As you may have read in the DHI blog, I have been in Los Angeles the last eight days, and I’m just now back and posting comments and responses. So for this inaugural installment of “Help Wanted”, are there any readers who are members of DeMolay or have connections with the organization and its archives who can locate the missing strips and any other information?įirst off, my apologies for the delay in posting your comment and responding.
I suspect there weren’t many but the Disney Archives has no written record of this strip or Walt agreeing to have it created and published. The Walt Disney Archives has no record of this unique comic strip and there is no way of telling how long it ran although I suspect it didn’t last beyond Spencer’s death and probably ended even earlier.ĭisney Historian Jim Korkis was able to find this announcement of the very first DeMolay comic strip (and a poor reproduction of another episode where Pluto disrupts a DeMolay meeting) but has been frustrated in his attempts to find further examples or even how many episodes there were of the strip. He had no connection with the comic strip department and the artwork has some resemblance to the work of Floyd Gottfredson. He is perhaps best known for his work on the early Donald Duck, and he met a tragic end in a car accident in 1938. Fred Spencer joined the Disney Studio in 1931 and worked on the early Mickey Mouse cartoons.
It was signed by Walt Disney and was different than the Mickey Mouse comic strip that was appearing in the newspapers since it was two-tiers and specifically referenced DeMolay activities. Walt was quite impressed with Frank Land, the founder of DeMolay and they had a long friendship.īeginning in 1932, another DeMolay member, Fred Spencer of the Walt Disney Studios, began sending an original Mickey Mouse comic strip entitled “Mickey Mouse Chapter” for DeMolay’s national newsletter. Walt’s involvement with DeMolay meant a great deal to him and he proudly wore a DeMolay ring on his right hand until the late 1940s, when he replaced it with the Royal Claddagh ring.
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