The strips are printed three to a page, with dozens of pages of supplementary material. They are mostly in black-and-white, with some color pages, and each collects about two years' worth of strips. A Big Little Book is a small, compact book. Mickey becomes an air mail pilot, and battles air pirates stationed in a zepplin with a machinegun mounted to his airplane. The scene is taken from the Disney cartoon The Mail Pilot produced in 1933 and features both Mickey and Minnie Mouse. The hardcover volumes are designed by Jacob Covey, and are in a 10.5" x 8.75" (26.67 x 22.225 cm) landscape format. Softcover Whitman Big Little Book, reprinted from the daily strip beginning Februand ending June 10, 1932. These books are the first time Gottfredson's work has been collected in North America, although they've previously been collected in the 1980s in Germany as The Complete Daily Strip Adventures of Mickey Mouse 1930-1955 and more recently in Italy as Gli anni d'oro di Topolino.
In the earlier years, the focus of this series, it was a humorous adventure strip, as was common at the time, but in the later years became gag-focused, as most strips were as comic strips continued to shrink in size throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Gottfredson's run on Mickey Mouse lasted until 1975. As presented in the books, however, the more dated material is accompanied by explanatory text, putting it in the context of its historical time.
MICKEY THE MAIL PILOT SERIES
The series is uncensored, and as the strips were done in the 1930s, some of the strips may come across as offensive to modern readers, especially due to racial stereotypes that were common at the time. These volumes start with Gottfredson's work from April 1, 1930, while including the Disney/Iwerks strips in an appendix to the first volume. with children of his age (Chester Gump at Silver Creek Ranch and Mickey Mouse, the Mail Pilot) they sat quietly in the front seat and waited for death. Gottfredson took over the strip when Disney and Iwerks found themselves too busy, and he continued with it until 1975. The strip debuted on January 13, 1930, and was initially written by Walt Disney and drawn by Ub Iwerks.
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