Archive for June, 2006

For the first time since 2000, world famous Duck artist Don Rosa will visit Germany in September and October 2006 for the Frankfurt Book Messe and a signing tour in several German cities. The exact dates are not yet fixed, but DuckMania already has a list of possible dates and places.

A spectacular collection of over 11,000 Golden Age comic books from a wide variety of genres has been discovered in the garage of a 19th century house just outside New York City. The original-owner comics collection has the greatest range and depth of any such collection to have been discovered during the past three decades. Now the entire collection is headed to the auction block, to be offered to the comic collecting public with no reserves. More »

July 2006 has a lot in store from Gemstone Publishing in the United States, with this month two special trade paperbacks: the second volume of Carl Barks’ Greatest DuckTales Stories and Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Comics — 75 Years of Innovation. More »

Uncle Scrooge is proud to be the world’s richest duck, but the title comes with certain… disadvantages. Like sorceress Magica De Spell, who needs that richest man’s first coin for a magic amulet. Or Flintheart Glomgold, the rival tycoon who’s after his title. And then there’s Arpin Lusene, returning this week in the United States in The Black Knight Glorps Again! in Gemstone’s Uncle Scrooge #354. More »