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Varislintu wrote:A bit older than that, I was a big Donald Duck fan
the witch duck, I don't know her English name
Prowler wrote:Disney comics stopped being sold here around the turn of the century.
vijayjohn wrote:Prowler wrote:Disney comics stopped being sold here around the turn of the century.
Yeah, for a while, we would get comics in the mail (because my dad made a subscription), but IIRC, not long before the turn of the century, they started raising prices, so my dad stopped subscribing, and we stopped getting them.
Prowler wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Prowler wrote:Disney comics stopped being sold here around the turn of the century.
Yeah, for a while, we would get comics in the mail (because my dad made a subscription), but IIRC, not long before the turn of the century, they started raising prices, so my dad stopped subscribing, and we stopped getting them.
I've never read Disney comics by American authors except the classics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa.
vijayjohn wrote:Prowler wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Prowler wrote:Disney comics stopped being sold here around the turn of the century.
Yeah, for a while, we would get comics in the mail (because my dad made a subscription), but IIRC, not long before the turn of the century, they started raising prices, so my dad stopped subscribing, and we stopped getting them.
I've never read Disney comics by American authors except the classics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa.
That's most of what we have, too.
Varislintu wrote:The Donald Duck monthly pocket book series featured mostly characters from the "Donald universe", but also from the "Mickey universe". The ages of the stories varied a lot -- but of course the older pocket books had older stories. (At my collector's peak I owned almost all of the first 250 pocket books -- bought second hand mostly.)
There was a side-series of thinner pocket books with Mickey's "darker" detective stories which I liked (but it was mostly too expensive for me to purchase). I liked Mickey because he was smart, calm and fair. I've heard it said that in Europe, Mickey is generally people's favourite Disney comic character, except in Finland, where everybody loves Donald, because Finns can identify with his working man's plight. I did like Donald somewhat, but especially liked his super-hero alter-ego (in Finnish Taikaviitta). Because when he was Taikaviitta, he suddenly had so much more agency and intelligence and he could land on top for once.
Prowler wrote:Is he really? Well, I definitely prefer Donald and Scrooge by far. I found Mickey boring and preachy. Not to mention I'm not a big fan of detective stories. Swedes have told me that Donald is huge in Sweden as well.
Prowler wrote:So, when did you stop reading comic books and comic strips and got into "real" books?
Lada wrote:Folk tales of different nations, fairy-tales written by Russian and foreign authors, that's what children read here.
vijayjohn wrote:Lada wrote:Folk tales of different nations, fairy-tales written by Russian and foreign authors, that's what children read here.
Probably the first thing written in Malayalam that I was ever exposed to was a Russian book of children's folktales translated into Malayalam.
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