"was originally going to be named Mortimer. Lillian Disney, Walt's wife, suggested the name Mickey instead. The first Mortimer was created by Walt Disney and Floyd Gottfredson for the comics. He was Minnie Mouse's ranch-owning cattleman uncle. He first appeared in the serial ""Mickey Mouse in Death Valley"" (1930). After that, he appeared or was referenced in many other Mickey Mouse comic strip adventures in the 1930s. He has occasionally appeared in more modern comics. In the 1936 cartoon short ""Mickey's Rival"", the second Mortimer was introduced as Mickey's competitor for Minnie's affections. In the comics, this Mortimer was briefly"
"Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable characters. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short ""Plane Crazy"", debuting publicly in the short film ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. He went on to appear in over"
"Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 (""Plane Crazy"") to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and character animation, and also introduced well-known characters such as Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy. The name ""Mickey Mouse"" was first used in the films' title sequences to refer specifically to the character, but"
"remain with him. To replace Oswald, Disney and Iwerks developed Mickey Mouse, possibly inspired by a pet mouse that Disney had adopted while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio, although the origins of the character are unclear. Disney's original choice of name was Mortimer Mouse, but Lillian thought it too pompous, and suggested Mickey instead. Iwerks revised Disney's provisional sketches to make the character easier to animate, and Disney provided Mickey's voice until 1947. In the words of one Disney employee, ""Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."" Mickey Mouse first appeared in May 1928 as a"
"Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. She and Mickey Mouse were first drawn by Ub Iwerks in 1928. The comic strip story ""The Gleam"" (published January 19–May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse, although this is seldom used. The comic strip story ""Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers"" (published September 22–December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and"
"Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. She and Mickey Mouse were first drawn by Ub Iwerks in 1928. The comic strip story ""The Gleam"" (published January 19–May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse, although this is seldom used. The comic strip story ""Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers"" (published September 22–December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and"
"Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (also The Floyd Gottfredson Library) is a series of books collecting the span of work by Floyd Gottfredson on the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip. The strips are reproduced from Disney proof sheets and artwork from private collections. The strip debuted on January 13, 1930, and was initially written by Walt Disney and drawn first by Ub Iwerks, then by Win Smith. Gottfredson took over the strip when Disney and Smith found themselves too busy, and he continued with it until 1975. These volumes start with Gottfredson's work from April 1, 1930,"
"Mickey Mouse universe The Mickey Mouse universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting for stories involving Disney cartoon characters Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, Donald Duck and many other characters. The universe originated from the ""Mickey Mouse"" animated short films produced by Disney starting in 1928, but its first consistent version was created by Floyd Gottfredson in the ""Mickey Mouse"" newspaper comic strip. Real-world versions also exist in Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, called Mickey's Toontown. Since 1990, the actual city in which Mickey lives is typically called Mouseton, and is often depicted as the city next"
"in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winkler's husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disney's primary animators (the exception being Ub Iwerks) to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a mouse character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California, drawing up a few simple drawings. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse (Disney's wife, Lillian, disliked the sound of 'Mortimer Mouse')"
"New Mickey Mouse Club, then from 1989–1996 as The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (also known to fans as MMC from 1993–1996) airing exclusively on cable television's The Disney Channel, and again in 2017 with the moniker Club Mickey Mouse airing exclusively on internet social media. Mickey Mouse himself appeared in every show not only in vintage cartoons originally made for theatrical release but in opening, interstitial, and closing segments made especially for the show. In both the vintage cartoons and new animated segments, Mickey was voiced by his creator Walt Disney. (Disney had previously voiced the character theatrically from 1928"
"Studio on the story adaptation for 1937's feature film ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". Merrill De Maris Merrill De Maris (February 26, 1898, New Jersey – December 31, 1948, Escondido, California) was an American writer who worked on Disney Comic Strips for King Features Syndicate. De Maris helped Floyd Gottfredson with many of his early Mickey Mouse comic strips; they co-created famous characters like Phantom Blot, Chief O'Hara and Detective Casey. In 1942 they gave Minnie Mouse a full name as Minerva Mouse, for the four-month comic strip story ""The Gleam"". He also helped Carl Barks with one of"
