Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring characters created by the Walt Disney Company , including Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck .
140-662: The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from 1930 on, starting with the Mickey Mouse comic strip . Mickey Mouse Magazine , the first American newsstand publication with Disney comics, launched in 1935. In 1940, Western Publishing launched the long-running flagship comic book, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories , which reached 750 issues in September 2019. Uncle Scrooge , launched in 1952, reached issue #450 in June 2019. In recent decades, Disney comics have seen
280-462: A topper Silly Symphony strip. Silly Symphony initially related the adventures of Bucky Bug , the first Disney character to originate in the comics. It went on to print more adaptations of Silly Symphony shorts, often using the characters and setting of the original shorts, but adding new plotlines and incidents. It also went on to print adaptations of the feature films, as well as periods of gag strips featuring Donald Duck and Pluto. By late 1935
420-466: A "photo" that was printed on cards and sent out to the readers. According to a Disney press release, they received more than 20,000 requests for the picture, demonstrating the strength of the strip's appeal. An early 1932 story, "The Great Orphanage Robbery", is seen as a milestone in Gottfredson's increasingly sophisticated storytelling. To raise money for an orphans' home, Mickey and friends stage
560-605: A Disney comic strip department at the studio. Initially Floyd Gottfredson along with his responsibilities for the Mickey Mouse comic strip oversaw the Disney comic strip department from 1930 to 1945, then Frank Reilly was brought in to administer the burgeoning department from January 1946 to 1975. Greg Crosby headed the department from 1979 to 1989. The Mickey Mouse daily comic strip began on January 13, 1930, featuring Mickey as an optimistic, adventure-seeking young mouse. It
700-517: A Latte ), Dave Redl ( Web Premiere Toons ), John DiMaggio ( Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse ) and Stephen Stanton ( The Tom and Jerry Show ). The Avery Wolf's actual name has varied over time. It was seldom given in the 1940s, but a 1945 studio announcement called him Wally Wolf . In modern-day appearances, the Wolf's name is often given as Slick Wolf or McWolf . The Avery Wolf
840-499: A cold. He was baking a cake for his grandmother's birthday and the wolf had to travel to the little pigs' houses to borrow a cup of sugar. Each time the pigs turned him away, Alexander T. Wolf's cold caused him to huff and puff and sneeze a great sneeze whereupon the wolf would accidentally destroy the pig's house. Finding the inhabitant deceased, the Alexander T. Wolf decided to eat the body so as not to let good meat go to waste, since
980-698: A crashing airplane. In the end, the Blot is captured and unmasked. The character was dubbed "the Phantom Blot" in 1941, when the strips were reprinted in Dell Comics ' Four Color (1st series) issue #16, Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot . The name stuck, and the character has been the Phantom Blot ever since. In the Sunday pages from August to November 1938, Mickey performed in an adaptation of
1120-570: A decline of popularity in the United States. In the rest of the world Disney comics have remained very successful, especially in Europe, where weekly Disney comics magazines and monthly paperback digests are national best sellers. Disney comics have been the basis for academic theory, cultural criticism, and fan-created databases. The first Disney comics appeared in daily newspapers, syndicated by King Features with production done in-house by
1260-440: A demand for new Big Bad Wolf comics arose. From 1945, the original WDC&S series Li'l Bad Wolf nominally starred Big Bad Wolf's good little cub, but "Pop" repeatedly stole the spotlight. Carl Buettner, Gil Turner and Jack Bradbury were among the noted creators to work on the series in its early years, with Buettner giving Big Bad Wolf his proper name of Zeke (1946) and Turner supplying his middle name of Midas (1949). In
1400-484: A fire as her mansion burns around her, and her caretaker rushes inside to be with her in the flames. At this point, the threat of death became a real presence in the strip. In mid-1945, the daily strip moved to a mostly gag-a-day format, with brief two-week continuities through the summer of 1947. In September 1947, the strip returned to long continuities and introduced a new character: Eega Beeva , "the Man of Tomorrow". Eega
1540-540: A flight with his girlfriend Minnie . She falls out of the plane, and Mickey travels through a storm to land on a deserted island, inhabited by fierce natives who want to cook him alive. As these first strips were being released in January 1930, Iwerks left the Disney studio, signing a contract with Disney competitor Pat Powers to leave Disney and start an animation studio under his own name. Win Smith, who had been inking
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#17327758602561680-420: A gag-a-day strip; they were concerned that TV serials were making the audience lose interest in adventure comic strips. Walsh continued to write the daily strip until 1964. Notable supporting characters from the gag-a-day strip include Morty's friend Alvin (1956–75), his girlfriend Millie (1962–87), Doctor Proctor (1966–89), and Goofy's girlfriend Glory-Bee (1969–79), who also appeared in Disney comic books in
1820-639: A game of Polo between four of Disney's animated characters (one of whom was the Wolf) and four animated caricatures of noted film actors. He also appeared in Mickey's Christmas Carol , dressed as a streetcorner Santa Claus at the beginning of the featurette. The Wolf made a couple of brief cameo appearances in Who Framed Roger Rabbit , first hiding behind a lamppost in Toontown, and later at
1960-505: A lie. The machine's punishment grows harsher and harsher the more he lies, until it is finally spinning him around, smacking his head and scrubbing his bottom. When he finally tells the truth, he is shot away by a rocket stuck up his shirt. The Big Bad Wolf also made appearances in other Disney cartoons. In Toby Tortoise Returns , Practical and the Wolf made cameo appearances during the boxing match between Toby Tortoise and Max Hare. The Wolf also appeared in Mickey's Polo Team , as part of
2100-554: A menacing predatory antagonist . " Little Red Riding Hood ", " The Three Little Pigs ", " The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids ", " The Boy Who Cried Wolf " and the Russian tale Peter and the Wolf , reflect the theme of the ravening wolf and of the creature released unharmed from its belly , but the general theme of restoration is very old. The dialogue between the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has its analogies to
2240-622: A number of giant-size specials and a series of one-page text stories in Donald Duck . Li'l Bad Wolf's only comic strip appearance was in the Disney Christmas Story for 1963, "Three Little Pigs Christmas Story". This sequence was drawn by Floyd Gottfredson , who reinstated Li'l Wolf's sharp teeth. From 2003 to 2008, reflecting a trend initiated in European Disney comics, Zeke Wolf increasingly often featured as
2380-463: A powerful and unpredictable machine, which soon attracts the monstrous mad scientist Dr. Grut and his posse of mind-controlled Aberzombies. A few months later, Mickey, Minnie and Pluto visited The World of Tomorrow (July-Nov 1944), where Pegleg Pete ruled the world with his deadly robots, the Mekka Men. The next story, The House of Mystery (Nov 1944-Jan 1945), had the evil scientist Drusilla die in
2520-474: A prison line-up along with other Disney criminals, and in "CasaBonkers" where Katya tosses him out of his car so she can go after Bonkers. The Big Bad Wolf has been a recurring character in House of Mouse , where he is voiced by Jim Cummings . His first appearance on this show featured him as a jazz artist called "Big Bad Wolf Daddy" (a parody of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy ), performing a swing version of his song with
