Oswald The Rabbit
Oswald The Rabbit is a comic book character that first appeared in New Fun #1
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was a 1927 creation of Walt Disney and the immediate predecessor to Mickey Mouse. However Walt lost the rights to the character to Universal Studios. Universal had commissioned the creation of the series and distributed the film. By laws of the time it was allowed to keep the character and assign its films to other animation studios. So production of the Oswald shorts was transferred first to the Winkler Studio and then to the Walter Lantz Studio.In all 192 Oswald shorts were released between 1927 and 1943. The Oswald series was canceled as its popularity had declined by the 1940s. The character was given a cameo appearance in a 1951 Woody Woodpecker film but that was his last appearance in an animated film.
Oswald had more endurance as a comic book character. He had been licensed to the company later known as DC back in 1935 and had his first appearance there in the pages of "New Fun" #1. However DC ended his series in 1936. The Walter Lantz Studio then licensed him to Dell Comics along with other of its properties. Dell published stories starring him from 1942 to the early 1960s. The Walter Lantz characters were also licensed to comic book companies outside the United States and Oswald kept making appearances for decades. However his status was not as prominent as Woody Woodpecker and his supporting cast. Oswald was becoming obscure.
In 2006, Universal Studios sold the rights to Oswald back to the Walt Disney Company. Disney then gained full rights to the 26 Oswald films created by its founder back in the 1920s. They were able to release all of them on DVD in 2007 and started selling Oswald merchandize. Meanwhile Universal has kept the rights to the other 176 Oswald films and includes some of them in its own DVD releases. Whether Oswald will return to comic books is uncertain.
| Super Name: | Oswald The Rabbit |
| Real Name: | None |
| Aliases: | |
| Publisher: | Dell |
| Gender: | Unknown |
| Character Type: | Animal |
| 1st Appearance: | New Fun #1 |
| Appears in: | 176 issues |
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