Gyro's First Invention
Title: Gyro's First Invention Year: 2002 Publisher: Egmont Code: D 17804 Size: 17.0 cm  x  25.1 cm Rosa-stuff in the publication: D 2001-143 - Gyro's First Invention. Published: Nor: DD&Co 19/2002 Den: AA&Co 19/2002 Swe: KA&Co 19/2002 Comments: Cover for "Gyro's First Invention", showing Scrooge, Donald and HD&L watching Duckburg and two giant statues of Cornelius Coot and Gyro Gearloose with Little Helper standing in his hands. Note that the cover has been flipped in the Danish edition, apparently so that the UPC symbol at the bottom left of the cover, would block as little picture information as possible. Better to block off part of Donald's chin than almost all of Dewey and Louie (which the UPC symbol effectively did in Norway and Sweden). And here is an educated guess about what happened with the Norwegian cover. When first preparing the DD&Co 19 cover, Norway began to rework it in Photoshop: in an effort to take the Helper out of Gyro's hands, move him just a little to the left, and put him behind the magazine's logo, peeking up over the top. I guess someone thought that would look cool. Then they realized that they preferred the original version after all. So they went to work with Photoshop again, and pasted Helper back into his proper spot. However, a "phantom" second Helper was still left lingering behind the logo, just a little to the left, for a while, until they noticed the error and erased him. But before doing that, they had already made the facsimile for the back of DD&Co 18, so the error was preserved for posterity. The original Don Rosa cover shows only one Helper, in case anyone wonders.	Scan of the Norwegian edition, cover of DD&Co 19/2002. See the mirrored Danish version here. See the facsimile from Norwegian DD&co 18/2000 here.
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