A 70's newspaper article about Italian Disney comic production

A couple of years ago when doing some searching in Google's Newspaper archive I found an interesting article in The Tuscaloosa News. It was printed in this newspaper April 11, 1971, but it looks like the article was originally written for The Los Angeles Times. I found it interesting enough to save a copy so I thought I could share it here too.

 

From The Tuscaloosa News - April 11, 1971 (layout slightly edited for this blog)

If the image is scaled to your screen when clicking on it, try this link to view it in full size for reading.

Reading it now 47 years later it doesn't have too much new or unknown information if you are a Disney comic fan. But being from an American newspaper in early 70's, and about Italian Disney comics, it's still a fun read. Especially interesting is the fact that Romano Scarpa is mentioned in the article. Back then it was not common knowledge who created the stories seen on print.

Zio Paperone e il drakkar volante, the Scarpa story mentioned in the article still hasn't been printed in English.

Another interesting fact is that in the early 70's the Italian Disney comic production didn't require approval from the American office any more, but they still sent over copies of all stories. I wonder what archive they ended up in, and if they still are a useful resource if publishers wants to reprint old Italian stories.

What's green and fuzzy and has eight legs?

I was searching through the inducks database the other day trying to find an April fool story to talk about. There are some good ones I had almost forgotten about, so the result was me reading a bunch of stories instead.

Carl Barks did a few
 

Carl Barks 10-pager from WDC #127

Carl Barks 10-pager from WDC #211

And there's a fun wolf story in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #152 that is ready for a re-print.
 

A Li'l Bad Wolf story from WDC #152

There's a lot of Egmont stories and Dutch stories too, not available in English, and one that is only printed in English in the UK.

   

But I didn't really find any I had much to say about. So I'll try something else instead.

Under a two-page April fool story with Mickey and his nephews, and I thought I could do a little quiz out if it.
 

April "Fool"ishness (click to enlarge)

The first one to tell where this story was printed is officially a real Disney comic nerd 😊 

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Update May 27, 2018:

Alright, now it's been almost two months so I guess I have to reveal the answer. The two-page April fools story can be found in the Spring 1989 issue of Mickey Mouse Magazine.
 

Mickey Mouse Magazine, Spring 1989

This magazine was not a comic book series, but some of the issues had a page or two with comics. I don't have a whole lot of issues from this series, but I think I remember seeing some Disney Babies comic pages in it too.