"until 1932, when the comic story ""The Great Orphanage Robbery"" identified it as Silo Center. Some Floyd Gottfredson stories simply called the city Hometown while other Gottfredson stories used the name Mouseville. But the first consistent name for Mickey's city came in 1950s Italy, where it was called Topolinia (from ""Topolino"" or 'little mouse,' Mickey's Italian name). In 1990, Disney Comics launched the new American comic ""Mickey Mouse Adventures"" and initially planned to use the name Mouseville there. But due to then-current Mighty Mouse cartoons' use of a city called Mouseville, the new name Mouseton was created for Mickey's town"
"working at the Walt Disney Studio at the time. Sewell was one of the few employees who stayed after the loss of Oswald. After losing Oswald, Disney created the idea for a cartoon character known as Mickey Mouse. The first Mickey Mouse cartoon was created by a small group of Disney employees. Sewell, Bounds, and Edna Disney were responsible for inking and painting the cels used for the first Mickey Mouse cartoon ever created. The cartoon was titled ""Plane Crazy"" and it was released in 1928. While ""Plane Crazy"" struggled to achieve success, the creation of Mickey Mouse led to"
"Merrill De Maris Merrill De Maris (February 26, 1898, New Jersey – December 31, 1948, Escondido, California) was an American writer who worked on Disney Comic Strips for King Features Syndicate. De Maris helped Floyd Gottfredson with many of his early Mickey Mouse comic strips; they co-created famous characters like Phantom Blot, Chief O'Hara and Detective Casey. In 1942 they gave Minnie Mouse a full name as Minerva Mouse, for the four-month comic strip story ""The Gleam"". He also helped Carl Barks with one of his Donald Duck stories, titled ""Too Many Pets"". De Maris also participated at the Disney"
"Jerry Mouse Jerry Mouse is a fictional character and one of the title characters (the other being Tom Cat) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of ""Tom and Jerry"" theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic house mouse, who first appeared as a mouse named Jinx in the 1940 MGM animated short ""Puss Gets the Boot"". Hanna gave the mouse's original name as ""Jinx"", while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance. The name ""Jerry"" was chosen by MGM animator John Carr, who submitted ""Tom and Jerry"" as potential names for"
"Jerry Mouse Jerry Mouse is a fictional character and one of the title characters (the other being Tom Cat) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of ""Tom and Jerry"" theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic house mouse, who first appeared as a mouse named Jinx in the 1940 MGM animated short ""Puss Gets the Boot"". Hanna gave the mouse's original name as ""Jinx"", while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance. The name ""Jerry"" was chosen by MGM animator John Carr, who submitted ""Tom and Jerry"" as potential names for"
"of frogs, dogs, and cats, but none of these appealed to Disney. A female cow and male horse were created at this time by Iwerks, but were also rejected. They would later turn up as Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar. Ub Iwerks eventually got inspiration from an old drawing. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. Then, on a train ride back from a failed business meeting, Walt Disney came up with the original sketch for the character that would eventually be called Mickey Mouse. Afterwards, Disney took the sketch to Iwerks."
"extensively – ""Disney's House of Mouse"" (2001–2003). The term ""Mickey Mouse universe"" is not officially used by The Walt Disney Company, but it has been used by Disney comics author and animation historian David Gerstein. The Walt Disney Company typically uses terms such as Mickey & Friends or Mickey & the Gang to refer to the character franchise. The Mickey Mouse universe essentially originated with the debut of Mickey himself in 1928. Although Mickey's stories included the character Pete, who was created in 1925, the world in which Mickey lives holds a continuity largely independent from earlier films. An exception"
"was used from 1935 to 1953 to refer to the series itself as in ""Walt Disney presents a Mickey Mouse."" In this sense ""a Mickey Mouse"" was a shortened form of ""a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon"" which was used in the earliest films. Films from 1929 to 1935 which were re-released during this time also used this naming convention, but it was not used for the three shorts released between 1983 and 1995 (""Mickey's Christmas Carol"", ""The Prince and the Pauper"", and ""Runaway Brain""). Mickey's name was also used occasionally to market other films which were formally part of other"
"past"". The only film not included in this collection was the subsequently released ""Get a Horse!"" (2013) which first premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and was shown ahead of ""Frozen"". Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 (""Plane Crazy"") to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and"
"appeared in the Italian fantasy comic saga ""Wizards of Mickey"". In 1958, Mickey Mouse was introduced to the Arab world through another comic book called “Sameer”. He became very popular in Egypt and got a comic book with his name. Mickey’s comics in Egypt are licensed by Disney and were published since 1959 by “Dar Al-Hilal” and they were success, however Dar Al-Hilal stopped the publication in 2003 because of problems with Disney. The comics were re-released by ""Nahdat Masr"" in 2004 and the first issues were sold out in less than 8 hours. Since his early years, Mickey Mouse"
"Kay Kamen Herman ""Kay"" Kamen (born Herman Samuel Kominetzky; January 27, 1892 – October 28, 1949) was an American merchandising executive, noted primarily for his work with the Walt Disney Company. He promoted Mickey Mouse – the most popular cartoon character of the early 1930s. Kamen was born January 27, 1892 in Baltimore, Maryland to Russian Jewish parents, and spent his early life working as a merchant and an advertising man.. Kamen was the youngest of four children. In his teens he attended penitentiary instead of high school. His first work was selling mink hats in Nebraska in his twenties."
