For its first quarter-century, Gottfredson\'s Mickey Mouse was a rip-roaring serial: the most popular cartoon-based comic of its time, a trendsetting adventure continuity aimed at both kids and grown-ups, and the foundation on which all later Disney comics grew -- including the adventures of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge by Gottfredson\'s Disney colleague Carl Barks.
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Walt Disney often said that his studio\'s success "all started with a Mouse" -- Walt himself wrote the Mickey Mouse strip before turning it over to the able hands of Gottfredson -- and today Mickey is among the world\'s most recognizable icons.
Critics, scholars, seasoned Disney archivists, and fellow cartoonists provide commentary and historical essays on the strip\'s creation and execution. "Death Valley" also includes more than 50 pages of fascinating supplementary features, including rare behind-the-scenes art and vintage publicity material from the first two years of the strip.
Gottfredson\'s vibrant visual storytelling has never been more beautifully reproduced; we promise the best reprinting the strip has ever seen, with each daily lovingly restored from Disney\'s original negatives and proof sheets.
Relive Mickey\'s race to a gold mine with Pegleg Pete hot on his heels
Mickey\'s life on the lam after being framed for bank robbery; even Mickey\'s ringside battle with a hulking heavyweight champ The premiere volume features a dozen different adventures starring Mickey, his gal Minnie and her uncle Mortimer, his pals Horace Horsecollar and Butch, the villainous Pegleg Pete, and the mysterious and shrouded Fox.
But the whole strip has never been comprehensively collected in English -- until now Fantagraphics Books is proud to bring this classic Disney creation to a 21st century audience in its entirety, starting from the strip\'s 1930 launch.
Glimpses of Floyd Gottfredson\'s masterpiece have been reprinted over the years, most famously in Bill Blackbeard\'s classic Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics.
For its first quarter-century, Gottfredson\'s Mickey Mouse was a rip-roaring serial: the most popular cartoon-based comic of its time, a trendsetting adventure continuity aimed at both kids and grown-ups, and the foundation on which all later Disney comics grew -- including the adventures of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge by Gottfredson\'s Disney colleague Carl Barks
