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• English 2
  Middle ages19631964196519661968196919701971Renaissance19731974197519761978197919811982
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1995

Leenheer waste paper

Dutch export

The special thing about India is, that until recently (2003) it was the only country in the world that published Disney comics in the English language. The Americans had to do without, for several years (not counting the digest-size Disney Adventures), till Gemstone finally started. The British currently don't have a Disney comic either.

Funny detail in the translation below: the original Dutch words nagelvijl and hagelslag look a bit alike, but their literal translations (nail file/chocolate sprinkles) don't... (Thanks to Alexander Hajenius who noticed this)

Here are 2 more scans from the same comic. All 3 scans were made by Jan Follak.

Jan wrote the following about this (on August 2, 1999):

Some month ago there was a discussion on the [DCML] mailing-list on English Disney comics, prompted by the fact that Gladstone had stopped publishing in the USA. Someone brought up that India might be a place to look for them, but nobody could tell if English was the comic-language in India. So I asked a friend from India if she could get me a Disney comic-book to find out. Now I've got one and here's what it looks like: It has 44 pages and a larger size than the usual comic-book, like the cancelled "Mickey and friends" that was published in England several years ago. My issue is from 1996