Description

Rare high grade example of the 1935 R89 Mickey Mouse Gum card #92 “People Like Uncle Walt, Don’t They Mickey?” Graded by PSA 6 only 9 graded higher. The 1935 Gum, Inc. Mickey Mouse set consists of 120 total cards. Produced by the Philadelphia-based company, the initially offering – R89 – features card fronts with brilliantly colorful and high-quality comic depictions of Mickey Mouse and his friends along with the card number; card backs feature Mickey Mouse jokes, trivia questions, and an advertisement for a Mickey Mouse album to hold the trading cards. Highlights of this 96-card set include Let's Make Hoop-ee! (#1), Bad Stew Mickey (#7), He's Sure a Handy Man Around the Mouse! (#21), Walt Disney (#92), and Uncle Toms Crabbin' (#96). Cards #21 and #92 are both a key part of the collection because each picture Walt Disney. The second set of 24 cards, titled “Mickey Mouse with the Movie Stars” (R90), boasts caricatures of Hollywood stars of the era. Mickey Mouse cards are considered to be among the most classic 1930s non-sport card set, and far more difficult to find than most baseball cards of the era.