Shocking Mickey Mouse comic!!!!

[sublimesting]

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/08/02/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-114/

I couldn't believe it but Mickey Mouse tried to kill himself once, actually 3 or 4 times......

 

[Mawg]

It's a good thing he failed or the world would be a much different place.

 

[sublimesting]

It's a good thing he failed or the world would be a much different place.

Mommy Daddy I want to wait in line to hug Slicker and get his autograph!!!!! His big city ways are hilaious!!!!

 

[Bob Saget]

Wow. That's pretty dark stuff for Disney. It's been said that those who know the underground stuff behind a lot of Disney certainly view the company differently than we do as a fan base. But suicide is pushing it a bit. Not funny, Mickey.

 

[disneysince71]

Walt must have been having a depressed day...

 

[trr1]

isn't that around the time he had a mental breakdown? found here
Walt Disney suffered a nervous breakdown in 1931 and descended into depression after the war, concentrating his attention on model trains rather than on motion pictures.

 

[AllyInWonderland]

I'm now scarred for life ....

 

[sublimesting]

There is another old comic that references Goofy being a widower as well. Our Disney friends had some rough early years....

 

[prberk]

Actually, I think it just reminds us how sanitized and politically correct our literature today has become; and conversely, how straightforward it was then. Look at the traditional Looney Tunes. They had "comic violence" and black-and-white ideas. How many times does an anvil fall on someone? And how many people over 30 know what an anvil is exactly because of comic violence.

Mickey came to his senses and the moral of the story (not much different than the sentiment of "It's a Wonderful Life," which came from the same time period, also about a person considering suicide but finding that his life has meaning and that it would be crazy to have done it) was in tact. It just was not sanitized like so many "children's" programs are today... which to me has its own problems.

Sometimes I think we have lost something in the way that we approach "children's" programs in making them so squeeky-clean and avoiding real life issues. I sometimes think of The Little Rascals and The Three Stooges. The Rascals ("Our Gang" comedies) featured little kids in comic adventures dealing with their world -- scars and all sometimes. Not suicide that I can remember, but certainly poverty and depression -- and even fire crackers! It was the '30s, and they had different races playing with each other honestly. And of course, the Stooges were always being politically incorrect in the way that they beat upon each other (more anvils).

I guess my point is that we have come a long way, and that is good in may ways; but sometimes it is instructive to see how other generations grew kids with strength and fortitude without such sanitized children's programming and literature.