Pete's Age

[Jørgen Andreas Bangor]

DWIGHT:
>Or was this already discussed here?

No, it wasn't discussed at all, but I guess I should have mentioned 
that the "Alice in Cartoonland" was mentioned in the Extra issue. A 
villain with peg leg and sigar showed up in "Alice soves the Puzzle" 
which was released 15. february 1925. The villain survived the Alice
movies, and was later the opponent to "Oswald the Rabbit". Then, in  
1928, he got the name "Peg Leg Pete".
According to this article he was the villain in 11 movies with Alice 
and Oswald, and later in 32 Mickey movies. 


I think I will translate a little bit of the article just to show you 
how incredibly stupid it is.

> As a grown up Black Pete started his career as a pirate. At that time
> he did, of course have a peg leg. In the start it was on the right foot,
> but some times it was on the left. After some time ashore his legs 
> became complete. This probably shows that the peg leg was a disguise,
> and that Pete's memory failed from time to time, not the artist's.

I remember I read somewhere that Gottfredson had problems with remembering
which side the peg leg was supposed to be on.



   Jorgen