Paperinik - Villa Rosa

	Villa Rosa Page with soundtrack Tales from the Crypt by Danny Elfman

The mysterious hideout of Fantomius and Dolly Paprika, is shown in nine italian stories: PAPERINIK IL DIABOLICO VENDICATORE (*PHANTOM DUCK THE DEVILISH AVENGER) TOP. n° 706-707, PAPERINIK ALLA RISCOSSA* (*THE REVENGE OF PHANTOM DUCK) TOP. n° 743-744, PAPERINIK TORNA A COLPIRE* (*PHANTOM DUCK STRIKES BACK) TOP. n° 788-789, PAPERINIK E IL RITORNO A VILLA ROSA* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND THE RETURN TO VILLA ROSA) TOP. n° 2129-2130, PAPERINIK E LA MINACCIA AL RIFUGIO* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND THE THREAT TO THE HIDEOUT) TOP. n° 2404, PAPERINIK E L'ESTATE A VILLA LALLA* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND THE SUMMER AT VILLA LALLA) TOP. n° 2437, PAPERINIK E L'OMBRA DI FANTOMIUS* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND FANTOMIUS' SHADOW) TOP. n°2455, in a reconstruction for a movie on PAPERINIK E L'OLTRAGGIO CINEMATOGRAFICO* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND THE CINEMA OFFENCE) TOP. n°2484, in PAPERINIK E IL TESORO DI DOLLY PAPRIKA (PHANTOM DUCK AND THE TREASURE OF DOLLY PAPRIKA) TOP. n° 2675, in a futuristic and hipertechnological version in the saga of the ULTRAHEROES* TOP. n° 2727-2734 and in a Danish story titled *THE LEGACY* (story code DD 2003-017).


At the end of the first adventure Villa Rosa is accidentally destroyed by Gladstone thus in the subsequent stories it is drawn as a vague mass of creepy remains. While in the story *PAPERINIK E IL RITORNO A VILLA ROSA* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND THE RETURN TO VILLA ROSA), Giovan Battista Carpi shows it again, unfortunally with an appearance not similar to the original drawings of 1969, less destroyed and showing in much more detail the underground and Fantomius*'s top secret hideout headquarters.

Phantom Duck comes back again to the villa of his origins in the story PAPERINIK E LA MINACCIA AL RIFUGIO (PHANTOM DUCK AND THE THREAT TO THE HIDEOUT), where Giorgio Cavazzano shows us (unfortunally not well detailed) the villa's remains which in this case at least recalls the original design.

Villa Rosa is located in the country hills outside of Duckburg's city limits, to be precise in Roses' Hillock in the Rosary locality;. Villa Rosa, mainly made of wood, has the typical architectural design of the American "mansion" of the late 1800s and it is located in the middle of a big park delimitated by a brick wall.

Not very much is known about Villa Rosa's internal rooms except for the large living-room where the big green armchair with false bottom and spring punches incorporated in the arms and the mobile fire place with secret passage to the undergrounds are located. The two windows in the living-room face a small backyard surrounded by a high brick wall. This wall can only be overome by means of a secret hidden ladder. Once the wall has been overcomme it is possible to go directly into the underground by means of a hidden trap door in the ground near the wall.

About the underground, in the above mentioned story much more details are shown. It is divided into two main levels with access to the inside of the villa and three traps hidden in the park as well as an emergency exit which ends outside the park's brick wall. From the first level underground tunnel it is possible to get into the villa through the hidden passage behind the fire place and obviously into other rooms, the basement and the garage, not shown but logically present.

	In the first level underground there is a living room with another armchair which hides Fantomius' second diary, relevant to the underground's secrets and an excape corridor which goes out into the park by means of a hidden trap door. Likely from the first level it is possible to descend in the second level through different passages or stairs. In this second level there are Fantomius' headquarters with an ante-room hidden by a secret passage. Here is the villa and underground spy system and mobile walls trap machinery. Next to the headquarters, but not hidden by the secret passage, there is a big meeting room.

This second underground level has two excape ways, one hidden by a trap door in the park and the other outside the park walls on the north side near the provincial highway for Duckburg. It is logical to imagine that near this emergency exit Fantomius kept a light means of transport like for instance a motorcycle.

	In the secon level, near the north side excape way, there is an ante-room connected with the secret room where the Fantomius' treasure is hide. The entrance to this caveau is hide by a big portrait of Dolly Paparika. The secret opening is activated by means of a pendant belong to Dolly Paprika, this pendant has to be placed in the relevant location represented in the painting. More likely the caveau is also connected by a narrow tunnel with the near excape way of the same level.

Villa Rosa's underground and one of the relevant entrances (maybe one of those inside the villa) are shown again in some illustrations of the story PAPERINIK E LA MINACCIA AL RIFUGIO (PHANTOM DUCK AND THE THREAT TO THE HIDEOUT), even if in this case the great artist Cavazzano drew the underground much too empty and too similar to an anciet castle's basement.

The hideout entrance located inside the villa is also shown by Marco Gervasio in the beautiful story PAPERINIK E IL TESORO DI DOLLY PAPRIKA (PHANTOM DUCK AND THE TREASURE OF DOLLY PAPRIKA) . In this story other parts of the hideout and the villa are represented as well.

Donald comes back again to Villa Rosa in the story *PAPERINIK E L'ESTATE A VILLA LALLA* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND THE SUMMER AT VILLA LALLA) where unfortunately the artist Gervasio, drew Fantomius*' destroyed mansion too much like the remains of an ancient castle, thus not correctly reflecting the original drawings of an American villa, mainly made out of wood.
		This story shows the Villa's first level underground as well, in this case well represented and in compliance to what is shown by Carpi in the story *PAPERINIK E IL RITORNO A VILLA ROSA* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND THE RETURN TO VILLA ROSA*).
Marco Gervasio shows again the remains of Villa Rosa (unfortunately also in this case in a not much credible way) in some drawings of the interesting and historically important story *PAPERINIK E L'OMBRA DI FANTOMIUS* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND FANTOMIUS' SHADOW*).

In this story Fantomius' headquarters are shown again represented in an acceptable way (except for the absurd entrance which looks like a modern parking place!).
It's a shame that Gervasio, instead of devils and monster pictures didn't show together with of those relevant to Fantomius, at least one picture representing Dolly Paprika. This idea would have given much more class to the story.

In the story PAPERINIK E L'OLTRAGGIO CINEMATOGRAFICO (PHANTOM DUCK AND THE CINEMA OFFENCE), once again Villa Rosa is depicted, but this time it happens to be a reconstruction built by the ROCKERDUCK STUDIOS who are shooting a movie about Phantom Duck.
Thanks to Carlo Panaro and especially to the great artist Alessandro Pastrovicchio after many years the villa is finally shown correctly as initially drawn by Carpi in the first adventure about Phantom Duck. In this story there are some nice drawings of the main livingroom quite believable and in corrispondence which the images of the first story (of course, since it is a reconstruction for a movie, with some plausable differences).

The story, which unfortunately is somewhat banal and taken for granted, also shows one of the underground hideouts of the villa, presumably Fantomius' headquarters, where the actor Danny De Papero, who interprets the role of Phantom Duck, finds the famous secret diary. Also this room is shown in a credible way, which is by the way very similar to the underground hideout of Donald as it was shown in the beginning.

Villa Rosa in the time of Fantomius is well represented by Marco Gervasio in the story PAPERINIK E IL TESORO DI DOLLY PAPRIKA (PHANTOM DUCK AND THE TREASURE OF DOLLY PAPRIKA). In this image the villa is drawn in accordance with the original design made by Carpi in his first Phantom Duck story.

Marco Gervasion in his story shows some Villa Rosa's rooms as they were at the time of Fantomius. The main living room with mobile fire place and the big green armchair is well represented. Of course at that time the rooms were plenty of fornitures and objects.

Another very interesting living room of Villa Rosa is shown by Gervasio in his story PHANTOM DUCK AND THE TREASURE OF DOLLY PAPRIKA) This should be the room located in the Villa Rosa west side secondary entrance. The exact location of this room can be found in the page interni della villa.

Always in the story PHANTOM DUCK AND THE TREASURE OF DOLLY PAPRIKA the Villa Rosa remains are also represented, this time in accordance with the general villa design.

Unfortunately the original images of Villa Rosa both outside than inside is completelly twisted in the saga of the ULTRAHEROES. In these adventures the mysterious hideout of Fantomius has been modified by Ega Beeva in a hipertechnological futuristic and nauseating mission control for the ULTRAHEROES team. A super-heroic variant of Phantom Duck (PK style) is also part of this group. Of course such adventures are completelly out of the fundamental rules of the classical Phantom Duck adventures and even if some negligible reference about the first stories of Phantom Duck (Villa Rosa, Fantomius etc...) are mentioned, these adventures have nothing to do with his origins.
Fortunately at the end of this saga Villa Rosa returns to be a mass of creepy remains.

The large living room and the creepy remains of Villa Rosa are also shown in some drawings of the strange but interesting Danish story of Andreas Pihl and Mardon Smet THE LEGACY published in 2005 in several Northern European countries.
In this original adventure even the character of Fantomius is shown.

	As shown in the story *PAPERINIK E IL RITORNO A VILLA ROSA* (*PHANTOM DUCK AND THE RETURN TO VILLA ROSA), along a country road close to Villa Rosa and near a precipice there is an emergency hideout which Fantomius* created inside a big fake rock.
In the story *PAPERINIK CONTRO LE GIOVANI MARMOTTE* (*PHANTOM DUCK AGAINST THE JUNIOR WOODCHUKS) Donald* found for the first time one of the other of Fantomius' hideouts, the Ermine's House located on Dark Peak in the middle of Shadowy Mountains in a locality several miles east of Duckburg.

Fantomius's summer hideout, Villa Lalla, located in the Dune Bay in the locality of the Dark Forest, is shown for the first time in the story PAPERINIK E L'ESTATE A VILLA LALLA (PHANTOM DUCK AND THE SUMMER AT VILLA LALLA).
An adventure that starts out well but at the end becomes banal and grotesque.