2660-405: A production of Uncle Tom's Cabin , but when the play is over, they discover that the money has been stolen. The thieves are Shyster and Pete, returning to the strip after a year and a half, but they manage to place the blame on Mickey's friend Horace Horsecollar , who's thrown in jail. Mickey chases after the villains, but his disappearance puts suspicion onto him as well. In the second volume of
2800-423: A rival, spends a week trying (and failing) to commit suicide. He tries shooting, gassing, drowning and hanging himself, before he decides that he's overreacting and gives up on the idea. In a 1931 publicity stunt, Mickey—just crowned boxing champion in the strip—had his photograph taken, and then encouraged readers to send a stamped, addressed envelope to him care of the newspaper to get a copy. Gottfredson painted
2940-416: A special daily strip with a holiday theme utilizing the Disney characters was offered each year through 1987. It generally ran for three to four weeks with the concluding strip appearing a day or two before Christmas, often promoting the latest Disney release or re-release. These were unique in that in some cases, they showcased the crossover of Disney characters that otherwise rarely interacted. The tradition
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#17327758602563080-530: A top hat, red pants, green suspenders and white gloves. However, he does not wear a shirt or shoes. The Wolf has a taste for disguising himself, but both the audience and the Practical Pig can easily see through the Wolf's disguises. With each successive short, the Wolf exhibits a fondness for dressing in drag and, even "seduces" Fiddler and Fifer Pigs, who become increasingly clueless as to his disguises with each installment, with such disguises as "Goldilocks
3220-546: A topper for the Mickey Mouse strip, but after the first few years, almost always appeared on its own. The previous comic strip adaptations of Disney films lasted for four or five months, but the Uncle Remus strip continued for almost thirty years, telling new stories of Br'er Rabbit and friends, until the strip was discontinued on December 31, 1972. In 1950, Disney distributed a limited-time Sunday strip adaptations of their new animated feature Cinderella , and followed
3360-434: A tradition of publishing occasional "Disney Giants", plus-size comic books with more pages and a higher price. The first Giant was Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #1 (Nov 1949). This was a 132-page square-bound comic that sold for 25 cents, considerably higher than the typical 10-cent comics. Christmas Parade had a cover by Walt Kelly, and began with a Carl Barks-penned Donald Duck story, "Letter to Santa". Christmas Parade
3500-512: Is a central character in the episode "The Big Good Wolf", where Mickey tries to reform him, but while characters are found that can help him be good, he ends up devouring them one by one, until Mickey manages to rescue them from his stomach. As a walkaround costumed character, Big Bad Wolf appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for meet-and-greets, parades and shows. In the video game Magical Tetris Challenge , Big Bad Wolf
3640-465: Is a fictional character from Walt Disney 's cartoon short Three Little Pigs , directed by Burt Gillett and first released on May 27, 1933. The Wolf's voice was provided by Billy Bletcher. As in the folktale, he was a cunning and threatening menace. The short also introduced the Wolf's theme song, " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? ", written by Frank Churchill . The Wolf is shown as wearing
3780-451: Is a little different than original: he usually wears an all-blue clothing but white gloves; and his son follows the same pattern of his father clothes, but he uses red instead of blue. Li'l Bad Wolf (or just Li'l Wolf as referred to by his friends) is Zeke "Big Bad" Wolf's son. In spite of his name, Li'l Bad Wolf wants to be a good little wolf ; badness is really the domain of his father. Zeke wants his son to be just as bad as he is, but
3920-563: Is an American newspaper comic strip by the Walt Disney Company featuring Mickey Mouse and is the first published example of Disney comics . The strip debuted on January 13, 1930, and ran until July 29, 1995. It was syndicated by King Features Syndicate until 1990, when Disney switched to Creators Syndicate, which distributed the strip until 2014 (in reruns after 1995). The early installments were written by Walt Disney , with art by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith. Beginning with
4060-545: Is cameras of a special type and he smashes them open on the spot. (The strange crime and the motive behind it resembles closely the Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Six Napoleons ".) The crime appears eccentric, but the villain is deadly serious—three times during the story, he captures Mickey and leaves him in deadly peril, and the pair engage in a car chase, a boat chase and a battle for control of
4200-429: Is mostly used for a comedic effect. The story as told by Alexander T. Wolf from The Three Little Pigs suggests that wolves may not necessarily have to be "Big" and "Bad", but are perhaps misunderstood because what they eat happens to be cute. It should be inferred, however, that the following story given by Alexander T. Wolf is merely a fiction made up to conceal his guilt. Alexander T. Wolf, portrayed as rather civil, had
4340-499: Is one of Pete 's henchmen, along with a Weasel and is the boss the player fights before Pete, the final boss. His levels theme seems to be a disco remix, with him wearing a purple top hat with a matching tailcoat, white dress shirt, red bow tie, purple trousers and brown Oxfords . The Big Bad Wolf also appeared in The Kingdom Keepers series, in the fourth book, "Power Play", where he appeared non anthropomorphized. In
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4480-520: The Topolino ( Mickey Mouse ) comic magazine. As Walsh was not interested in Mickey Mouse as a character, and had a taste for science-fiction , mystery and horror , his stories quickly diverged from those of the previous decade. Walsh created various bizarre characters and made Mickey's antagonists darker and deadlier. In The 'Lectro Box (Oct 1943-Feb 1944), Mickey and nephew Morty create
4620-519: The Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse series, a hardback collection of Gottfredson's run on the strip. A total of 14 volumes were published between 2011 and 2018, collecting the entirety of Gottfredson's Sunday color work (two volumes) and all of his serialized story-themed daily strips (12 volumes). The collection doesn't include any of Gottfredson's gag-oriented material from 1955 onwards. The Mickey Mouse Sunday strip started on January 10, 1932, with
4760-521: The Disney adaptations of the characters, the strip was written by Don Ferguson and drawn by Richard Moore. In addition to the regular cast of characters, Ferguson and Moore also added a knight named Sir Brian, and his worrywart dragon. The strip lasted for almost ten years, ending on April 2, 1988. Other Disney strips distributed over the years included (chronologically by start date): A proposed Roger Rabbit strip underwent development but cancellation of
4900-457: The Donald Duck strip. As of 2019, five volumes of Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics and two volumes of Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics have been released. Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit was launched as a Sunday strip on October 14, 1945, as a preview of the upcoming 1946 film Song of the South . The Uncle Remus strip began, like Silly Symphony , as
5040-695: The Four Color one-shot series, beginning in issue #9 (Oct 1942). Carl Barks , the first great figure among Disney comic book creators, wrote all of his early long stories for the Donald Duck one-shots, including Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring (1943), The Terror of the River! (1946), Volcano Valley (1947), The Ghost of the Grotto (1947), Christmas on Bear Mountain (1947), The Old Castle's Secret (1948), Sheriff of Bullet Valley (1948), Lost in
