Floyd Gottfredson,Al Taliaferro,Ub Iwerks,Giorgio Scudellari,Frank Behmak,Alberto Becattini,David Gerstein,Gary Groth,Warren Spector,Thomas Andrae,Floyd Norman,Win Smith
Today everyone knows Mickey Mouse as the cheerful ambassador of,all things Disney. But back in the 1930s, Mickey gained fame as a rough-and-tumble, two-fisted epic hero â€” an adventurous,scrapper matching wits with mobsters, kidnappers, spies, and even (gulp!) city slickers! And Mickeyâ€™s greatest,feats of derring-do took place in his daily comic strip, written and drawn by one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th,century â€” Floyd Gottfredson.,For its first quarter-century, Gottfredsonâ€™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 â€” including the adventures of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge by Gottfredsonâ€™s Disney,colleague Carl Barks.,Glimpses of Floyd Gottfredsonâ€™s masterpiece have been reprinted over the years, most famously in Bill Blackbeardâ€™s,classic ,Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics,. But the whole strip has never been comprehensively collected in,English â€” until now! Fantagraphics Books is proud to bring this classic Disney creation to a 21st century audience in,its entirety, starting from the stripâ€™s 1930 launch. Relive Mickeyâ€™s race to a gold mine with Pegleg Pete hot on his heels;,Mickeyâ€™s life on the lam after being framed for bank robbery; even Mickeyâ€™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.,Gottfredsonâ€™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 Disneyâ€™s original negatives and proof sheets. â€œDeath,Valleyâ€ 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. Critics, scholars, seasoned Disney archivists, and fellow,cartoonists provide commentary and historical essays on the stripâ€™s creation and execution.,Walt Disney often said that his studioâ€™s success â€œall started with a Mouseâ€ â€” Walt himself wrote the ,Mickey Mouse,strip before turning it over to the able hands of Gottfredson â€” and today Mickey is among the worldâ€™s most recognizable,icons. Now itâ€™s time to rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredsonâ€™s Mickey,Mouse.
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Mickey Mouse, Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley