History Trivia / MickeyMouseComicUniverse

** Floyd Norman started at Disney as an assistant animator on films like ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' before becoming a story artist on ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''. He left Disney afterward to start his own studio, which would produce the first appearance of [[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Fat Albert]], then serve an artist for studios like Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. He eventually returned to Disney and served as a story artist on films like ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''

** Floyd Norman started at Disney as an assistant animator on films like ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' before becoming a story artist on ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''. He left Disney afterward to start his own studio, which would produce the first appearance of [[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Fat Albert]], then serve an artist for studios like Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. He eventually returned to Disney and worked served as a story artist on films like ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''

** Before be placed onto the Mickey newspaper strip, Creator/FloydGottfredson was originally an assistant animator on the earliest WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies, his only work as a full-fledged animator being ''Cannibal Capers''. Besides Mickey, he worked on a few other Disney comic stories, including adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/LambertTheSheepishLion'' and ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.

* SeasonalRot: The period (1940/62-1985) in which Western Publishing was responsible for Disney comics in the USA wasn't without its virtues or talents (though as mentioned above, the names are a mystery), but there are relatively few memorable comics there. Many of Mickey's friends were shelved and those that remained -- Goofy, Minnie, Clarabelle, O'Hara, Ferdie and Monty, Pluto -- were reduced in personality. Goofy was more an extra set of arms and the occasional inadvertent cause of an adventure than an actual sidekick. Minnie and Clarabelle were predominantly around as love interests and written as unflattering gender stereotypes. O'Hara had the same issues as Goofy with the difference that he consciously called Mickey into adventure. And Ferdie and Monty showed up as smart kids to be at odds with Mickey, weakly mimicking Donald and his nephews. The only Gottfredson villains to have presence during this time were Pete, who lost a lot of spirit without defined co-villains, and the Phantom Blot, who was more silly than intimidating. New villains were largely forgettable due to the overwhelming use of dogface designs and little time spent on them as characters, the main exception being Emil Eagle, while Scuttle, Dum-Dum, Idgit, and Dan made a name solely from being used a lot. Any other recurring villains to come out of this era owe their continuity to non-American markets picking them up.

** Floyd Norman started at Disney as an assistant animator on films like ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' before becoming a story artist on ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''. He left Disney afterward to start his own studio, which would produce the first appearance of [[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Fat Albert]], then serve an artist for studios like Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. He eventually returned to Disney and worked served as a story artist on films like ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''

** If ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain'' would have gone through with starring Professor Ecks as the villain, he would've been the second Gottfredson villain to hit the screen after the Phantom Blot did in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' eight years prior. As it is, Nr. #2 still has to happen.

** Before be placed onto the Mickey newspaper strip, Creator/FloydGottfredson was originally an assistant animator on the earliest WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies, his only work as a full-fledged animator being ''Cannibal Capers''. Besides Mickey, he worked on a few other Disney comic stories, including adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/LambertTheSheepishLion'' and ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''.

** Floyd Norman started at Disney as an assistant animator on films like ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' before becoming a story artist on ''Disney/TheJungleBook''. He left Disney afterward to start his own studio, which would produce the first appearance of [[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Fat Albert]], then serve an artist for studios like Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. He eventually returned to Disney and worked served as a story artist on films like ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''

** Before be placed onto the Mickey newspaper strip, Creator/FloydGottfredson was originally an assistant animator on the earliest WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies, his only work as a full-fledged animator being ''Cannibal Capers''. Besides Mickey, he worked on a few other Disney comic stories, including adaptations of ''Disney/LambertTheSheepishLion'' and ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''.

** Floyd Norman started at Disney as an assistant animator on films like ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'' before becoming a story artist on ''Disney/TheJungleBook''. He left Disney afterward to start his own studio, which would produce the first appearance of [[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Fat Albert]], then serve an artist for studios like Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. He eventually returned to Disney and worked served as a story artist on films like ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''

** If ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain'' would have gone through with starring Professor Ecks as the villain, he would've been the second Gottfredson villain to hit the screen after the Phantom Blot did in ''DuckTales'' eight years prior. As it is, Nr. #2 still has to happen.