5180-411: The guitar very well and ride the powerful rocker motorbike , making his character more sophisticated than a normal hooligan. In the first episode, while climbing a high building to catch Hare, Wolf whistles the popular mountaineer song, "Song of a Friend" (the signature song of Vladimir Vysotsky ). In spite of these talents, most of Wolf's schemes eventually fail or turn against him. The character
5320-452: The 1928 short Plane Crazy , followed by a sequence in the jungle, inspired by the 1929 short Jungle Rhythm . When Floyd Gottfredson took over, he also took inspiration from Disney's animation department, who provided him with storyboards and model sheets for upcoming Mickey Mouse shorts . Recurring characters in the strip include: From the beginning, the strips were parts of long continuing stories. These introduced characters such as
5460-671: The 1934 Disney short The Wise Little Hen (Sept. 16, 1934-Dec. 16, 1934). As Donald's popularity grew, he became the star of the Silly Symphony strip for an extended run (August 1936 to December 1937), and then got his own daily strip starting on February 7, 1938. A Donald Sunday strip premiered December 10, 1939. Carl Barks , known to fans as "The Duck Man," wrote at least 20 of the strips between 1938 and 1940. Donald Duck ran until May 2005, when it went into reprints. Starting in 2015, IDW Publishing 's Library of American Comics imprint has been publishing hardcover collections of
5600-483: The 1957 short Three Little Bops , the wolf (voiced by Stan Freberg ) plays a trumpet rather badly while instrument playing pigs engage in club hopping using clubs made of straw, sticks, and bricks. There is also a version appearing mostly in Bugs Bunny cartoons such as The Windblown Hare , Little Red Riding Rabbit (in which he is voiced by Billy Bletcher and Jim Backus , respectively), and many more. This
5740-638: The 2011 reprint collection, comics historian Thomas Andrae describes the resulting storyline: Gottfredson's newfound mastery of the serial format is evident in nearly every strip of "Orphanage Robbery". First we are enticed into the story by following Mickey's attempt each day to increase the running total for the orphans' fund. Then the suspense increases through the use of an exciting chase -- conveniently supplied by [1932 Mickey short] The Klondike Kid -- as well as cross-cutting techniques developed from old movie serials, another influence Gottfredson now learned to mimic with ease. The strip cuts back and forth between
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5880-599: The Andes! (1949), Voodoo Hoodoo (1949) and Luck of the North (1949). The title received its own numbering system with issue #26 (1953) and ended with issue #388 (June 2017). Mickey Mouse (1943–2017) first appeared as part of the Four Color one-shot series, beginning in issue #27 (1943). It received its own numbering system with issue #28 (December 1952), and after many iterations with various publishers, ended with #330 (June 2017) from IDW Publishing . In 1949, Dell began
6020-473: The Big Bad Wolf from "Little Red Riding Hood," does not speak and is the runt of the litter. In the actual play show Dimension 20 's 15th season, the Big Bad Wolf is the manifestation of Death in the world of the Neverafter, who, after meeting with a starving Little Red Riding Hood, allows her to kill him, and eat his flesh, turning her into a werewolf. When the wolf passes, Little Red is left to "take up
6160-646: The Big Bad Wolf was a friend of Sylvester and antagonist of Tweety in the short Red Riding Hoodwinked . The only theatrical short subject cartoon series produced by Hanna Barbera after they left MGM and formed their own studio, Loopy de Loop is cast as a tuque -topped, kind-hearted wolf who speaks with a bad French Canadian accent, and whose kind-hearted attempts to assist almost always ended up by being rejected by those he sought to help-or something slightly worse. The Weinstein Company 's animated films Hoodwinked! and Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil features
6300-571: The Big Bad Wolf's cartoons included many sexual overtones, violence, and very rapid gags, and never became as successful as the Disney incarnation. His first debuting was Blitz Wolf (1942)—as Adolf Wolf, the Three Pigs' Hitler-like foe—[similar to the classic Disney Big Bad Wolf]]; Adolf Wolf, who is set on invading the pig's nation of Pigmania. The pig who built his house of stone, "Sergeant Pork" (an homage to Sergeant York), take his precautions and outfits his house with defense machinery, but
6440-542: The Castaways (1962). In April 2018, it was announced that, due to the sales goal of the series not being met, the third volume may be the last one to be published. In 1955, the animated film Lady and the Tramp inspired a new comic strip based on an adorable, unnamed puppy glimpsed at the end of the movie. Scamp debuted in newspapers on October 31, 1955, and ran for more than 30 years, ending on June 25, 1988. The strip
6580-536: The Fairy Queen", Little Bo Peep and a mermaid. In an interview with Melvyn Bragg in the early 1980s, the British actor Laurence Olivier said that Disney's Big Bad Wolf was supposedly based on a widely detested American theatre director and producer called Jed Harris . When Olivier produced a film version of Shakespeare's Richard III , he based some of his mannerisms on Harris, and his physical appearance on
6720-533: The May 5, 1930, strip, the art chores were taken up by Floyd Gottfredson (often aided by various inkers), who also either wrote or supervised the story continuities (relying on various writers to flesh out his plots). Gottfredson continued with the strip until 1975. By 1931, the Mickey Mouse strip was published in 60 newspapers in the US, as well as papers in twenty other countries. Starting in 1940, strips were reprinted in
6860-705: The Norse Þrymskviða from the Elder Edda ; the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölner , Thor 's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return. Instead, the gods dressed Thor as a bride and sent him. When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja not having slept, or eaten, or drunk, out of longing for the wedding. 19th-century Folklorists and cultural anthropologists such as P. Saintyves and Edward Burnett Tylor saw Little Red Riding Hood in terms of solar myths and other naturally occurring cycles, stating that
7000-497: The Phantom Blot was colored, reformatted into comic form and released as issue #16 (1941). In 1941, Four Color published the two earliest Disney comic book stories, based on new Disney films. Issue #13 featured an adaptation of The Reluctant Dragon , and a Dumbo adaptation was the focus of issue #17. Both of these stories were assembled by using a film-editing machine called the Moviola , and having artist Irving Tripp trace
7140-479: The Phantom Blot" (March–April) and "The Mail Pilot" (June–July). All three were drawn by Rick Hoover. Merchandise for the campaign often used the "pie-eyed" Mickey design, and included keychains and storybooks published by Golden Press . "Perils of Mickey" comics also appeared in the Disney Adventures magazine, including "Return to Blaggard Castle", an adventure featuring Mickey, Minnie, Horace and
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#17327758602567280-458: The Phantom Blot, Eega Beeva , and the Bat Bandit , which Gottfredson created; Disney created Eli Squinch , Mickey's nephews, Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse , and Sylvester Shyster , which were also introduced in the comic. Mickey Mouse had adventure storylines from its inception until October 1955, when the syndicate instructed the creators to move to a simpler, gag-a-day format. In 1990,
7420-512: The Phantom Blot, published in Vol. 3 Nos. 10-11 (1993). In the 1930s and 40s, Western Publishing published a very popular series of small hardcover books for children known as Big Little Books . These chunky, compact books featured a captioned illustration on one page, with a page of text on the facing page. The stories featured a wide assortment of popular characters, including a number of Disney stars, and Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse strips provided
