 1958 and 1963.
Seeing construction progress, that anticipation must have been
deliciously palpable.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Park was still being developed at the time I
began working there. The Matterhorn was being built, the Flying Saucers in Tomorrowland, and some things in Frontierland. They added
another ship on the Rivers of America, the <i>Columbia</i>, in 1958. I
believe it was a replica of a windjammer. I was no longer at the Park
in 1963, so don't know what was going on at that time. I think it was in
the winter of 1961-62 that I was working the popcorn wagon in
Frontierland (might have been the preceding winter; I'm not certain) and
watched the Chicken Plantation being torn down with a wrecking ball. I
wrote to Carl about the experience, and that inspired his Donald Duck 10-page story "The
Master Wrecker" which appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #264 (1962).</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #073763;"></span><span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did you ever encounter Walt or Roy O. Disney, or did your scheduling not jibe with their walk-throughs/visits?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt was often at the Park. I don't recall ever seeing Roy. There was
one brief occurrence in late 1961 when Walt asked me for a cigarette (in
those days most everyone smoked). I was working the wagon at the Hub
(where Main Street linked to the four "Lands"). Walt had become sort of
an ambassador for foreign dignitaries, including some whose culture or
religion eschewed smoking. He was a chain smoker. He'd developed a
routine where he took these guests to the front entrance of the Monsanto
House of the Future, left them there to go through the exhibit, dashed
over to the Hub to sit on one of the park benches and smoke a cigarette,
then dashed back to meet them as they were exiting the Monsanto House.
On this particular day he discovered he was out of cigarettes and I was
just a few feet away so he asked if I had one (employees in uniform or
costume did not smoke in front of guests.) I dug a pack out of the
pocket of my jacket, which was in the big red box where we kept the
popcorn, salt, oil and boxes, then handed it to him. He shook one out,
handed the pack back to me, ripped off the filter and put it in the
trash bin, lit the cigarette, and went back and sat down, puffing
happily. (I quit smoking several years later.)</span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt Disney Observes Early Morning</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Main Street U.S.A. Cleaning and Maintenance</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;"><b>The only other interaction I had with Walt was also
in late 1961, I think. Mother received invitations to preview a new
Disney movie at the Studio in Burbank—<i>Moon Pilot</i>. It was a decent bit
of fluff, although it was rather a long drive to take to see a movie.
Walt and other Studio execs were there. After the showing he shook hands
and chatted with some of the folks in the audience, said "Hi, Jess" to
my mom, reached over and shook my hand, and asked if I liked the movie. I
said yes, and he smiled and asked, "What did you like most?" I
answered, "Dany Saval." He smiled and said, "Yeah. Me too."</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Poster Art for Walt Disney's <i>Moon Pilot</i> (1962)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walt's hideout was above the firehouse at the
head of Main Street. Mother told me that Walt knew who I was, and if I
ever wanted to talk to him I could sit on the landing of the stairwell
leading up to his apartment, and that he might come outside and sit next
to me to talk while he smoked a cigarette. I was rather shy in those
years, and never got brave enough to chat with him personally, even
though at the time I was considering a career in cartooning. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wrote about Western
Publishing's presence at the bookstore in the Main Street Arcade, and Jim
Korkis added that Dell/Gold Key comics were available at the newsstands
flanking the front entrance tunnels. Do you have any memories of the
bookstore? Do you recall the comics being sold anywhere else in the park
at that time?</span></span></b></span>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the years I was there, the place I
went for comics (and where I bought the foreign editions of Disney
comics I sent to Carl) was a shop in the back part of the Emporium on
Main Street, called "Bell, Book and Candle." I don't recall there being
any comics other than Disney titles, and have no recollection of any
other place in the Park where there were comic books.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I should also mention that virtually every ride,
attraction, restaurant and store at Disneyland had a commercial tie, as
that is how Walt raised the capital to build the Park.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Indeed, that participation was vital to the formative years of the park<span class="st">—</span>something a lot of current-day critics don't seem to realize, or care to absorb. </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The conventional
financial investors were oblivious to the potential of the Magic
Kingdom. The E.P. Ripley and other passenger trains were created through
sponsorship of the Santa Fe Railways; the Rocket to the Moon attraction
was sponsored by Trans World Airlines; Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola,
Carnation, Sunkist, Bank of America, Wurlitzer, <i style="font-style: normal; line-height: 20px;">Yale</i><span style="line-height: 20px;"> and
Towne (all locksets at Disney were Yale), American Dairy Association,
Crane Plumbing, Richfield Oil Company (Autopia Cars), Swift &
Company, American Motors, Monsanto... these are just a few of the
sponsors that come to mind when I think of Disneyland as it was in the
1950s. Sponsors come and go, of course, and some of these firms are no
longer in business, while the Disney Parks continue to thrive.</span></span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Soon to be Occupied By Starbucks Coffee in Late 2013, The Market House on</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A. Was Originally Sponsored by Swift Premium Meats</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the the creative side of your experience, Studio story man Roy
Williams directed you to Western Publishing initially. Jack Kinney's
book <i>Walt Disney and Other Assorted Characters</i> paints Roy as a playful, yet rowdy "wild card" in the early years
at the Studio. His TV notoriety and age likely mellowed Roy a bit by the
time you met him, did Williams speak candidly with you, or was he more
avuncular? </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I of course knew Roy as the "Big Mooseketeer"
cartoonist from The Mickey Mouse Club on television, but knew little
else about him beyond what he looked like, and that he'd had cartoons
published in The New Yorker. From time to time he was working in
Tomorrowland (I think at The Art Corner),
drawing Disney cartoon characters on large sheets of newsprint with
felt-tip pens. Roy would sometimes stop by my wagon for a box of popcorn
and we would chat a bit. He was always very nice.</span></span></b></span> </span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Longtime Studio Story and Gag Artist Roy Williams Became Well-Known as</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The Big Mooseketeer" on Television's <i>The Mickey Mouse Club</i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of <a href="http://miehana.blogspot.com/2010/08/meeting-roy-in-holidayland.html" target="_blank"><b>Kevin Kidney's Miehana Blog</b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">©</span> Disney</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One day he showed up
after not being around for a couple of months. I said something like,
"Haven't seen you for a while, Roy. How've y' been?" He told me he'd been
recuperating from a medical procedure; he'd had to have his varicose
veins "stripped," because he'd messed up his legs playing football in
high school. The football field was where he picked up the nickname
"Moose." </span></span></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roy's suggestion to visit to Western's
Beverly Hills office certainly paid off. Was it through (Carl's editor)
Chase Craig that you obtained Barks's identity and address? Did you
witness anything significant during that visit to Western?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Although I later knew the name Chase Craig, I am
not certain who the people were that I met at Western. I do know one was
an editor, and the person told me that <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> was the most popular of all comic books being published at the time, and was a magazine second in circulation only to<i> Reader's Digest</i>. I believe the annual circulation of <i><i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i></i> was upwards of 25 million.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chase Craig, </b></span></span>Western Publishing's Walt Disney Comics Editor, </b></span></span>Circa 1969</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Recalling Carl</i> goes into some fine detail of
your meetings with Carl and his wife Garé—your genuine admiration of
his work in progress that first meeting must have been one of the very
first he experienced outside of his own social and family circles. What
did you take away from your interactions with Carl and Garé that you
hold onto today... advice, attitudes, ethos? Things you use in everyday
life?</span></span></b></span>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting questions. We spoke mainly
about his work, and he told me of various problems he had in dealing
with the Western/Disney editorial notions, how little he was paid for
his work, how bad the coloring and printing was, the awful deadlines,
and other "pitfalls of a hack cartoonist's lowly, lonely existence." I
actually thought he was pulling my leg quite a bit, although I didn't
come right out and say so. I simply couldn't imagine that<i> the world's greatest cartoonist</i>
was being paid peanuts, even though I could see that his lifestyle was
far from lavish. I'd heard Walt Kelly and Al Capp and Charles Schulz were earning well
into six figures per year in those days, and figured Carl's work should
have been worth far more. It's really too bad Carl never got anything
into newspaper syndication.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Joseph Cowles Poses With Carl and Garé Barks</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">During His First Visit to their Hemet, California Home</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Photo by David Cowles, Image © & Courtesy of </span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.thegoodartist.com/" target="_blank"><b>The Good Artist</b></a></span></span></span> </span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something Carl told me that I absolutely use in
everyday life has to do with writing well. At the time we met, my
spelling was unfortunate, my thoughts jumbled, and my ability impaired
by the nonsense of what people sometimes refer to as writer's block.
(Well, I was only nineteen.) His advice was essentially, "Just crank it
out. Don't worry about whether what you're writing is perfect, or even
good; get your thoughts onto paper. Once you've done that, you can go
back and edit, fix your spelling, rearrange things, polish your grammar,
detangle your modifiers. Eventually, over time, you'll develop skills
that enable you to come pretty close to getting what you want in your
first draft." (It's been over fifty years since we spoke about this type
of stuff, so obviously the above isn't an actual quote. It is however
an accurate representation of what he advised me.)</span></span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carl's own writing
was generally quite clean; his artwork loose and flowing, yet
impeccable. A couple of years ago my now late brother, David, sent me
the original handwritten draft of a story Carl crafted based (very
loosely) on some of my Disneyland popcorn boy antics, "The Candy Kid"
(named after a silent Oliver Hardy film Barks saw as a teenager). Except
for the revised ending, the draft shows no rewrites and only the most
modest of tweaks.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Barks Crafted the 10-Page Story "The Candy Kid" Based on Cowles's</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Anecdotes as a Disneyland Employee in 1962: The Influence of</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Seattle's Century 21 Exposition is Front and Center</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> #263 (August 1962)<span class="st"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">Story </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">by Carl Barks </span></span>and Joseph Cowles, Art by Carl Barks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">©</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Disney</span></span><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">, Image Courtesy of <a href="http://www.thegoodartist.com/" target="_blank"><b>The Good Artist</b></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks to your generous contribution, both your draft and Carl's outline are going to be posted </span></span></b></span><span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as a downloadable PDF </span></span></b></span>for readers to peruse at the end of this post. Your experience turned "The Candy Kid" into one of Carl's most madcap 10-pagers for <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i>. In fact, I realized today that it was featured in the last Dell Comics issue of that title before transistioning to the Gold Key imprint the following month.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">One thing I wanted to point out was that my original and rather jejune tale that Carl turned into "The Candy Kid"
had Disneyland as its locale, and in fact the character of "Mr.
Stumble" [Donald Duck's suffering Boss in the story] is a caricature of Frank Stabile, the person who managed all of
the food concessions operated by UPT Concessions. Carl was afraid someone would get upset if the
story took place at Disneyland, so the locale became the Duckburg
World's Fair, inspired by the Seattle World's Fair and its "Space
Needle," which plays an important role in the finished story. On one of their "seldom vacations," Carl and
Garé did get to visit the Seattle
event.</span></b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> The </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Space </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Needle at the </b></span></span></b></span></span>Duckburg World's Fair</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Supplied the Perfect Comic Climax in "The Candy Kid"</b></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> #263 (August 1962)<span class="st"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">Story </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">by Carl Barks </span></span>and Joseph Cowles, Art by Carl Barks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">©</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Disney</span></span><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">, Image Courtesy of <a href="http://www.thegoodartist.com/" target="_blank"><b>The Good Artist</b></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">The three typewritten pages are my story notes from which "The Candy Kid" was developed; these I wrote <i>after</i> Carl
and I had discussed the basic idea and agreed it shouldn't take place
at Disneyland (also after he'd made the "PopNuts" drawing for me). If
there are any gags in this tale that Carl used in the final version, I'm
sure they originated with him. "How are ya?" was Mr. Stabile's standard
greeting. In the comic book, Carl had Mr. Stumble saying, "How're you
doing, duck?"</span></b></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Donald's Frustrated Boss, Mr. Stumble in </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"The Candy Kid"</b></span></span> Was</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Based on Cowles's Sharp, Real-Life Disneyland Boss, Frank Stabile</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i> #263 (August 1962)<span class="st"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">Story </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">by Carl Barks </span></span>and Joseph Cowles, Art by Carl Barks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">The Disneyland setting for "The Candy Kid" was my notion because
that was the only such setting I was familiar with. Carl's concern about
changing that locale was expressed as "avoiding lawsuits" or something
of the sort. It may have been because I'd based my character of Mr.
