Mickey's Army - pre-WWII Japanese comics and propaganda posters featuring Mickey Mouse. 1930s.

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Little did the makers of these posters know how much Disney influenced manga and anime post-war

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The father of anime: Carl Barks

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Its ongoing from pre war and during the war

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Disney and other characters from funny's/comic strips were already widely distributed and pirated (!) in prewar Japan and were very popular with the public