Sylvester Shyster
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Sylvester Shyster is a character created by Floyd Gottfredson for the Mickey Mouse Comic Strips. Shyster is an evil lawyer who teams up with Black Pete.
He first appeared in the comic strip adventure "Mickey Mouse in Death Valley", the first real Mickey Mouse continuity, which was partially written by Walt Disney. Therefore, he is the only exclusive to comic strip character created by Disney himself!
Whenever Shyster appears along with Pete, we always know that he's the one in charge, and is probably the only person Pete will listen to without rebellion.
He and Pete have been causing trouble for Mickey and his friends since then. Shyster disappeared after 1934, and made a comeback in 1942. Since then, he has never appeared in new stories until Egmont Creative A/S (in Denmark) revived him as a Mickey Mouse villain.
It should be noted that in "Race to the South Seas" (March of Comics 41, 1949), a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, he appeared as Scrooge McDuck's lawyer, but his appearance differed from that in the Mickey Mouse strip and he was not an evil villain in that story.
Sylvester Shyster's United States Appearances:
- Mickey Mouse in Death Valley (April 1st, 1930 to September 20th, 1930 in the MM dailies; Reprinted in an edited form in Mickey Mouse Best Comics)
- The Great Orphanage Robbery (January 11th, 1932 to May 14th, 1932 in the MM dailies)
- Mickey Mouse Sails for Treasure Island (May 16th, 1932 to November 11th, 1932 in the MM dailies)
- The Mail Pilot (February 27th, 1933 to June 10th, 1933 in the MM dailies; Reprinted in Mickey Mouse in Color and Walt Disney's Comics & Stories 610-612)
- The Sacred Jewel (October 15th, 1934 to December 29th, 1934 in the MM dailies; Reprinted in an edited form in Mickey Mouse Best Comics)
- The Mystery at Hidden River (October 6th, 1941 to January 17th, 1942 in the MM dailies; Was redrawn by Bill Wright for Walt Disney's Comics & Stories 112-116)
- The Past Imperfect! (Walt Disney's Comics & Stories 632)
- Pirates of the Vacuum (Gemstone's Donald Duck Adventures 7)
- Mickey for Mayor (Walt Disney's Comics & Stories 653)
- History Re-Petes Itself (Walt Disney's Comics & Stories 654)
---Thad Komorowski