Stumble on that of my boss, Frank Stabile (who was often take as a
double for Walt himself). When the comic book finally came out, seven or
eight months after I'd sent my rough story idea on to Carl, I of course
bought a few copies to give to folks, including Mr. Stabile, who was
delighted with it. He was a nice guy and a brilliant manager who stayed
directly involved with all the concessions he ran, and knew all of his
dozens and dozens of employees by name and sight. He of course had
major-domos to take care of the grunt work, and there were corporate
types somewhere up the line to whom he reported (back in New Jersey or
somewhere), but Frank Stabile was autonomous in his position and a major
major-player in the Disneyland of that era. The man had, literally, a
sixth sense for trouble. He could be walking halfway across the Park
from some concession he'd just left, would suddenly feel something was
wrong, turn on his heels and walk all the way back to find that, indeed,
there was something out order.</span></b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">At the time I didn't realize how much I
was learning by observing him in action, and I can see some of it in
myself now from the way I've learned to juggle and handle lots of varied
projects at one time. It's a skill I mastered throughout the years, of
course, interacting with thousands of clients (and always under some
"impossible deadline"), but the foundation goes straight back to those
several years I worked at the Park in concessions managed by the
ubiquitous "Mr. Stumble." </span></b></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You mentioned to me that Carl didn't visit Disneyland more than two or three times, despite his relatively close proximity in Hemet, CA. I
imagine days spent away from the drawing table or easel wouldn't be
enjoyed waiting in lines or meandering about artificial facades of
particular eras he'd actually experienced. Would you agree with that
premise?</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That's a satisfactory premise, and likely on the mark. Another factor
may have had to do with Carl's hearing difficulties, which would have
been exacerbated by the high noise level of the Disneyland environment.
In addition to personal time being a precious commodity<br />he avoided trivializing, it may be that for Carl the expense of a day at<br />Disneyland wasn't that inviting. He'd been there once, seen and<br />enjoyed it and satisfied his curiosity, and perhaps was complete with<br />it, not feeling a need to return. He was in his mid-50s when the Park<br />first opened, had no youngsters around, hung out with friends his own<br />age, and enjoyed the adult social scene there in the San Jacinto and<br />Hemet area.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Long Before Fans Uncovered His Identity, a Profile of Barks Was</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Showcased in a Local Southern California Publication <i>The Hemet News,</i> </span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">For Which He Occasionally Provided Artwork</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Image Courtesy of Joseph Cowles</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your career path eventually strayed from cartooning, but you obviously
possess a creative muse and an eye for design: your writing style flows
beautifully, and the skills incorporated in your design of the PDFs at <a href="http://www.thegoodartist.com/" target="_blank">www.thegoodartist.com</a> are elegant yet dynamic. Did Carl's advice give you trepidation about a career in cartooning, or were there other factors (<i>e.g.</i> the shifting trend of simplification in cartooning during the mid to late 1960s)?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you for your kind kudos. Yes, at the time The Big Mooseketeer
suggested how I might track down "The Good Artist," I was still giving
some thought to cartooning as a potential career, and doing quite a lot
of drawing. I also enjoyed that radio gig, had close friends in the
business, and would perhaps have enjoyed a career in broadcasting—especially
news broadcasting. But I also came from a family with a publishing
background, had studied journalism, and had a bent for advertising,
marketing and design, which eventually won out as my occupation. In
addition to Carl Barks, my personal heroes include Edward R. Murrow,
Condé Nast, David Ogilvy, and Art Paul.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A portion of <i>Recalling Carl</i> contains a proposal to adapt a
Barks tale into a feature film. Your suggestion of "Old California" is a
perfect vehicle, and I recall Barks mentioned it as one of his favorites
on several occasions. Not only does it contain all the hallmarks of a
major screenplay, I always felt it would be a perfect fit as an
attraction at Disneyland's California Adventure: the ducks interact with
actual California history, it contains respectful Latino depictions
(and they could move a <i>lot</i> of merchandise through the ride exit,
including a reprint of the original Barks story.) Have you gained any
feedback or momentum since the book's release?<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">None that I know of. Well, Disney is a strange animal. It's
all-powerful in some ways, and in others it's the Baby Huey of the film
industry. For better or worse, the company's direction is entirely
different than it was under Walt. In my opinion (and that of a number of
others), no one at Disney—or Western for that matter—ever truly
comprehended the Barks phenomenon. I think a marketing maven such as Kay
Kamen (another of my heroes) would have guided the Disney company into
an entirely different arena. I've read that Disney CFO Jay Rasulo is
slated to step into the head seat when Bob Iger retires in 2015. This
could be a very good sign, because the motion picture game all comes
down to finances.</span></span></b></span><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From Dell Four Color #328 <i>Walt Disney's Donald Duck in Old California</i> (May 1951)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">Story and Art by Carl Barks</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Understanding the ongoing popularity the Donald Duck
of Barksdom has enjoyed for four generations, having being translated
into a couple dozen languages, republished again and again, owning an
already existing global audience, and all the other facts and figures
that the motion picture industry traditionally relied upon to make sound
business decisions before the notion of "formula" properties infected
the studios—these are the things financial officers understand and know
how to work with. Clearly, Disney is sitting on a franchise with the
potential to net a modest $10 billion and up while investing a small
fraction of that amount. And they already own it. Outright. Everything's
already in place. It's simply a matter of hitting the launch button.
Maybe George Lucas will set them straight.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thank you so much, Joseph, for taking valuable time to participating to contribute such detailed answers and outstanding visual resources. I think a cross-pollination of early Disneyland and Carl Barks fans will be satisfied.
We'll have created a nice overlap once this is posted in full—a most concise entry.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The topics touched upon in this post are just a taste of what <i>Recalling Carl</i> has to offer. When you read the book, you'll discover more details of what we've covered, as well as:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How the Cowles family connection to Walt Disney actually reaches further back to Kansas City and the Laugh-O-Gram Studio!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A look at Walt Disney Studio's original marketing genius, Kay Kamen </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joseph's recollections of open and casual visits with </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carl and Garé Barks</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Handwritten letters from Carl Barks</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Solving the mystery of the artist "Homora" and the early art history of </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">California that influenced the Donald Duck book-length tale "Old California"</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It should be noted too, that Joseph Cowles has been busy creating attractive newsletters for The Carl Barks Fan Club, headed up by Ed Bergen which celebrates all things Barks, you can visit and join them <a href="http://www.thecarlbarksfanclub.com/" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Celebrate All Things Ducky When You Join The Carl Barks Fan Club</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He is also busy </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">re-coloring stories for </span></span>Fantagraphics Books for their </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">high-quality and ambitious new Carl Barks Library-an ambitious, multi-year project reprinting the entire Walt Disney comic book work </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">drawn by Barks</span></span> (that's over 500 stories!) The first volumes have been released, which you can preview and order <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=699&Itemid=62" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The First Volumes of the Ambitious New Carl Barks Library</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Series From </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Fantagraphics Books Are Now Available </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As mentioned during the Q&A, thanks to the generous offering of the materials by Mr. Cowles, clicking on the text below will enable you to download/view a PDF of Joseph Cowles's original typewritten draft and Carl Barks's handwritten outline for "The Candy Kid":</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* PBX: Private branch exchange, a telephone exchange that serves a particular business or office. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After a particularly vicious five months of cold weather in the northeast, Spring has finally arrived. Since we're already three weeks into the season, I thought it might be appropriate to pay tribute to those whom the season holds the most promise. W<span class="st"><span class="st">armer days and refreshing rain showers are of particular benefit to the Farmers of the U.S.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span class="st">—</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span class="st">to re<span style="font-size: small;">cognize</span> their hard work this time of year</span></span></span></span></span>, here's a suggested playlist of songs</span></span></span></span></span><span class="st"><span class="st">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Spring Represen<span style="font-size: small;">ts <span style="font-size: small;">Renewal<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">, This is Espec<span style="font-size: small;">ially True on the</span></span> </span>Farm</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st">When an overall cultural dress is conjured up to represent a country, the garments reflect that region's trades, religions<span style="font-size: small;"> or</span> traditions. A kimono-clad Geisha clearly represents Japan, a uniformed Royal Guard of the Queen suggests England, and so forth.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st">So
what image best reflects the United States since it was established?
It's a good bet the answer lies in our history, too: the American Cowboy
represents the taming of the west, and the American Farmer represent those
who tamed the land.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Iconic American Farmer</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st">Though the agricultural industry is aided today by the benefits of technology and mechanization, the actual planting and growing of food hasn't changed much at all. With tradition in mind, let<span style="font-size: small;"> u</span>s set the table with a taste of farm-grown musical bounty, old and new.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span class="st">Whether you're planting a small garden or acres of corn, here's a suggested playlist of 9 songs to get you in the spirit</span></span><span class="st"><span class="st"><span class="st">—</span>feel free to add some of your own favorite songs to get in the swing of spring. There's a great variety of themes and artists included here, from well-known entertainers like Danny Kaye and Louis Jordan, a rare country turn by The Beach Boys, </span></span>some talented banjo picking of the multi-faceted Steve Martin, to music straight from the Heartland by <span class="st"><span class="st">Rex and Noelene Franklin and Jay Ungar.</span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Of Course, No Farm Tribute is Complete Without a Salute to <i>Green Acres</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I like to do whenever possible, one of these songs is a free MP3 download: this time it's a<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>B-side recording from </span><span style="font-size: small;">a 1960 Signature Records 45* written and performed by creative genius Jim Henson. Henson's familiar, easygoing voice takes you from farm to the city and back again in the absurd, fun way that only the Master of Muppets could.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Heap of Henson Hens Hatch Hilarity</b></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image courtesy of <b><a href="http://cluelessfarmer.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-pasteurized-egg/" target="_blank">The Clueless Farmer</a></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each song listed below is available on <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a></b> and/or <b><a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b>. Below the description of each song I've included links to the album for
both stores, where you can listen to audio samples and purchase 'em if
any suit your tastes. As usual, I don't get a piece of the profits if you make a
purchase<span class="st">—</span>the links are there to make things eas<span style="font-size: small;">y</span>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Family-Friendly Music<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">...</span> </span>Bring the Kids!</span></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Farming</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Danny Kaye</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Danny <span style="font-size: small;">Ka<span style="font-size: small;">ye on Song (Box Set)<span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004AC1RMY/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk3" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> | <b><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/essential-classics/id330806595" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Barnyard Boogie</span></span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist<span style="font-size: small;">: </span>Louis Jordan & <span style="font-size: small;">His Tympany Fi<span style="font-size: small;">ve</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Swingsation: Lou<span style="font-size: small;">is <span style="font-size: small;">Jordan</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V68N4I/ref=dm_dp_trk13?ie=UTF8&qid=1366057815&sr=1-3-catcorr" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> | <b><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/swingsation-louis-jordan/id1012014" target="_blank">iTunes</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Green Acres Theme</b><br />Artist: Vic Mi<span style="font-size: small;">zzy, Performed b<span style="font-size: small;">y </span></span>Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: The Mu<span style="font-size: small;">sic of Television's H<span style="font-size: small;">its</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007AHL3L6/ref=dm_dp_trk13?ie=UTF8&qid=1366411587&sr=1-3" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/music-of-televisions-hits/id503772082" target="_blank"><b>iTunes</b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chicken Reel/Turkey in the Straw/Flopeared Mule (Medley)</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Craig Duncan</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Country Mountain Barn Dance </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003URA5TQ/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk6" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/country-mountain-barn-dance/id380826484" target="_blank"><b>iTunes</b></a><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist<span style="font-size: small;">: The B<span style="font-size: small;">each Bo<span style="font-size: small;">ys</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: The Beac<span style="font-size: small;">h Boys Greatest Hits Vol. II: More Good Vibrations</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TDYM7A/ref=dm_dp_trk20?ie=UTF8&qid=1366065694&sr=8-2" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cotton-fields-cotton-song/id561981959?i=561982120&ign-mpt=uo%3D4" target="_blank"><b>iTunes</b></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Out Behind the Barn</b><br />