"Mickey's 50 Mickey's 50 is a 1978 television special honouring the 50-year anniversary of the debut of Walt Disney's animated character Mickey Mouse. The show aired on NBC on November 19, 1978, one day after Mickey's official birthday, as a special 90-minute edition of ""The Wonderful World of Disney"". This show covers the history and career of Mickey Mouse from his humble beginnings in the first Disney sound cartoon ""Steamboat Willie"" to his popularity in the 1930s, his presence on television through ""The Mickey Mouse Club"", and his role as the official host of Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Also"
"his legal name, the film producer Larry Darmour did not owe the comic strip writers royalties). His mother also changed her surname to McGuire in an attempt to bolster the argument, but the film producers lost. The litigation settlement awarded damages to the owners of the cartoon character, as well as compelled the twelve-year-old actor to refrain from calling himself by the name Mickey McGuire on and off screen. Rooney later claimed that, during his Mickey McGuire days, he met cartoonist Walt Disney at the Warner Brothers studio, and that Disney was inspired to name Mickey Mouse after him, although"
"World Wants to Wish You) Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse"". Mickey's 50 Mickey's 50 is a 1978 television special honouring the 50-year anniversary of the debut of Walt Disney's animated character Mickey Mouse. The show aired on NBC on November 19, 1978, one day after Mickey's official birthday, as a special 90-minute edition of ""The Wonderful World of Disney"". This show covers the history and career of Mickey Mouse from his humble beginnings in the first Disney sound cartoon ""Steamboat Willie"" to his popularity in the 1930s, his presence on television through ""The Mickey Mouse Club"", and his role as the"
"Mickey Mouse cartoons credited them as ""A Walt Disney Comic, drawn by Ub Iwerks"". Later Disney Company reissues of the early cartoons tend to credit Walt Disney alone. Disney and his remaining staff continued the production of the Mickey series, and he was able to eventually find a number of animators to replace Iwerks. As the Great Depression progressed and Felix the Cat faded from the movie screen, Mickey's popularity would rise, and by 1932 The Mickey Mouse Club would have one million members. At the 5th Academy Awards in 1932, Mickey received his first Academy Award nomination, received for"
"mouse named Kit Colby who sported a fedora and a fluffy collared leather jacket, and the rest of the team included a chameleon, an earlier version of Gadget, and a character resembling Monterey Jack with a different name. When he proposed the show in a meeting with Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the idea was well received except for the character of Kit. At Eisner's suggestion, they replaced him with the chipmunk duo to give the show some established Disney characters to work with. By late 1987, two years before its television debut, the show was announced under its original"
"her grandparents Marshal Mouse and Matilda Mouse. Her best-known relatives, however, remain her uncle Mortimer Mouse and her twin nieces, Millie and Melody Mouse, though most often a single niece, Melody, appears. In many appearances, Minnie is presented as the girlfriend of Mickey Mouse, a close friend of Daisy Duck, and a friend to Clarabelle Cow. On January 22, 2018, she joined the ranks of other animated celebrities (including Mickey Mouse) by receiving her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1928, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created Mickey Mouse to act as a replacement to his previous"
"November 1928, as a replacement to compete with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created Mickey Mouse for the Walt Disney Studio. In 2003, Buena Vista Games pitched a concept for an Oswald-themed video game to Disney President and COO Bob Iger, who then became committed to bringing Oswald back to Disney. In 2006, nearly 80 years after the Disney studio broke away from Universal, The Walt Disney Company managed to acquire the intellectual property of Oswald and the catalog of Disney-produced Oswald films (with NBCUniversal effectively trading Oswald for the services of Al Michaels as play-by-play"
"conceived originally by Paul Terry. Created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short titled ""The Mouse of Tomorrow"". Originally named Super Mouse, after seven films in 1942–43, he was renamed Mighty Mouse for ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"" (1944), after Paul Terry learned that another character named ""Super Mouse"" was to be published by Marvel Comics. Beginning in 1945, some Mighty Mouse episodes had operatic dialogue, and he was drawn slightly differently. Both changes attempted to take advantage of the growing popularity of singer and actor Mario Lanza, beginning with ""Mighty Mouse"
"record ""Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party"". Alan Young voiced Mickey in the Disneyland record album ""An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players"" in 1974, which would be the first and only time that Alan Young voiced him. The 1983 short film ""Mickey's Christmas Carol"" marked the theatrical debut of Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse, who was the official voice of Mickey from 1977 until his death in 2009. Allwine once recounted something MacDonald had told him about voicing Mickey: ""The main piece of advice that Jim gave me about Mickey helped me keep things in perspective."
"Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures creative teams, and do not infringe on anyone's copyrights"". Mouse now lives in Sonoma County, California where he continues to paint and create music. Stanley Mouse Stanley George Miller (born October 10, 1940), better known as Mouse and Stanley Mouse, is an American artist, notable for his 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster designs for the Grateful Dead and Journey albums cover art as well as many others. Born in Fresno, California, Miller grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He was given the nickname ""Mouse"" as a ninth grader. He was expelled from Mackenzie High School (Michigan)"
"Disney, the nephews were usually called Morty and Monty. Earlier books contain three or more nephews with various names, including Maisie and Marmaduke. In animation, Mickey's nephews first appear in the 1933 ""Mickey Mouse"" film ""Giantland"", although the film shows Mickey with as many as 14 nephews at the same time. The following year the nephews appear again in ""Gulliver Mickey"". The following film, ""Mickey's Steam Roller"", is the first to show Mickey with only two nephews, who can be presumed to be Morty and Ferdie, although they are unnamed in the film itself. This was two years after the"