"Mickey's Craziest Adventures" is a graphic novel by Lewis Trondheim with art by Nicolas Keramidas that tells a lost story from the 1960s, or does it?

Presented is a wild adventure story starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. We follow them as they chase after the Beagle Boys who have stolen Scrooge McDuck's money bin. The story takes them across different locations and even into space! The pages were long thought lost, so the reader can understand that some of the reproductions are damaged and some pages are missing.

Except this is a clever trick and this is a wholly original new story presented in a very convincing way, but presented as a classic work. This is well executed in art and story. Bravo!

A cute book with some adventure that is not at all Disney. If you're looking for a vintage feel read then this is fun.

Embark on a riotous journey with “Mickey’s Craziest Adventures,” a comedic gem that playfully spoofs Silver Age comics. When Peg Leg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin, Mickey and Donald traverse lost cities, ancient lands, and even space in pursuit. Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas masterfully blend modern indie-comics style with vintage Disney charm, presenting this uproarious tale as a lost 1965 classic. Delightful for all ages, it’s a clever nod to comic clichés, a testament to the timeless appeal of Disney humor.

Review of Mickey’s Craziest Adventures:
If you loved the Sunday Funnies as a child, Mickey’s Craziest Adventures is the perfect read for those nostalgic feelings to come flying back into your day. As the authors state at the beginning of the book, the series is incomplete, but what they were able to salvage is enough to have you laughing, and if you have kids, a great way to get them into reading.

Even with all the time that has passed, the 1965 context of “Walt Disney’s Mickey and Donald: Mickey’s Craziest Adventures” is still funny. It makes it even more enjoyable to read now, knowing that’s what was funny then. This book could’ve easily been something your parents had read as children, and you are now reading, and your kids can read also.

I had a blast reading this graphic novel. The story starts simple enough, but gets wilder as it moves forward. We see Mickey and Donald find themselves in tons of stunning places that puts them in all kinds of danger. When all hope seems lost, some dear friends help them catch up to a group of bad guys. Fans of Mickey Mouse will definitely want to check this graphic novel out.

**ARC provided by NetGalley for honest review**

Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald: Mickey's Craziest Adventures by Lewis Trondheim was a collection of lost scenes from the old Disney Mickey comics. It was very nostalgic and fun at first, but I was a bit confused reading because I didn't realize going in that the story wasn't complete, so it jumped around a lot, skipping many scenes to get to the next part. It was fine, but I would only recommend if you're a hardcore Disney history fan and won't mind some holes in your story experience.

I got this on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!

As a lover of the Donald Duck comic books we have in Scandinavia, this felt very flat to me. HOWEVER, it gives the kind of short comic strips in the newspapers kind of vibes, which makes it fun for what it is! I always recommend stuff like this for kids around ages 8-12!

This was not really what I was expecting from this book. It gave me old school newspaper comic book vibes but with mickey and friends. I feel like this is catered to an older group of kids vs your typical demographic for mickey which would be around 2-5 years old. I wouldn't read this again, but overall it was fine.

Stellar entertainment. If only all of these comics could be found and returned to their former glory. A must for any Disney fan, amazingly fun and funny, so much sass and character. The adventures of Mickey and Donald are zany well illustrated and vastly enjoyable.

This book was created specifically to tug at your nostalgia - and that's not a bad thing.

I loved the concept. The introduction in the book tells us this is a presumably lost series of one-pagers about Mickey and Donald, complete with wear, tear and missing pages. Don't believe everything you read! In reality this was created intentionally from scratch to mix in the adult jokes and less-than-official Disney art style reminiscent of classic French comics.

It's a marvelous short journey back to a time when Disney comics were everywhere. It reminded me of inhaling entire volumes borrowed from my cousin at full speed, then starting them all over again to experience the stories in a new light. I'm grateful to the authors for creating and sharing this spin-off for us adults who grew up with these stories.

If you're a fan of classic Disney and French comics, give this excellent mash-up a go!

✨ Disclaimer ✨ I received a free copy of this book and this is my honest review.

Madcap adventures that sort of bleed into each other after a while but I loved the conceit that this was a "rediscovered" Carl Barks era Mouse comic. Fun although not something I'll probably return to.

