Posted 4 years ago
fortapache
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Another boxed Disneykins. This one is Monty Mouse which is a nephew of Mickey Mouse. Cartoon characters back then all had nephews and not sons..
Now a confusing thing is that his name may be Morty and not Monty. Mickey's rival was named Mortimer/Monty. He was a slick character. But Morty is short for Mortimer. Eventually he is called Morty but he may have been Monty too. He has a twin brother who tends to disappear for a few decades. He has little screen time but is mostly in the comic strip. For this post I will call him Monty.
Monty is quite small only 7/8ths of an inch tall. In the last photo he is with Mickey in the TV Scenes box.
Sadly I am out of Disneykins to post I shall need to get more.
This is great fortapache! The first time I've ever seen this Disneykin. I never knew that Mickey had a nephew named Monty until now.
Thank you very much Scott. I hadn't heard of him either.
fortapache, Cool. :-)
Monty and Ferdie:
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Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse are Mickey Mouse's twin nephews, who first appeared in Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse Sunday comic strip continuity titled Mickey's Nephews (published in 1932). Since then, they have appeared in lots of comic strips, storybooks, and comic book stories starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto, but unlike Donald Duck's nephews and Goofy’s son, they have very rarely ever appeared in animation.
Morty should not be confused with Mickey's often times rival of the same name, or Minnie's wealthy rancher uncle Mortimer.
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https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Morty_and_Ferdie_Fieldmouse
Thank you very much keramikos. Thus the confusion in the name. Could be Marx got the name wrong.