Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse
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Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse are Mickey Mouse's nephews in the fictional Mickey Mouse universe. They first appeared in the Mickey Mouse comic strip titled Mickey's Nephews in 1932. Since then they have appeared in lots of comic strips and comic book stories starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto.
In books (not comics) produced by the Disney studios about Mickey and his gang they were usually called Morty and Monty rather than Morty and Ferdie. Very early books contain three or more nephews with various names. Mortie's name, short for Mortimer, is possibly in reference to the originally planned name for Mickey, Mortimer Mouse.
Their first film appearance was the Mickey Mouse cartoon titled Mickey's Steamroller. Aside from a difficult-to-notice cameo in 1938's Boat Builders, they didn't appear in animation again until Mickey's Christmas Carol. Then they made a cameo appearance in a two part Mickey Mouse Works segment titled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was later reused for an episode of House of Mouse. In some comic book stories from other countries, their mother is named Amelia Fieldmouse, sister of Mickey.
Ferdie disappeared from Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strip because Gottfiedson thought the nephews were too much alike. He had plans to bring Ferdie back later as a bespeckled, intellectual, bookworm mouse with an Eton hat and coat with the explanation that he had been away at school. However, Gottfredson never got around to bringing Ferdie back and Morty remained in the strip alone. Ferdie would be brought back to comics by other artists and writers. In recent years, some of Morty and Ferdie's comic book appearances have been as football (soccer) players on the team Riverside Rovers.
Morty is a playable character on the PlayStation 2 game Disney Golf.
