Floyd Gottfredson Library columnist is talking about Casty.

As you will see above in his article in the eleventh volume of his Library Floyd Gottfredson with title Mickey versus Mickey, The Francesco Stajano talks about Castie, one of them "Heirs" Godfredson. He also talks about his first jobs, how he appeared in Topolino and the great importance of the creator in the evolution and restoration of Mickey.

The article is ideal as the main story is the story that made the first appearance Miklos! Mickey Mouse's doppelganger. That's why we learned more in Castie's story. The 7 Boglins which is a continuation of Floyd history and read in COMIX #17 of Season II. Miklos is a rogue criminal who wanted to take Mickey's place. In Castie's story, he came back after years from the talented creator to get his revenge. The volume will probably contain the entire history of Castie as shown in the second picture. The logical thing to do is to put it all in as Volume 9 had a tribute to Romano Scarpa And he had a story of his own, and in particular we're talking about history. The Microcosm Boat (to us here he first entered the first volume of the Big Disney Stories) which had amazing coloring that modernized history (as opposed to what it had in our volume).

What is it worth keeping from the above text?

There are some things that the author mentions and I would like to put them below and because they are the most important points that we need to keep from the text but also to comment on them a little.

It is that like Scarpa, Casty revived Mickey after a slamp, if not one as dramatic or abrupt as that of fateful 1955. The early 2000s found Mickey at the end of a clinical decline in the pages of Topolino.

It is reported that like Scarpa in 1955 Kasty reborn Mickey. I totally agree. Castie gave our beloved mouse a new aura, a renewal needed in modern times through his scenarios. Stories like Time Island and The World of the Great Brother They're some examples of amazing work.

In what might be termed the first wave, around the 1980s, he becomes to be determined as a fulltime detective – a subject for Chief O’Hara in but official badge, replete with a knowledge it all personality. [...] Many fans felt that these stories made Mickey Boring and too perfect; the sacrifices of readers drankward Donald [...]

The stories with Mickey who had him as a regular detective (in which he was replacing Inspector O'Hara), yes, they had him doing something differently and assuming affairs but in some of them Mickey was too perfect and know-all. As is said above, many people found (and still find them) these stories boring. That's why readers like Donald more, because as we saw in Barks' stories he struggles and he's a character with whom everyone can identify. In general, this is Mickey's big minus, and that's why someone who writes stories with him should know how to handle him well. Gottfredson, Scarpa and Castie show an adventurous side of him and I think that's what beats you.

Then came the 1990s, and what longtime fans often saw as another way of decline [...] Stories determined a cluster and easy fooled Mickey. This, too, was arguably not his true nature.

The columnist points out that in the 1990s several stories had Mickey being easily mocked and clumsy without being his true personality. I will agree and add that this appears in several stories by Noel Van Horn and after 2000. In stories like A look into the future, The gift of Prometheus, The miraculous bait He has a behavior that makes him ridiculous and clumsy, which I can't bear to read.

It was against this background that Casty revered the Gottfredson Mickey, the early Scarpa Mickey: the adventurous Mickey, the Mickey who becomes in doing the right thing, who is loyal to his friends and who resists are actually dangerous [...]

What I would like to emphasise here is not again the restoration of the adventurous Mickey by Casty and Mickey who are loyal to his friends but the last part that says his competitors are really dangerous again. I'll take Black Pete for example. It really struck me that Black Pete in Castie's stories and specifically in stories like Dark World, The Magic Coat, Dr. Tick-Tock. to be dangerous and not comically dangerous. In several modern stories Pete didn't have the aura of danger like before. I was very pleased that Castie's stories brought back his most dangerous and most intelligent version. The Black Ghost is smarter and dangerous than ever. Mickey doesn't seem to have the upper hand, and it's hard at the end.