Norway - land of Possibilities
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Norway - land of Possibilities |
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| Year: | 1992 |
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| Publisher: | Egmont |
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| Code: | XNC AF19921024 |
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| Size: | 23.0 cm x 30.0 cm |
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A 4-page interview with Don Rosa, done in connection to the publishing of the first 2 parts of Lo$ in Norwegian Donald Duck & Co the same week. |
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Nor: Aftenpostens A-Magasin 43/1992. Den: Not published Swe: Not published |
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Cover showing the young Uncle Scrooge daydreaming about the future. In the dream he sees the city hall of Oslo (the capital of Norway) with his money logo in the two towers. The old Scrooge is standing in front of the building with three sacks of money behind him, and with a display case containing The Number One Dime on its cushion, in his hand. The young scrooge has an issue of "Aftenposten" in his hand, the header of that paper says: "Norway - land of possibilities". The text on the top of the cover says: "Scrooges land of luck? It stopped with the dream, but Scrooge McDuck still found the luck in Norway: in no other country the immortal comic characters have reached a similar success. The Disney-creator Don Rosa is the man behind the new stories about "The life of Scrooge" - and our specially requested cover." Once Don Rosa gave the following comment about this cover: "I drew this cover for the large interior article about Scrooge and me and that "Life of $crooge" series -- they told me that it was like doing the cover of TIME in America, AFTENPOSTEN is that big in Norway. Anyway, what the cover is showing is sort of an "imaginary scene" of the young $crooge seeing a copy of that newspaper and dreaming of moving to Norway... part of the thrust of the article is how popular the Ducks are in Norway/Scandinavia, and that the characters seem to "belong" to that part of the world now, more than any other. What the old $crooge is looking at is the Oslo City Hall, a VERY recognizable structure to a Norwegian, done up like a "dual" Money Bin. It's a gag that would be lost on anyone outside of Norway." |
Scan of the cover of Aftenpostens A-Magasin 43/1992.
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