WALT DISNEYS MICKEY MOUSE HC VOL 1: RACE TO DEATH VALLEY (DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE HC) Hardcover – 14 Jun. 2011

I have always been a fan of Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse and hoped that some day somebody would publish all the adventure strips he made in a chronologically order in the original format (well, OK, in this book they are printed in a smaller size than originals). Now it has finally happened. Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse is in every way as fun as Carl Barks' Donald Duck and shouldn't be forgetted. As a bonus, there are also some background articles. I recommend this book and the whole series to every fan of comics. Fine storytelling and great graphics.

Not a mega Mickey Mouse fan but I really like the strips in this book (there are a lot of them and all are fairly decent quality). There are also many essays included with the book discussing the artwork, magazines etc of the period. Overall, totally recommended book

I expected more of actual character art and there is only one chapter devoted to that at the beginning and at the end. Basically it is full of old comic strips with Mickey Mouse :)

AMAZING

Very funny.

Preciosa edición.

I'm really just stunned at the quality of newspaper comic strip reprint collections coming along these days. It seems that all of the publishers have stepped up their game to make these collections the best they can possibly be. Fantagraphics has outdone themselves with "Race to Death Valley." The book itself is a beauty, just the right size without being too large or too small. Some might complain that the strips (3 to a page) are too small, but to my eye they appear just about right, emphasizing Floyd Gottfredson's art to the best advantage (and the reproduction quality is outstanding). The stories are just great, movie serial, pulp style adventures. In addition to the comics themselves, Fantagraphics has again gone one step beyond in providing a wealth of background material, including essays on the genesis of the Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, Floyd Gottfredson, analysis, appreciations and more, with lots of color illustrations from the Disney archives. Each story sequence has it's own introduction, and there's an additional section at the end of the book that reprints the very first sequence of the comic strip (by Disney himself and Ub Iwerks) from just before the arrival of Floyd Gottfredson and "Race to Death Valley." In fact, there's so much background material crammed into this book, I'm not sure Fantagraphics can maintain this level through future volumes (but I hope they can). If you've loved these strips before, this is a collection you'll absolutely want to have on your shelf. If you've never read Mickey Mouse's "Indiana Jones" style adventures before, this is a great opportunity to dive in and see what you've been missing. With Amazon's price, it's beyond a bargain and a worthy addition to the growing library of quality newspaper strip reprints.

These strips come from the 1930 when Mickey Mouse was still in his infancy. This was a year after he appeared in his first cartoon and many things about him were still being worked out. The first thing one notices is how the roster is very short. No Donald Duck and crew. No Goofy. Pluto is introduced halfway through the book. So the only characters on deck are Mickey, Minnie - referred to here as a flapper -, Horsecollar, and Clarabella Cow.Mickey's appearance is also different. In the beginning he was given perfectly black button eyes, before he graduated to the regular orbs we know today. The adventures here are humorous, really longer scale versions of the cartoon, and very fun. The adventure strip was starting to become more popular in the comics world and Floyd Gottfredson picked up the task with gusto, writing and drawing the comic for close to forty years.Also included are numerous essays about the comic strip and the men behind them, plus a collection of the first weeks of the comic written and drawn by Ub Iwerks. Good fun for the Mickey enthusiast.