7560-462: The Pigs as his backup band (they are under a contract that states he will eat them if they do not play for him). In this episode, his tendency to destroy houses by exhaling is shown to be an allergy-like reaction to the sight of a door. Later appearances on House of Mouse , however, returned the Wolf to his more traditional role; one episode even featured a newly made short starring the character, based on
7700-497: The Pigs, Zeke runs afoul of Br'er Bear , who ends up pounding "Br'er Wolf" for one offense or another. Another gag is that Br'er/Zeke Wolf never succeeds at anything such as camping or stealing farm products; once he actually caught a duck for dinner but it ended up tasting awful and later he ended up with a whole pack of ducks-which turn out to be mud hens ! Another time even when he twice caught chickens {once by accident} he still loses as usual! In Disney's comics his appearance
7840-537: The Pigs. Li'l Bad Wolf's adventures began in issue #52 (Jan 1945), and he made regular appearances until almost the end of the comic's original run, issue #259 (April 1962). Finally, Little Hiawatha had his own monthly story for two years, from issue #143 (Aug 1952) to #168 (September 1954). The complete strip has been reprinted in four hardcover collections, Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics , published by IDW Publishing 's Library of American Comics imprint. The first volume, published in 2016, includes all of
7980-486: The Pooh strips as part of a "classics" package and posts the current strip on its site (without archiving). Domestically the strips have 20-30 clients at any one time; they also appear in many newspapers outside the United States (exact number unknown). Mickey Mouse Magazine (1933–1940) was the first Disney comics publication, and preceded the popular 1940 anthology comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories . The concept
8120-541: The Pooh , and others. With more than 700 issues, Walt Disney's Comics & Stories is the longest-running Disney comic book in the United States. By the mid-1950s, WDC&S was the best selling comic book in America, with a circulation hovering around three million a month (with the highest level reached being 3,038,000 for the Sept. 1953 issue). It is regarded as one of the best-selling comic books of all time. The book
8260-540: The Rose (1953) and Kidnapped (1960) to comedies like The Shaggy Dog (1959) and The Parent Trap (1961). In 2016, IDW Publishing and their imprint The Library of American Comics (LoAC) began to collect all the Treasury of Classic Tales stories in a definitive hardcover reprint series . As of 2019, three volumes have been published, reprinting all the stories from Robin Hood (1952) through In Search of
8400-845: The Stone (1963) and The Jungle Book (1968). Classic Tales also featured animated shorts, including Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1956) and Ben and Me (1953), and featurettes like Peter & The Wolf (1954) and Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966). The 1979-80 adaptation of The Black Hole was particularly notable for featuring pencil art by comics icon Jack Kirby , with Mike Royer inking. Treasury of Classic Tales also adapted live-action films like Old Yeller (1957–58), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), Mary Poppins (1964) and The Love Bug (1969). The strip transitioned from historical dramas like The Sword and
8540-486: The Three Little Wolves, Big Bad Wolf's three mischievous sons who appeared in the cartoon shorts The Three Little Wolves and The Practical Pig , although he closely resembles them. Along with other Disney characters, the Big Bad Wolf appears in the animated opening of the television series The Mickey Mouse Club . In the series Bonkers , the Big Bad Wolf appears in the episode "The 29th Page" at
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#17327758602568680-421: The Wolf as a misunderstood Fletch -type investigator voiced by Patrick Warburton . The Wolf, whose full name is Wolf W. Wolf , works undercover assignments. His assistant and cameraman is a hyperactive squirrel named Twitchy and he writes a column for The Once Upon a Times . His reason for stalking Red Puckett is not to eat her, but rather to get information from her about a mysterious thief striking this part of
8820-1042: The Wolf in Wild and Wolfy , Swing Shift Cinderella and Little Rural Riding Hood ; simultaneously, the Wolf was used as foe against Avery's Droopy , a role he would keep into the 1950s. He would later reprise the role in the "Droopy and Dripple" segments of Hanna-Barbera 's Tom & Jerry Kids (1990). The Avery Wolf was voiced by Bill Thompson ( Blitz Wolf ), Frank Graham ( Dumb-Hounded , Red Hot Riding Hood , The Shooting of Dan McGoo , Swing Shift Cinderella , Northwest Hounded Police ), Kent Rogers ( Red Hot Riding Hood and One Ham's Family ), Billy Bletcher ( The Screwy Truant ), Patrick McGeehan ( The Screwy Truant and Wild and Woolfy ), Tex Avery ( Wild and Woolfy ), Daws Butler ( Little Rural Riding Hood ), Manuel Paris ( Caballero Droopy ), Frank Welker ( The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show , Tom & Jerry Kids , Droopy Master Detective ), Lou Scheimer ( The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show ), Will Ryan ( Thanks
8960-547: The Wolves from Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs . They were portrayed by Gregg Edelman and Christopher Sieber , respectively. Gavin Creel portrayed the role in the original cast of the 2022 Broadway revival, Cheyenne Jackson and Andy Karl both replaced Creel in the role for limited runs. The musical was adapted into a film by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Rob Marshall , where Johnny Depp played
9100-671: The actual frames of the film to make up each panel. Each issue also had additional short back-up features—the Reluctant Dragon issue included comic adaptations of the 1941 shorts Old MacDonald Duck and Goofy's How to Ride a Horse , and Dumbo of the Circus had an illustrated text adaptation of the Donald Duck short The Village Smithy , as well as some filler comic strips from Silly Symphony and Mickey Mouse . The next story specifically created for Disney comic books
9240-501: The aforementioned Li'l Bad Wolf comic stories. Apart from the series appearances, Big Bad Wolf was one of the villains in the direct-to-video film Mickey's House of Villains . In the TV short series Mickey Mouse , the Big Bad Wolf appears in the episode "Sock Burglar", as one of the villains suspected of stealing the town's socks, and in "The Perfect Dream" as a rogue biker. In the spinoff series The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse , he
9380-468: The animated crossover featuring Ace Ventura: Pet Detective . A similar wolf appeared in the Merrie Melodies short " Bacall to Arms ", as a theater patron whose lustful mannerisms echoed that of Avery's character. The director had left Warner Brothers ' employ five years before after a dispute , so it is not certain if this was supposed to be an homage, or if Avery originally had plans to use
9520-515: The book's version of "Three Little Pigs," the Big Bad Wolf devoured the two pigs after blowing down the house. The third pig enlists Little Red Riding Hood to deal with this wolf and she does so in the same way as she did the other wolf. In the film adaption , a Wolf (voiced by Dominic West ) serves as a storyteller to Little Red Riding Hood's children after incapacitating their intended babysitter Mrs. Hunt. He has two nephews named Rolf (voiced by Rob Brydon ) and Rex (voiced by David Walliams ). Rolf
9660-547: The book, he attempted to eat Pluto and the main characters, Finn and Amanda. He ends up falling into the Rivers of America . The Big Bad Wolf makes a cameo on an Old West Wanted poster in Disney Magical World 2 . The character has also appeared as a playable character in video games such as Disney Sorcerer's Arena and Disney Magic Kingdoms . Created by animation director Tex Avery , this variation of
9800-626: The brash duck was hired as a newsboy, selling Mickey's crusading newspaper, The Daily War-Drum . He returned to the strip in fall 1936 for "The Seven Ghosts", helping Mickey and Goofy investigate a haunted mansion. This would be his last appearance in the Mickey Mouse strip—starting in August 1936, Donald was the star of a year-long sequence in the Sunday Silly Symphony comic strip , and he got his own comic strip in 1938. Since Mickey and Donald could appear in rival newspapers,
