Your wife RULES!!! Happy birthday!

Congratulations again. This was the page I would have attempted to obtain if I hadn't managed to purchase page 14. Goldie, Soapy, Dawson, great humor and drama...

I'm wondering if you (or anyone else) have had any thoughts about trying to peel those tapes on the sides off at a paper conservationist? There may be a way to peel them off without leaving any marks. This might also preserve the page longer from being damaged by the tapes. On the other hand, I don't mind the tapes too much since you can still see through them and they sort of fit the rugged aesthetic of the Klondike story. And they are still a part of the history of the page.

To anyone wondering where the tapes are from, here is Don Rosa's response regarding them (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222180880813761&set=pcb.1836749206676220):

Why would I tape over my own coloring and lettering instructions?

One of the IDIOTIC rules in those days in the Egmont assembly-line method of producing comics for kiddies is that the first thing that my art went through is the hands of a functionary whose assigned job was to white-out or tape-over ANY lettering that was on my art. This included ALL of my coloring, lettering and sound effect instructions so as to make sure that NO LIVING BEING would ever be aware of them. This person also whited out any "?", "!", "Z", etc., that I wrote into tiny bubbles that I decided to add as I drew, these bubbles NOT having been included in my previous scripts, bubbles which I never dreamt would be deleted from my original art for no purpose whatsoever other than to screw up the presentation. As a result, later on a letterer, confronted with a bubble NOT in the script, would, for example, add a "!" where there was supposed to be a "Z" over an obviously sleeping form.

These changes were NEVER done on copies, but senselessly done directly onto my original art, which was MY property, no one else's. This is how they operated in those days, as if the art was community property that anyone had the right to change. When my art was returned to me, damaged, I needed to scrape off the white-out and add the correct contents back to those small bubbles, or draw $crooge's eyes BACK into his eyeglasses. Y'see, those same functionaries were ordered to delete all such eyes because $crooge's eyeglasses were "officially" supposed to be OPAQUE (???!!!) So, sometimes my $crooge heads looked as if he was blind, having no eyes. (See original 1990 publications of "Treasure Under Glass".)

Is there ever any doubt in anyone's mind as to WHY I quit 15 years ago? I just couldn't take it any longer. I preferred to be unemployed, mowing grass and growing chiles.