97 Facts About Detective Casey

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Detective Casey often serves as the de facto leader of his friends.

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Detective Casey's most frequent profession in early cartoons was a musician and songwriter.

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Detective Casey sometimes gets upset with Donald when he loses his temper.

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Detective Casey is prone to gossip and occasionally plays a well-meaning but ineffective parent figure to Donald Duck.

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Detective Casey has been known to date both Horace Horsecollar and Goofy.

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6.

Detective Casey is described metafictionally as Mickey's older half "brother" in the video game Epic Mickey.

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Detective Casey plays a supportive role in Mickey Mouse's comic-book mysteries, often relying on Mickey's help to solve crimes committed by criminals such as Pete, The Phantom Blot and others.

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Detective Casey first appeared in the newspaper strips in May 1939, in the serial Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot.

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Detective Casey eventually became a recurring character in European comics stories.

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Detective Casey is Chief O'Hara's head detective, first appearing in the Mickey Mouse daily comic in the 1938 sequence The Plumber's Helper.

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11.

Detective Casey was created by Floyd Gottfredson and Bill Walsh and first appeared on September 26,1947, in the Mickey Mouse comic strip storyline The Man of Tomorrow.

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Detective Casey wears short, black trousers which have pockets of seemingly infinite size and can hold a multitude of objects sometimes much bigger than Eega Beeva himself, often helping Mickey Mouse and Eega in difficult situations.

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13.

Detective Casey eats pickled kumquats for food and is severely allergic to cash; these traits have sometimes been used as plot devices.

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Detective Casey has a brother, whose picture is obscured in the scene depicting the others.

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Detective Casey was Mickey Mouse's main sidekick during this period, effectively replacing Goofy, whose appearances became few and far between.

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Detective Casey is referred to as Eta Beta in Italian and Gamma in German.

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Detective Casey is a large man who wears a big white beard and laboratory coat.

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18.

Detective Casey thus increased the size of one of them to that of a small boy and named him Atomo Bleep-Bleep.

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19.

Detective Casey is often shown as less secretive and paranoid than in his original appearance, though his discoveries are still coveted by the likes of Pete and the Phantom Blot.

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Detective Casey was created at the same time as his "brother", a red atom named Bloop-Bloop, who was bad-tempered and lazy.

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21.

Detective Casey serves the same role in Mickey stories that Gyro Gearloose or Ludwig Von Drake have for Donald and Scrooge.

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22.

Detective Casey was created by Bill Walsh and Manuel Gonzales for the Mickey Mouse Sunday pages, where he made his first appearance on October 30,1949.

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23.

Detective Casey has been used in longer comics stories, especially the ones produced in Italy, France and Brazil.

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24.

Detective Casey was created by Romano Scarpa in the story Topolino e il rampollo di Gancio.

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25.

Detective Casey is an English private eye operating in 19th century London and employing Mickey Mouse as an assistant.

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26.

Detective Casey appeared in various American and European printed Disney comics until 1938.

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Detective Casey was usually characterized as a farmer or the local sheriff.

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Detective Casey first appeared in the story La lunga notte del commissario Manetta in 1997, written by Tito Faraci and drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano.

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Detective Casey is physically more robust than the overweight Casey and likes to dress flashily, often wearing cowboy boots, a stetson and a bolo tie.

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30.

Detective Casey has been said to be a parody of Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the latter aspect being particularly obvious in his first appearance, but later toned down.

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Detective Casey is a strong-willed character and can react very impulsively.

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32.

Detective Casey had some appearances in Mickey Mouse Works, where she is presented as Daisy Duck's neighbor.

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33.

Detective Casey almost tricked Donald into marrying her but Daisy stopped the wedding in time.

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34.

Detective Casey had appeared to put Minnie Mouse in jail for driving her car through Daisy's house to deliver an apple pie of hers.

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35.

Detective Casey appeared as a recurring character in the series Mickey and the Roadster Racers, where she is the mother of two chicks named Cleo and Clifford.

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36.

Detective Casey makes an appearance in the Mickey's Boo to You Parade and for rare meet and greets at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

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37.

Detective Casey returned in the 1944 film The Three Caballeros along with Donald and a Mexican rooster named Panchito Pistoles.

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38.

Detective Casey appeared in the Oswald shorts starting with The Banker's Daughter, replacing Oswald's former love interest, a much more feminine and sultry rabbit named Fanny in production materials.

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39.

Detective Casey appeared in Oswald shorts produced by Charles Mintz and later Walter Lantz.

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40.

Detective Casey was first created by Bill Walsh, and appeared in some "Mickey Mouse" dailies by Floyd Gottfredson, and others written by Del Connell.

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41.

Detective Casey's predecessor appeared perhaps as early as 1946, in the form of Minnie Mouse's Aunt Marissa.

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42.

Detective Casey was revived in the 1990s as a member of Mickey's supporting cast in European Disney comics.

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43.

Detective Casey appears for first time in the short Bellboy Donald, as a naughty little kid.

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44.

Detective Casey is named Felicity, a name that was kept in the American localization of these Danish stories.

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45.

Detective Casey had plans to bring Ferdie back later as a bespectacled, intellectual, bookworm mouse with an Eton hat and coat with the explanation that he had been away at school.

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Detective Casey wears a pair of earrings, but her ears are covered by hair.

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47.

Detective Casey is a lovely and cheerful person, and deeply attached to her nephew Mickey but the memory of baby Mickey's kidnapping caused her to develop feelings of guilt, and a too protective attitude towards her nephew.

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48.