Artist: Rex and Noelene Franklin<br />Album: Out Behind the Barn</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>Hoedown at Alice's</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Steve Martin </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: The Crow: New Songs for the Five String Banjo</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045PX576/ref=dm_dp_trk3?ie=UTF8&qid=1366047121&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/crow-new-songs-for-five-string/id394784038" target="_blank"><b>iTunes</b></a> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prairie Spring</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Harvest Home</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000THDSUS/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk3" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/harvest-home/id15057425" target="_blank"><b>iTunes</b></a></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Coun<span style="font-size: small;">try<span style="font-size: small;">sid<span style="font-size: small;">e</span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Jim Henson</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album<span style="font-size: small;">: (Single) Tick-Tock S<span style="font-size: small;">ick</span>/The C<span style="font-size: small;">ountryside</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">* <span style="font-size: x-small;">Kids<span style="font-size: x-small;">:</span> a</span>sk your cranky, old Grampaw what this number means.</span> Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-79810972171639765192013-04-10T00:46:00.006-04:002014-08-05T13:57:12.175-04:00The Business of Western Publishing's Disneyland Comic Books—Part II: Post-Disneyland, Inc. & Walt Disney World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(October 1971)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/03/disneyland-inc-and-business-of-western.html" target="_blank">In the previous post on Western Publishing’s Disneyland-themed comic books</a></b>, we concluded with Walt Disney Productions buying back Western’s share of the theme park from the Disneyland, Inc. venture. But the story doesn’t quite end in 1960—Western continued their license to publish Walt Disney comic books until 1984. Many changes took place in those intervening years of 1960 to 1984: not long after the era of the Dell Giants faded away, so too did the Four Color series, as Western chose a new direction with their comic book licenses. With that, their efforts took a noticeable shift in design and content. But Western wasn't <i>quite</i> done with theme park-centric comics...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The changes that took place were certainly motivated in part by the influx of cash to Western from the Disneyland, Inc. buyout at the start of the 1960s. Another factor was the huge profits pouring in as a result of gaining the publishing rights to the popular and wide variety of properties from the new television animation studio Hanna-Barbera. These parallel circumstances provided Western with both financial and bargaining clout during contract re-negotiations with Dell Publishing. The specific details of the split are unknown, as business records of their negotiations have been lost to time, but Western's leverage powered a decision to make a bold maneuver. Western would terminate their decades-old financing and distribution agreement with Dell at the end of the current contract. By the summer of 1962, Western pulled the majority of both their licensed and original material comic book lines from Dell and transitioned the titles to a new, in-house comics imprint: Gold Key comics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sudden switch-over of well-known titles from Dell compelled Western to make Gold Key comics stand out on the racks for consumers—which they certainly did. Editors and artists percolated some wild design experiments with post-modern graphic and title treatments (sometimes within the comic stories themselves), plus more painted covers for standard titles, as well as testing other formats of comics. One format that found their way back into the mix were 80 page specials, including the popular </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">annual </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">holiday title </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walt Disney's Christmas Parade</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gold Key's Inaugural Issues Broke From Standard Design Conventions,</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introducing Vivid Colors, Outline-Free Borders and Angular Captions</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From <i>Hanna-Barbera Band-Wagon</i> #1, Art by John Carey </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By 1960, Disneyland was a globally recognized name, and any comic book promoting the park was extra frosting on an already exquisite cake. Since Western no longer had a financial stake in Disneyland, there wasn't a huge priority to put together a new comic book that promoted the park. Nor was it deemed necessary to pull from their resources of artists and writers working on comic adaptions promoting Walt Disney's newest animated fare such as Professor Ludwig Von Drake or characters from features like <i>The Sword in the Stone</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Western <i>did</i> continue providing promotional material and simpler-to-produce items for Disneyland through their Whitman line, especially games, puzzles and coloring/activity books.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Western Publishing's Whitman Division Produced a Commemorative<br />Coloring Book Celebrating Disneyland's 10th Anniversary in 1965</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">The cover art shown above may look familiar to readers of the previous post. To the collector or purist, the interior contents and back cover will look familiar, too. This 80 page Gold Key special was a throwback to the Dell Giant format, but composed as something of a "Frankenstein's Monster"—the front cover reproduces the cover of Dell Giant </span><i style="text-align: left;">Walt Disney's Vacation in Disneyland</i><span style="text-align: left;"> #1 (1958), the back cover is a reproduction of the back cover of Dell G</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">iant </span><i style="text-align: left;">Walt Disney's Donald Duck in Disneyland</i><span style="text-align: left;"> #1 (1955) and the book interior rep</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">r<span style="font-size: small;">ints</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"> the contents of Dell Giant #30: </span><i style="text-align: left;">Walt Disney's Disneyland U.S.A.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> (1960).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore, no original artwork or stories were created for this special. Something not often considered during this era is the most unfortunate aspect of the topic at hand: the absence (and endless potential) of any new Disneyland-themed comic stories and art related to all the attractions added to the park during Walt Disney's creative explosion of the 1960s.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 1965 special was the last dedicated, stand-alone Disneyland-theme comic book Western produced. By the close of the decade, the comic book industry began to deal with a series of blows, the largest of which came by way of distribution: drugstores and newsstands were ordering less titles and/or lower quantities of comics. Since retailers received much higher profits from selling magazines with a cover price of 50¢–$2 than 12¢–15¢ comic books, simple business math dictated more money per month if magazines occupied valuable display space on their racks instead of comics books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This trend did not go unnoticed nor ignored by the major comic book companies. Marvel, DC, Archie, and Gold Key quickly reacted by:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition, Western condensed and cut back their regular titles. They had already been shrinking the page count of their Giant size specials incrementally through the 1960s, by the last few issues of the Gold Key iteration of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walt Disney's Christmas Parade</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the annual lost it's heavy card stock covers and had dwindled to a standard 36-page count. The days of 100-page Giant comics with original material were over—but as a result of the alternative formats experiments mentioned earlier, new and classic content found a new life, with the introduction of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walt Disney Comics Digest</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in May of 1968.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With a price point of 50¢ and the first few issues clocking in at a whopping 196 pages, the digest format proved a mighty solution to the problems of stocking and distribution: retailers wouldn't have as much of a problem ordering several copies of a 50¢ digest that earned higher returns and took less space to display. It also provided the perfect forum to recycle Western's nearly 30-year library of Walt Disney comic art, with a selection of newer 2-tier stories that took less time to produce. Even the contents of the Dell Giants found their way into the books in their entirety, including occasional reprints of the Disneyland specials.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course, by the close of the 1960s, Walt Disney Productions had experienced some significant achievements: <i>The Wonderful World of Color</i> garnered excellent ratings on NBC, <i>Mary Poppins</i> became their biggest hit of all-time in 1964, their involvement in the 1964-65 New York World's Fair was lauded for technical entertainment innovations and Disneyland was going strong, adding some of the most memorable attractions in the park's history. Walt Disney was fortunate enough to witness all of this before he passed away in December of 1966. Before he left this world, Walt left behind the infrastructure to begin a new enterprise on the east coast, which became the Walt Disney World Resort in central Florida: formally named so and brought to fruition by his older brother, Roy O. Disney </span><span style="font-size: small;">(the business half of Walt Disney Productions.)</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">November 15, 1965 Press Conference Announcing Walt's "Florida Project"</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This time around, there was no giant comic book to commemorate the opening of the enormous theme park and hotel complex. But if you've made it this far, you can probably guess there was a logical comic book showcase for Western to promote Walt Disney World that autumn...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The layout and attraction line-up of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom were similar to Disneyland's, with the differences existing between facades and icons (<i>e.g.</i> Florida's towering Cinderella's Castle and Liberty Square area) and a handful of new attractions such as The Country Bear Jamboree. Western picked up on both aspects and again<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>"Frankensteined" a portion of the special issue using several earlier Dell Disneyland stories for the identically themed areas such as Fantasyland, Aventureland and Tomorrowland. The framing device also took it's cue from the Disneyland-themed Dell Giants, with a framework of introductory panels showing Walt Disney characters arriving to visit the new park.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New Artwork Framed Stories in the Special Issue,<br />Titled <i>The Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World</i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This time around, however, Western took the initiative to create some new content focusing on the unique architecture in the splash pages framing the stories centering on the new icons of the Resort:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It should be noted that the character art and the landscapes on these introduction splash panels are by the hands of at least two separate artists. Tony Strobl provided most of the pencil drawings (and possibly inks) for the character art, but the the surrounding settings were likely drafted by a Western/Gold Key artist adept to adventure or live-action based comics, perhaps Dan Spiegle or Alberto Giolitti. There were also several new and reprinted full-page games and puzzles, including this word game featuring Br'er Rabbit and the Florida-specific Haunted Mansion:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The framing panels aside, there were also two ORIGINAL stories for two of the themed lands in the new Magic Kingdom. A brand new, 11-page Main Street U.S.A. tale by Pete Alvarado in which Scrooge McDuck expresses a desire to travel back to the actual turn of the century (where prices are more acceptable)</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">—</span><span style="font-size: small;">his wish is helped along by a gadget from Ludwig Von Drake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mouse and Duck assist in an Old <span style="font-size: small;">W</span>est<span style="font-size: small;">-style </span>chase with some nods to Mike Fink and Davy Crockett. The Bears are well-depicted in character, as guests know them from the original show. </span><span style="font-size: small;">But you can see for yourself: the text below is a link to a downloadable PDF of the entire Country Bears/Frontierland story. I don't believe this story has been reprinted anywhere <i>since 1971</i>! The file is</span> about 12MB, so make sure you have a steady connection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/97129363/WDCD32CountryBears.pdf" target="_blank">1971 WDW FRONTIERLAND/COUNTRY BEAR JAMBOREE COMIC</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There's actually <i>more</i> to come on this subject beyond the 1970s... stay tuned! In the meantime, this series has a slight detour in the timeline between Parts 1 and 2. Click the link below to read Part 1.5, to gain some more insight on the initial impact of theme parks in the mid-20th Century, early days at Disneyland, and how it all looked through the lens of The Duck Man himself:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-disneyland-comic-art-of-carl-barks.html" target="_blank">The Business of Western Publishing's Disneyland Comic Books PART 1.5:The Disneyland Comic Art of Carl Barks & Q&A with Joseph Cowles,Author of <i>Recalling Carl</i></a></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* The last two Disneyland comic books to hit the stands were Dell Four Color #1025: <i>Walt Disney's Vacation in Disneyland</i> (August/October 1959) and Dell Giant #30: <i>Walt Disney's Disneyland U.S.A.</i>
(April/June 1960), both of which featured stories and cover art that
prominently highlighted the first significant additions to Disneyland at
the time of their debut: the Disneyland/Alweg Monorail, the Matterhorn
Bobsleds and the Submarine Voyage Through Liquid Space. Had Walt Disney
Productions repurchased the shares from Western a few years later, it is
very likely comic readers of the 1960s would have enjoyed comic book
tales of the Enchanted Tiki Room, Pirates of the Caribbean, and
Adventure Through Inner Space written and drawn by some of the great
comic artists of the time.</span></span> </span></div>
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Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-89676839392921896782013-03-24T00:11:00.004-04:002014-08-05T13:46:20.087-04:00Disneyland, Inc. and the Business of Western Publishing's Disneyland Comic Books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Cover <span style="font-size: small;">Art </span>for Dell <span style="font-size: small;">Giant <span style="font-size: small;">Comic </span><i>Vacation in Disneyland</i> (1958)</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Art by Frank McSavage, © Disney</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of <b><a href="http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemID=23590911" target="_blank">MyComicsShop.com</a> </b></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The conception of Walt Disney's original Disneyland was the
stuff of dreams, but the harsh reality of bringing it to physical completion
could only be fueled by a a financial engine far bigger than the growing
Walt Disney Productions could support. Walt
Disney himself invested much of his own personal finances to get the new
project rolling<span class="st">. </span>However, that strategy (as well as the patience of his wife, Lily) could only be stretched so far. Outside resources were needed to propel dreams to reality. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Large, cash-healthy corporations balked at the idea of Walt Disney crafting
a "crooked, dirty amusement park" and flatly refused the proposition to
share ownership in the new enterprise. Many of the more amicable businessmen Disney approached tried to talk him out of the idea altogether. Fortunately for Walt, two outside companies bought into the vision, and by late 1952 (two years
before the park was announced to the public) Disneyland, Inc. was
incorporated as an investment pool to manage and construct the Anaheim, CA theme
park. Only one of these two outside companies participating was
already invested in a prior relationship with Walt Disney Productions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">The<span style="font-size: small;"> ABC Television Network</span></span></span></span></span></b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of <b><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ABC_Television_Network_logo_%281957-1962%29.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first was an unlikely candidate. The
fledgling ABC television network (American Broadcasting Company) dwelled in the shadows of established giants NBC and CBS. Meanwhile, Walt Disney bucked the trend of motion picture studio heads snubbing television outright<span class="st">—</span>instead, he produced two hour-long Christmas specials to air on network television. <i>One Hour in Wonderland</i> (1950) sponsored by Coca-Cola
and <i>The Walt Disney Christmas Show</i> (1951) sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. Both featured Walt Disney himself in hosting segments framing clips of prior and upcoming
animated films.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>One Hour in Wonderland</i> Coca-Cola Sponsorship Title Card</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Courtes<b>y</b> of <a href="http://todayindisneyhistory.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html" target="_blank"><b>Today in Disney History</b></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Respected Author and Disney Historian <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Korkis/e/B000APY7BS/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1" target="_blank"><b>Jim Korkis</b></a> has generously provided details for what occurred during Walt's initial foray into television:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> "The two Walt Disney Christmas TV specials did not run on ABC. The first ran
on NBC, and the second on CBS. With the success of the specials, both
of those networks wanted Walt to produce a weekly TV series. Walt
insisted that he would do so only if they invested in Disneyland. NBC
briefly flirted with the idea but when David Sarnoff missed an important
meeting, Roy O. Disney was so incensed he went to ABC... who quickly
signed on. ABC was at the bottom of the ratings. Milton Berle joked, 'If the Russians ever drop a bomb, let's all run to ABC because they
have never had a hit.' The weekly </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Disneyland</i> television show which
originally aired on Wednesday night became an overnight hit pushing an
ABC show into the top ten for the first time ever."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>–</i> Jim Korkis</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ABC used an influx of cash from their recent merger with
United Paramount theaters and signed an agreement to invest $500,000 in the risky
Disneyland venture, sealing the deal to broadcast a weekly
hour-long show on the network. Aptly titled <i>Disneyland</i>, the </span><span style="font-size: small;">anthology program premiered in October
of 1954, grudgingly hosted by Walt himself. The exchange for capital investment in the park gave ABC a significant bump in credibility amongst an otherwise limp lineup of programming. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><span style="font-size: small;">O</span>riginal Opening Title fo<span style="font-size: small;">r <span style="font-size: small;">ABC's</span> Disneyland Television S<span style="font-size: small;">h</span>ow</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image © Disney, Courtesy of <b><a href="http://www.mouseplanet.com/jason/005.htm" target="_blank">Mouseplanet.com</a></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
