THE DISNEY COMICS DATABASE

The Disney comics Database (DcD) is a large set of files containing
information about Disney comic stories. We aim to include every story
made anywhere, plus all publications of that story in the most
important countries.

A lot of people from the Disney comics Mailing List have helped in
gathering all the information. Besides that, the most important published
indexes about Disney comics are included in the database.

There are several ways you can get information out of this database.

1. Get listing files from the ftp site. There you find formatted files
   with information about a specific country's publications (for instance
   the USA, Sweden, France), and stories produced by a specific country
   (for instance Denmark, Holland, France).
   These files are usually very big, but they contain complete information.

2. Look at the Disney comics website, in the "creators" section. There
   you can find indexes for all creators. For instance an index
   of the work of Tony Strobl. You can choose to have all known publications
   (in all countries) of his stories as well.

3. Look at Harry's pages, where for some creators (Don Rosa and William
   Van Horn) a more extensive (and possibly more recent) index is
   given.

4. You can go to one of the Disney comics webpages, and lookup a story
   by its code. You then get a listing of all information about that
   story, including its writer, artist, number of pages, etc. as well
   as all known publications of that story.

5. Download the "internal" files from the Disney comics ftp site
   (subdir "internal", files ending with ".ins", ".ine" and ".dbl").
   Then download the Database browser from Bent Pedersen.
   You need a PC with Windows and some dozens of megabytes disk space
   to do this.

6. Download the "MS-Access" files from the Disney comics ftp site
   (subdir "access", all files ending with ".acc") and import them
   into MS-Access. The Access files contain a lot of information
   from the Database, but of some countries the reprint information
   is not included.

7. Ask Harry Fluks for specific listings. For instance, when you want
   an index of all stories by Carl Barks where Gladstone Gander appeared.
   Or all stories featuring both Fethry Duck and Hard Haid Moe.
   Or anything you can think of (as long as the listing is not too big
   to send in regular mail).

Addresses:
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The Disney comics website:
  http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/disney-comics/

The Disney comics ftp site (you can also follow the links from the website):
  ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/comics/disney/index/

Harry's Pages:
  http://www.pi.net/~fluks4/disney.htm (follow the links from there)

Bent Pedersen's browser:
  http://home4.inet.tele.dk/bp (follow the links from there)

Harry Fluks' e-mail:
  mailto:h.w.fluks@research.kpn.com