9940-509: The butt with boots, punches his face with boxing gloves, and finally tars and feathers him before firing him out of a cannon, all accomplished automatically and in time to a version of "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?". In The Practical Pig , the wolf falls into Practical Pig's trap and is subjected to the Lie Detector, which washes his mouth out with soap, whacks his hands with rulers, or pulls down his pants and spanks him when he tells
10080-489: The characters appeared in 85 Sunday strips, and in 1956 he was also featured in 12 daily strips by Gottfredson. In 1993–1994, the Disney Company began a branding campaign called "The Perils of Mickey", evoking the spirit of Gottfredson's early-30s Mickey comics. The campaign involved "remakes" of three classic Gottfredson stories in the daily newspaper strip: "Blaggard Castle" (Jan-Feb 1994), "Mickey Mouse Outwits
10220-430: The characters weren't allowed to cross over to the other's strip. Another well-remembered 1930s story is Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot , published from May to September 1939. In this story, Chief O'Hara hires Mickey to capture a new criminal who calls himself the Blot. According to O'Hara, he is the smartest thief they've ever met, but Detective Casey calls this new criminal a looney. The only thing he steals
10360-646: The comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #52 (1945). The first story was written by Dorothy Strebe and illustrated by Carl Buettner . The feature ran regularly through 1957, when it temporarily moved to the back pages of Mickey Mouse . Li'l Wolf returned to Comics and Stories in 1961, after which he continued to appear there frequently through 2008. Li'l Wolf has in fact starred in more issues of Comics and Stories than any other character except for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck . Apart from Comics and Stories and Mickey Mouse , Li'l Wolf has also appeared in many different Disney anthology comic books, including
10500-606: The comic book form. This was common for comic books at the time. Dell also had an anthology series, Four Color , which started in 1939 as a series of "one-shot" specials, each focused on a particular character. In the early days, Four Color mostly featured comic strip reprints of Dick Tracy , Little Orphan Annie , Terry and the Pirates and others. The first series included two issues of Disney comic strips -- Donald Duck strips were reprinted in issue #4 (Feb 1940), and Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse serial Mickey Mouse Outwits
10640-497: The comic. Starting in the 1950s, Gottfredson and writer Bill Walsh were instructed to drop the storylines and do only daily gags. Gottfredson continued illustrating the daily strip until he retired on October 1, 1975. After Gottfredson retired, the strip was written and drawn by many other creators. The Sunday page went into reprints in February 1992, and the daily strip ended on July 29, 1995. In 2011, Fantagraphics Books began
10780-420: The comics, Big Bad Wolf generally wants his son to become a bad guy like himself; but, unlike the three little wolves who appeared in the shorts, the gentle Li'l Bad Wolf does not live up to his father's expectations. Indeed, Li'l Bad is friends with the Pigs, Thumper , and other forest characters whom the comics portray as Zeke's intended prey. A running gag in the comics typically comes when in trying to catch
10920-414: The creative force of the strip for more than 45 years. While the early months of the strip did have a loose plot, the pace and style were still the standard gag-a-day approach to comic strips. With adventure and daily continuity strips like The Gumps and Wash Tubbs becoming increasingly popular, King Features Syndicate asked Disney to make Mickey Mouse a more serious adventure strip. This led to
11060-506: The current short cartoon Brave Little Tailor , bookended with segments showing him as an actor, being cast in the film by Walt Disney. This was Gottfredson's last work on the Sunday strip. At that point, Manuel Gonzales took over as the lead artist on the Mickey Sundays, and stayed in the post until 1981 (except for his military service during World War II , from 1942 to 1945). Gonzales and writer Merrill De Maris continued writing
11200-493: The daily strip returned to the adventure format. The headings in the table below refer to the Fantagraphics Books reprint collections, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse . In 1990, writer Floyd Norman convinced King Features Syndicate to allow him to bring back the comic strip's adventure story format. Norman and Colette Bezio shared the scripting, with Rick Hoover, Alex Howell and Thomas Lewis providing art. With
11340-566: The early 1950s. Alberto Becattini says, "Especially after Eega Beeva left, Mickey found himself unwillingly mixed up in dangerous adventures whose development and outcome he no longer seemed to be able to control." Goofy, who had been fairly absent from the daily strip during Eega Beeva's tenure, returned to the strip in March 1951 with "Dry Gulch Goofy", a story in which he becomes a Hollywood actor. In mid-1955, King Features Syndicate asked Gottfredson and Walsh to stop writing continuities and become
11480-659: The early 70s. Gottfredson originally wrote and drew the Mickey Mouse strip by himself, but scaled back in 1932, only plotting the stories and doing the penciling , while the dialogue was mostly done by other hands. The stories were always untitled; titles were usually assigned later, when the strips were reprinted in picture books or comic books. Scripts were written by Webb Smith (1932–33), Ted Osborne (1933–38), Merrill De Maris (1933–42), Dick Shaw (1942–43), Bill Walsh (1943–64), Roy Williams (1962–69) and Del Connell (1968–88). Even so, Gottfredson always worked closely with his writers, and would often suggest changes in
11620-460: The end of "The Moook Treasure". On a Sunday page in October 1949, Goofy bought a talkative, self-centered mynah bird named Ellsworth . Also created by Walsh, Ellsworth was a major focus of the Sunday strip for ten years, sometimes crowding Mickey out of his own strip. He also appeared in the daily strip in 1956, once the dailies became gag-focused as well. The daily strip took a darker turn in
11760-472: The end of the film when all the toons are gathered, wearing a sheep costume and mask which he instantly stripped off to reveal his true wolfish features. He was voiced by Tony Pope in this one (who was perhaps well known for providing the voice of the original Furby ). In 1936 Disney's Big Bad Wolf came to Sunday newspaper comics, which were reformatted and reprinted in the monthly Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in 1941. They were popular enough there that
11900-413: The fable was likely based on genuine risk of wolf attacks at the time. He argues that wolves are in fact dangerous predators, and fables served as a valid warning not to enter forests where wolves were known to live, and to be on the look out for such. Both wolves and wilderness were treated as enemies of humanity in that region and time. The Big Bad Wolf, also known as Zeke Midas Wolf or Br'er Wolf ,
12040-485: The first adventure storyline, "Mickey Mouse in Death Valley", which ran from April 1 to September 20, 1930. The story—begun by Smith, and continued by Gottfredson—involves a crooked lawyer, Sylvester Shyster , and his thuggish associate Peg-Leg Pete , who kidnap Minnie in order to find a map to her Uncle Mortimer's hidden gold mine in Death Valley. Mickey and Minnie race Shyster and Pete to the desert, to lay claim to
12180-485: The house wishing Little Red Riding Hood a good night. After exiting the bus, the Wolf sheds Mrs. Hunt's clothes and runs into the woods. The Big Bad Wolf is a minor character in the 1987 Broadway musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine . The Big Bad Wolf was portrayed by Robert Westenberg in the original Broadway cast and Chuck Wagner in the first national tour. The 2002 Broadway revival featured
