"Mickey Mouse" Comic Strip
- Artist/Author/Producer: Disney, Walt (1901-1966)
- Confronting Bodies: Prince Paul, The National Conference of Juvenile Literature of Italy
- Dates of action: 1932+
- Location: United States, Yugoslavia, Italy, East Germany
- Description of the Art Work
- "Mickey Mouse" : internationally syndicated comic strip.
- Description of incident
- 1932 United States: A "Mickey Mouse" cartoon was suppressed because it
showed a cow resting in a pasture reading Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks."
1937 Yugoslavia-Belgrade: The "Mickey Mouse" comic strip was banned
because of supposedly anti-monarchical story picturing a plot against a
young king and a conspiracy to place an impostor on the throne.
Concurrently a regency headed by Prince Paul was ruling the country
during the minority of King Peter.
1938 Italy-Rome: The National Conference of Juvenile Literature decided
that "Mickey Mouse" was unsuitable for the minds of children.
- Results of incident
- 1938 Italy-Rome: Editors were instructed to eliminate it as contrary to
"Italian inspiration as to racism, and exaltation of the imperial,
Fascist and Mussolinian tone in which we live." Children, they said,
should be trained in the principles of "sleeping with the head on a
knapsack." However, a distinction was made between guns handled by
organized youth and gunplay as depicted in the comics.
1954 Germany-East Berlin: Communist raided the schools in search of
Western books. They found "Mickey Mouse" comics and banned them because
"Mickey Mouse" was classed as anti-Red rebel.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B.
Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
