Struggle for the Scimitar is a comic story drawn by Bill Wright. It features Goofy, Clarabelle Cow and Professor Probey, and also mentions Ebenezer Goofy.
Plot[]
A mysterious character becomes set on obtaining the large scimitar (heirloom from his sailor grandfather) that Goofy always uses as a bread knife. Goofy begins to panic as the man becomes more and more antagonistic, believing him to be a villain right out of one of his hardboiled detective novels…
Reference[]
- The Mouseton Museum contains a Historical Blades exhibit, of which Professor Probey is the curator.
Continuity[]
- Goofy's grandfather is mentioned to have been a swashbuckling sailor, as stated just one month earlier in the special The Adventure Story (1954).
Behind the scenes[]
This story was first printed in the United States of America in 1954 in Four Color Comics #562. It was then reprinted in the Australian Mickey Mouse #29 and Giant #263.