Heyo! I have a quick question.
What is the difference between Mr. Slicker and Mortimer Mouse (the rival one)?
I always joked that Mr. Slicker is beta Mortimer since he basically is, the frist mouse rival character towards Mickey.
But they are a few difference.
1. He's a full blown criminal with a gang, while Mortimer is usally just a normal guy that so happen to be a jerk.
2. Minnie had no interest no Mr.Slicker while it's on or off when comes to Mortimer.
3. BUTCH. Okay this is weird but Butch and Mortimer are in a weird situation. Since Mr.Silcker was thr groundwork to making Mortimer.. and Butch used to work for Mr.Silcker as criminal. Yet when Mortimer and Butch did get comic where they appeared together, it is more or less treated like this the frist time they meet. But admitly this point it a bit shaky as Mortimer is referred to as Montmorency which is a slightly different version of typical Mortimer.. and I'm not completely sure how one one deal with this issue otherwise. It clear the Mr.Silcker situation still happened, heck the comix title Egg collector is likely a reference to Mr.Silcker and The eggs Robbers. But they can't really be the same character at this point in time, Mortimer has different role as rival character and adding the whole drama as Mr.Slicker to his character will make things extremely confusing.
So I think Mr.Slicker is just the pefect example of early installment weirdness. He was created as a early rival to Mickey who eventually become Mortimer Mouse. But since Mortimer isn't a criminal, we get the Butch - Mortimer weirdness
