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The Mouse That Floyd Built: Celebrating the Mickey Mouse Comic
The Mouse That Floyd Built: Celebrating the Mickey Mouse Comic
The Mouse That Floyd Built: Celebrating the Mickey Mouse Comic
Between his debut in 1928's Steamboat Willie and the beginning of 1930, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse had appeared in fifteen critically acclaimed and commercially successful short films --- so it should be no surprise that the high-powered world of newspaper comics soon came calling. King Features approached Disney about licensing the characters, and on January 13, 1930, the Mickey Mouse comic strip was born.