premiere episode entitled <i>The Disneyland Story</i> gave the world the first
look into what Disneyland <i>the Park</i> would be, as Walt stood before a
huge concept map (by master artist and matte painter Peter Ellenshaw) and boldly announced the official grand opening would take place in 10 short months. This was no doubt
a frightening public claim to the ears of investors<span class="st">—</span>at that point, the Anaheim
acreage more closely resembled a razed orange grove than a magic
kingdom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Wal<span style="font-size: small;">t Disney Int<span style="font-size: small;">roduce<span style="font-size: small;">s</span> Disney<span style="font-size: small;">land to the Television Public in October <span style="font-size: small;">of </span>1954</span></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image © & Courtesy of <a href="http://ochistorical.blogspot.com/2009/04/disneyland-concept-map-1954.html" target="_blank"><b>O.C. History Roundup</b> </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course, things worked out<span class="st">—</span><i>Disneyland</i> the television show not only amassed ratings to garner ABC their first entry into the Nielsen Top 20, but prompted an order for two more original series from Walt Disney Productions the following year: the weekly adventure series <i>Zorro</i>, and the hour-long, daily <i>Mickey Mouse Club</i>. Both were smash hits, and elements of each soon found their way into the new park in Anaheim, CA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Western P<span style="font-size: small;">rinting</span> and Lithographi<span style="font-size: small;">ng Company</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of <b><a href="http://sekvenskonst.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Westerner" target="_blank">Joakim <span style="font-size: x-small;">Gunnarsso</span>n</a></b></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
other outside partner in Disneyland, Inc. was Western Printing and
Lithograping. Western (the parent company of Whitman Publishing and Simon & Schuster, Inc.) already had a successful, long-standing relationship with
Walt Disney Productions. In 1933, Disney's canny licensing and marketing head Kay Kamen signed the initial contract granting Western the exclusive book rights to all the Walt Disney licenses characters. By 1937, Kamen negotiated a deal for Western to take over production and publication of the popular children's periodical <i>Mickey Mouse Magazine</i>. These deals were a springboard to a publishing bonanza, for in the ensuing half-century, Western published near-uncountable licensed Walt Disney items including (but not limited to) storybooks, coloring books, tray puzzles, games, kiddie records, stamp books, craft kits... and
comic books. Lots and lots of Walt Disney comic books, released under
the Dell comics imprint from 1940 to 1962, under a separate deal with Dell Publishing in which the comics were financed and distributed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Throughout Their History, Western<span style="font-size: small;"> Publishin<span style="font-size: small;">g Signed<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">and Maintained </span>a Remarkable Variety of Well-Known <span style="font-size: small;">Li<span style="font-size: small;">censed Properties</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Courtesy of <a href="http://sekvenskonst.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Westerner" target="_blank"><b>Joakim <span style="font-size: x-small;">Gunnarsso</span>n</b></a></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Disney deal struck a ripple effect of good fortune and prosperity for Western: it set a standard that quickly attracted other prominent licenses. Western's high quality output and success record secured them nearly every major entertainment license in publishing, this was particularly beneficial in the booming days of comic books. It was hard to go wrong, offering a wide variety of titles with characters everyone knew from movie and television screens: from <i>Mickey Mouse</i> to <i>Bugs Bunny</i> to <i>Roy Rogers</i> to <i>Lassie</i>. To put things into perspective, an article from the Fall 1999 issue of <i>The "E" Ticket</i> magazine reported:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"In a special June 1954 ceremony, Walt Disney himself purchased the 2 1/2 billionth Dell comic for ten cents. The 1955 output of Dell comics represented more than 50% of all comic books printed that year."</b></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mickey Mouse Magazine</i>, the publication that ignited the Disney/Western newsstand relationship slowly began to feature more comic strip art, and less text-only stories, prompting the periodical's makeover to an official comic book under the Dell imprint<span class="st">—</span><i>Walt Disney's Comics and
Stories</i> premiered in October of 1940, resetting the numbering to issue #1 to reflect the change in title and format.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> By the End of 1940, <span style="font-size: small;">t</span>he Original <i>Mickey Mouse Magazine</i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Became the Immensely Popular <i>Walt Disney's <span style="font-size: small;">Comics and Stories</span></i></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sales soared and the mouse magazine turned comic collection was a fitting talisman for success to come: <i>Walt Disney's Comics and
Stories</i> holds the distinction of being the highest selling comic book title of all time, with a circulation of over three
million copies per month at it's zenith in 1953. The ledgers didn't lie, and Western Publishing understood talking mice, cantankerous ducks and seven dwarfs were a good business strategy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Western Publishing's $200,000 investment (a considerably large figure in 1952 dollars) in Disneyland, Inc. equaled out to 13.8% of the pool, making them the smallest investor<span class="st">. </span>That status notwithstanding, the partnership provided Western a significant <i>quid pro quo</i> in the stake of the new enterprise: the rights to unlimited merchandising potential of the Disneyland name for their own products and the benefit to Disneyland of their printing presses and know-how to produce high quality press kits, guide maps, brochures, menus, premiums and plenty more on behalf of Walt's new park, with the benefit of refreshing said materials on a frequent basis. Their existing financial success with the Disney license and the phenomenon that Disneyland quickly became proved Western's gamble a wise one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In-Park a<span style="font-size: small;">nd </span>Nationwide Merchandising Opportunities Abound<br />Between<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Disneyland and </b></span>Western Publishing</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not only did Western Publishing have a stake in Disneyland itself, they would be provided retail space on Main Street U.S.A. to showcase and sell their publications. Located within the Crystal Arcade behind the Upjohn Pharmacy, the Arcade Bookstore stocked a dazzling assortment of books, comics, games, puzzles and other Western-produced output. The deal was not limited to Disneyland or Walt Disney Productions items, either: for many years, <i>Little Lulu</i> and <i>The Lone Ranger</i>* comic books were available for purchase and displayed on the same shelves as <i>Lady and the Tramp</i> and <i>Chip n' Dale</i> comics within the railroad-circled berm of 1313 Harbor Boulevard.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">A Main Street Arcade Bookstore Attendant Readies Shelves for </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Opening Day</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>(</b><b>Note: Copies of the Dell Giant </b><b><i>Donald Duck in Disneyland</i></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b> </b></b>are Plentifully Stocked!)</b></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image © & Courtesy of <a href="http://wdfmuseum.squarespace.com/posts/2010/7/27/the-e-ticket-magazine.html" target="_blank"><b>The "E"-Ticket Magazine</b></a></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The framework and entryway of the Arcade Bookstore exists today: entering
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intent of the space as it's own area is easily evident.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Yellow Pla<span style="font-size: small;">que <span style="font-size: small;">Beneath</span> the Canopied<span style="font-size: small;"> Doorway</span> Notes the En<span style="font-size: small;">tr<span style="font-size: small;">y </span>to the Crystal A<span style="font-size: small;">rcade, <span style="font-size: small;">Which </span>Le<span style="font-size: small;">d</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Guests to The Arcade Bookstore</span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The space that
once occupied densely-stocked shelves of <i>Walt Disney's Comics and
Stories</i> and large Disneyland coloring books now displays toys and dolls
beneath a decorative turn-of-the century children's nursery tableau. The
area is now considered part of a whole that is the expanded Emporium
shop, which has swallowed nearly the entirety of the interiors of the
southwest portion of the Main Street facades.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Former </span>Arcade Bookstore Space, Now Part of </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">t</span>he<br />Disneyland Emporium Shop<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>(Photo Taken April 201<span style="font-size: small;">3)</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As July 1955 drew near, Walt used the <i>Disneyland</i> television show to provide frequent updates on the construction of the park. To further whet the appetite of a curious public, news articles and print advertising began to appear around the country. Preliminary concept art was prepared and submitted to licensees to ensure Disneyland merchandise would be ready for purchase as souvenirs by opening day. Western Publishing's editors and artists readied items for release that July to be available not only in the park, but in newsstands, drug stores and book shops across the country. Their presses hummed, running out colorful fare such as Disneyland Souvenir Guides, coloring books, Little Golden Books, Big Little Books, and, of special note to this article: the Dell Giant comic book <i>Donald Duck in Disneyland</i> a 100-page special busting at the seams with fun, beneath sturdy covers, retailing for 25 cents. Due to it's nationwide availability and a healthy lifespan of the Dell Giant series on newsstands and drugstore racks, this comic likely provided the most widespread introduction of Disneyland to Baby-Boom America.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> Walt<span style="font-size: small;"> Requested That His</span> Biggest Stars <span style="font-size: small;">Preview the New Park</span> </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">in <i>Walt Disney's Donald Duck in Disneyland</i></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> (1955)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite a rocky opening season, Disneyland was a a hit and became a household name by the close of '55. The identification of the theme park became synonymous with Mickey Mouse himself, and Western Publishing did their part to maintain that status, spreading the word by way of their books, games and through the Dell comics imprint.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Promotional contests were showcased across multiple comic book titles: <b><span style="font-size: small;">"</span>WIN A TRIP TO DISNEYLAND!"</b> became an ubiquitous headline in post-1955 youth and family periodicals. Interestingly, this early park synergy didn't carry over to the actual content or stories in the standard Walt Disney licensed books. Forthcoming Disneyland-focused tales were showcased in 80-100 page Dell Giant specials following the same structure as <i>Donald Duck in Disneyland</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Typical "Linking" Page Transitioning One <span style="font-size: small;">Story to the Next</span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The format for nearly all of the Dell Disneyland comics were set up within a basic framework of "separate tales within a tale" in which central characters visit the park and either join in or recount adventures of inhabitants and environments based on the various realms. For instance, a park-touring Minnie Mouse and Goofy might run into several characters within Fantasyland and help solve a conflict, while Scrooge McDuck strolls through Frontierland and regales Grandma Duck with an adventure he had in the days of the wild, wild west.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Santa Claus <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bring</span>s T<span style="font-size: small;">wo Children to<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">The <span style="font-size: small;">P</span>ark</span></span> as a Special Christmas Gift</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course, 80 to 100 pages of content is a tall order for any single artist or writer to undertake. To efficiently break up creative duties, the framing sequences were often drawn by one artist, with the stories within taking up a larger share of each section by other artists. The most frequent and reliable cartoonists utilized for these specials were the top Disney artists that Western employed. Regular Dell Disney comic book readers could recognize the work of</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> their usual favorite artists, such as Carl Barks, Paul Murry, Tony Strobl, Al Hubbard, Carl Fallberg, and Harvey Eisenberg, amongst others.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>When Carl Barks Crafts a Tale For a Dell Giant... Buckle Up</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The lone exception to the Disneyland-themed comics as Dell Giants was a standard size (36 pages with a slick cover) issue of <i>Vacation in Disneyland</i></span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">—</span><span style="font-size: small;">issue #1025 of Dell's long-running Four Color series. The Four Color Series were a showcase for one-shot properties, such as movie adaptions, or a testing ground for potential new ongoing titles. Most Walt Disney comic titles began life through several issues of Four Color over a few years, before graduating to their own, independently numbered title. It's interesting to consider the prospect of <i>Vacation </i><i>in Disneyla</i><i>nd</i> as a standard, bi-monthly title.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Between 1955 and 1960, Dell produced 10 Disneyland comics books containing nearly 1000 pages of new, original content. This level of output was likely dictated by the worldwide success of the park and their own financial stake. The dawn of the 1960s brought many changes to the business of comic book publishing and distribution<span class="st">—</span>in the case of our story, the Dell Giants shrunk from 100 to 80 pages to maintain a 25¢ cover price. By the end of 1961, Dell's Giant-size format would fade away completely. The cessation of Disneyland comic books probably had more to do with the fact that, around this time, Walt Disney Productions bought out Western Publishing's share from Disneyland, Inc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>By 1961, The </b><b><b>Disneyland </b>Comic Books Had Ended, But Their National Influence </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Persisted Through Western's Whitman Line of Coloring and Activity Books</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While amicably continuing their licensing relationship with Western post-Disneyland, Inc., the Studio's relationship with ABC turned sour due to clashing stances on contracts and programming content. Walt Disney Production acted on their option to buy out ABC in 1960. The Studio honored their original television contract commitment, for the <b>'</b>60-'61 season, then boldly transitioned the television anthology show to NBC for the start of the '61-'62 season. Where they could control more of the content, and Walt continued his hosting duties... this time, in living <b><span style="color: red;">C</span><span style="color: blue;">O</span><span style="color: #b45f06;">L</span><span style="color: magenta;">O</span><span style="color: #38761d;">R</span></b>.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>With That Kind of Endorsement, Who WOULDN'T Want to Visit?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conclusion From </b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Walt Disney's Donald Duck in Disneyland</b></i><b> (1955)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Art by Al Hubbard, © Disney</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With Walt's share of Disneyland, Inc. bought out by his own company, Disneyland became a wholly-owned part of Walt Disney Productions by 1961. The theme park's realization and success was due to some wise business deals, primarily funded by the shareholders of Disneyland, Inc.<span class="st">—</span>while ABC television furnished more cash and occasional television exposure, Western Publishing kept the name Disneyland present in the eyes of the public nearly everywhere they went in those early years<b>.</b></span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Comic Books<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>in Order of Release Date</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b><span style="font-size: small;">Dell <i>Walt Disney's Donald Duck in Disneyland #1</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">100 Page Giant Comic (July/September 1955)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dell <i>Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Frontierland<span class=""> #1</span></i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dell <i>Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Fantasyland<span class=""> #1</span></i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dell <i>Walt Disney's Christmas in Disneyland #1</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dell <i>Walt Disney's Donald and Mickey in Disneyland On Tom Sawyer's Island<span class=""> #1</span></i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> Dell <i>Walt Disney's Vacation in Disneyland <span class="">#1</span></i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dell Walt Disney's <i>Disneyland Birthday Party #1</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dell Four Color #1025: <i>Walt Disney's Vacation in Disneyland</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dell Giant #30: <i>Walt Disney's Disneyland U.S.A.