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=== Eega Beeva === '''Eega Beeva''', also known by his proper name ''Pittisborum Psercy Pystachi Pseter Psersimmon Plummer-Push'', is a human from the future, although some translations refer to him as an [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]]. He was created by [[Floyd Gottfredson]] (art) and [[Bill Walsh (producer)|Bill Walsh]] (plot) and first appeared on September 26, 1947, in the [[Mickey Mouse (comic strip)|''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip]] storyline ''The Man of Tomorrow''. The complete original run of Eega Beeva stories has been anthologised in ''The Floyd Gottfredson Library'' volumes 9 ''Rise of the Rhyming Man'' and 10 ''Planet of Faceless Foes'', published by [[Fantagraphics Books]] in 2016. The story arcs are given the titles "The Man of Tomorrow", "Mickey Makes a Killing", "Pflip the Thnuckle-booh", "The Santa Claus Bandit", "The Kumquat Question", "The Atombrella and the Rhyming Man", "An Education for Eega", "Pflip's Strange Power", "Planet of the Aints" (alternate title "Be-junior and the Aints"), "Itching Gulch", "The Syndicate of Crime", and "The Moook Treasure". Eega's final appearance is a three day bridge between story arcs; for convenience, the anthology prints this event as the start of the story arc "Mousepotamia", in which Mickey is abducted to a foreign land, bereft of all his traditional companions. In Eega's debut story, Mickey Mouse and [[Goofy]] seek shelter from a thunderstorm and get lost in a cave. There, Mickey suddenly encounters an unusual humanoid who only says "Eega" at first. When Mickey and Goofy find the cave's exit, Mickey invites the being to stay at his house, and the being identifies himself as "Pittisborum Psercy Pystachi Pseter Psersimmon Plummer-Push". Finding this name too cumbersome, Mickey gives him the name "Eega Beeva" (a corruption of the [[idiom]] "[[wiktionary:eager beaver|eager beaver]]"). At first, [[Goofy]] refuses to believe in the existence of Eega Beeva and ignores his presence. In a series of events, two scientists conclude that Eega Beeva is a human from 500 years in the future. At the end of the storyline, Eega saves Goofy from a skiing accident, causing them to become friends.<ref name="heimlichehelden">{{cite book|editor=Fuchs, Wolfgang J.|title=Heimliche Helden – Band 4: Gamma|trans-title=Clandestine heroes – Volume 4: Eega Beeva|edition=1st|date=August 2006|publisher=[[Egmont Ehapa]]|language=de|isbn=3-7704-0693-1|pages=4–12|chapter=Gamma – Der Mensch der Zukunft|trans-chapter= Eega Beeva – The human of the future}}</ref><ref name="comicnews">{{cite web|url=http://www.ehapa.de/comicnews/charactere/gamma.html|title=60 Jahre Gamma – Das Wesen aus der Zukunft!|publisher=[[Egmont Ehapa]]|access-date=July 30, 2009|language=de|trans-title=60 years of Eega Beeva – The being from the future!|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626000028/http://www.ehapa.de/comicnews/charactere/gamma.html|archive-date=June 26, 2009}}</ref> In the next comic strip storyline starring Eega Beeva, ''Mickey Makes a Killing'', his pet Pflip the Thnuckle Booh is introduced.<ref name="coa_pflip">{{cite web|url=http://coa.inducks.org/character.php?c=Pflip|title=Pflip Index|publisher=[[INDUCKS]]|access-date=July 31, 2009}}</ref> Eega continues being Mickey's [[sidekick]] in the American comic strips until July 1950.<ref name="mm_eb">{{cite web|url=http://www.micky-maus.de/mein-entenhausen/einwohner/gamma.html|title=Gamma|publisher=[[Disney comics#Germany|Micky Maus-Magazin]]|access-date=July 30, 2009|language=de|trans-title=Eega Beeva|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726151514/http://www.micky-maus.de/mein-entenhausen/einwohner/gamma.html|archive-date=July 26, 2009}}</ref> Eega Beeva is depicted as a humanoid with a wide head, mitten-like hands and a scrawny body. In ''The Man of Tomorrow'', the name is given to him by Mickey, since Eega Beeva originally only said "Eega."<ref name="comicnews"/> In the original conception of the character, Eega Beeva's look was attributed to him being a highly evolved human from 500 years in the future, namely from the year 2447. All humans would have Eega-like proportions.