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From: "John Dumas" <>
Subject: Re: Comics Update: The Yellowed Pages/Open De Box
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:18:00 -0700


Mike,
You didn't find any old Tarzan comics in that chest did you?
- johnny
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From: mdumas <>
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Date: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 10:41 PM
Subject: Comics Update: The Yellowed Pages/Open De Box

>I went and looked in Johnny's old wooden chest last night, to see just
>what really was in there, and was surprised to find about a six-inch
>stack of Donald Ducks and Scrooges shoehorned in there with a bunch of
>old "Pogo" books (a private vice of mine in the early 50's, later
>contracted and expanded on by brother Tone in the '60's). Looks like I
>probably saved all the old Barks-drawn stuff I had; just a small
>fraction of that whole stash that I kept above my wardrobe, which was
>real heavy on Bugs and Woody and Tom'n'Jerry and all the other 'cute'
>comics. (I can't believe I dumped "Little Lulu" after all she meant to
>me; I expect she'll be laying for me in hell with a hot pitchfork.)
>Anyway, there's maybe fifteen or twenty fairly shopworn Disneys, with
>dates ranging from '51 to '54 or so. Some classic old stories are in
>there, like the one about the town called "Omelet", trashed by the ducks
>in a huge egg-ranching disaster; and the one where Donald and Gladstone
>vie for Daisy's affections as members of the Idle Dandies Picnic
>Society, and Donald rains out the picnic with a cloud-seeding plane; and
>the one where Donald becomes a convert to Flipism and embarks with the
>boys on a car trip whose twists and turns are all based on flipping a
>coin (a favorite of Tone's and mine: "Heads the little coin doth say/We
>will travel thisaway"). But of course, there's a lot that's not there,
>too. One that I'd love to see again, I remember reading it with Al at
>his house when we were maybe eight or so, was the episode where, for
>some reason I can't remember, Donald is in "Echo Canyon" (only it
>doesn't really echo) generating all kinds of strange noises (like by
>bringing in odd animals) and the kids are hiding out across the canyon
>reproducing all his sounds so he'll believe there's an echo. Why they'd
>be doing this I can't recall, but I remember that they use multiple
>noisemakers to respond to each of his sounds, like running a washing
>machine filled with nuts and bolts while pulling a cat's tail, and stuff
>like that. Anyone recall the details on this? How about Ray? Another one
>I wish we still had is the jumping-frog story ("Froglegs?!! Whaddaya
>think we are, cannibals?") Anyone got any other faded recollections? I
>might turn this into a quest. --mike
>
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