12320-511: The kindhearted (or, at worst, naive) Li'l Wolf, despite wanting to please his father, cannot bring himself to do others harm. Even worse for Zeke, Li'l Wolf's best friends are the Three Little Pigs themselves, and he constantly saves them from his father's appetite. Despite disappointing his father, Zeke Wolf was shown to be very fond of his son, and Li'l Wolf of his father. Li'l Wolf debuted in his own self-titled series, beginning in
12460-420: The later years of the strip, art duties were shared by Alex Howell (1990–1995), Rick Hoover (1991–1995) and Thomas Lewis (1994–1995). The Sunday page went into reprints in February 1992. By 1994, the strip was running in only 30 newspapers, and Disney and King Features decided to discontinue it. The daily strip ended on July 29, 1995. The first two weeks of Mickey Mouse strips in 1930 were loosely based on
12600-493: The lone exception of "Reform and Void", the 1990-1995 stories have not been reprinted in the US, and only rarely in other countries. List of storylines: The two volumes of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse reprint the Sunday pages that Gottfredson worked on. Following the Brave Little Tailor adaptation in 1938, Manuel Gonzales took over as artist for the Sunday pages until 1981. Due to his military duties, he
12740-432: The mad scientists Professor Ecks, Professor Doublex and Professor Triplex, and 1933's "The Mail Pilot", where Mickey finds Shyster and Pete once again, ruling a secret zeppelin kingdom in the clouds. Mickey's best pal Goofy joined the strip in January 1933—still using the proto-Goofy moniker "Dippy Dawg" —and by the end of the year, he went into business with Mickey as detectives in "The Crazy Crime Wave", investigating
12880-400: The mantle of Death", turning into a full wolf. Several recent interpretations of the Big Bad Wolf show him as being a character with relatively good intentions, mostly considered "Bad" due to a misunderstanding or prejudice. Arguably, this practice started with the 1989 children's book The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! However, the best-known "good" adaptations are from films, where it
13020-502: The mine. The story runs through a number of Western melodrama tropes—a desperate horse chase, gunplay, a crusty old sheriff, the heroine getting locked up in a jail cell, the hero unfairly branded an outlaw. Over six months, Gottfredson made it clear that Mickey Mouse could deliver action and thrills. The next story, "Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers", included a sequence in which Mickey, convinced that Minnie has thrown him over for
13160-492: The monthly comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories , and since then Gottfredson reprints have become a staple of Disney comics publishing around the world. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse , a definitive collection of Gottfredson's work, was published by Fantagraphics Books from 2011 to 2018. There are fourteen volumes in the set—twelve books of the daily strips from 1930 to 1955, and two volumes of Gottfredson's Sunday pages from 1932 to 1938. A Mickey Mouse comic strip
13300-484: The mysterious city-wide thefts of hair and red flannel underwear. The character appeared in several stories as Dippy, until January 1936, when he's called "Goofy" for the first time in the strip. Donald Duck first appeared in the Sunday pages in February 1935, where he got Mickey involved in "The Case of the Missing Coats" and then stuck around to fight with Morty and Ferdie. In March 1935's "Editor-in-Grief",
13440-421: The new strip were approved by the syndicate. The comic strip launched on January 13, 1930, written by Disney himself, with art by Ub Iwerks. The strip begins with young Mickey as an optimistic, imaginative young mouse living on a farm, and dreaming of becoming a great aviator like his hero, Charles Lindbergh . In a sequence based on the 1928 short Plane Crazy , Mickey puts together a homemade plane, and takes
13580-500: The next year with Alice in Wonderland . Judged a success, the experiment was turned into an ongoing feature in 1952— Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales —beginning with The Story of Robin Hood . The Sunday strip ran for thirty-five years, from July 13, 1952, to February 15, 1987. The animated features adapted for the strip include Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1958), The Sword in
13720-491: The occasional multi-week story, with an especially long four-month continuity from March to July 1940, "The Photographic Exhibition." The final Sunday story, "The Professor's Experiment", ran from November 1943 to March 1944. (This also happened to be the last appearance of Mickey's nephew Ferdie in the strip; from 1944 on, Ferdie's twin Morty always appeared alone.) At its peak the Sunday strip, "... appeared in 120 newspapers around
13860-510: The original short, he falls into a boiling pot prepared by the pigs. In The Big Bad Wolf , Practical pours popcorn and hot coals down his pants. In the final two shorts, Practical invents an anti-Wolf contraption to deal with the Wolf, who is shown to be powerless against the marvels of modern technology. The "Wolf Pacifier" in Three Little Wolves entraps him, chases him with a buzz-saw, hits his head with rolling pins, kicks him in
14000-402: The perfect material for an illustrated adventure story. The following Big Little Books were published based on Mickey Mouse storylines: Li%27l Bad Wolf The Big Bad Wolf is a fictional wolf appearing in several cautionary tales , including some of Grimms' Fairy Tales . Versions of this character have appeared in numerous works, and it has become a generic archetype of
14140-403: The pig was dead anyway. The final pig's house was not blown down and Alexander T. Wolf went into an excessive sneezing fit while the pig allegedly insulted his grandmother. The authorities came and dragged a furious and flustered wolf away and locked him up in prison. It is from prison where Alexander T. Wolf is now telling his (not entirely convincing) story as the news reports have found out about
14280-594: The retirement of Manuel Gonzales in 1981, Daan Jippes took over the Sunday strip (May 3, 1981 – January 3, 1982). Mike Royer provided most of the inking. From 1983 to 1990, Arambula took on the art chores of the Sunday strip in addition to the daily. Arambula had occasional fill-in artists, "... which [he] would have told you was not because he ever missed a deadline". These included Manuel Gonzales (1975-1981), Tony Strobl (1975–1981), Steve Steere (1981–1982), Bill Wright (1982–1984), Bill Langley (1984–1987), Jules Coenen (1986–1987) and Larry Mayer (1986–1987). In
14420-617: The role of the Big Bad Wolf. The film Happily N'Ever After featured three Big Bad Wolves. The Fat Wolf (voiced by Jon Polito ) is the alpha of the Big Bad Wolves and based on the Big Bad Wolf from "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats." The Tough Wolf (voiced by Tom Kenny ) is the second-in-command, is based on the Big Bad Wolf from "Three Little Pigs," and is often competing with the Fat Wolf. The Crazy Wolf, based on
14560-542: The scripts whenever he thought it would improve a story. There were a variety of inkers on the strip through the years; inkers for the Sunday strips included Al Taliaferro (1932–1938) and Ted Thwaites (1932-1940), and Manuel Gonzales until 1981; Taliaferro also inked daily strips. Gottfredson returned to inking daily strips himself in February 1947; Frank Reilly took over as head of the Comic Strip Department, and Gottfredson had more time to devote to
14700-529: The sequel led King Features to pass on it. The Disney comic strip department closed in January 1990. The last two strips, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck , continued to be supervised by King Features. The Donald strip was drawn by Larry Knighton with King Features staffers writing it. The Donald strip was discontinued in the mid-1990s. In this period the Mickey strip had Floyd Norman as the writer and art rotating between Rick Hoover and Alex Howell. Norman convinced