<ref name="comicnews"/> He 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 (similar to [[Doctor Who]]'s [[TARDIS]]), often helping Mickey Mouse and Eega in difficult situations. A running joke in the comic is that when Eega Beeva is searching for something in his pockets, he has to take multiple attempts, as he first finds completely unrelated objects. Another trademark attribute of the character is his "alien" speech, adding a "p" at the beginning of most words. From his first appearance, he has been shown to prefer [[flagpole sitting|sleeping on top of narrow poles]], such as on top of [[Mickey Mouse]]'s bedpost. He eats pickled [[kumquats]] for food (changed to [[mothballs]] in Italian translations and stories produced in Italy) and is severely allergic to [[cash]]; these traits have sometimes been used as plot devices. While a genius scientist by today's standards, Eega Beeva is also maladjusted to the contemporary world. Depending on the stories and writers, his behaviour ranges from naïve and eccentric (including being "primitive" and attacking radios as demons) to serious and rational (being able to recite complex scientific equations which leave Earth's best scientists baffled). Other members of Eega's species are glimpsed briefly. In his wallet he keeps a photograph of his fiancée (who is beautiful even by 20th century standards), and his farewell moments show additional snapshots of his father, mother, grandfather, and sister. He also has a brother, whose picture is obscured in the scene depicting the others. Eega Beeva was a central character in the American newspaper [[Disney comics|Disney comic strips]], for nearly three years. He was Mickey Mouse's main sidekick during this period, effectively replacing Goofy, whose appearances became few and far between. This lasted until July 1950, when Eega abruptly returned to his home in the future.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Becattini |first1=Alberto |title=Disney Comics: The Whole Story |date=2016 |publisher=Theme Park Press |isbn=978-1683900177 |page=12}}</ref> Walsh's stories are often wildly inconsistent in themselves as to what Eega Beeva's attributes and back story are, as pointed out in the editorial columns in ''The Floyd Gottfredson Library''. During his first story "The Man of Tomorrow", Goofy declares that Eega is only a hallucinatory apparition because he casts no shadow, when in fact an earlier panel in the story showed Eega's shadow. In Eega's farewell appearance, he refers to his family as "the Beeva family". As he departs into the cave where Mickey first met him, he implies that his family live in there are eagerly awaiting his homecoming. This contradicts his first story, where "Beeva" is a name Mickey made up for him, and Eega's family were not yet to be born for another 400 or more years. While Eega Beeva was still being featured in the American comic strips, he made his first appearance in a 1949 Italian comic story titled ''L'inferno di Topolino'' (lit. "Mickey Mouse's inferno," ''Topolino'' issue 7), in which Mickey plays [[Dante Alighieri]] in a theatre production of the ''[[Divine Comedy]]''. The character was newly discovered and defined by Italian comics artist and writer [[Romano Scarpa]] with the comic ''Topolino e la nave del microcosmo'' (lit. "Mickey Mouse and the ship of microcosm"), published in ''Topolino'' 167 in July 1957; American translation published in BOOM's ''Mickey Mouse Classics 1 - Mouse Tails'' (2010). (Eega had previously appeared in stories which Scarpa drew but did not write, including [[Guido Martina]]'s ''Topolino e il doppio segreto di Macchia Nera'' in ''Topolino'' 116-119, 1955 - Americanised in Gladstone's ''Mickey and Donald'' 6-8 [1988] and Fantagraphics' hardcover album ''Mickey Mouse: The Phantom Blot's Double Mystery'' [2018].) Rather than his whimsical attributes, the "microcosm" story focuses on the futuristic and fantastic aspects of Eega Beeva and his environment, as do later stories.<ref name="heimlichehelden"/> In Germany some of those stories star Eega Beeva without Mickey.<ref name="coa_eb_nomm">{{cite web|url=http://coa.inducks.org/comp2.php?code=&keyw=&keywt=i&exactpg=&pg1=&pg2=&bro2=&bro3=&kind=0&rowsperpage=0&columnsperpage=0&hero=Gamma&xapp=&univ=&xa2=Micky+Maus&creat=&creat2=&plot=&plot2=&writ=&writ2=&art=&art2=&ink=&ink2=&pub1=&pub2=&part=&ser=&xref=&mref=&xrefd=&repabb=&repabbc=al&imgmode=1&vdesc2=on&vdesc=en&vde=on&sort1=auto|title=Search results (stories featuring Eega Beeva but not Mickey Mouse)|publisher=[[INDUCKS]]|access-date=July 31, 2009}}</ref> The character has since been used numerous times by European authors, mostly in Italy where more than half of all comics featuring him were produced.<ref name="heimlichehelden"/> He is referred to as Eta Beta in Italian and Gamma in German. Older Italian stories often portrayed him as an alien from outer space. More recently (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. More recent Eega comics produced by [[Egmont Publishing|Egmont]], on the other hand, often refer to his hometown as being the Mouseton of 2447, just as in Gottfredson's original stories.
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