UNCENSORED MICKEY MOUSE #2 COMIC BOOK FLOYD GOTTFREDSON WALT DISNEY STRIPS 30's!

UNCENSORED MOUSE #2 Comic Book.

Featuring the banned, never before reprinted, politically incorrect earliest comic strip adventures of Mickey Mouse from the 1930's!
"A Classic Collection of Uncensored Floyd Gottfredson Comi Strips from the 1930's."

Illustrated by Floyd Gottfredson, edited by Chris Ulm. Eternity Comics, April 1989. First Edition. This is a comic book reprint of unexpurgated Mickey Mouse strips from Disney Studios originally produced in the 1930s. It is accompanied by a concise history of these early Mouse strips by noted historian Bill Blackbeard. Now disregarded by Disney Studios, as not in keeping with the current image of Mickey Mouse, this may be your only chance to see these stories in print. 40 pages. 1st print,

Floyd Gottfredson's classic strips had been sporadically reprinted in the past, but in almost every instance, they had been heavily censored. Eternity Comics was taking this opportunity to present the strips as they originally appeared.

Eternity titled the book The Uncensored Mouse, and had the covers all black. They only mentioned the fact that they were collecting classic Floyd Gottfredson comic strips. Finally, they were sealed in a bag so that a casual reader would be unable to pick up the book and confuse it for a Disney product.

This publication offered reprints of the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip, starting with the first one (Jan. 13, 1930). Since the strips themselves had not been registered with the Copyright Office and Eternity provided the notation, “Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Walt Disney Productions,” Eternity hoped there’d be no legal difficulties in the project. Moreover, the strips were accompanied by a wealth of Mickey Mouse historical material provided by Bill Blackbeard, who also provided an article. The April 20, 1989, Entertainment Tonight TV show featured the controversy, the title was quickly pulled.

Published by Eternity Comics in 1989.

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The series reprinted Mickey Mouse comics from the 1930s, though the strips were published without Disney's permission. As result of this, Eternity Comics printed the comic with totally black covers, bag and boarded (to prevent casual buyers from flipping through the comic), and the inside of the comic had a printed notice "Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Walt Disney Productions" so as not to confuse the market that it was an authorized Disney production. However, Eternity Comics had not violated any copyrights due to the fact that strips had fallen into public domain. Regardless, Disney brought a lawsuit against the company and the series was cancelled after two issues.

The strips were reprinted un-cut and as such contained racial stereotypes, language, and other things deemed inappropriate. Content such as this was more commonplace when the strip was first puplished in the 1930s.

Once upon a time (actually early 1989), the Mailbu Graphics group (Scott Rosenberg, Dave Olbrich, Tom Mason, Chris Ulm) was publishing the Eternity Comics line of independent black and white comic books.

Eternity Comics were able to reprint many of these classic comic strips thanks to the collections of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art. The San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection was the life work of author and collector Bill Blackbeard.

Many of the classic comic strip collections published in the last thirty years are thanks to Bill Blackbeard's accumulation efforts which resulted in a source for some of the only existing copies of American comic strips. Supposedly, Blackbeard's research revealed that the copyright on the early MICKEY MOUSE comic strip had not been maintained and of course, Malibu Graphics thought this was a wonderful opportunity.

So Malibu Graphics through its Eternity Comics line would reprint the earliest MICKEY MOUSE comic strips under the title THE UNCENSORED MOUSE.

Each issue would have a totally black cover and no where on the cover or the backcover would there be a mention of "Mickey Mouse." There would be references to "a classic collection of Uncensored Floyd Gottfredson Comic Strips From the 1930s." Inside the comic book, there would be the notice that "Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Walt Disney Productions" to demonstrate that they were not trying to challenge that fact. In addition, each issue would be bagged and sealed so that a casual buyer couldn't flip through the comic book and mistake it for a Disney comic book. Basically, Malibu tried to do everything to indicate that while it may have had the right to publish the early comic strip, it was not intending to confuse the marketplace that this was an authorized Disney production.

Bill Blackbeard wrote a wonderful introduction for the first issue entitled "How Walt Disney Gave A Mickey to America-and Floyd Gottfredson Gave Us A Classic Mouse." That first issue was also supplemented with some great extras like reproductions of an OAKLAND POST-ENQUIRER (the nation's only newspaper to carry the strip from its start) page featuring the comic strip, the first Mickey Mouse Sunday page, a publicity drawing by Gottfredson for a 1936 issue of the HONOLULU ADVERTISER and more.



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UNCENSORED MICKY MOUSE #1 COMIC BOOK WALT DISNEY 1930's

UNCENSORED MOUSE #1 Comic Book.

Featuring the banned, never before reprinted, politically incorrect earliest comic strip adventures of Mickey Mouse from the 1930's! FACTORY SEALED IN PLASTIC!
"A Classic Collection of Uncensored Floyd Gottfredson Comi Strips from the 1930's."

Illustrated by Floyd Gottfredson, edited by Chris Ulm. Eternity Comics, April 1989. First Edition. This is a comic book reprint of unexpurgated Mickey Mouse strips from Disney Studios originally produced in the 1930s. It is accompanied by a concise history of these early Mouse strips by noted historian Bill Blackbeard. Now disregarded by Disney Studios, as not in keeping with the current image of Mickey Mouse, this may be your only chance to see these stories in print. 40 pages. 1st print,

Floyd Gottfredson's classic strips had been sporadically reprinted in the past, but in almost every instance, they had been heavily censored. Eternity Comics was taking this opportunity to present the strips as they originally appeared.

Eternity titled the book The Uncensored Mouse, and had the covers all black. They only mentioned the fact that they were collecting classic Floyd Gottfredson comic strips. Finally, they were sealed in a bag so that a casual reader would be unable to pick up the book and confuse it for a Disney product.

This publication offered reprints of the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip, starting with the first one (Jan. 13, 1930). Since the strips themselves had not been registered with the Copyright Office and Eternity provided the notation, “Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark of Walt Disney Productions,” Eternity hoped there’d be no legal difficulties in the project. Moreover, the strips were accompanied by a wealth of Mickey Mouse historical material provided by Bill Blackbeard, who also provided an article. The April 20, 1989, Entertainment Tonight TV show featured the controversy, the title was quickly pulled.

Published by Eternity Comics in 1989.

COLLECTOR'S ITEM!

RARE and OUT OF PRINT! Impossible to find!