14840-543: The strip was a standalone half-page, not strictly a topper for the Mickey Sunday. The strip was initially titled Silly Symphonies ; after two years, the name was changed to Silly Symphony . The switch happened in the February 18, 1934, strip, just three weeks before Bucky Bug would be replaced with a new storyline, "Birds of a Feather". The complete rundown of Silly Symphony strips, from 1932 to 1945: The Silly Symphony Sunday strip ended on October 7, 1945, and
14980-425: The strip was written by Del Connell (1968–1988), Floyd Norman (1984–1992) and Colette Bezio (1991–1995). Roman Arambula was the principal artist on the daily strip from 1975 to early 1990 (and even lettered it). Writer Mark Evanier described Arambula's work habits on the strip thus: "He would draw two weeks worth of the strip every other week and in the weeks he wasn't working on that, he drew comics for me." Upon
15120-409: The strip. Gottfredson plotted the continuities until Bill Walsh started writing the strip in 1943. Around that time, Dick Moores inked the strip for two years. Starting in the 1950s, Gottfredson and writer Bill Walsh were instructed to drop the storylines and do only daily gags. Gottfredson continued illustrating the daily strip until his retirement on October 1, 1975. After Gottfredson retired,
15260-482: The strips from "Bucky Bug" (1932) to "Cookieland" (1935). Volume 2, published in 2017, includes "Three Little Kittens" (1935) to "Timid Elmer" (1939). Volume 3, published in 2018, includes "Pluto the Pup" (1939) to "Little Hiawatha" (1942). The fourth volume, published in 2019, concludes the series with "Bambi" (1942) through Panchito" (1945). Donald Duck made his first comics appearance in the Silly Symphony adaptation of
15400-466: The strips, took over the pencilling as well with the February 10th strip. Smith left the studio in April after a fight with Disney, who wanted him to take over writing the strip. As a "temporary replacement", Disney asked a young inbetweener at the studio named Floyd Gottfredson to fill in. Gottfredson's first strip was published on May 5, and he took over the scripting two weeks later. He would continue as
15540-423: The syndicate to allow him to drop the gag-a-day format in favor of adventure continuities of up to four weeks, much in the style of the classic Gottfredson era. By 1994 the strip was running in only 30 newspapers and by mutual agreement of Disney and King Features it ended. Both strips continued with reprints. In recent years Creators Syndicate has offered reprints of the Donald Duck , Mickey Mouse and Winnie
15680-609: The third pig's house, prompting a battle between the two parties. Towards the end of the cartoon, Adolf Wolf is blown out of his bomber plane by the pigs' artillery shells, fired from their multi-barreled "secret weapon" and filled with Defense bonds, and plummets down to Earth followed by a bomb from his own plane, which promptly blows him to Hell upon impact The Avery Wolf returned as a Hollywood swinger in Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), memorably aroused by Red's song and dance performance. Further girl-chasing roles came to
15820-438: The title as Disney Comics and Stories . IDW lost Disney comics rights in the 2020s and the comic book license for Disney properties passed to Marvel Comics . When Walt Disney's Comics and Stories launched in 1940 as a partnership between Dell Comics and Western Publishing , the comic only reprinted existing Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck and Silly Symphony comic strips, rather than creating original stories specifically for
15960-474: The title character in new stories himself, although Li'l Wolf continued to play a minor role. Li'l Wolf's first animated appearance was in the Raw Toonage short "The Porker's Court". However, he later appeared, in a more traditional role, in a self-titled short on House of Mouse . The voice for the animated Li'l Wolf in House of Mouse was provided by Sam Gifaldi. Li'l Wolf is not to be confused with
16100-792: The trial, conviction, and near-execution of Horace Horsecollar -- who is falsely accused of the theft -- and Mickey's progress in tracking down the villains. The first Sunday page appeared on January 10, 1932, and was aimed at a younger audience, as most Sunday comic strips were at the time. In September 1932, Mrs. Fieldmouse saddled Mickey with baby-sitting her two pesky twins, Morty and Ferdie , who kept his house in an uproar for two months' worth of strips. They called him "Unca' Mickey", although they didn't seem to be actual relations, but when they returned in March 1935 for another Sunday continuity, they were indeed Mickey's nephews. Other memorable early-1930s storylines include 1932-33's "Blaggard Castle", in which Mickey and Horace are captured and hypnotized by
16240-407: The two dead pigs he ate and jazzed up their story. Now labeled the "Big Bad Wolf," Alexander T. Wolf stated that he was framed. The story ended with a white-bearded Alexander T. Wolf quoting "But maybe you can loan me a cup of sugar." The Looney Tunes series used the Big Bad Wolf as a stock character in several of its shorts, widely varying in its portrayal depending on the short's storyline. In
16380-426: The two pigs who built their houses of straw and sticks claim they do not have to take precautions against the wolf because they signed a non-aggression pact with him. Adolf Wolf invades Pigmania, despite the two pigs protesting that he signed a treaty with them. He destroys their houses, the straw house with "Der Mechanized Huffer Und Puffer" and the stick house with an artillery shell, forcing the pigs to take shelter in
16520-668: The wolf on a project that were not realized at the time of his suspension. In the Soviet animated series Nu Pogodi , the wolf, commonly translated into English as Volk ( Russian : Волк ), is portrayed as a hooligan who eagerly turns to vandalism , abuses minors , breaks laws and is a heavy smoker . His adventures revolve around constant failures to capture a Hare . On the other hand, many of Wolf's attempts to catch Hare are often characterized by uncanny abilities on his part (including figure skating , ballet and waltzing ) which demonstrate his more refined side. Wolf can also play
16660-521: The wolf represents the night swallowing the sun, and the variations in which Little Red Riding Hood is cut out of the wolf's belly represent the dawn. In this interpretation, there is a connection between the wolf of this tale and Skoll or Fenrir , the wolf in Norse mythology that will swallow the sun at Ragnarök . Ethologist Dr. Valerius Geist of the University of Calgary , Alberta wrote that
16800-450: The wolf. The short was so popular that Walt Disney produced several sequels, which also featured the Wolf as the villain. The first of them was named after him: The Big Bad Wolf , also directed by Burt Gillett and first released on April 14, 1934. In the next of the sequels, Three Little Wolves (1936), he was accompanied by three just-as-carnivorous sons. (These three sons were later reduced to just one who, in contrast to his father,
16940-493: The world with a collective circulation of more than 20 million readers each week." Gottfredson stopped plotting the strip in June 1943, passing it on to Disney press agent Bill Walsh , who wrote the strip for the next twenty years. Walsh's first two stories were about fighting the Axis ; the second one, Mickey Mouse on a Secret Mission , enraged Adolf Hitler so much that he demanded Benito Mussolini stop Italians from publishing
17080-563: Was Pluto Saves the Ship , published in Dell Comics' Large Feature Comics #7 in July 1942. The story was written by Disney animators Carl Barks , Jack Hannah and Nick George; it was Barks's first comic book work. Four Color relaunched with a new numbering system in 1942, and in October, Dell published " Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold " as issue #9 of the second series. This 64-page story
17220-442: Was a more humorous wolf, being somewhat stupid and prone to anger. In Pigs in a Polka , the wolf is portrayed as a master of disguise, dressing as a gypsy and a beggar to fool the Three Little Pigs. A typical gag in these stories would have a sign poke into the foreground, stating, "IT'S THE BIG, BAD WOLF," whereupon the wolf would angrily shove it away, saying, "Oh, all right, knock it off! They know who I am!" A different version of
