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From: mike dumas <>
Subject: Re: Comics Update: The Yellowed Pages/Open De Box
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 07:48:47 -0500


Hi Johnny! -- No, there's no Tarzan, I'm sorry to say. I do think some stuff
got lost in the '60's, because I can clearly remember certain Disney comics I
know I'd have kept that are not in the box. But I did make a few odd
selections that were dear to my heart at the time and now seem nutty, among
them, believe it or not your old Zane Gray "Tappan's Burro"! That suggests
to me that I kept some Tarzans, because they were all part of the same bundle
back then, and I was a big Tarzan fan (remember the time, still in the early
'50's when I badgered you into letting me have one Saturday with that wooden
chest? I spent the entire day indoors (except for one trip to the store --I
remember the smell of incinerator smoke as I walked back down Berendo getting
the only sunlight I saw that day) reading every comic in the box). Could
there still be some comics in Nina's garage? I doubt it, but then I didn't
know about that San Francisco map either. --mike

John Dumas wrote:

> Mike,
> You didn't find any old Tarzan comics in that chest did you?
> - johnny
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdumas <>
> To: <>
> 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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