Loved that these comics showed a side of Disney that we rarely see from the Mickey shows today. It was a little confusing at first because the stories jump a little bit but not so much that you can’t follow along. This would be great for a Disney fan’s collection.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liked it, fun while I was reading it

When Peg Leg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down… across lost cities, ancient lands, under the sea, in the air, and…into space?!? In a hilarious satire that will entertain all ages, Mickey’s Craziest Adventures introduces its epic tale as if it were a rare 1965 Disney classic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in fragments — but in fact, modern comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas have created an exciting all-new album-length stand-alone Disney thriller, drawn in a kinetic indie-comics style and presented like a classic vintage work, hiding the fact that it's actually shamelessly spoofing Silver Age comics clichés!

Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia, for a time when I wasn't even a glimmer in my parent's eyes yet. This really is for the true Disney fan. It's actually a modern spoof trying to look like a 1965 Disney Classic. Pages are missing, you can see the decay on some of the panels, making it look more believable and super fun! You can follow the story even with the "holes" and I liked that it was for all ages.

Thank you to Fantagraphics Books, NetGalley, and author Lewis Trondheim for providing me with a digital ARC copy of this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review. Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald: Mickey's Craziest Adventures is out February 27, 2024.

This was a collection of recovered comic pages hat instantly made my heart happy. As someone who grew up reading graphic novels and Disney cartoons, the nostalgia hit hard!

I received a complimentary copy of this book via Netgalley. Opinions expressed in this review are my own

I loved taking Mickey and his friends' comics out from the school library as a child, and this book brought me right back. It has a comfort that only Mickey can bring.

The story is entertaining and a real throwback to the vintage Disney shorts.

This was super cute but felt a little disjointed. I wish it did not skip some of the chapters as I feel like it would have helped with the overall flow of the story a bit more.

It was fun to see a collection like this! The art was expressive with the varies locations of said adventure, the dialogue felt in character for Mickey and crew. It was just a fun romp. Give this a look if you like all ages adventure comics!

I like how they built this up as a lost comic with missing pages, tears and water damage. The art's great. The story is fun. Good stuff.

This book was a very cute concept and I loved how the authors wanted to share with readers the old mickey and Donald comics they found at a garage sale. Each comic was unique, short/to the point, and continued from the last one to show the whole story. I thought this was so fun and really cool to be able to see how the old Disney comics were made. I will say, after a while I got kind of bored. It felt like it didn’t have depth to it. It was just one adventure to the next, which I know was the point of these comics, but I wish it flowed together a little bit better and maybe had more detail like a graphic novel would. I think these are perfect for what they are, but reading it back to back in one sitting was a little boring and got old fast. As a huge disney fan though, this is a great piece of memorabilia. Thank you to the publisher for allowing me the ARC to read in exchange for my honest review.

Fantagraphics Books provided an early galley for review.

One of my earliest comic book memories was reading the colorful adventures of many Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. So, a book like this is like taking a nostalgic trip back to my childhood.

This is supposed to simulate classic story which ran as a one-page-per-month serial in the 60's. Trondheim and Keramidas made it as if they had "recreated it" from the pages they "found in comic bins". Some of the pages are "torn" while others have various discoloration or stains. The presentation gives it a true feeling of old comics.

The story has some holes indeed (there are only 44 pages here of a much larger tale 80 plus page tale), but that aspect simulates comic collecting back when I was a kid in the 70's. You found back issues wherever you could. You consumed parts of stories and even read issues out of order. It was a treasure hunt. And that is what this story is too in a way. The mechanic of "missing chapters" might throw off some readers. Even with "holes", the reader can easily piece together this grand adventure.

Overall, it was fun and captured an older comic vibe with some satiric elements to boot.

This was a bit of a mixed bag for me. I loved the humor and how it felt like the old Mickey Mouse comics, but was not a fan of the fragmented storyline.

It has an interesting premise with the writers making it as if they found pieces of an old comic story and pieced them together. The reader then is meant to fill in what they believe happened between the missing pages. There are times this works rather well and others that had me frustrated because I wanted more of a specific scene.

Overall, I enjoyed the art style and thought the story idea was interesting. I can’t help thinking though that I want the entire story not just the fragments. I’ve always been a fan of the Mickey Mouse cartoons and comics and I love the humor in this story.

*I received an ARC for review purposes. All opinions are my own. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher.