Pluto

Eyes: Black
Hair: Champagne to orange fur.
Race: Dog


Occupation: Former bloodhound, now Mickey Mouse's pet
Known relatives: Butch (brother)
Base of operations: Duckburg


Story: Pluto is Mickey Mouse's dog, but being the lovable dog he is, he shares adventures with everybody in Duckburg.


Continuity: Disney
Company: Columbia Pictures

Disney
Dell Comics
Gold Key
Whitman Publishing
Gladstone
Gemstone

First app.: Cartoons: The Chain Gang (August 8, 1930)

Comics: Pluto the Pup in the Mickey Mouse Daily strip (July 1, 1931)

Creator(s): Walt Disney

Burt Gillett
Norm Ferguson
David Hand

Country of origin: USA


Background notes: In the beginning of his career Mickey Mouse wasn't the straight arrow we know today. In the cartoons he would on occation do things that would be inconceivable that he would do today, like being mean to others. In the cartoon The Chain Gang from 1930 he was in prison. The cartoon was a prison comedy in the vein of Laurel and Hardy's The Second Hundred Years where Mickey was a prisoner on the run, Pegleg Pete was the jailer and Pluto was one of the dogs chasing him. Pluto was not named in the cartoon. The name would not be given until later.

Pluto made his second appearance in The Picnic from November 1930. Here he is Minnie Mouse's dog, and he is called Rover. The name Pluto did not come until The Moose Hunt from 1931. Today it is taken for granted that Pluto is Mickey's dog, but in the beginning he was just a character which was used whenever a dog was needed like the Donald Duck cartoon Put-Put Troubles from 1940. The establishment of ownership came gradually.