</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-disneyland-comic-art-of-carl-barks.html" target="_blank">PART 1.5: The Disneyland Comic Art of Carl Barks<br />& Q&A with Joseph Cowles, Author of <i>Recalling Carl</i></a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-business-of-western-publishings.html" target="_blank">PART 2: Western Publishing's Disneyland Comic Books,<br />Post-Disneyland, Inc. & Walt Disney World</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vintage Disneyland Tickets frequently posts fascinating rare photos, articles and scans of Disneyland ephemera, with an emphasis on the wide variety of paper tickets through the decades. I visit the site daily, and dig through the archive of posts<span class="st">—which never fails to produce something undiscovered and unique.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The<span style="font-size: small;">re's even a post with some more full-page scans of <span style="font-size: small;">the 1955 Dell <span style="font-size: small;">G<span style="font-size: small;">iant <i>Donal</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>d Duck in D</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>isne</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>yland</i> #1, which <span style="font-size: small;">you can see <a href="http://vintagedisneylandtickets.blogspot.com/2009/02/dells-giant-comics-walt-disneys-donald.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://angryap.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Angry AP<span class="st">—</span>Disneyland & Walt Disney World Nostalgia</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guy Selga of <a href="http://touringplans.com/" target="_blank"><b>Touring Plans</b></a> was kind enough to take the current-day photo of the Arcade Bookstore for me. His <a href="http://angryap.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Angry AP</b></a> blog is also packed with a great selection and commentary of ephemera and photos about Disneyland<span style="font-size: small;">, </span>the Walt Disney World resort, and then some.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guy is also very active daily on <b><a href="https://twitter.com/guyselga" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">—</span></span></span>he writes some funny stuff throughout his day working at Disneyland... I understand he's obtained quite a following for people interested in pictures of sandwiches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* This was long before <i>T</i><i>he Lone Range</i><i>r</i> was a Disney feature film starring Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp. The comic book mentioned here were based on the long-running television series starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> I</span>n a bit of tangential irony, <i>The Lone Ranger</i> was a property owned at that point by Jack Wrather, whose company owned and managed The Disneyland Hotel from 1955 to 1989.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Smarter than the av-er-age bear!"<b> </b>More goodies from a pic-a-nic basket of original </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">illustrations</span>: presenting the latest in a series of square "vignette" illustrations based on early Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon characters<span class="st">—this time we recognize the two most notorious<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>residents of Jellystone National Park.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Huckleberry Hound Show</i> was an immediate hit when it premiered in 1958. Huck had the spotlight for the opening cartoon short, but forever humble, he shared the balance of the program with two other sets of cartoon characters: Mr. Jinks & the "meeces"<span style="font-size: small;"> Pixie and Dixie,</span> followed by Yogi Bear and his faithful buddy Boo-Boo. Yogi's <span style="font-size: small;">popularity</span> quickly skyrocketed, allowing him to spin-off onto his own self-titled series in 1961<span class="st">—</span>cementing his place as an icon for Hanna-Barbera in the decades to follow.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yogi Bear's appeal and popularity comes by way of good genes: though his name suggests baseball heritage, Yogi's ebullient and carefree attitude was based primarily on actor Art Carney's portrayal of Ed Norton on Jackie Gleason's <i>The Honeymooners</i>, television's popular comedy sketch-turned-series. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera clearly admired the pairing of Gleason and Carney, as the stars of their most popular creation <i>The Flintstones</i> are more than just a coincidental reflection of <i>The Honeymooners</i> cast and premise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bill and Joe tuned in to the attitude and comic timing of Carney's Norton just enough to wring two similar, yet wholly unique characters from the performance: namely, Yogi Bear and Barney Rubble on <i>The Flintstones</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yogi's voice was likely the most popular and most-requested by Hanna-Barbera
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the time Butler spoke for the Bear at H-B, he softened the voice slightly for Yogi, likely due to the lead role, and a greater share of dialogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boo-Boo is the best friend and unwilling conscience to the boisterous (but good-natured) Yogi. He knows he should heed the word of Ranger Smith and forage for nuts and berries, but often joins in to reap the rewards of Yogi's persistent picnic basket filching.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once again, I remind those interested in the early, ground-breaking years of Hanna-Barbera Productions to visit <a href="http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>YOWP</b></a>
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shorts the likes of remain unmatched anywhere else. <b><a href="http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/search/label/Yogi%20Bear" target="_blank">CLICKING HERE</a></b> will guide you to YOWP's content featuring all things Jellystone Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The addition of Yogi and Boo-Boo brings us to five illustrations, y</span><span style="font-size: small;">ou can view the entire series to date on Flickr here: <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/honudan/sets/72157631999893135/" target="_blank">Hanna-Barbera Vignettes</a></b></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A conch shell bellows, echoing through <span style="font-size: small;">a</span> rattan canopy!<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Nope, we're not gonna watch <i>Survivor</i><span style="font-size: small;">.</span>.. <span style="font-size: small;">i</span>t's time to warm up these frigid days of January and head deep into the wilds of Adventureland. The next illustration in the "See You in Disneyland" series focuses on another beloved dining entertainment attraction: <span style="font-size: small;">Disney<span style="font-size: small;">land's</span></span> Tahitian Terrace Restaurant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our lovely hula dancer tells a story through her delicate movements, swaying to lilting melodies. Bright yellows set off the figure and suggest a bright, tropic environment<span style="font-size: small;">, while</span> <span style="font-size: small;">t</span>he small flower vignettes that surround her are based on decorative images that once festooned the original Tahitian Terrace marquee in the 1960s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There's some delicious, stylized illustrations of Polynesian <i>Wahines</i> on the vintage Tahitian Terrace menu pictured below. While I'm partial to that graphic style, I'm sticking to the self-imposed rules for "See You in Disneyland" in that the style must remain consistent when viewed as a whole.* You can view the continuing series on Flickr <b><a href="http://flic.kr/s/aHsjC7GyYd" target="_blank">HERE</a></b></span></span><br />
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Located to the rear of Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room, The Tahitian Terrace operated during summers and busier times of the year from 1962 to 1993. Guests lined up to enjoy Polynesian-style dishes and live, island-themed entertainment.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The continental United States maintained a substantial fascination in Polynesian culture by 1960, primarily due to the inclusion of Hawaii as the 50th state the prior year. The most telling instance of the craze that sustained for over a decade were the ubiquitous Hotels, Motels and cond<span style="font-size: small;">o</span>miniums themed to the South Seas across the 48 states<span class="st">—</span>more so, the seemingly overnight explosion of exotic Tiki restaurants and bars such as <b><a href="http://www.tradervics.com/" target="_blank">Trader Vic's</a></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was only natural that the appeal of such far-away tropic locales would find its way through the main gate of 1313 Harbor Boulevard. The Tahitian Terrace became a must-see dinner show, engaging diners with savory fare far west of the standard hamburger platter amid live dancers, drummers and fire walkers enshrouded by a placid waterfall curtain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An original sponsorship by Stouffer's (and later, Kikkoman) kept the venue's life healthy, as operating costs go. By the dawn of the 1990s, live in-park entertainment was scaled back, and synergy-driven tie-ins became <i>de rigueur</i>. The Tahitian Terrace was placed on the endangered species list.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After all, thirty-one years is an admirable run for any dinner show. As the Tahitian Terrace served up their final meals in 1993 to make way for a dining experience featuring Disney's <i>Aladdin</i>, there remained a strong core group<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>of fans whose only wish would be for the Genie to vacate and restore the former tenant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> As recen<span style="font-size: small;">tly as 2012, t<span style="font-size: small;">here was </span></span>a one-night<span style="font-size: small;"> restoration of the Tahi<span style="font-size: small;">tian Terrace:<span style="font-size: small;"> a fan<span style="font-size: small;">-based movement </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">in co<span style="font-size: small;">-operation with <span style="font-size: small;">Disneyland ma<span style="font-size: small;">nageme<span style="font-size: small;">nt was </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>hoste<span style="font-size: small;">d b<span style="font-size: small;">y the folks at<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><a href="http://www.mousetalgia.com/" target="_blank">Mousetalgia.com</a></b> </span>culminated </span></span></span>in co<span style="font-size: small;">-operation with <span style="font-size: small;">Disneyland ma<span style="font-size: small;">nageme<span style="font-size: small;">nt success<span style="font-size: small;">fully returned the dinner show for a special event<span style="font-size: small;">. You can read all abo<span style="font-size: small;">ut th<span style="font-size: small;">e spec<span style="font-size: small;">ial evening <span style="font-size: small;">on October 13, 2012 here at<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.thedisneyproject.com/2012/10/an-evening-at-tahitian-terrace.html" target="_blank"><b>T</b></a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.thedisneyproject.com/2012/10/an-evening-at-tahitian-terrace.html" target="_blank"><b>he Disney Pro</b></a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.thedisneyproject.com/2012/10/an-evening-at-tahitian-terrace.html" target="_blank"><b>ject</b></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">** Long out-of-print, <i>Disneyland the Nickel Tour</i> is widely heralded as the greatest book on Disneyland history published to date.</span></span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-63651444341897443122013-01-08T23:12:00.001-05:002013-01-10T02:44:35.796-05:00Q&A with Laryssa Wirstiuk, Author of The Prescribed Burn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A new year, a new blog post, and a new ongoing series we'll touch on </span><span style="font-size: small;">from time to time here at <i>I Can Break Away</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">to wit</span>, </span>book recommendations and reviews of notable tomes. For the first selection, we are very fortunate to gain some <span style="font-size: small;">exclusive per<span style="font-size: small;">ceptions</span> from</span> </span><span style="font-size: small;">the author by way of an informal Q&A session.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now, I doubt <span style="font-size: small;">any </span>these posts will ever score <a href="http://www.oprah.com/packages/oprahs-book-club-2.html" target="_blank"><b>Oprah's Book Club</b></a> kind of numbers</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span>but<span style="font-size: small;">, hey, </span>we <span style="font-size: small;">can <span style="font-size: small;">all </span>benefit from a bit of cu</span>lture and literary awareness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reading has always taken center stage in my own life, the ability to <i><b>enjoy</b></i> doing so remains the most valuable gift I'll ever receive. I owe the most gratitude for this gift during my formative youth to the early efforts of PBS children's programming, and (more importantly) my Mother, who faithfully read to me daily, helping to sound out words and sentences. Over time, it bec<span style="font-size: small;">a</span>me easy to distinguish good writing, and the<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">path</span></span> to discovering <span style="font-size: small;">suc<span style="font-size: small;">h </span></span>is part of the fun. There's a passive excitement to browsing vintage and retail bookstores, or flooding countless periodicals and online resources through a mental sluice, trapping for literary gold.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've been equally fortunate to communicate with some interesting people v</span></span>ia the social interactions of <a href="https://twitter.com/" target="_blank"><b>Twitter</b></a>, some of whom I may never have the opportunity to meet in person. One of these interesting people is a vivacious author and professor named Laryssa Wirstiuk, whose talent and compassion are matched only by her zest for life. It seems <span style="font-size: small;">Wirstiuk is always involved in something new and interesting—when she does tak<span style="font-size: small;">e</span> some downtime, the occasion is often documented with photos of her adorable miniature <span class="st">Dachshund</span>, Charlotte Moo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">Some weeks back Laryssa mentioned she was working on something new.<span style="font-size: small;"> U</span>pon a request to read a sample of <span style="font-size: small;">her work</span>, I was pleasantly surprised when she replied an entire collection of her short stories had recently been published. Samples viewed, a<span style="font-size: small;">n amazon K</span>indle purchase opened <span style="font-size: small;">wide </span>the full <span style="font-size: small;">collection of</span> inter-connected stories. Less than ankle-deep in the first chapter, a solid connection between reader and writer was established. Here<span style="font-size: small;"> i</span>s the formal review I gave her book on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Prescribed-Burn-Laryssa-Wirstiuk/dp/0985831901/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357699732&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><b>amazon.com</b></a>:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Prescribed Burn</i><i>—</i>A Fresh & Well-Conceived Collection </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Prescribed Burn</i> utilizes an atypical story structure, painting an engaging, ever-building portrait of the central character, Veda. Delivered as a first-person narrative, Veda's non-linear time line unfolds a compelling look into a young woman's formative-to-adult years, that strays from the usual conventions of its type.<br /><br />Veda is neither outcast nor introvert: her strong Ukrainian heritage and a stronger creative drive are central to positioning Veda slightly askew from what her peers would consider ordinary. Her whisper-quiet brio is the very heart of <i>Burn</i>, as is the setting of the state of New Jersey (cheekily associated with Veda as being slightly askew in comparison to neighboring New York).<br /><br />Laryssa Wirstiuk's writing method wins you over by lightly drizzling character-building events within the scenes of the mundane and everyday. The standard method of chapter-busting suspense and cliffhangers is disposed of, in favor of Veda's daily routine being shifted or interrupted with the moments that re-arrange her thinking. Wirstiuk sets up each scene masterfully in Veda's voice, drawing the reader into her mindset seamlessly. In doing so, the recurring theme of the book's title becomes powerful and clear by its conclusion.<br /><br />Reviewers seem to have crafted opposing takes on the overall theme of the the book. Though some of the stories magnify her insecurities, I find Veda is always perfectly satisfied with her identity, searching only for the places and people to comfortably wrap around it.</span></span></b></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The book struck a such an honest chord, it was a natural fit to <span style="font-size: small;">hav<span style="font-size: small;">e</span> <i>Burn</i></span> kick off the book recommendations here on the blog. Though we've never met in person, Laryssa enthusiastically agreed to answer some questions about her book, her work and herself</span><span style="font-size: small;">—so here's a bit of Q&A with author </span><span style="font-size: small;">Laryssa Wirstiuk:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks so much for taking the time to answer some questions. Before we get to the book: I know your area was affected by Hurricane Sandy, and you recently took part in a benefit to raise relief money. Has much of the damage been taken care of around Jersey City?</span></span></span></b> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Hoboken, NJ</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>The Garden State plays a central role in <i>The Prescribed Burn</i>, which you’ve captured perfectly. I’ve often contended that New Jersey gets a bad reputation in that most people judge the state strictly by views off the Turnpike. MTV’s <i>Jersey Shore</i> hasn’t helped garner much goodwill either—yet everyone I know there is proud to call it home. Do you hope to remain, or are there greener pastures?