Fun reading in old newspapers

Once in a while I like to search old newspaper archives for things related to Disney comics. Two of my recent discoveries are not really that interesting, but still fun to read.

In The Roanoke Rapids Herald, August 05, 1948 we can read about a study into children's comic reading. According to their findings, kids that read Disney comics apparently have a higher IQ than the ones that prefer superheroes...
 

From The Roanoke Rapids Herald, August 05, 1948

In The Sunday Star (Evening Star, Washington DC), March 2, 1941, there is a long text about “the cop who saved a thousand kids”. 

From The Sunday Star, March 2, 1941

To teach kids about safety, he used comic characters in his own lantern slides.

 

From The Sunday Star, March 2, 1941

These are not official Mickey drawings, but a fun example showing how the character was used by others in the early days. Note the size of Mickey compared to the humans (!)

From The Sunday Star, March 2, 1941