The Guardians of The Lost Library (Improved version)
 US-Version (US) Page 13, panels 4-5 |
 European version (NOR) Page 13, panels 4-7 |
 US-Version (US) Page 15, panels 3-9 |
 European version (NOR) Page 15, panels 4-8 |
 US-Version (US) Page 27, panels 3-8 |
 European version (NOR) Page 27, panels 3-7 |
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"The Guardians of The Lost Library" was first published in Scandinavia. Before it was published in the US some time later some changes were done. Don Rosa explains that this way: Due to some sort of carelessness in my notes, I made a goof and had Marco Polo visiting the Library 50 years before he was born. So I needed to rewrite the story details into the form that I had originally intended. The changes involved deleting a few panels on one page, rearranging the next few pages, then adding a few panels on another page. I seem to recall that the scene in the Hagia Sophia (on page 13) is where the panels were deleted, and the scene in Venice (on page 15) is where they were added back. Another change was made at the publisher when they noticed that the hound was not in the gondola on its way out to the monastery in Venice, so they clipped a copy of the hound from another panel and stuck him into the gondola. Then I added a panel (on page 27) to show that the emblem of the Lost Library, the Egyptian god of writing/knowledge, the Ibis, was the inverted form of the "JWW" symbol for the "Junior Woodchucks of the World" (which actually looks like a "WJW"). I did not show that panel in the European version since it's only in the USA that they have that symbol using the American (English) abbreviation.
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