Looking Back on Dumbo's Weird Comic Crossovers
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- What, you thought Dumbo's story ended in the movie? Not in the Disney Comicsverse! Dumbo has a long way to go, and it involves a lot of other characters, some beloved, some obscure.
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Man, I loved those crack team-ups from the old Disney comics. Brer Fox just lives within scheming distance of everybody.
He was definitely one of Disney's go to villains back then!
and just works so well wherever he goes!
I always had a hunch that Dumbo and Dopey would be friends. Thanks for validating me!
I had a Disney comic with a story that teamed up Dumbo, Timothy Q. Mouse and Jiminy Cricket. They helped a farmer rid his crops of some pesky, bullying grasshoppers (who beat up Jiminy and Timothy before Dumbo drove them out with "crop dust" made out of powdered red peppers). The thing that made the story unique among Dumbo comic book adventures is that Dumbo did not speak at all during the story -- which made him seem much more like the original movie version of Dumbo.
Come to think of it ... those bullying grasshoppers may have been the inspiration for Hopper and his gang in Pixar's "A Bug's Life," some forty years later!
Do you still have it? 0w0
I'm also disappointed that Timothy Mouse doesn't appear in any of these comics. He's extremely underrated.
7:40 oh god that's like that one rudolph "deviation from the norm will be punished unless it's exploitable" meme
I just love him in Who Framed Roger Rabbit??
Yeah, but he was paid peanuts...
I don’t think you intended this, but the Carl Barks Dumbo comic where he meets Huey, Dewey, and Louie was reprinted this week in Fantagraphics “The Carl Barks Library” latest volume! I opened my copy today, and was surprised to see it knowing this video was coming.
Pretty amazing that even Grumpy gets along with Dumbo! All the other dwarfs makes sense but Grumpy? Wow! Also love the whackyness of the Sky Voyage story!
Interestingly enough, most of these stories give Dumbo dialogue whereas in the movies his actions spoke more for him than words ever could. Looking at these comics, do you suppose that Dumbo would have sounded like he did in the Dumbo's Circus series on The Disney Channel so very long ago?
Personally, I love crossover stories. I think they're fun.
And on an unrelated note, to be fair by the end of Pablo's cartoon segment he really did look kind of homesick.
I mean, let's be realistic, penguins aren't built to live in the tropics.
3:44 -- "...who's on the run from the deceased Wicked Queen's brother, the equally Wicked Prince." Is this where Filmation got the idea for the plot of their pseudo-Disney Snow White sequel "Happily Ever After?"
I've heard there was this one comic where Huey, Dewey and Louie met Casey Jr., who is looking for a magical wizard on a mountain so he could be turned into a modern locomotive. And the ducks and steam train are sent on a quest by the wizard to make Casey's wish come true. In the end, the wizard does grant Casey a wish which is... a supply of chocolate flavored coal.
I use to get the Disney comics sometimes as a kid. I had one with Donald in particular. I can't remember the story but as a 4/5 year old, it was so cool. I love that the crows and the Song of the South characters get parts in these.
It's so funny, as a kid you just accept all of this as brass tacks, but re-reading these as an adult, you're like "what made my kid brain just roll with this without question??" and "Why are ALL the Disney Comics like this???"
So Maleficent and Madam Mim are on a date right?
I loved these old Disney comics (which I only got to read through reprints in digest form in the 1970s) because of the random way in which characters who don't belong together would just randomly team up. And of course, there's the weird element that characters who weren't all that important anymore (by the 70s) still might have a major role to play in the comics since they didn't have a ton of different characters to choose from back in those days. I remember reading a lot of stories with Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear... but I also look back with fondness on the Little Hiawatha stories which would be probably also be considered super-racist these days (I was just a little kid when I was reading them at the time, so I thought it was probably okay to have such stereotypical depictions of Native Americans). (I also remember a TON of Bucky Bug stories even though I had no idea where he was from.)
Bucky Bug was created for the comics only, I believe. He almost made an animated appearance on the Disney series Raw Toonage, but the episode idea was shelved.
And yes, I have a few Little Hiawatha comics myself, which aren't exactly the most PC stories in the world, but I guess it was a different time. Glad you also like those wacky older stories! I do miss the crossover element in modern times.
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He also made a small cameo in a Silly Symphony.
@@ColinLooksBack there was one comic where dumbo met Mickey mouse.
3:50- random fan: Filmation came up with the idea of the Queen’s evil brother. At least that’s-
Sees Disney comic with Queen’s evil brother.
Random fan: oh….
I own one of the two "Meeting the Dwarves" Crossover Comics in a "Golden Age" Book of Disney Comics--considered one of the best sellers of it's time, along with the other comics printed within the table of contents. 🙂
I also love how there's an legit way to explain for Dumbo to meet anthro-characters (unlike in "Dumbo Circus", where those anthro-characters are original and don't serve any kind of explanation). The comic's explanation; Crossovers! Lol! 😂
There should be a Disney+ Series involving said Crossovers to give us original AND new ideas on "What If These Characters Met Each Other?"...minus Dumbo talking, not speaking is part of his infancy charm, of course 😁
I believe that Sheik character is reoccurring in MIckey Mouse (I don't think he's a Floyd Gottfredson or animated character, though)
4:10- I’m not perplexed by the giant from the rave little tailor showing nor the dwarfs meeting Dumbo. I’m more baffled that Dumbo can talk.
7:41 CASEY JR!!!!😃😃😃
Will you take a look at the comics career of Scamp from Lady and the Tramp?
What a wierd time to be alive and reading the newest issue of Dumbo and the Seven Dwarves.
Intresting videos and you made me look up certain stuff and I am a bit more knowledgeable thanks to it.
I hope it’s not too late to bring back Dumbo II. I would certainly like to see it.
Disney was doing share univers before buying Marvel
How come Timothy Mouse wasnt involved in any comic ?
Isn’t Dumbo set now a days and Snow While in medieval times ⁉️
I believe it was Robert Lewis Chipman, AKA "MovieBob", who coined the phrase "COMICS ARE WEIRD!!!" There really doesn't seem to be any train of logic for a lot of them, and a lot of stories and interactions feel made up on the fly (and probably were for all we know) with no thought to internal consistency or continuity... Probably because they were thought of as disposable entertainment for children who wouldn't pay attention to or care about that kind of thing. Either way, it's why comics always tend to get very strange, especially if you're familiar with the subjects in question, like Dumbo here.
Edit: 2:14 - Spamton vibes here. Toby Fox, you've ruined me.
Why did Brer Fox want to scare Dumbo away? Just for the heck of it?
Also, Giant Chicken Gustav reminds me very much of Foghorn Leghorn.
Can you talk about the history about dinosaurs in animation
How are there only 30 comments?
Its weird hearing Vic Lockmen being mentioned, as I only know him from books like Biblical Economics in Comic or God's Law for Modern Man (the man is a devout Christian).
Where is in one big bird or orange Oscar