There isn't an animated character who is more recognized than Mickey Mouse. Created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1928 after the loss of their first creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit ...

In May 1928, at a movie theater on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the crowd was treated to an unannounced preview of a new silent cartoon from a local studio. The viewers had no idea they were ...

More than 40 million gas masks were issued. In America there was a gas mask for children that looked like Mickey Mouse, with the character's nose and ears and even a picture of him on the gas filter.