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Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Hoppy the Kangaroo
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Title:
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Hoppy the Kangaroo
NFSA ID
1729289
Year
1988
The cover to this 1988 comic Hoppy the Kangaroo shows how global animation giant Disney has incorporated Australiana into its repertoire – and this wasn't the first time either. The comic was inspired by Mickey’s Kangaroo, a Walt Disney animation from 1935, in which Mickey receives a visit from Hoppy and her joey. While Hoppy's face, as rendered by the artists at Disney for the film and the comic, looks unmistakably mouse-like, her boxing prowess is pure marsupial. This curious piece of Australian-American cultural exchange was echoed in 1954 with the appearance of the Tasmanian Devil in the long-running Warner Bros animation series, Looney Tunes.
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