01 Mouse
01 Mouse
Last Gasp August 1971
The lead stories in both issues of Air Pirates Funnies (published by Last Gasp in July & August 1971), created by O’Neill, London, and Hallgren, focused on Walt Disney characters, most notably from Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, with the Disney characters engaging in adult behaviors such as sex and drug consumption. O’Neill insisted it would dilute the parody to change the names of the characters, so his adventurous mouse character was called “Mickey”.
Ted Richards took on the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs, opening up a second wave of parody attacking Disney’s appropriation of European (and American) folklore. In doing so, they infringed Disney’s copyrights by using characters the company created without permission. On October 21, 1971, Disney filed a lawsuit against O’Neill, Hallgren, London and Richards (Flenniken had not contributed to the parody stories).
Bobby London – 1, 3-13, 25-34+, 35, 36 • Gary Hallgren – 2, 23, 24, 25-34+ • Dan O’Neill – 13-20, 25-34+ • Ted Richards – 21, 22, 25-34+, 36
2 – Big Mac • 3 – Dirty Duck • 13 – Silly Sympathies • 21 – Dopin’ Dan • 23 – Keyhole Komix presents “As You Like It” • 25 – Silly Sympathies presents “The Mouse” • 35 – Merton of the Movement • 36 – Dopin’ Dan