The " Monarch of Medioka " story in Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strip ran from September 8, 1937 to May 2, 1938.

Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino Giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories.

In the most recent Italian stories ( post-2000 ), Italian writers have generally reverted to Gottfredson's original conception of Eega as a future-man, though his precise year of origin is rarely mentioned.

The character has been described by some as a weasel or a rat ( the latter being Gottfredson's own interpretation ), but his ears suggest that he is rather an anthropomorphic canine.

" The Mouse's Other Master: Floyd Gottfredson's 45 Years with Mickey ".

When in 1956 Italian editors had no more new Floyd Gottfredson's stories to reprint, he was given the responsibility to continue Gottfredson's stories about Mickey Mouse.

Gottfredson's Mickey strips were often collected in the 1930s and 1940s.

Gladstone also collected a number of Gottfredson's serials in the larger-size " comic albums " it issued during the 1980s ; in 1990, Disney Comics issued " Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot " ( 1939 ) in the same format.

Gottfredson's first daily strip was published in newspapers on his 25th birthday, May 5, 1930.

Gottfredson's work had been printed in newspapers, magazines and comic books worldwide for over 50 years, but as a Disney employee, he was never allowed to sign it.

Gottfredson's identity was finally revealed in the mid-1960s by fan Malcolm Willits.

New Eega comics produced by Egmont, on the other hand, often refer to his hometown as being the Mouseton of 2447 — just as in Gottfredson's original stories.

He was influenced by Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, Frederick Burr Opper's Happy Hooligan, Rudolph Dirks's the Katzenjammer Kids, and Barks and Gottfredson's Disney adaptations.

Gottfredson's work has been influential in shaping U. S. public and private policies regarding affirmative action, hiring quotas, and " race-norming " on aptitude tests.

( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.

In October 1931, he submitted the short story " People of the Dark " to Clayton Publications ' new magazine, Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror ( June 1932 ).

This story was later reworked and expanded by Le Fanu as The Wyvern Mystery ( 1869 ).

In 1945 Newsweek ran an article titled " Balloon Mystery " in their January 1 issue, and a similar story appeared in a newspaper the next day.

Examples are The Solitaire Mystery, where the protagonist receives a small book from a baker, in which the baker tells the story of a sailor who tells the story of another sailor, and Sophie's World about a girl who is actually a character in a book that is being read by Hilde, a girl in another dimension.

He is the primary villain in the Doctor Fate story in Countdown to Mystery mini-series.

Wodehouse's story The Amazing Hat Mystery, a character in hospital with a broken leg is playing halma with his nurse.

* The story was adapted by George Lowther for the January 10, 1975, broadcast of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

Under their collective pseudonym, the cousins were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

Mike W. Barr used Ellery as a guest star in an issue of his Maze Agency # 9 in February 1990, published by Innovation Comics, in a story titled " The English Channeler Mystery: A Problem in Deduction.

They chronicled their adventure with an IMAX camera and two handheld video cams, sharing their story in the IMAX film Mystery of the Nile and in a book of the same title.

* The Phantom comic book featured Cagliostro as a character in the story The Cagliostro Mystery from 1988, written by Norman Worker and drawn by Carlos Cruz.

*" The Mystery of the Jeweled Cross " ( short story, 2002 ) ISBN 1-879832-40-2 & ISBN 1-879832-38-0

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

Mystery Hill is popularly attributed as inspiration for Lovecraft's story " The Dunwich Horror ".

The teleplays for the first and third serials ( and the story for the second ) were written by Lynda La Plante, and in 1993 she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best TV Feature or Miniseries for her work.

But soon after, when the sisters had been discussing the recently-published classic detective story by Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room ( 1908 ), Christie said she would like to try writing such a story.

Hanna-Barbera Productions, CBS executive Fred Silverman, and some of the show's writers have said that this story is false, and that the show was actually based on the radio program I Love a Mystery and the TV sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

The character first appeared in a 1960 episode of the television-anthology series The Chevy Mystery Show, which was itself partly derived from a short story by Levinson and Link, originally published in an issue of the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine as " Dear Corpus Delicti ".

The story of Tolpuddle has enriched the history of trade unionism, but the significance of the Tolpuddle Martyrs continues to be debated since Sidney and Beatrice Webb wrote the History of Trade Unionism ( 1894 ) and continues with such works as Dr Bob James's Craft Trade or Mystery ( 2001 ).

But at the coroner's inquest Delphine told a forthright story.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

Grigorss, at seventeen, learns his story and goes forth as a knight to uncover his origins.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

Thus Trevelyan repeats the story which pictured Victor Emmanuel as refusing to abandon the famous Statuto at the insistence of General Radetzky.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Dazed and bloodied, Alex collapses at the door of an isolated cottage, realizing too late that it is the house he and his droogs invaded in the first half of the story.

In the story, Professor Laban Shrewsbury ( a recurring Derleth character ) and his assistant at the time, Nayland Colum, discover Alhazred's burial site.

" The story is apocryphal and they are believed to have scored at least one two among the singles.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

" In his later years, Alcott related a story from his boyhood: during a total solar eclipse, he threw rocks at the sky until he fell and dislocated his shoulder.

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

The story of Ealdred being deposed comes from the Vita Edwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor, but the Vita Wulfstani, an account of the life of Ealdred's successor at Worcester, Wulfstan, says that Nicholas refused the pallium until a promise to find a replacement for Worcester was given by Ealdred.

According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.

Plutarch tells a story that at Bactra, in 327 BC in a debate with Callisthenes, he advised all to worship Alexander as a god even during his lifetime, is with greater probability attributed to the Sicilian Cleon.

Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.

The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).

Kat is hit by shrapnel at the end of the story, leaving him with a smashed shin.

He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.