</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">I grew up in New Jersey and couldn't wait to go away to college. I felt so strongly that I needed to live somewhere e</span><span style="font-size: small;">lse</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span>I fa</span><span style="font-size: small;">ntasized about California and other states with warmer climates. I ended up in Baltimore, MD and remained in Maryland through graduate school. Surprisingly, throughout that time, I wanted nothing but to return to New Jersey and couldn't wait to finish school so I could move back home. As it stands, I feel very satisfied living here and don't see myself moving any time soon, but I'm not closed to the possibility of living in another place. I'm just the type of person who has trouble establishing a "home" in a location different from the place where I was born and raised. I think about that a lot<span style="font-size: small;">:</span> the concept of "home."</span></b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Author Shot Phot<span style="font-size: small;">os <span style="font-size: small;">Representing Each Chapter of <i>The Prescribed Burn</i><span style="font-size: small;">, Above Image From The Chapter</span> "Not Homecoming<span style="font-size: small;">"</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The stories that make up <i>The Prescribed Burn</i> seem to reflect much of your own personality and experience. Veda’s love affair with her home state of New Jersey, her creative drive, compassion and Ukrainian background appear as unfiltered snapshots of your mindset. The summer camp chapter in particular, is beautifully textured. How much of the framework is autobiographical?</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">I've definitely based some of my stories on real things that I've experienced</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span></span></b></span></span>like going to an all-girl's high school, being in love with a place, growing up Ukrainian, etc. But Veda also represents my ideas and emotions that I haven't necessarily lived, at least not in those specific ways. For example, Veda is an only child, but I have a brother who is one of my best friends. Those situations that are only partially based in truth reflect more of what memoirists call the "emotional truth." In "Flame-Retardant Fabric," my story about 9/11, Veda is in art class with her best friend. It's true that I was in high school during 9/11, but I was in biology class without my best friend. The way I wrote the story is the way I wish it had been, the way that I can find the most truth in the situation. Sometimes, manipulating a memory is the way we find truth in it.</span></b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Veda's Creative and Ukra<span style="font-size: small;">i</span>nian Roots<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Merge</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Frequently</span> Throughout the Stories</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Small details of environments, moods and clothing shade the dialogue perfectly. While reading, I found myself comparing your writing style to an adult-oriented Beverly Cleary (intended as a high compliment!) Was there a particular author or authors that influenced your work?</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">I don't think I consciously try to emulate any author as I write, but I can't deny that the work of writers I admire must influence my writing. Around the same time that I fell in love with fiction writing, I fell in love with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lorrie-Moore/e/B000APWFEY" target="_blank">Lorrie Moore</a>, a short story writer and novelist. Her protagonists are almost all females in rather awkward situations. They are normal women navigating the mundane details of life. She is a master of humor and language. I think reading her work gave me permission to write about flawed female characters.</span></b></span></span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Absolutely: f</span>lawed characters are eve<span style="font-size: small;">rything<span style="font-size: small;">! </span></span>As a cartoonist who writes his own stuff, I do understand when story must drive characters and vice versa. I’ve taken on my own “<span style="font-size: small;">p</span><span style="font-size: small;">r</span>escribed <span style="font-size: small;">b</span>urn” in that I don’t let myself get precious with the characters: finding it’s far better to give them a rough time, <span style="font-size: small;">follo<span style="font-size: small;">wed b<span style="font-size: small;">y</span></span></span> an unusual or sensible outcome. Do you write within those types of rules, or do you tend to let things flow?</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Of course! Perfect lives are boring. Everyone, no matter how perfect they might seem on the outside, has something that troubles them. I like to explore those troubles, even if they seem insignificant or selfish or naive. And I like to be kind to my characters too, even though I'm torturing them. </span></b></span></span></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you plan to revisit the character of Veda, or do you feel her story has been told?</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">My friends and family have encouraged me to keep writing Veda, but I feel like I have moved on from her. She was a character I created to explore ideas and concerns I had about a certain period of a young woman's life, and I'm now interested in writing about different subjects. I'll have to create a character who will help me navigate and explore these new interests. However, I'm very interested in writing about women and don't see myself straying from strong female protagonists any time soon.</span></b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">A Relaxing</span> Read <span style="font-size: small;">With</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Charlotte Moo</b></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What type of writing do you navigate to for your own, recreational reading?</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">I like to read everything! My passion is writing so I want to know how it works on every level. My current challenge is to finish Anna Karenina during my winter break from teaching. But the next book on my list is a nonfiction book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Uncreative-Writing-Managing-Language-Digital/dp/0231149913/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357703273&sr=8-1&keywords=Uncreative+Writing" target="_blank"><i>Uncreative Writing</i></a>, which is about the role of the Internet and digital media in creativity, especially in poetry writing. I read both to help me grow as a writer and to help me grow as a teacher. I'm always looking for the next best thing to share with my students.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span>hanks aga<span style="font-size: small;">in to</span> Laryssa for sharing her <span style="font-size: small;">valuable </span>time<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and insights</span>.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">For</span> those interested, a generous, multi-page preview of <i>The Prescribed Burn</i><span style="font-size: small;"> is viewable</span> at <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Prescribed-Burn-Laryssa-Wirstiuk/dp/0985831901/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357699732&sr=1-1" target="_blank">amazon.com</a></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">—</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">if you enjoy the sample text as much as I did, the book is currently available in both paperback and Kindle formats.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'll be back with some new posts very soon, now that the Holiday season has come to a close. <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>heck back <span style="font-size: small;">here</span> for the next illustration in the <b><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/search/label/See%20You%20in%20Disneyland" target="_blank">See You in Disneyland</a></b> series, followed by a break from the cold weather <span style="font-size: small;">w<span style="font-size: small;">it<span style="font-size: small;">h</span> a </span></span>visit to<span style="font-size: small;"> the S<span style="font-size: small;">outh Seas</span></span>!</span></span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-77617314560363663532012-12-07T18:29:00.001-05:002012-12-13T12:12:23.526-05:00Playlist: Songs of Christmas (2012 Edition)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's officially the Holiday season. I know this because:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each morning I awaken a victim of <span style="font-size: small;">40+</span> e-mail blasts offering me <b>AMAZING HOLIDAY DEALS/DON'T MISS IT!/OFFER ENDS TONIGHT!</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Turn a corner in metro NY: Rockettes everywhere. I've seen less pigeons* lately<b><br /></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Rankin-Bass <i>Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer</i> was on CBS this past Wednesday</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaking of <i>R</i><i>udolph</i>, please refer to the infographic below to alleviate any confusion when viewing 1960s television this holiday season...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, with this year's <b><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2012/07/playlist-songs-of-summer-2012.html" target="_blank">Summer</a></b> and <b><a href="http://icanbreakaway.blogspot.com/2012/10/playlist-songs-of-halloween-2012-edition.html" target="_blank">Halloween</a></b> playlists put away for a while, here's another playlist of 9 song suggestions to
get in the Christmas spirit. As usual, these are deeper cuts than what you'll hear on the radio<span class="Apple-style-span">—</span>use them to add a bit of variety to your own
Holiday-themed playlist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Christmas musical standards are well-know and forever repeated: particularly </span><span style="font-size: small;">recordings from the likes of Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Mariah Carey. Lately, terrestrial radio stations tend to utilize the same 20-<span style="font-size: small;">odd</span> songs, placed on auto-pilot to be repeated <i>ad nauseam</i> 'til the evening of 12/25, because th<span style="font-size: small;">o<span style="font-size: small;">se son<span style="font-size: small;">gs are</span></span></span> considered "reliable."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">R</span>eliability might garner a few less people switching stations, but it lacks texture and the fun of anticipation for the listener. Discovery too: plenty o<span style="font-size: small;">f </span>obscure songs that receive less or no play are the most delicious morsels, often leading the listener to go out of their way to discover non-holiday work by the same artist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To further illustrate this, these playlist suggestions provide a good sampling of both contemporary and vintage tracks (and yes, Bing Crosby <b>is</b> represented, albeit with a fun, electronica twist). The high-energy alt rock beats of Relient K start it off, followed b<span style="font-size: small;">y</span> up-tempo jazz from Chet Baker and </span><span style="font-size: small;">Vince Guaraldi. Jazz then gets cooled down with Bob Dorough's perspective-tweaking "Blue Christmas" (<b>not</b> the same tune made famous by Elvis Presley)<span class="Apple-style-span">—</span>the mood becomes softer and sentimental with She & Him's rendition of "The Christmas Waltz."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The most interesting and obscure piece of audio here is probably the "Toys For Tots" theme written by composed by Sammy Fain and Paul Webster, and performed here by Peggy Lee, Nat "King" Cole and Nancy Wilson. </span><span style="font-size: small;">The tune is charming, </span><span style="font-size: small;">catchy and bright, th</span><span style="font-size: small;">e message is clear, and the three talented stars are giving their all for the recording originally used as a radio PSA to drum up interest for the annual toy drive. The high-pitched chorus that pipes in could likely be attributed to the initial popularity of Ross Bagdasarian's Chipmunks, or possibly intended to be Walt Disney's own chipmunks Chip n<span style="font-size: small;">'</span> Dale (equally likely, since the Walt Disney Studio designed the official Toys For Tots logo, and contributed promotional artwork to the charity through the years).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Original 1948 Toys For Tots Poster</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To this day, Toys for Tots continues to be an official activity of the U.S. Marine Corps.<span style="font-size: small;">, <span style="font-size: small;">serving </span></span>as a charitable, non-profit organization. You can find a donation center near you at their website <a href="http://www.toysfortots.org/promotional_media/official_logo.aspx" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Each song listed below is available on <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a></b> and/or <b><a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/" target="_blank">iTunes</a></b>. Beneath the album title of each song are links to the song/album for
both stores, where you can listen to audio samples and purchase those that suit your tastes—I don't get a piece of the profits if you make a
purchase, the links are included to make things easier. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Here we go:</span></span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;">Angels We Have Heard On High</span></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Relient K</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Let It Snow Baby...<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span>Let It Reindeer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00931IYQY/ref=dm_dp_trk4?ie=UTF8&qid=1354735879&sr=301-1" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/let-it-snow-baby...let-it/id277541214" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;">iTunes</span></b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Happy Holiday (Beef Wellington Remix)</span></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: </span>Bing Crosby</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album<span style="font-size: small;">: </span>Christmas Remixed: Holiday Classics Re-Grooved</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Winter Wonderland (78 Take)</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: </span>Chet Baker Quartet (Featuring Russ Freeman)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: The Chet Baker Quartet With Russ Freeman</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Winter-Wonderland-78-Take/dp/B000T2LW06/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354736945&s=dmusic&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a></b> </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chet-baker-quartet-featuring/id15911354" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;">iTunes</span></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Blue Christmas</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: </span>Bob Dorough</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: (Single)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Christmas/dp/B003Y5NWEY/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1354730838&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=blue+christmas+dorough" target="_blank">Amazon</a></b> </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blue-christmas/id385408718" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: small;">iTunes</span></b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Christmas Waltz </span></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She & Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Very She & Him Christmas</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005V4FJXI/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk1" target="_blank">Amazon</a> </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-very-she-him-christmas/id467461972" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">iTunes</span></a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>Greensleeves</b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: <span style="font-size: small;">T<span style="font-size: small;">he </span></span></span>Vince Guaraldi Trio</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">A<span style="font-size: small;">lbum</span>: </span>A Charlie Brown Christmas </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>–</i></span></span> Original Television Soundtrack Recording</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Christmas Island</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Artist: Leon Redbone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Album: Elf </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>–</i> Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>BONUS CHRISTMAS MP3s </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you've been hanging around here, you know when I put together these playlist suggestions, I like to include a link to a free download of a song themed to the subject. This time I'm able to get you to <b>31</b> songs, provided by an excellent travel blogger (and Twitter friend) named Carrie Hayward.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's a great story as to how Carrie came to post the music, but I'll let her blog post explain the inspiration and history behind the songs she compiled, you can check <span style="font-size: x-small;">it</span> out and download the music at her site here:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* Pigeons are the filthy, scavenging, official birds of Manhattan.</span></span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-63748483176555786802012-11-29T01:04:00.002-05:002015-02-14T18:35:07.274-05:00A Rare Citrus Treat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">When Walt Disney World opened in late 1971, the resort could claim many unique features<span class="st">—</span>most notably in the categories of
size, transportation and recreational offerings compared to the original Disneyland in Anaheim, CA.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Florida Residents and Tourists Could Preview a Detailed Scale Model of the Walt Disney World Resort Prior to the October 1971 Opening</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">However, much of the
content within the theme park was a reflection of those found
in Anaheim. The initial plan was for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom
to feature a similar layout to Disneyland, debuting new<span style="font-size: small;">,</span> different attractions
mixed with a selection of shared ones. During construction, time and budget
crunches weakened the brew, leaving Florida only a handful of unique
attraction offerings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A Preoccupied Hollywood Legend Debates Original Attractions vs. Clones While Surveying Construction Progress</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Over the decades, with the global sprawl of Disney's domestic
and international theme parks, a homogenization of elements became <i>de rigueur</i>.
