One year after Walt Disney Company Italy ran a 10-part series in its weekly Topolino magazine, titled Wizards of Mickey, the series is being published in the Nordic countries by Egmont. Wizards of Mickey, which was created by Claretta Muci and Stefano Ambrosio, is renamed by Egmont in Norway to “Donald Duck - Magiens mestere”, kicking Mickey out of the spotlight. Apparently, Donald Duck is far more popular in the Nordic countries than Mickey is. The first chapter comes out this week and features a redrawn cover putting Donald in front of Mickey:

The official Norwegian website for Donald Duck & Co features two free backgrounds and posters from Wizards of Mickey Donald at www.donald.no.

Wizards of Mickey was reprinted earlier this year in Brazil, where the original cover was used for the first issue. This issue of Aventuras Disney from June 2007 reprinted the first three chapters of the Wizards of Mickey series:

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