Mickey (was Re: Disney-comics digest #209.)

[Fabio Gadducci]

>>>I have this written down *somewhere*, but I can't seem to find it:
>>>Didn't Gladstone convert an old Gottfredson adventure into comic book
>>>format, during the days of their "Mickey Mouse" comic book, which then
>>>proceeded to never see print?
>>
>>Sounds like 'Mickey Mouse joins the Foreign Legion".  The story was
>>banned by Disney, so Gladstone cannot print it.
>
>I found my notes - It seems that there are two prepared stories that
>remain unused - one is "Mickey Joins the Foreign Legion" and the other
>is "Sacred Jewel." 
>
>So what's the reason for not printing "Sacred Jewel"?

Well, if it is the story with Captain Churchmouse (I do not remember the
English title... I refer to the one where Mickey and Goofy are looking for
a jewel robbed by Pete and Eli), I think there are a lot of "politically
correctness" reasons not to reprint it: the stereotyped Arabian characters,
for a start....
Even Disney Italy would have some problems in reprinting it (even if it
appeared during the last year of Mondadori, in the chronological reprint of
all Gottfredson's works)


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