Dedicated to my grandchildren, and especially to my wife for her patience and understanding.

Special thanks to:

• Very special thanks to Mr. Thom Roep, scriptwriter of the Douwe Dabbert series. In the contact with my son Remco, Thom both gave feedback on my website and also made some accessories available - and in particular gave his autograph twice. All very special!!!

• Special thanks also to my son Remco, who not only gives constant publicity to my website, also via Facebook, but also had very special contact with Mr. Thom Roep, as mentioned above.

• My business friend Mr. Richard van Delft for his availability, support and advice

• Mr. Andrzej Maranowski for his gesture of making available the Polish Douwe Dabbert (Daniel Dudek) edition

• Mrs. Kim de Jong-Visser for the three Swedish comic books as a much appreciated gift.

• My great thanks and appreciation also to Mr. Olivier Sterk for his interest and helpfulness in making my information on Douwe Dabbert as complete as possible.

• Samsul Bahrie, Indonesia: for making all Douwe Dabbert (Pak Janggut) digital albums available.

• Willem Naben, Comic Pen/Writing: out of gratitude for his continued availability and willingness to help me with information, and/or finding it out.

• Pascal Nicolay, National Library of Luxembourg: expressing gratitude for finding further information in the library and making scans available to me on The Verschlofene Klinnek (Douwe Dabbert) and on the children's magazine ZACK.

• Mrs. Grace Sari, Indonesia, for her continued willingness to help me complete the Indonesian Douwe Dabbert series Bobo Pak Janggut, and to answer my questions about this series each time.

• Also Mr. Fredy Effendy, Indonesia, for making available the Pak Janggut comic books, as translated by him, and as print, softcover and hardcover, made available by Zonadjadoel and SIRIUS. Also my thanks for his help in finding several Pak Janggut Sisipan Bobo inserts.

• Eventually, I also would like to thank Mat Wijn and George Pape for their growing relationship, and willingness to help with documents and information time and again.