Morty and Ferdie; The Big Clean-up (1975)
Synopsis: Morty and Ferdie have to get all of the leaves off the front yard, so Mickey can take them to the zoo.
The Big Clean-up (S 73249) | I.N.D.U.C.K.S.
“The Big Clean-up” is one of hundreds of stories that were originally written and/or drawn in America but had no omission to be released IN America. This was all part of the Walt Disney Studio Program. This was literally made because Europe and most likely Brazil complained to Western publishing (which, at this time, had their comic books under the Gold Key brand) that they straight up ran out of American stories, and since this was before they were actively making their own foreign stories, they pretty much demanded that they could get brand new stories. So, a good chunk of writers and artists were in charge of filling in the new demand, which I could only imagine must’ve been a total nightmare, especially knowing how Disney would pay their comic writers and artists (spoilers: it ain’t that high).
Because these were mainly made as a side project behind the main stories for Gold Key’s issues, alot of these are usually very short, they’re not as detailed or would have as many more unique poses as you would usually see, and alot of these step out of the usual Donald, Mickey and Scrooge stories, and instead, would now give the more smaller and side-characters the starlight (for better or worse, depending on the story).
This short story is about Mickey’s nephews; Morty and Ferdie. That’s about it. It’s a cute story, but you can tell by this point in time, they were forced to tone things down in order to make the comic books more “presentable” to kids (or more realistically, their very strict parents who’ll complain about literally anything). Also, with alot of these S-code stories, if not done by Tony Strobl, Jack Bradbury, Dick Kinney or Al Hubbard, you’re shit out of luck when it comes to knowing who knows what. Alot of funny animal American comics during this time never credited anyone, and with these being shuffled around to different countries, it makes it way extra harder.
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