I don’t often post on eFour, however with this addition of this to my collection, I felt a bit like sharing it.
Last week I purchased the Danish variant of the Donald Duck comics, which includes two exclusive cards. Both Larvitar and Dratini from Delta Species, in a non-reverse edition, but still showing the Delta Species mark. They were released like that, exclusively across Denmark, Sweden and Finland around the end of 2005 to the start of 2006. The Danish one was released the second week of January 2006. I’m from Denmark and I’ve been in the hobby for ages. Not once in the past ten years, have I seen this pop up before.
I know there are a few of the cards graded, however I’ve never seen one in a sealed comic book.
Has it popped up before? Do we know of other collectors with this in their collection? I’m not looking to sell, it’d just be fun to know more about it and to get an idea of how many there might be out there.
Oh! This is a different Donald Duck volume than I thought the cards would come with. Or are the Donald Duck magazines different depending on whether it’s from Sweden, Denmark, or Finland? I see the one you have has the website andeby.dk mentioned, so it’s from Denmark. Then this one below is probably from Finland?
Very cool to see them still sealed, though! Congrats on the addition, and thanks for sharing.
Quuador that is the Swedish release I have had several magazines and loose cards pass through my hands during the years as a collector in Sweden
Sealed magazines are really hard to find though!
Well that’s strange, first time I hear anyone suggesting these cards would’ve been included in Finnish magazines as well. Bulbapedia has always said the origins are Swedish/Danish. Awesome addition to collection anyways! @quuador
The Finnish name for the magazine is “Aku Ankka”.
That’s right, Kalle Anka is Swedish, Aku Ankka is Finnish and Anders And is Danish. Perhaps it might have just been in Sweden and Denmark. I was told by another collector in Denmark, that it was included in Finland as well, but the Finnish Donald Duck comics, Aku Ankka are released by Sanoma, where as Kalle Anka and Anders And are released by Egmont. It would make sense that it was a deal exclusively for Egmont, meaning that it was not released in Finland. I don’t know though.
@quuador@alvix, I found this Finnish site that has a list of all of the comics, but I don’t see a mention of Pokemon in the December issue unless I’m missing something
I’ve said it before, but I swear that I’ve obtained one of these cards from a third party repackaged product ages ago.
It was in “blokker” (a dutch store chain). It was like one weird generic (non Pokémon) deck-box, 1-2 boosterpacks (early DP sets?) and the Dratini/Larvitar promo.
I’ve been looking for evidence of this for years but didn’t find any.
Here are some more detailed images of the magazine:
Front:
Reads: Number 2 from January 2006, 58. year of release. Price 19.95 DKK ($3.3). ‘Donald Duck’ in the title. ‘Pokemon collectible cards’.
Back:
Advertisement for a dried fruit snack.
Up close of the cards:
The cards inside of the magazine are in regular promo cellophane wrapper. The wrapper is stuck to the cover of the magazine, facing the cards front. Without damaging the cellophane on magazine and cards I carefully pushed Larvitar down, in order to show Dratini in the back.
Thanks for the additional and detailed pictures @martincollects and @alvix .
Btw Martin, do you by any chance also have a picture of the magazine that included the non-Holo 035 promo Pikachu, the only other Scandinavian exclusive card I know of? I’ve only seen the magazine with sealed card once in @funmonkey54 's collection thread, which he unfortunately removed later on (no idea why), and I’ve been trying to find a picture of it a few times in the past without much luck. Since you’ve got these scans of the Donald Duck magazine saved, I was wondering if you did the same with the Pokémon Official Magazine Summer Special 2007 that included the Pikachu?
I see. But that magazine isn’t posted on your Instagram, though. I only see the loose card in a post of yours from mid-2017. Do you still own that magazine with sealed Pikachu promo?
I can confirm that there haven’t been any pokemon cards in finnish donald duck magazines, i’m a fan of both and have all the magazines made 1990-2015 and no pokemon related stuff ever happened with those, unless the mailman was a fan of pokemon and took my cards before delivering the mag
I have had several magazines and loose cards pass through my hands during the years as a collector in Sweden 
I only see the loose card in