17360-481: Was a strange creature from five hundred years in the future, a highly evolved human who understood future technology and possessed mysterious powers. He had a strange future accent that added a P to the beginning of most words: "I pdon't pthink so!" He was joined in February by his pet Pflip the Thnuckle-Booh, and became Mickey's sidekick for the next few years, returning to his home in the future in July 1950, at
17500-942: Was a success, and Dell followed up the next year with Walt Disney's Vacation Parade #1 (July 1950) and Christmas Parade #2 (Nov 1950). Dell also introduced Bugs Bunny's Christmas Funnies in 1950, and soon all of Dell's top-selling characters had regular annuals and giant issues. Christmas Parade ran for ten issues from 1949 to 1959, and was followed by Walt Disney's Merry Christmas (Dec 1960) and Donald Duck Merry Christmas (Dec 1961). Vacation Parade ran for five annual issues from 1950 to 1954, before being retitled Picnic Party from 1955 to 1957, Mickey Mouse Summer Fun (1958), Walt Disney's Summer Fun (1959), Daisy Duck and Uncle Scrooge Picnic Time (1960) and Mickey and Donald in Vacationland (1961). There were also six annual issues of Donald Duck Beach Party from 1954 to 1959. Mickey Mouse (comic strip) Mickey Mouse
17640-747: Was created by Kay Kamen , a Disney merchandiser. There were three versions of the title: two promotional giveaway magazines published from 1933 to 1935, and a newsstand magazine published from 1935 to 1940. The publication gradually evolved from a 16-page booklet of illustrated text stories and single-page comic panels into a 64-page comic book featuring reprints of the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comic strips. In October 1940, Western rebranded Mickey Mouse Magazine as Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, an anthology comic book series featuring an assortment of Disney characters, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck , Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale , Li'l Bad Wolf , Scamp , Bucky Bug , Grandma Duck , Brer Rabbit , Winnie
17780-533: Was created by Ward Greene , a King Features Syndicate editor who wrote the original magazine story, Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog, and Miss Patsy, the Beautiful Spaniel , which inspired the film. Greene and artist Dick Moores produced the strip for eight months as a continuing story. Starting in May 1956, other creators took over, and the strip moved to a gag-a-day format. Beginning in 1960,
17920-432: Was full of goodness and charm and a friend of the Three Little Pigs.) The fourth cartoon featuring the Three Little Pigs and the Wolf, The Practical Pig , was released in 1939. During World War II , a final, propaganda cartoon followed, produced by The National Film Board of Canada : The Thrifty Pig (1941). At the end of each short, the Wolf is dealt with by the resourceful thinking and hard work of Practical Pig. In
18060-399: Was initially written by Walt Disney with art by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith. Beginning with the May 5, 1930, installment the art chores were taken up by Floyd Gottfredson (often aided by various inkers), who also either wrote or supervised the story continuities (relying on various writers to flesh out his plots). Gottfredson continued with the strip until 1975. By 1931, the Mickey Mouse strip
18200-456: Was issue #386 (March 1952). Scamp also began as a Four Color one-shot with issue #703 (May 1956), which turned into a series in 1958. When they each "graduated" to their own comic books, Dell continued their numbering as if they had been part of a series all along. There were many other Disney characters featured in issues of Four Color . This list shows the first issue for each character: Donald Duck (1942–2017) first appeared as part of
18340-428: Was originally published by Dell Comics (1940–1962), and there have been many revivals over the years, continuing the same legacy numbering. The revivals have been published by Gold Key Comics (1962–1984), Gladstone Publishing (1986–1990), Disney Comics (1990–1993), back to Gladstone Publishing (1993–1999), Gemstone Publishing (2003–2008), Boom! Studios (2009–2011) and IDW Publishing (2015–2020). IDW relaunched
18480-423: Was originally voiced by Anatoli Papanov . In the book Revolting Rhymes , by famous writer Roald dahl , the Big Bad Wolves from "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Three Little Pigs" appear. In the book's version of "Little Red Riding Hood," the Big Bad Wolf devours grandma like the story and an unfooled Little Red Riding Hood uses her concealed pistol to shoot him dead. She managed to make a wolfskin coat from him. In
18620-422: Was published in 60 newspapers in the United States, as well as papers in twenty other countries. From the beginning, the strips were parts of long continuing stories. These introduced characters such as the Phantom Blot , Eega Beeva , and the Bat Bandit , which Gottfredson created; Disney created Eli Squinch , Mickey's nephews, Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse , and Sylvester Shyster , which were also introduced in
18760-400: Was referenced in the film The Mask (1994), when Stanley/The Mask (performed by Jim Carrey ) briefly transforms into him while watching Tina Carlyle perform in a Red Hot Riding Hood-like performance, howling and whistling at her and then banging his head with a mallet. The Mask also changes into his wolf-like form on occasion in the spin-off animated series of the same name , particularly in
18900-574: Was replaced by Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit . Three of the Silly Symphony stories inspired long-running features in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories . Original Bucky Bug stories first appeared in issue #39 (Dec 1943) and appeared every month for seven years, wrapping up with issue #120 (Sept 1950). "The Three Little Pigs" feature inspired the creation of Li'l Bad Wolf , the Big Bad Wolf's errant son, who wants to be friends with
19040-414: Was replaced by Bill Wright from 1942 to 1946. There were seven more Sunday storylines under Gonzales and Wright's tenure: Following "The Professor's Experiment", the Sunday strip shifted completely to the gag-a-week format. Over the years, some loosely connected sequences of strips were also published: In 1949, Gonzales and writer Bill Walsh introduced Ellsworth to the Sunday strips. From 1949 to 1959,
19180-512: Was revived in 1992 as Disney Holiday Story to publicize contemporary Disney feature animated films. In 2017, the Christmas stories were collected in a hardback volume, Disney's Christmas Classics , published by IDW Publishing . The collection includes all of the Christmas stories except for 1986's story based on Song of the South . Disney created a Winnie the Pooh comic strip for King Features Syndicate starting June 19, 1978. Based on
19320-454: Was suggested by Joseph Connolly, the president of King Features Syndicate, in a July 24, 1929 letter to Disney animator Ub Iwerks: "I think your mouse animation is one of the funniest features I have ever seen in the movies. Please consider producing one in comic strip form for newspapers. If you can find time to do one, I shall be very interested in seeing some specimens." The Disney team was busy producing new cartoons, but by November, samples of
19460-420: Was the first Donald Duck story drawn (but not yet written) by Barks. Four Color went on to produce more than 1,000 issues from 1942 to 1962, and the major ongoing Disney comics series were all launched as individual issues of the Four Color series. "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" eventually became the first Donald Duck comic, Mickey Mouse began as issue #27 (1943), and the first Uncle Scrooge comic
19600-493: Was the one who ate Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother following a falling out with his uncle and is killed by Little Red Riding Hood who later skinned him for a wolf-skin coat. Rex eats the Banker Pig's brothers and is killed by Little Red Riding Hood when he tries to use dynamite on his bank. Once Little Red Riding Hood's children are asleep after the story, the Wolf decides not to exact revenge for his dead nephews and leaves
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