Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse High Noon at Inferno Gulch: Volume 3

Una colección divina para el lector adulto y los niños

One of the world's most recognizable pop-culture icons, Walt Disney's unstoppable breadwinner Mickey Mouse has a wild past of which many fans are blissfully and unenviably unaware. It's safe to say that no other mouse has experienced more daredevil action or comic thrills than the classic comic-strip Mickey, who returns in Volume 3 of this priceless hardcover series with awesome adventures of epic proportions. With help from scripters Ted Osborne and Merrill de Maris and inker Ted Thwaites, artist-plotter Floyd Gottfredson, who anonymously guided the strip for 45 years, takes our big-eared champion through saber-rattling suspense in Middle-Eastern Umbrellastan and dusty shoot-em-ups in treacherous Texas, where those who only know the later-milquetoast Mickey might be surprised to see him packing a six-shooter. It's here that Horace Horsecollar plays the partner-in-adventure for the last time before Dippy Dawg (the later Goofy) lopes his way to primary-sidekick status. Barely taking a breath, Mickey and Dippy return to Mouseton, where they and Donald Duck (in an extended cameo) face down mobsters who want to wreck their crime-fighting newspaper. The valiant rodent deals with the adorable but trouble-prone "Bobo the Elephant," meets the malicious miser Eli Squinch, and takes on the well-developed threat of Dr. Vulter with the help of his "Pirate Submarine." Plus, the slovenly sidekick Pegleg Pete steps out of evil lawyer Sylvester Shyster's shadow to become Mickey's main villain. The superbly packaged Volume 3 includes over 50 pages of special features and is a joy to read.

In Italia sono uscite innumerevoli antologie e raccolte cronologiche delle strisce di Mickey Mouse/Topolino, dalle raccolte in volume ai paperbacks, dalla pubbilcazione su quotidiani ai periodici della Disney. Rarissime, paradossalmente, sono invece le ristampe in USA. Questa collana, che si spera continui, rappresenta quindi un'occasione quasi unica per poter leggere le strisce di Floyd Gottfredson in lingua originale, senza tagli, censure e modifiche dovute alle traduzioni e all'evoluzione della morale e dei costumi, oltre che dalle esigenze editoriali.Edizione pregiatissima per qualità di stampa e di pubblicazione, è arrichita da numerosi articoli originali e ristampati nonché da illustrazioni e rarità; alcuni curatori dell'opera sono italiani, forse proprio in virtù di quanto detto sopra. Rispetto al prezzo di copertina, un'opera di questo livello è, a mio avviso, imperdibile.Le strisce sono in bianco e nero, come originariamente concepite, ma gli inserti e le storie aggiuntive sono, quando previsto, a colori. Unica "pecca": mancano, per scelta editoriale, le tavole domenicali.

Fantástica edición de la obra de Floyd. Sin pega alguna.

Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey is a greater hero than any tight-wearing pantywaist that Marvel or DC ever put out. He's a little guy, but he's unstoppable! Whether Mickey's battling a two-faced bandit, a crooked gambling ring, racketeers and corrupt government officials, terrorists intent on conquering the world or the dirty dog who's about to throw Clarabelle out of her home, he always wins! Some of the bad guys (notably Peg Leg Pete) don't learn the lesson that good triumphs over evil, but Mickey grits his teeth and cheerfully beats 'em again. He's not one of these morose, angst-ridden whiners and he doesn't depend on any freakish super powers. That's why Mickey's adventures are as relevant today as when Gottfredson wrote them in the Thirties.