Today, November 18th, is Mickey's official anniversary date making it 90 years since the premiere of Steamboat Willie. There's been a lot of interesting books and collections celebrating the anniversary lately, and we've seen the logo above everywhere.
Here in northern Europe we got a special story to mark the event in the weekly/monthly comic books. It's rather flat and boring to be honest, featuring Mickey taking a steamboat trip to his birthday party, with Donald and the boys as passengers as well. And we have Peg-Leg Pete doing his regular business with Mickey and Donald saving the day. For some reason, the story even have Donald Duck as the title charachter (!)
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| From the Norwegian Donald Duck & Co #46-2018 |
It's not much more to say about the story, but it has some minor references to Steamboat Willie with the cover and a panel inside – mimicking scenes from the animation.
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| From the comic story and "Steamboat Willie" |
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| Peg-Leg Pete in "Steamboat Willie" |
We got a small cameo of Minnie in the very last panel, but let's not forget that it's her birthday too!
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And maybe it's the anniversary for the Aracuan bird as well? At least that's what imagine every time I re-watch Steamboat Willie and see the birds on the docks with their singing 😊
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| From "Steamboat Willie" |
There are books and comic collections celebrating the anniversary that are a lot more interesting than the story I talked about in this post! But I'm still waiting for the ones I ordered to arrive in the mail. So I might do another post later about some of those books.
ReplyDeletePlease do! Those of us who toiled on them look forward to seeing what you think!
DeleteI'm still waiting for one book to arrive, and I will to a summary post with different books/comics when I get it. But I figured the "Ultimate History" book deserved its own post (online now).
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