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It doesn’t matter how old things may be, Mickey Mouse and Disney never cease to amaze everyone. The Disney archives have unveiled a previously unreleased sketch from 1938 that was unearthed just a few months ago after being lost in a folder more than 74 years ago.
The sketch has Mickey and his nemesis Pegleg Pete – when he still had the pegleg – in what looks to be a nightmarish scene straight from a horror movie. The sketch will be on display at the D23 Fanniversary events that will be going on around the country in the coming months. Doctor Disney will be attending the event happening in Orlando on March 8, 2013.
In “Mickey’s Toothache,” created in April 1938, artist Ferdinand Horvath has the newly adventurous Mickey experiencing something akin to a psychedelic nightmare. In the words of Disney Archives Director Becky Cline, Mickey has traveled to the dentist and fallen under the influence of too much laughing gas. The overdose sends Mickey into a “nightmarish world inhabited by living teeth, dental floss, a psychotic dentist’s chair and a vengeful pair of dental pliers,” said Cline.
Mickey’s then-nemesis Pete also makes an appearance in the nightmare scenario. It culminates with Mickey being put on trial led, of course, by a judgmental wisdom tooth, who charges Mickey with tooth neglect.
