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From: slrichte@uok.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Harvey/Gold Key Comics
Message-ID: <11900122@uok.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 12:10:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 12:10:00 1986
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Nf-From: uok.UUCP!slrichte    Jan 22 11:10:00 1986


/* Written  4:51 pm  Jan 19, 1986 by jbtubman@watdragon.UUCP in uok.UUCP:net.comics */
>                              ...I don't see any Harvey comics
>(Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Sad Sack, etc.) or Gold Key
>comics (the Disney line) anywhere.

>                                       Jim Tubman

 I was unable to reach you by mail, so I'm posting this for your infor-
 mation as well as the chance that others may be interested in the titles
 mentioned.

 Harvey Comics ceased publication some time ago (at least 12 months).
 They have plans to return to the stands with Richie, Caspar, Wendy, etc.
 sometime soon.  They were running ads in CBG several months ago which
 indicated their titles were back in production.

 Gold Key has also been gone for at least a year.  The Disney titles will now
 be published by Gladstone, a division of Another Rainbow, who publishes
 the Carl Barks Library.  (Barks is the creator of Uncle Scrooge and the
 best of the Disney Duck writers and artists.)  The new titles will feature
 a mix of Barks material and stories which were produced in other
 countries.  (The Disney characters, particularly the Ducks, are very
 popular in Europe.)  The Gladsone titles (Donald, Mickey, Uncle Scrooge,
 etc.) are expected this summer.

 The Warner Brothers characters (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc.) are apparently
 in comic book limbo.  Why someone hasn't picked these characters up is unknown.

 The Charleton titles were suspended and recently revived, but have now
 been permanently banished from the racks.  Nobody's mourning them.


                                     --Steve Richter

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"I used to go to the drugstores or wherever there was a newsstand, and
if I had a little time on my hands, I would stand around pretending I 
was looking at 'Popular Mechanics' or something and watch the kids.  At
that time, kids would always come in where there was a big stack of
comic books and just sit down on one stack and pick up comics out of the
next stack and read them or look at them.  And I always hoped that I 
would see some kid buy a 'Walt Disney's Comics and Stories' or an 'Uncle
Scrooge'.  I never did."

				--Carl Barks, creator of Uncle Scrooge
                                and best of the Disney comic bood artists