** None of Floyd Norman newspaper comics, which were published from 1990 to 1995 during the Disney Renaissance (and affected by the Disney Implosion), have ever been collected for republication in the USA.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There are many comics that have only been published once or twice, only in one country, and/or only decades ago. The options to get a hold on them are limited. Then there's a number of comics from the Gottfredson era that Disney does not allow to be reprinted anymore or only in modified form unless the reprint occurs as part of an (expensive) collectors album. These comics contain unfavorable depictions of non-white races (Africans, African-Americans, Romani, Native Americans, Middle Easterners, and East Asians) or deal heavily with World War II.

** There are a number of characters originating in the USA with significantly more presence in other countries. The stats of their non-American comics translated to English are such: 0 out of 9 stories featuring Mr. X, 0 out of 1 stories featuring Lucius Lamb, 19 out of 279 stories featuring Eega Beeva, 1 out of 4 stories featuring the Rhyming Man, 2 out of 11 stories featuring Doctor Vulter, and 0 out of 2 stories featuring the Medioka cast are available in the USA.

* SeasonalRot: The period (1940/62-1985) in which Western Publishing was responsible for Disney comics in the USA wasn't without its virtues or talents (though as mentioned above, the names are a mystery), but there are relatively few memorable comics there. Many of Mickey's friends were shelved and those that remained -- Goofy, Minnie, Clarabelle, O'Hara, Ferdie and Monty, Pluto -- were reduced in personality. Goofy was more an extra set of arms and the occasional inadvertent cause of an adventure than an actual sidekick. Minnie and Clarabelle were only around as love interests and written as unflattering gender stereotypes. O'Hara had the same issues as Goofy with the difference that he consciously called Mickey into adventure. And Ferdie and Monty showed up as smart kids to be at odds with Mickey, mimicking Donald and his nephews. If there was a villain involved, no matter where the story took place, odds are it was Pete. And it either was about a hidden treasure or the loot of a robbery. The Phantom Blot is the only other Gottfredson villain to have a presence during this time and he was more silly than intimidating. New villains were largely forgettable due to the overwhelming use of dogface designs and little time spent on them as characters, the main exception being Emil Eagle, while Scuttle, Dum-Dum, Idgit, and Dan made a name solely from being used a lot.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/CarlBarks, when working as a scriptwriter and storyboarder at the Disney studio, worked on a Mickey Mouse cartoon which was to feature Tanglefoot -- it would have had Mickey as a riding policeman chasing Pete on horseback through the wilderness, with Mickey as the hero and Tanglefoot as the comedy relief. However, the cartoon never went beyond the storyboarding stage, and Tanglefoot remains a comics-only character to this day.

* SeasonalRot: The period (1940/62-1985) in which Western Publishing was responsible for Disney comics in the USA wasn't without its virtues, but there are relatively few memorable comics there. Many of Mickey's friends were shelved and those that remained -- Goofy, Minnie, Clarabelle, O'Hara, Ferdie and Monty, Pluto -- were reduced in personality. Goofy was more an extra set of arms and the occasional inadvertent cause of an adventure than an actual sidekick. Minnie and Clarabelle were only around as love interests and written as unflattering gender stereotypes. O'Hara had the same issues as Goofy with the difference that he consciously called Mickey into adventure. And Ferdie and Monty showed up as smart kids to be at odds with Mickey, mimicking Donald and his nephews. If there was a villain involved, no matter where the story took place, odds are it was Pete. And it either was about a hidden treasure or the loot of a robbery. The Phantom Blot is the only other Gottfredson villain to have a presence during this time and he was more silly than intimidating. New villains were largely forgettable due to the overwhelming use of dogface designs and little time spent on them as characters, the main exception being Emil Eagle, while Scuttle, Dum-Dum, Idgit, and Dan made a name solely from being used a lot. For fairness's sake, the inability to distinguish the writers of the various comics as per the AnonymousAuthor entry means that the subtleties of this period are not visible. As an example, there was at least one writer usually paired up with artist Bill Wright (or possibly he doubled as the writer) that tried to keep to Gottfredson's kind of stories and characterization and did a good job at it.

* NoExportForYou: There are ''hundreds'' to ''thousands'' of comics created internationally that haven't been officially translated to English. To give some rudimentary insight by means of the cast, courtesy of Inducks:
** 7 out of 490 stories featuring Trudy Van Tubb, 4 out of 303 stories featuring Arizona Goof (0 of 9 of which star Martina Ubersetzen), 3 out of 80 stories featuring Portis, 3 out of 67 stories featuring Kranz, 3 out of 36 stories featuring Ellroy, 5 out of 21 stories featuring Atomo Bleep-Bleep, 0 out of 10 stories featuring Zenobia, 4 out of 10 stories featuring Muscles [=McGurk=], 0 out of 8 stories featuring Chirpy Bird, 0 out of 4 stories featuring Lois Lamb, 3 out of 6 stories featuring Sam Simian, 3 out of 5 stories featuring the Imp, 1 out of 4 stories featuring Weegie, and 2 out of 4 stories featuring Lotus Blossom are available in the USA.
** There are a number of characters originating in the USA with significantly more presence in other countries. The stats of their non-American comics translated to English are such 0 out of 9 stories featuring Mr. X, 0 out of 1 stories featuring Lucius Lamb, 19 out of 279 stories featuring Eega Beeva, 1 out of 4 stories featuring the Rhyming Man, 2 out of 11 stories featuring Doctor Vulter, and 0 out of 2 stories featuring the Medioka cast are available in the USA.

* NoExportForYou: There are ''hundreds'' to ''thousands'' of comics created internationally that haven't been officially translated to English. To give some rudimentary insight by means of the cast:
** 7 out of 490 stories featuring Trudy Van Tubb, 4 out of 303 stories featuring Arizona Goof, 3 out of 80 stories featuring Portis, 3 out of 67 stories featuring Kranz, 3 out of 36 stories featuring Ellroy, 5 out of 21 stories featuring Atomo Bleep-Bleep, 0 out of 10 stories featuring Zenobia, 4 out of 10 stories featuring Muscles [=McGurk=], 0 out of 8 stories featuring Chirpy Bird, 3 out of 6 stories featuring Sam Simian, 3 out of 5 stories featuring the Imp, and 2 out of 4 stories featuring Lotus Blossom are available in the USA.

* SeasonalRot: The period (1940/62-1985) in which Western Publishing was responsible for Disney comics in the USA wasn't without its virtues, but there are relatively few memorable comics from this period. Many of Mickey's friends were shelved and those that remained -- Goofy, Minnie, Clarabelle, O'Hara, Ferdie and Monty, Pluto -- were reduced in personality. Goofy was more an extra set of arms and the occasional inadvertent cause of an adventure than an actual sidekick. Minnie and Clarabelle were only around as love interests and written as unflattering gender stereotypes. O'Hara had the same issues as Goofy with the difference that he consciously called Mickey into adventure. And Ferdie and Monty showed up as unruly smart kids that could be threatened by villains or save the day by going unnoticed. If there was a villain involved, no matter where the story took place, odds are it was Pete. And it either was about a hidden treasure or the loot of a robbery. The Phantom Blot is the only other Gottfredson villain to have a presence during this time and he was more silly than intimidating. New villains were largely forgettable due to the overwhelming use of dogface designs and little time spent on them as characters, the main exception being Emil Eagle, while Scuttle, Dum-Dum, Idgit, and Dan made a name solely from being used a lot. For fairness's sake, the inability to distinguish the writers of the various comics as per the AnonymousAuthor entry means that the subtleties of this period are invisible. As an example, there was at least one writer usually paired up with artist Bill Wright that tried to keep to Gottfredson's kind of stories and characterization and did a decent job at it.