This, plus the accumulated experience of customer trends and market
research aided <span style="font-size: small;">a</span> justification for overall consistency with fewer touches
proprietary to a single area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">What marketing surveys and polls <i><b>can't</b></i> always nail is the
nostalgia factor. User-controlled media the likes of fanzines, message boards, podcasts and blogs wield the ability to raise eyebrows and awareness of even the
most trend-savvy analysts. It is largely due to the breadth of the
internet that some things, deemed worthless, regain their capitalization
potential and find their way back into the public consciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Those of us who watched television commercials and spent time at Walt Disney World during the 1970s have recently been reunited with a familiar friend. Spring 2012 restored a seemingly simple and largely forgotten icon from the tangerine-hued ether, as the Florida Orange Bird resumed his place behind the Magic Kingdom's Sunshine Tree Terrace snack counter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Over 25 Years Later, The Orange Bird is Back Where He Belongs</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Image courtesy of <a href="http://eatingwdw.com/tag/sunshine-tree-terrace/" target="_blank">Eating WDW Blog</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Despite the burgeoning homogenization factor, the Orange Bird's restoration signaled an stabilizing modicum of individuality to Walt Disney World. He is one of the only unique icons of the resort's history: a distinct <span style="font-size: small;">identity</span> that was never copied anywhere else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Beyond being represented on a sampling of new merchandise, the loveable avian/citrus hybrid adorns a large attraction poster under a main entrance tunnel into the park, and atop the "throwback" marquee, with proper font restored in place of the prior (and rather generic) interim typeface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A Visual History of The Sunshine Tree Terrace Marquee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The cost and effort behind the return of something as unremarkable as a long-discontinued, 40-year old Florida Citrus Commission mascot speaks volumes on the impact of user-based media. Minus the online recognition by those who simply remembered the character fondly, the formal reestablishment of The Orange Bird at Walt Disney World would never have surfaced*.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I won't go into a great deal of background on the character here, as there have been a multitude of resources online over the past few years chronicling the Bird's history and return. The most notable and informative of these you can discover in the following links: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Widen Your World was the first website to provide a solid, well-researched overall history of the character:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/stt.htm" target="_blank"><b>WIDEN YOUR WORLD </b><b>– Sunshine Tree Terrace & The Florida Orange Bird</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jim Korkis<span style="font-size: small;"><b>, </b></span></span></span>Disney Historian and author of the excellent <b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Revised-Vault-Walt-Korkis/dp/0984341544/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1355265224&sr=8-6&keywords=jim+korkis" target="_blank">The Vault of Walt</a></i> </b>and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Afraid-Forbidden-Disney-Stories-ebook/dp/B00AG6G250/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354550041&sr=1-1&keywords=jim+korkis" target="_blank"><b>Who's Afraid of Song of the South & Other Forbidden Disney Stories</b></a></i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>, </b></span>placed his research efforts and eye for detail on the Bird's notoriety with three posts, spanning five years via MousePlanet:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mouseplanet.com/8205/Orange_Thoughts_of_an_Orange_Bird" target="_blank"><b>(2007) Orange Thoughts of an Orange Bird</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mouseplanet.com/9401/More_Orange_Thoughts_of_an_Orange_Bird" target="_blank"><b>(2010) More Orange Thoughts of an Orange Bird</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mouseplanet.com/10013/Good_Grief__Even_More_Orange_Thoughts_of_an_Orange_Bird" target="_blank"><b>(2012) Good Grief! Even More Orange Thoughts of an Orange Bird</b></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Korkis has also put up another post at Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research site, with information on the Bird's singular animated short film <i>Foods and Fun: A Nutrition Adventure</i> for Walt Disney Educational Media, produced by Rick Reinert Productions (including a full video of the short):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/in-his-own-words-dave-bennett-on-disneys-orange-bird/" target="_blank">In His Own Words: Director Dave Bennett on Disney's "Orange Bird"</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The eloquent Michael Crawford at Progress City U.S.A. provides further history with a thoughtful essay on the impact of the character's relationship to Walt Disney World during the resort's challenging early years*<span style="font-size: small;">*</span>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://progresscityusa.com/2011/11/11/little-orange-memories/" target="_blank"><b>Progress City U.S.A. </b><b>– Little Orange Memories</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">FoxxFurr's Passport to Dreams Old and New covers more in-depth history and provides intelligent insight on the practical character design aspects, and the character's overall aesthetic appeal upon the 2012 return of The Orange Bird:</span><br />
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<a href="http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2012/04/you-do-have-wings-orange-bird.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Passport To Dreams Old and New </b><b>– You Do Have Wings Orange Bird</b></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Over at Miehana, the talented Kevin Kidney briefly recounts his participation in uncovering the hidden location and restoration of the original Orange Bird figurine, and a good look at the improved paint finishing bestowed upon it: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nearly a decade ago, I was fortunate enough to purchase a rare gem of the aforementioned user-based media. At that time, a search on the subject of The Orange Bird garnered scant results, save for a few crumbs of information and a heaping teaspoon of items on eBay. One afternoon, I noticed a message board posting with an ad for the premiere issue of <i>Magical Memories Magazine</i>, an audio fanzine consisting of 2 CDs with narrated content about a particular theme park attraction. Here was user-based audio which predated the podcast explosion to come, about a year later. <i>MMM #1</i> was themed to The Enchanted Tiki Room of Disneyland (Disc 1) and Walt Disney World (Disc 2), with ornate packaging and inserts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The 'zine did <b>not</b> feature attraction audio, opting for original content: in-depth history on the mid-century tiki craze, stories and recollections from those who'd worked and maintained The Enchanted Tiki Room on both coasts, an exclusive interview with Disney Legend X. Atencio, and... a thirteen-minute audio history of The Florida Orange Bird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">All this was constructed and offered by a gentleman named Jesse Guiher: an ambitious Oregon-based artist and designer. I contacted Jesse earlier this year, and got a bit of background on the history of his </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Magical Memories Magazine</i></span> project (two other issues followed before he ceased production, <i>MMM #2</i> focused on the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay, and <i>MMM #3</i> looked at the myriad attractions inspired by <i>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea</i>).</span><br />
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long, laborious process to do each issue, as I did everything from
interviews to editing to graphic design and art, it was a lot of fun but
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jesse also very generously gave me permission to post the long out-of-circulation Orange Bird History audio (note: <span style="font-size: small;">h</span>istory covers the years 1970</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">–2004) </span>here for everyone to enjoy. All participants on <i>MMM #1</i> used pseudonyms, with the exception of Jesse himself, who took on the role of host and interviewer throughout the 'zine. The author and narrator of The Orange Bird History audio is known as "Howard"<span class="st">—</span>hit the play button to listen right here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jesse is currently working on a new kids <i>noir</i> web comic, and you can see samples of his artwork over at <b><a href="http://tigertailart.com/" target="_blank">TigerTailArt</a></b><span class="st">—</span>make sure you tell him thanks for sharing!<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
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only other potential factor was a merchandise push of the character in
the early 2000s to Japanese consumers (be sure to read the <b><a href="http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/stt.htm" target="_blank">Widen Your World article</a></b> for details.)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joe Torcivia's <a href="http://tiahblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i><b>The Issue At Hand Blog</b></i></a> featured a fascinating post last week, on the many U.S. versions (11 total) published of a Mickey Mouse comic strip-turned-comic book tale, the well-researched details of which you can (and should) read here: </span><i><b><a href="http://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/comic-book-letter-of-comment-island-in.html" target="_blank">Comic Book Letter of Comment: “Island in the Sky"</a></b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I left Joe a comment or two, and mentioned I was working on my own post about the "Jekyll-and-Hyde" era in which the Walt Disney company decided to try out self-publishing their own comic books during the collector's boom of the early 1990s. That article will be featured here in the future</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">—</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">while I'm still doing a bit of research to put that together, I knew there was a particular aspect to the marketing of those books that required some explanation, <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">had one not been around to witness the transitions</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">. I felt it constituted it's own post, to clear up the confusion.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"Aye, mates: </span><span style="font-size: small;">bite off a cork, and </span><span style="font-size: small;">set<span style="font-size: small;">tle</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> down on th' bulkhead... 'tis<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>a grand, sweeping yarn of confusin' back and forth, ta hear told. From publisher, to new publisher, back again, to yet another new publisher. Ancient shipping routes be easier to foller, sez I."</span></i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He's speaking, of course, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span">f how </span><span class="Apple-style-span">in the world you can keep track of collecting the comic book <i>Donald Duck Advent</i><i>ures</i>.</span></span></span><br />
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In 1985 the (dormant) U.S. license to publish Walt Disney comic books was granted to <a href="http://www.brucehamilton.com/" target="_blank"><b>Another Rainbow Publishing</b></a>, to be published under the imprint of Gladstone** comics. After two Disneyland-themed prestige and digest specials, the monthly titles first appeared in July of the following year, consisting of the "core four" U.S. Disney comic books: <i>Mickey Mouse</i>, <i>Donald Duck</i>, <i>Uncle Scroog</i><i>e</i> and <i>Walt Disney's</i><i> Comics and Stories</i>. Each book resumed the issue numbering from the point the prior run ended in 1984 through Western Publishing's Gold Key/Whitman line. So <i>Mickey Mouse</i> #218 (July 1984) published by Whitman, resumed two years later with <i>Mickey Mouse</i> #219 (July 1986), under Gladstone.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was an outstanding presentation of comic books with both the casual fan and the collector in mind</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. The core four started out with <i>D</i><i>on</i><i>ald Duck</i> and <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> title rotating formats from month to month: if <i>D</i><i>onald Duck</i> had a full-length adventure tale, <i>Uncle Scroog</i><i>e</i> featured two or three shorter stories, the following month, <i>D</i><i>onald Duck</i> contained several shorter stories and <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> showcased a book-length adventure. This was the cycle for the first year of Gladstone comic books, and it worked well. By the summer of 1987, <i>DuckTales</i> was set to premiere on worldwide syndicated TV, with much marketing hoopla. Through Gladstone, a new comic book was planned to be released to tie into the show, which, though featuring several new characters, shared much connective tissue with the world of Walt Disney comic books.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since the <i>DuckTal</i><i>es</i> comic focused on the TV animated version of Uncle Scrooge <i>sans</i> Donald Duck, it was decided to give Donald a companion book as well. Not long before the first issues were supposed to hit the stands,
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Gladstone's <i>DuckTales</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>#1</i> Became <i>Unc<span style="font-size: small;">le Scrooge </span></i></span><i>A<span style="font-size: small;">dventures #1</span></i></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">All Gladstone titles would become bi-monthly, allowing each issue of the original <i>D</i><i>on</i><i>ald Duck</i> and <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> titles to contain multiple, shorter stories, giving the longer-form stories a permanent showcase in the two new titles: <i>Uncle S</i><i>croo</i><i>ge Adventures</i> and <i>D</i><i>onald D</i><i>uck Adventures</i>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b><span style="font-size: small;">The <span style="font-size: small;">Original <i>Donald Duck A<span style="font-size: small;">dventures #1</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">(1987)</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />It was around this time that Gladstone had expanded their format offerings, having done away with digest-sized books, and beginning a series of large, square-bound books: the Gladstone Comic Albums. Rotating themes and characters throughout the anthology series, issues #5, #10, #13, #16 and Giant Album #5 were titled <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Gladstone Comic Album Series<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> #10</span></span></span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Donald Duck A</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>dventures: Anc<span style="font-size: small;">ient Persia</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> (<span style="font-size: small;">1988)</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />The Gladstone comics were a solid hit, and The Walt Disney Company noticed this, along with all the growing attention the comic book collector's market had been receiving in the past few years.
