The above cut-out from the no. 210 of Britain's Mickey Mouse Weekly enables the readers to dress up Big Bad Wolf as a highwayman, a fitting identity for this character. Highwayman was the name given to outlaws who laid in wait on roads and robbed travellers in the medieval ages in England. It has been recorded that they were nevertheless subject to a degree of admiration from the public and heroic portraits in literature.
The below scan is the instructions to the readers regarding the cut-out.
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I love the fact that Dirty Bill was once known so well that his unseen presence, to be featured one week later, was perceived as worth announcing by the publisher!
In many cases it seems like Disney-affiliate publishers liked certain characters far more than the Disney animation studio did. It's difficult otherwise to explain how so many classic Disney characters went unused in the 1940s, while an eternity of dull Pluto cartoons were created...
I agree with you completely that "In many cases it seems like Disney-affiliate publishers [and readers, we should add] liked certain characters far more than the Disney animation studio did. " with regards to "It's difficult otherwise to explain how so many classic Disney characters went unused in the 1940s, while an eternity of dull Pluto cartoons were created": hey, I like pluto in general 'though I am not familiar with all his cartoons, you are probably right that most are repetitious. anyway, the disney amination department did certainly loose inspiration from 1940s onwards. I am not sure, but perhaps it might partially have to with the animators strike. It seems quite a lot of talent at animation left disney after the strike.
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