Detective Casey first appears as a farmer in the Mickey Mouse comic strip story line "Mr Slicker and the Egg Robbers, " first published between September 22 and December 26,1930.

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49.

Detective Casey has appeared in some English stories from 1930s Mickey Mouse Annuals.

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50.

Detective Casey first appeared in the "Mickey Mouse in Death Valley" story line.

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51.

Detective Casey was introduced in 1961, as part of Walt Disney's NBC television special.

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52.

Detective Casey made numerous comics appearances in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Detective Casey has since appeared in various Italian comics stories.

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54.

Detective Casey has made various appearances in American Mickey and Goofy stories, as well as in Italian stories.

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55.

Detective Casey is a protagonist of the Goof Troop TV series and of the feature film A Goofy Movie and its sequel An Extremely Goofy Movie.

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56.

Detective Casey has made a few comics appearances, most of which were based on the TV series.

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Detective Casey is the most recurring antagonist in Mickey Mouse stories.

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58.

Detective Casey uses disguises to fool Mickey Mouse and the police, sometimes even appearing right in front of them without being noticed.

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Detective Casey made his animated debut in the episode "All Ducks on Deck" from the TV series DuckTales, later appearing in the series' reboot as a recurring antagonist.

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60.

Detective Casey appears as an antagonist in the TV series Mickey Mouse Works and its spinoff House of Mouse.

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61.

Detective Casey made a cameo appearance in the episode "Sock Burglar" from the TV short series Mickey Mouse.

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Detective Casey first appeared in the comic strip adventure "Mickey Mouse in Death Valley", the first real Mickey Mouse continuity, which was partially written by Walt Disney and drawn by Win Smith and other artists, before being taken over by Floyd Gottfredson.

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Detective Casey made comebacks in 1942,1950 and again in various 1960s Italian-created stories.

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Detective Casey later appeared in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Super Adventure" as a villain where he intends to shrink the clubhouse.

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Detective Casey appeared in Mickey and the Roadster Racers as Morty McCool.

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Detective Casey has a similar size and body shape to Pete, but her hair is depicted as grey or orange depending on the stories, while Pete's hair is black.

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Detective Casey has since appeared exclusively, though very regularly, in Italian comic book stories.

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Detective Casey has reappeared sporadically in additional Disney comics stories up to the present day.

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Detective Casey is a megalomaniacal pirate captain and mad scientist, somewhat modeled after Jules Verne's Captain Nemo character.

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Detective Casey's principal weapon is a machine in the form of a large claw which gives off magnetic-like energy: by placing it against a ship's hull Vulter can turn the whole metal ship into one large magnet which sticks weapons to the wall, making them useless.

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Detective Casey was later used by Italian authors, starting with the 1959 story Topolino e il ritorno dell'artiglio magnetico by Guido Martina and Giulio Chierchini.

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Detective Casey returned occasionally and is still used from time to time by European authors.

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Detective Casey's name derives from the fact that he always talks in rhymes.

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Detective Casey was depicted as possessing near-superhuman strength, the origin of which was never explained.

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Detective Casey first appeared in his self-titled short, in which he attempted to operate on Pluto by attaching his body to that of a chicken; this entire sequence turned out to be a dream.

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Detective Casey appear as an antagonist in some video games, being a boss enemy in Mickey Mania, a major antagonist in Epic Mickey and its sequel Epic Mickey 2, and an enemy in a mini-game of Kingdom Hearts III.

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Detective Casey looks up to Pete and thinks of him as the greatest criminal mastermind ever.

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Detective Casey first appeared in the comic book story Donald Duck Captures the Range Rustlers.

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Detective Casey has made cameo appearances in Disney's House of Mouse and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

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Detective Casey is incredibly powerful, demonstrating amazing magic powers such as flight, invisibility and shapeshifting.

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81.

Detective Casey makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit on a poster in a movie theater in Toontown.

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Detective Casey has since appeared alternatively in the Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse universes.

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Detective Casey is so manipulative and charismatic that he managed to fool the entirety of Mouseton into thinking he was a good guy more than once, with Mickey usually being the only one skeptical of him.

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84.

Detective Casey first appeared in the film Bone Trouble where Pluto tried to steal his bone.

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Detective Casey eventually returned to animation in the Mickey Mouse short "You, Me and Fifi", and later appeared in Chip 'n' Dale: Park Life.

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Detective Casey is usually depicted in Donald Duck and Goofy shorts, in which he often chases after the main characters in an attempt to eat them.

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Detective Casey is shown to care deeply about food and is rather intelligent when it comes to planning schemes to obtain things he wants, though his attempts to execute his plans often end in comical failures.

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Detective Casey made his first appearance in the short Puss Cafe with his pal Richard.

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Detective Casey next appears in the short Plutopia where he talks in Pluto's dream.

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Detective Casey made a final appearance in the short Cold Turkey fighting with Pluto for a roast turkey but both of them ended up with nothing.

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Detective Casey always tries to get some food which Pluto is guarding, but fails every time.

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92.

Detective Casey made his first appearance in The Legend of Coyote Rock trying to get at a flock of sheep.

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93.

Detective Casey has a color warning system that turns red to warn Eega of certain danger.

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Detective Casey was first featured in a self-titled storyline in the Mickey Mousenewspaper comic strip.

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Detective Casey debuted in the short film Tiger Trouble, serving as a mount to Goofy during a tiger hunt.

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Detective Casey appeared a second time in The Big Wash, as a circus elephant that Goofy was trying to give a bath.

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Detective Casey reappeared in the short film Mickey's Mechanical Man as "The Kongo Killer", where he faces Champ, the mechanical man created by Mickey, in a boxing championship.

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