Disney had established and begun grown their own publishing arm, and by late 1989 had informed Another Rainbow/Gladstone they would not renew their license to publish Walt Disney comic books: Disney had decided to publish the comic books themselves.</span></span><br />
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Gladstone's <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> ran from issue #1 to #20, and the final Gladstone comic books were released at the start of 1990. By Spring, the new, Disney-published books debuted under the imprint "Disney Comics," boldly launching eight monthly titles.
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With the exception of the long-running <i>Uncle Scrooge</i> and <i>Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</i>, all the Disney-published titles reset their issue numbering to #1, for consistency's sake and (more
likely) to capitalize on the collector's market. The <i>Mickey Mouse</i> and <i>Goofy</i> books officially added <i>"Adventures"</i> to their titles, justifying the issue #1 designation. <b>BUT</b> Gladstone had already been publishing a <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> comic in addition to the standard <i>Donald Duck</i> book! In spite of this, Disney Comics chose to start again at issue #1. Disney Comics did the same #1 numbering reset for the <i>DuckTales</i> comic book, which had reached issue #13 by the end of Gladstone's run.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <span style="font-size: small;">Reset </span><i>Donald Duck A<span style="font-size: small;">dventures #1</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">(1990)</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is where the confusion for collectors and completists really began!</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Halfway through the course of the Disney Comics years (1990-1993) their infamous "implosion" took place, and a new license was granted to Another Rainbow/Gladstone to publish an affordable, prestige format album collection of the entire comic book work of Carl Barks: <i>The Carl Barks Library in Color</i>. The title of the portion reprinting the work from the Donald Duck segment of the collection?
<i>The Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Adventures in Color</i>. This was the signal that soon heralded the liquidation of the self-published Disney Comics line, and a return of the standard comic book license to Gladstone in 1993.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Donald Duck A<span style="font-size: small;">dventures<span style="font-size: small;"> in Color </span></span></span></span></b></i></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">#17 </span></span></span></b></i>(<span style="font-size: small;">19<span style="font-size: small;">95</span>)</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Disney Comics issues of <i>Donald Duck A</i><i>dven</i><i>tures</i> ran to issue #38.
Gladstone quickly re-launched their core titles in the Summer of 1993. Armed with a re-worked logo and higher-quality white paper, Gladstone resumed their original numbering system of <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> title with issue #21 (rather than continuing the Disney Comics independent numbering system).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This series of books has been come to be known as "Gladstone II" in collector's circles. <i>The Carl Barks Library in Color</i> album series was completed in 1996, and the monthly Gladstone II comics ran until mid-1998, when the publishers decided not to renew their license due to a continually strained relationship with the licensing department at The Walt Disney Company.</span></span>
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The U.S. Walt Disney comic book license laid dormant once more until 2003, when it was negotiated and acquired by high-profile
Baltimore comic book distributor Steve Geppi. The "core four" monthly titles returned under the new imprint of Gemstone Publishing<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span> Gemstone's 2003 give-away title for the annual <a href="http://www.freecomicbookday.com/" target="_blank"><b>Free Comic Book Day</b></a> was... what else? <i>Donald Duck Adventures!</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Donald Duck A</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>dventures: Maharajah Donald</i></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The Gemstone line was supplemented by two smaller "take-along" digest-sized books, with a higher page count capable of containing longer stories from overseas creators. The tiles of these "take-along" books
: <i>Mickey Mouse Ad</i><i>ventures</i>, and<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">—</span></span>yup... <i>D</i><i>onald D</i><i>uck Adven</i><i>tures</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> During the course of the Gemstone years, several well-done seasonal
annuals and one-shots specials were produced, including an interesting notion passed down from the Gladstone days: an anthology series printing a Carl Barks tale, followed by the sequel to that story by Don Rosa. Thus began a series of prestige comics titled <i>The Barks/Rosa Collection</i>. <i>Volume 2</i> (and the scheduled, but never published) <i>Volume 5</i> of <i>The Barks/Rosa Collection </i>were sub-titled... all together, now: <i><b>Donald Duck Adventures</b></i></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">G<span style="font-size: small;">e<span style="font-size: small;">m</span></span>stone<span style="font-size: small;">'s<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Barks/Rosa Collection Vol. 2</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">: </span>Donald Duck A</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>dventures</i></span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The </i>
<i>Barks/Rosa Collection </i><i>Volume 5</i> and several other previously announced comics never made it to the printer's press: due </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to Geppi's myriad investments, his company faced serious financial problems. By the close of 2008, the Gemstone line of Walt Disney comics quietly disappeared.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span>Thus ends the saga of <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> as of late 2012. It becomes clear why collectors may have become misguided their search and/or distinction of which is which, especially since there are multiple issue #1s. But the capper is that there are <b>SIX DIFFERENT</b> instances of <i>Donald Duck Adventures #5</i>
—and we can unofficially count <b>SEVEN</b>, as the unpublished Barks/Rosa Collection Vol. 5 shows up frequently on Internet searches. Click to enlarge and observe:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Six (or Seven) Ways to Enjoy <i>Donald Duck Adventures #5</i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Man, it's enough to drive a comic collector/completist to stick his own head in a mylar bag and board it. Hopefully, they find their way here before that goes down.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.boom-studios.com/" target="_blank"><b>BOOM! Studios</b></a> was
the latest publisher to publish under the Walt Disney standard comic book license, but they have spared us a lengthy entry in this post, since they chose NOT to use <i>Donald Duck Adventures</i> as a title during their run, opting for <i>Don</i><i>ald Duc</i><i>k and </i><i>Fr</i><i>i</i><i>ends</i>, <i>Dona</i><i>ld D</i><i>uck Classics</i>, or just plain ol' <i>Donald Duck</i>. BOOM! has since moved forward with other licenses, leaving the future for U.S.Walt Disney comic books wide open.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />That day will come... and
once they've restored the "core four," I'll bet whomever the next Editor-in-Chief is, they'll peruse the list of options, and swiftly select <i>Donald Duck Ad</i><i>ven</i><i>t</i><i>ures</i> as an upcoming title in the newest line-up.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />* During the course of writing this, I've become fascinated by the potential of Cap'n L'Orange... he'll very likely show up here again.</span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Another Rainbow named their comics line Gladstone after </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Donald Duck's first cousin with insufferable good luck: Gladstone Gander.</span></span></span>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297847469736903606.post-54588467547342412012-11-13T12:52:00.003-05:002012-11-15T13:20:22.780-05:00New Illustration Series: Hanna-Barbera Vignettes<div class="photo-desc insitu-trigger" id="description_div">
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Here begins a new illustration series of square "vignette" illustrations based on the
early Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon characters (roughly 1957<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 100%;"><i>–</i></span>1964). First, a little history on the subject...</div>
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During the golden age of theatrical animation, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were teamed up at MGM's animation department, where they created the studio's biggest cartoon stars: Tom & Jerry. From 1940 to 1957, the animated cat & mouse team won over audiences worldwide, and reaped a remarkable <b>SEVEN</b> Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Subject.</div>
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<b>1945: Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera Work on <i>Tom & Jerry</i> Character Layouts</b></div>
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By the late 1950s (like most large studios at the time) the short film divisions were deemed less than profitable, leading to the closure of MGM's in-house animation department. This left a resourceful Bill and Joe with the opportunity to plow forth into the infant medium of television animation. Beginning with producing animated TV commercials under their new company name Hanna-Barbera, they sold a package of serialized shorts starring their first original-for-television stars <i>Ruff and Reddy</i>. Many of their creative colleagues from MGM joined the staff, bringing H-B's product a familiar, yet all-new style for a viewing public hungry for content.<br />
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<b>Hanna-Barbera's First Original TV Characters: <i>Ruff and Reddy</i></b></div>
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While re-runs of older theatrical short films proved successful for syndicated television "package" programming, the new crop of animated stars from Hanna-Barbera often broke the fourth wall commenting on the fact they were on television, used modern-day lingo, and referenced other TV shows giving the viewer a sense of ownership<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>.</i></span><br />
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<b>"Paul Newman's Own" Logo</b><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 100%;"><i>—</i></span><b>An Everyday Example of Vignette Artwork</b></div>
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So what's a vignette in terms of art and design? A
vignette is commonly used in design and philately (the study of
stamps/postal history) as an unusual or unique image framing method. You
can also see this method utilized many places besides stamps, such as
product packaging, advertising and even greeting cards.<br />
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Which brings us to this new series of illustrations, paying tribute to
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"Oh, mah dar-lin' Clementi-i-i-ne!" Good ol' Huckleberry
Hound was Hanna-Barbera's first official big TV star—when <i>The Huckleberry Hound Show</i>
premiered in 1958, it became an immediate hit with kids and adults
alike. Sponsored by Kellogg's, the fully-animated show featured opening
& closing title sequences, commercials, bumpers and cartoons
featuring new made-for-television characters: Huckleberry Hound, Pixie
& Dixie & Mr. Jinks, and Yogi Bear.<br />
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Huck's laid-back Carolina accent came courtesy of Hanna-Barbera
mainstay and voice-over legend Daws Butler. A common misconception is
Huckleberry Hound's personality and easy drawl was based on that of
Andy Griffith: actually, Daws had used the same voice for Bill and Joe at the MGM animation department for a non-threatening wolf
character in shorts like <i>Billy Boy</i> and <i>Three Little
Pups</i>. Butler based Huck's voice on a neighbor of his wife's
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Equine hero and part-time sheriff, Quick Draw McGraw roamed
the wild west righting wrongs. When posing as his heroic alter-ego "El Kabong" Quick Draw
donned a Zorro-like outfit, quickly delivering off-key justice by
whacking crooks over the head with a guitar, shouting (appropriately
enough) <b>"KABONG!"</b>—producing one of Hanna-Barbera's most
famous sound effects: a delicious, crunching whack accompanied by a
loud guitar twang.<br />
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Quick Draw's slow, gangly cowboy drawl was also provided by Daws Butler. Quick Draw McGraw is one of the few Hanna-Barbera characters that
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="st">Artwork by Dan Cunningham, ©</span>Hanna-Barbera </span></div>
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Diminutive burro Baba Looey was Quick Draw's loyal
sidekick, with a name derived from the popular signature song
"Babalu" by Desi Arnaz of <i>I Love Lucy</i> fame. Baba Looey's
hero worship forever helped get his life-long pal
"Queekstraw" out of jams when battling cattle-rustlers, bank
robbers or saving damsels in distress. He may be best-known, however,
as the impetus for the nickname of Howard Stern's long-suffering radio
producer Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate. Baba Looey's high-pitched Latino accent was also provided by Daws Butler.</div>
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There will be more to come in this series, and perhaps we'll dig further into H-B stories as we go along. If you're anything like me, and enjoy animation and Hanna-Barbera history, there's a blogger with two sites with some outstanding posts. So seeped in Hanna-Barbera knowledge are they, that BOTH blogs are named after H-B canines (of which there are many*)...</div>
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<b><a href="http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">YOWP</a></b> centers on the theme of what this series of illustrations: fascinating minutiae on the earliest Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons. Detailed notes on the music, creative talent, promotional materials, shows and individual shorts the likes of remain unmatched anywhere else.<br />
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<a href="http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>TRALFAZ</b></a> expands the introspection to many different animation studios, both TV and theatrical. If you are interested in the creative personalities and techniques involved in the production of animated productions, this blog is required reading. There's even a bit of cross-pollination with old time radio and Hollywood personalities—after all, many stars lent their voices to animation, or allowed themselves to be caricatured both visually <i>and</i> vocally.<br />
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Be sure to go check 'em out, and check back here in the coming weeks for more "smarter than the a-a-aver-age fun."**<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">* Joe Barbera was notorious for sticking dog characters into the cartoon casts, especially after he learned a particular TV executive was keen on any show featuring dogs. For the record, <i>Yowp</i> is the small white hound featured in 3 different H-B shorts, as a hunting/tracking dog, known for his low, repeating bark of "yowp-yowp-yowp"</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">—perhaps even more obscure, <i>Tralfaz</i> was the original name of the Jetsons family dog bestowed up<span style="font-size: x-small;">o</span>n him by his wealthy first owner in the 1962 episode <i>Millionaire<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Astro</span></i>. Both dogs were vo<span style="font-size: x-small;">iced b<span style="font-size: x-small;">y Don Messick, who <span style="font-size: x-small;">provided vo<span style="font-size: x-small;">cals for</span> nearly <span style="font-size: x-small;">every</span> Hanna<span style="font-size: x-small;">-Bar<span style="font-size: x-small;">bera dog, including their most famous pooch: <i>Scooby-Doo</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">** If you hang around me long enough, it's pretty likely I'll toss out a quick line as a character voiced by Daws Butler, then act like it never happened.</span></blockquote>
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