The Uncensored Mouse

[1] The word "Uncensored" in the title referred to content that the Walt Disney Company no longer wanted to associate with their star Mickey Mouse.

According to conventional wisdom cited by scholar Thomas Inge, the 1930 Mickey Mouse strips had fallen into the public domain in 1986.

[2] Comics historian Bill Blackbeard discovered this supposed fact in his research, and Malibu Graphics considered it an opportunity to present this early material.

[3] Not wanting to draw the wrath of the notoriously protective Walt Disney Company, Eternity printed the comic with completely black covers that did not mention the name "Mickey Mouse".

The comic was sold in a bag, so that potential customers wouldn't flip through it in the store and think it was an official Disney product.