* SeasonalRot: The period (1940/62-1985) in which Western Publishing was responsible for Disney comics in the USA wasn't without its virtues, but there are few memorable comics from this period. Many of Mickey's friends were shelved and those that remained -- Goofy, Minnie, Clarabelle, O'Hara, Ferdie and Monty, Pluto -- were reduced in personality. Goofy was more an extra set of arms and the occasional inadvertent cause of an adventure than an actual sidekick. Minnie and Clarabelle were only around as love interests and written as unflattering gender stereotypes. O'Hara had the same issues as Goofy with the difference that he consciously called Mickey into adventure. And Ferdie and Monty showed up as unruly smart kids that could be threatened by villains or save the day by going unnoticed. If there was a villain involved, no matter where the story took place, odds are it was Pete. And it either was about a hidden treasure or the loot of a robbery. The Phantom Blot is the only other Gottfredson villain to have a presence during this time and he was more silly than intimidating. New villains were largely forgettable due to the overwhelming use of dogface designs and little time spent on them as characters, the main exception being Emil Eagle, while Scuttle, Dum-Dum, Idgit, and Dan made a name solely from being used a lot.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There are many comics that have only been published once or twice, only in one country, and/or only decades ago. The options to get a hold on them are limited. Then there's a number of comics from the Gottfredson era that Disney does not allow to be reprinted anymore or only in modified form unless the reprint occurs as part of an (expensive) collectors album. These comics contain unfavorable depictions of non-white races, specifically Africans, Romani, Native Americans, Middle Easterners, and East Asians, or deal heavily with World War II.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There are many comics that have only published once or twice, only in one country, and/or only decades ago. The options to get a hold on them are limited. Then there's a number of comics from the Gottfredson era that Disney does not allow to be reprinted anymore or only in modified form unless the reprint occurs as part of an (expensive) collectors album. These comics contain unfavorable depictions of non-white races, specifically Africans, Romani, Native Americans, Middle Easterners, and East Asians, or deal heavily with World War II.

** Only 7 out of 490 stories featuring Trudy Van Tubb are available in the USA.
** Only 4 out of 303 stories featuring Arizona Goof are available in the USA.
** Only 3 out of 80 stories featuring Portis are available in the USA.
** Only 3 out of 67 stories featuring Kranz are available in the USA.
** Only 5 out of 21 stories featuring Atomo Bleep-Bleep are available in the USA.
** Only 0 out of 10 stories featuring Zenobia are available in the USA.
** Only 4 out of 10 stories featuring Muscles McGurk are available in the USA.
** Only 0 out of 8 stories featuring Chirpy Bird are available in the USA.
** Only 3 out of 6 stories featuring Sam Simian are available in the USA.
** Only 3 out of 5 stories featuring the Imp are available in the USA.
** Only 2 out of 4 stories featuring Lotus Blossom are available in the USA.
** Of characters originating in the USA, 0/9 Mr. X 0/1 lucius lamb, 19/279 eega beeva 1/4 rm, 2/11 vulter, 0/2 Medioka cast, 7/92

** Of character originating in the USA,

* NoExportForYou: There are ''hundreds'' to ''thousands'' of comics created internationally that haven't been officially translated to English.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There are many comics that have only published once or twice, only in one country, and/or only decades ago. The options to get a hold on them are limited. Then there's a number of comics from the Gottfredson era that Disney does not allow to be reprinted anymore or only in modified form unless the reprint occurs as part of an (expensive) collectors album. These comics contain unfavorable depictions of non-white races, specifically Africans, Romani, and Middle Easterners, or deal heavily with World War II.

* NoExportForYou - There are ''hundreds'' to ''thousands'' of the comics created internationally that haven't been officially translated to English.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: CarlBarks, when working as a scriptwriter and storyboarder at the Disney studio, worked on a Mickey Mouse cartoon which was to feature Tanglefoot -- it would have had Mickey as a riding policeman chasing Pete on horseback through the wilderness, with Mickey as the hero and Tanglefoot as the comedy relief. However, the cartoon never went beyond the storyboarding stage, and Tanglefoot remains a comics-only character to this day.