He started drawing the Mickey Mouse comic strip on May 5, 1930. In addition, there was a sleeping bag, beach towels, colorforms, puzzles, coloring books, storybooks, rubber stamps, Viewmaster reels, puffy stickers, Tiger Electronics handheld LCD, limited edition Lionel train Hi-cube box cars, school back pack, lunch box, toys, bendable figures, key chain, water bottle, buttons, posters, clothing (like a varsity jacket) and much more.īorn May 5, 1905, cartoonist Floyd Gottfredson was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2003 for his contributions for over four-and-a-half decades to the Mickey Mouse comic strip. He does the famous Mickey Mouse giggle and says "Gosh, this is swell!" Apparently, there was also a talking Minnie Mouse but I never saw that one although I have since seen it advertised for sale on eBay. So he contacted the syndicate and they left it in."Ī flood of merchandise (most difficult to obtain today and sometimes even generally unknown to many collectors at the time) was unleashed in support of "The Perils of Mickey" marketing campaign in hopes of revitalizing Mickey Mouse as a vibrant heroic figure on his 65 th birthday.įor instance, I have in my collection a 5-inch tall talking PVC Mickey Mouse Mail Pilot figure that many of my friends never saw offered for sale. He thought it was a good adventure and was confident that we had a way of making the resolution of the peril humorous. I took the photostats to Walt and he just laughed. King Features sent us a frantic telegram that they were going to cut out the entire sequence because the alligators would upset women and children reading the newspaper. In a 1979 interview, cartoonist Gottfredson told me about the comic strip sequence that originally ran in late 1932/early 1933 that inspired that striking image, "There was one sequence where Mickey grabs a pole and vaults over this alligator pit but as he is leaping, the pole breaks.
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The main iconic image for the series was Mickey Mouse swinging on a rope over a pit of hungry green alligators with their mouths wide open that certainly referenced a sense of impending peril. Its formula inspired other similar films, television commercials, animated cartoons and much more.
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The phrase, of course, was meant to reference "The Perils of Pauline", the iconic cliffhanging silent movie serial where the heroine is constantly menaced by a variety of villains and dangers but escaping at the last minute. Perspex & Double Mount Framed Poster with Linen Backing: £840.00Īnti UV Perspex & Single Mount Framed Poster with Linen Backing: £995.00Īnti UV Perspex & Double Mount Framed Poster with Linen Backing: £1,025.00.In 1993-1994 the Walt Disney Company launched an extensive branding campaign called "The Perils of Mickey" inspired by vintage Floyd Gottfredson comic strip art and stories from the 1930s. Perspex & Single Mount Framed Poster with Linen Backing: £810.00 Glass & Double Mount Framed Poster with Linen Backing: £700.00Īnti UV Glass & Single Mount Framed Poster with Linen Backing: £775.00Īnti UV Glass & Double Mount Framed Poster with Linen Backing: £800.00
Glass & Single Mount Framed Poster with Linen Backing: £675.00 Perspex & Double Mount Framed Poster: £665.00Īnti UV Perspex & Single Mount Framed Poster: £820.00Īnti UV Perspex & Double Mount Framed Poster: £850.00 Perspex & Single Mount Framed Poster: £635.00 Glass & Double Mount Framed Poster: £525.00Īnti UV Glass & Single Mount Framed Poster: £600.00Īnti UV Glass & Double Mount Framed Poster: £625.00 Glass & Single Mount Framed Poster: £500.00 Unframed Poster with Linen Backing: £425.00 He battles rain and snow, but his biggest battle is against Pete, who has a plane equipped with a machine gun and a harpoon cannon. Mickey the mail pilot is entrusted with a chest of money.
Mickey Mouse - The Mail Pilot, Unframed Poster, 1974
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